Shigeru Miyagawa – författare

Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa''s research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa''s work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, "syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate relation among case marking, argument structure, and word order.

Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa''s research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa''s work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, "syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate relation among case marking, argument structure, and word order.

Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad. More recently, Japanese has been among the languages most intensely studied within modern linguistic theories such as Generative Grammar and Cognitive/Functional Linguistics over the past fifty years. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Japanese syntax from these three research strands, namely studies based on the traditional research methods developed in Japan, those from broader functional perspectives, and those couched in the generative linguistics framework.The twenty-four studies contained in this volume are characterized by a detailed analysis of a grammatical phenomenon with broader implications to general linguistics, making the volume attractive to both specialists of Japanese and those interested in learning about the impact of Japanese syntax to the general study of language. Each chapter is authored by a leading authority on the topic. Broad issues covered include sentence types (declarative, imperative, etc.) and their interactions with grammatical verbal categories (modality, polarity, politeness, etc.), grammatical relations (topic, subject, etc.), transitivity, nominalizations, grammaticalization, word order (subject, scrambling, numeral quantifier, configurationality), case marking (ga/no conversion, morphology and syntax), modification (adjectives, relative clause), and structure and interpretation (modality, negation, prosody, ellipsis).

Chapter titles

IntroductionChapter 1. Basic structures of sentences and grammatical categories, Yoshio Nitta, Kansai University of Foreign StudiesChapter 2: Transitivity, Wesley Jacobsen, Harvard UniversityChapter 3: Topic and subject, Takashi Masuoka, Kobe City University of Foreign StudiesChapter 4: Toritate: Focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses, Hisashi Noda,National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Chapter 5: The layered structure of the sentence, Isao Iori, Hitotsubashi UniversityChapter 6. Functional syntax, Ken-Ichi Takami, Gakushuin University; and Susumu Kuno, Harvard UniversityChapter 7: Locative alternation, Seizi Iwata, Osaka City UniversityChapter 8: Nominalizations, Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice UniversityChapter 9: The morphosyntax of grammaticalization, Heiko Narrog, Tohoku UniversityChapter 10: Modality, Nobuko Hasegawa, Kanda University of International StudiesChapter 11: The passive voice, Tomoko Ishizuka, Tama University

Chapter 12: Case marking, Hideki Kishimoto, Kobe University

Chapter 13: Interfacing syntax with sounds and meanings, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Indiana University

Chapter 14: Subject, Masatoshi Koizumi, Tohoku University

Chapter 15: Numeral quantifiers, Shigeru Miyagawa, MITChapter 16: Relative clauses, Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka UniversityChapter 17: Expressions that contain negation, Nobuaki Nishioka, Kyushu UniversityChapter 18: Ga/No conversion, Masao Ochi, Osaka UniversityChapter 19: Ellipsis, Mamoru Saito, Nanzan University

Chapter 20: Syntax and argument structure, Natsuko Tsujimura, Indiana University

Chapter 21: Attributive modification, Akira Watanabe, University of TokyoChapter 22: Scrambling, Noriko Yoshimura, Shizuoka Prefectural University

Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad. More recently, Japanese has been among the languages most intensely studied within modern linguistic theories such as Generative Grammar and Cognitive/Functional Linguistics over the past fifty years. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Japanese syntax from these three research strands, namely studies based on the traditional research methods developed in Japan, those from broader functional perspectives, and those couched in the generative linguistics framework.The twenty-four studies contained in this volume are characterized by a detailed analysis of a grammatical phenomenon with broader implications to general linguistics, making the volume attractive to both specialists of Japanese and those interested in learning about the impact of Japanese syntax to the general study of language. Each chapter is authored by a leading authority on the topic. Broad issues covered include sentence types (declarative, imperative, etc.) and their interactions with grammatical verbal categories (modality, polarity, politeness, etc.), grammatical relations (topic, subject, etc.), transitivity, nominalizations, grammaticalization, word order (subject, scrambling, numeral quantifier, configurationality), case marking (ga/no conversion, morphology and syntax), modification (adjectives, relative clause), and structure and interpretation (modality, negation, prosody, ellipsis).

Chapter titles

IntroductionChapter 1. Basic structures of sentences and grammatical categories, Yoshio Nitta, Kansai University of Foreign StudiesChapter 2: Transitivity, Wesley Jacobsen, Harvard UniversityChapter 3: Topic and subject, Takashi Masuoka, Kobe City University of Foreign StudiesChapter 4: Toritate: Focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses, Hisashi Noda,National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Chapter 5: The layered structure of the sentence, Isao Iori, Hitotsubashi UniversityChapter 6. Functional syntax, Ken-Ichi Takami, Gakushuin University; and Susumu Kuno, Harvard UniversityChapter 7: Locative alternation, Seizi Iwata, Osaka City UniversityChapter 8: Nominalizations, Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice UniversityChapter 9: The morphosyntax of grammaticalization, Heiko Narrog, Tohoku UniversityChapter 10: Modality, Nobuko Hasegawa, Kanda University of International StudiesChapter 11: The passive voice, Tomoko Ishizuka, Tama University

Chapter 12: Case marking, Hideki Kishimoto, Kobe University

Chapter 13: Interfacing syntax with sounds and meanings, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Indiana University

Chapter 14: Subject, Masatoshi Koizumi, Tohoku University

Chapter 15: Numeral quantifiers, Shigeru Miyagawa, MITChapter 16: Relative clauses, Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka UniversityChapter 17: Expressions that contain negation, Nobuaki Nishioka, Kyushu UniversityChapter 18: Ga/No conversion, Masao Ochi, Osaka UniversityChapter 19: Ellipsis, Mamoru Saito, Nanzan University

Chapter 20: Syntax and argument structure, Natsuko Tsujimura, Indiana University

Chapter 21: Attributive modification, Akira Watanabe, University of TokyoChapter 22: Scrambling, Noriko Yoshimura, Shizuoka Prefectural University