Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics

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The Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics is a unique publication that brings together insights from three traditions Japanese linguistics, linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics and makes important contributions to deepening our understanding of various phenomena in Japanese as well other languages of the globe. Its primary goal is to uncover principled similarities and differences between Japanese and other languages of the globe and thereby shed new light on the universal as well as language-particular properties of Japanese. The issues addressed by the papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of phenomena ranging from lexical to syntactic and discourse levels. The authors of the chapters, leading scholars in their respective field of research, present the state-of-the-art research from their respected field. Preface Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Contributors Introduction I. Verbal constructions and related issues 1. Transitivity in Japanese from a typological perspective 2. Non-canonical constructions in Japanese: A crosslinguistic perspective 3. Voice extension in passives and causatives 4. Causative constructions in Japanese and Korean 5. Entailed and intended results in Japanese and Burmese accomplishment verbs 6. Resultative constructions in Japanese from a typological perspective 7. Verb–Verb compounding in Japanese and Turkish 8. Ainu complex predicates with reference to Japanese 9. Motion event descriptions in Japanese from typological perspectives 10. Deictic motion constructions in Japanese and Thai 11. Event integration patterns in Sidaama and Japanese II. Nominal constructions and related issues 12. Nominalization in crosslinguistic perspective 13. Clausal noun-modifying constructions 14. Noun-modifying constructions in Swahili and Japanese 15. Quantifier float in Japanese and English 16. Measure nouns and numerals 17. Japanese spatial deixis in crosslinguistic perspective 18. ‘Who’, ‘what’, and ‘which’ in Japanese and Chinese 19. Inalienable possession in Japanese, English, and Warrongo III. Aspect, modality, and prediction 20. Continuous aspects in Japanese, Newar and Meche 21. Modality in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective 22. Modality in Japanese and Spanish 23. Internal state predicates in Japanese and Thai 24. Property predication in Koryak viewed from Japanese 25. Subordination and insubordination in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective Subject index