TY - BOOK AU - Frellesvig,Bjarke AU - Jacobsen,Wesley M. AU - Kageyama,Taro AU - Kishimoto,Hideki AU - Kita,Sotaro AU - Luk,Zoe Pei-sui AU - Malchukov,Andrej L. AU - Matsumoto,Yo AU - Matsuo,Ayumi AU - Murasugi,Keiko AU - Naigles,Letitia AU - Narrog,Heiko AU - Sasaki,Kan AU - Shibatani,Masayoshi AU - Shimoji,Michinori AU - Shirai,Yasuhiro AU - Tsujimura,Natsuko AU - Whitman,John AU - Wichmann,Søren AU - Wood,Gary C. TI - Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies on Japanese and Beyond T2 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , SN - 9783110475241 PY - 2016///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Japanisch KW - Sprachtypologie KW - Valenz KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Japanese KW - Language Typology KW - Valency N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Introduction --; I. Standard Japanese --; 1 The semantic basis of Japanese transitiveintransitive derivational patterns --; 2. Phonological and semantic subregularities in noncausative-causative verb pairs in Japanese --; 3. Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs --; 4. Valency and case alternations in Japanese --; 5. The role of lexical semantics in the reorganization of the resultative construction --; II. Dialects and Ryukyuan --; 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese --; 7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan --; III. History --; 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective --; 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese --; IV. Acquisition --; 10. Children’s ‘erroneous’ intransitives, transitives, and causatives: their implications for syntactic theory --; 11. Children’s use of morphosyntax and argument structure to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs --; 12. The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese --; V. Beyond Japanese --; 13. “Ambivalent voice”: markedness effects in valency change --; 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies --; 15. The role of morphology in valency alternation phenomena --; Appendix A: List of core transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) --; Appendix B: List of additional transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110477153 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110477153 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110477153/original ER -