Word formation in Japanese

Kageyama, Tarο

doi:10.1016/0024-3841(82)90005-5

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“…As noted in Kageyama (1982;, lexical compounds (compounds formed in lexicon) such as kaki-kom "write-insert" and tobi-agar "jump-rise" and post-lexical compounds (compounds formed in the syntax, including PF) such as kaki-hazime "write-begin" and tobi-tuzuke "jump-continue" differ in several respects including the following:…”

Section: Complex Control Predicates As Lexical Compoundsmentioning

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Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax

Koizumi¹

1998

Journal of Japanese Linguistics

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This thesis is a study of clause architecture within a theory of generative grammar. It discusses four major syntactic hypotheses that have crucial bearing on the design of phrase structure: the Agreement-based Case theory, the internal subject hypothesis (ISH), the uniform three-level X-bar theory, and a hypothesis about string vacuous head movement.In Chapter 2 through Chapter 4, I discuss object positions in three typologically and genetically different languages, i.e. English, Zarma, and Japanese, and argue that they all possess Object Agreement Phrases (AGRoP). A consideration of learnability suggests that the presence of AGRoP in these languages, particularly in Japanese, is not learnable from the data available to children. Thus, it is highly likely that UG is so construed that every language has AGR (THE UNIVERSAL AGR HYPOTHESIS).In Chapter 5, I turn to subject positions. There is conflicting evidence regarding the base-position of the external argument. Some data indicate that the external argument originates in a position lower than its surface position, as is expected under the internal subject hypothesis. Other data suggest that the base-position of the external argument is outside AGRoP and the VP that dominates the main verb and the internal arguments. If the ISH is correct in that all arguments of a predicate category (e.g. V) originate within the maximal projection of this category, then the apparently contradicting data suggest that there are two verbs, hence two VPs, in a single clause (THE SPLIT VP HYPOTHESIS). One verb is above AGRoP, and the other is below AGRoP. The so-called external argument is an argument of the upper V, and "internal arguments" are arguments of the lower V.Chapter 6 is concerned with X-bar theory. I argue, contrary to the wide held view, that some functional categories allow more than one specifier position within their projections (LAYERED SPECIFIERS), and that the number of specifiers is different across categories. If this is correct, the X-bar schema as such cannot be a part of Universal Grammar, as already suggested in Fukui (1986) and others. Our claim, however, is crucially different from Fukui's (1986) in that the specifiers of functional categories do not necessarily (but sometimes do) "close off" their projections.In Chapter 7, I discuss string vacuous verb raising in head final languages. In particular, I present evidence that verbs in Japanese raise out of the VP in overt syntax. Its consequences are also explored to various aspects of syntactic theory such as the Proper

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Section: Complex Control Predicates As Lexical Compoundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax

Koizumi¹

1998

Journal of Japanese Linguistics

163

202

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“…Remarkable approaches include 'morphological perspective' (Okutsu 1967, Nishiyama 2000; 'subject's animacy' (Morita 1994); and 'lexical conceptual structure' (Suga 1993;Kageyama 1993Kageyama , 1996Kageyama , 1999). Kageyama's (1996) proposal of a two-way derivation of an intransitive verb is influential, i.e.…”

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A Distributed Morphology-Based Study on Verb Derivation in Japanese

Li¹

2017

IJL

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This study uncovers Japanese verb derivation based upon the approach 'distributed morphology', conveying three ways of deriving a transitive (vt) or an intransitive verb (vi) in Japanese: (a) derived from the same adjective stem; (b) adding a morpheme that indicates vt or vi properties to a stem; and (c) verbalising a loanword or a Japanese-originated lexicon. In terms of deriving vt and vi from the same adjective stem, there is a semantic compositionality between the stem and the later added morphemes. Syntactically, the category of the derived vt and vi is established after the merger. In the second method of verb derivation, four pairs of vt/vi morphemes are confirmed: '-ø-

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“…In the late 1990s, the locus of cross-linguistic diversity changed from syntactic representation to resultative predicates (Vanden Wyngaerd 2001, Boas 2000, Wechsler 2005. Among them, the Japanese linguiss Kageyama's (1996Kageyama's ( , 1999 work is particularly noteworthy. According to Kageyama, the resultatives can be categorised into two types, i.e.…”

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A Scale Structure View of Resultatives in Japanese, Chinese and German

2015

IJL

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This paper provides a scale-based semantics for resultatives in Japanese, Chinese and German, in an effort to arrive at: how adjectival complements and verbs in resultative constructions show sensitivity to the scalar structure. The findings reveal that Japanese accepts both open and closed-scale adjectives but disallows atelic verbs in resultatives. It appears that both telic and atelic verbs are welcome by Chinese resultatives. Adjectival complements in German resultatives are of no diverse distribution, i.e. both open and closed-scale APs are allowed to indicate a result in inherent resultatives and derived resultatives. However, German verbs show sensitivity to the scalar property. The conclusion that one can draw here is that Japanese tends to be a 'BECOME-focused' language, with the encoding of resutlatives arriving at morph-syntactic level. German, on the other hand, is likely to be a 'BE AT-focused' language. There is no restriction towards adjectives, but verbs show sensitivity to the scalar structure. Chinese is also a 'BE AT-focused' language, with resultatives mainly facilitated via syntax. Moreover, neither verbs nor adjectives are sensitive to the scalar structure.

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Word formation in Japanese

Cited by 56 publications

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Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax

Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax

A Distributed Morphology-Based Study on Verb Derivation in Japanese

A Scale Structure View of Resultatives in Japanese, Chinese and German

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