This book examines Japanese as a configurational language.

The Syntax of Subjects (Center for Study of Language and Information)

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Tateishi, Koichi

Words, Language & Grammar

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The Syntax of Subjects

Foreign Language Study & Reference

<p>This work examines the way in which prominence--a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues--is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as well as function morphemes, that local F0 boost and boundary pitch movement (BPM) are the cues to mark prominence, that the domain of the focal prominence differs on which cue it is loaded with, and that BPM is possibly aligned to function morphemes and invokes a pragmatic implicature.</p>

Prominence in a Pitch Language: The Production and Perception of Japanese

Mizuguchi, Shinobu

Lexington Books

<p>Linguists who work on the Japanese language have disagreed about the notion of subject with respect to Japanese. Many linguists argue that there is no formal syntactic position for the subject in Japanese. Tateishi does deeper research on the surface syntax of the subject, and looks in particular at the syntax of the subject and phenomena which have been treated as S-adjunctions. Tateishi's main claim is that despite all the non-configurational characteristics found in the language, Japanese is in a sense more configurational than the so-called configurational languages. Japanese allows more types of hierarchies to be involved in the subject-predicate relation than English allows, as Japanese does not have the same kind of restrictions on the phrase structure as the configurational languages.</p>

The Syntax of Subjects (Japanese Linguistics)

Center for the Study of Language and Inf

Linguists who work on the Japanese language have disagreed about the notion of subject with respect to Japanese. Many linguists argue that there is no formal syntactic position for the subject in Japanese. Tateishi does deeper research on the surface syntax of the subject, and looks in particular at the syntax of the subject and phenomena which have been treated as S-adjunctions. Tateishi's main claim is that despite all the non-configurational characteristics found in the language, Japanese is in a sense more configurational than the so-called configurational languages. Japanese allows more types of hierarchies to be involved in the subject-predicate relation than English allows, as Japanese does not have the same kind of restrictions on the phrase structure as the configurational languages.

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The Syntax of Subjects (Center for Study of Language and Information)

The Syntax of Subjects

Prominence in a Pitch Language: The Production and Perception of Japanese

The Syntax of Subjects (Japanese Linguistics)

The Syntax of Subjects (Japanese Linguistics)