The possession cline in Japanese and other languages

Tsunoda, Tasaku

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“…This resembles the "double subject" construction of Chinese (e.g. Chappell 1995), Japanese (Tsunoda 1995), and various other languages. More precisely, it satisfies the conditions for the external possession (or possessor ascension) construction in Nyulnyulan languages, as laid out in McGregor (1999): the possessor and possessum are represented by distinct NPs, and the possessor only is crossreferenced in the verb, indicating that it (and not the possessum) serves in a participant (i.e.…”

Section: Yawurumentioning

confidence: 69%

The Medio-Active Construction in Nyulnyulan Languages

McGregor

1999

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Most Nyulnyulan languages (non-Pama-Nyungan, Western Australia), show an unusual clause type, the medio-active, with the case-frame of a transitive clause, but the verbal agreement of an intransitive clause; there is no formal registration in the verb. This paper provides a detailed description of the structural and semantic properties of this clause type in each language that exhibits it, identifying shared features and differences. Evidence is presented that it represents a distinct construction, of intermediate transitivity, and a grammatical analysis is proposed in terms of roles. The medio-active shows, however, few characteristics prototypical of the passive, and is not a voice option.

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Section: Yawurumentioning

confidence: 69%

The Medio-Active Construction in Nyulnyulan Languages

McGregor

1999

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“…Although Shibatani (1978) assumes that the target of honorification is confined to subjects, Tsunoda (1996) shows, in light of an example like (103), that honorification can be directed to non-subject phrases under some circumstances:…”

Section: Honorification and Object Shiftmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…56 Tsunoda (1996) has not discussed the type of sentence in (102a), but since the nominative object has a possessive relation with the dative subject, it is clear that (102a) is an instance of indirect honorification with a possessive cline.…”

Section: Honorification and Object Shiftmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even if Tsunoda's (1996) observation is correct, there remains a question as to why (102b) is unacceptable, since the nominative and dative phrases in (102b) have exactly the same semantic relation as those in (102a). If a possessive cline is the sole factor governing the possibility of indirect honorification, then (102b) should be acceptable, in the same way as (103a), contrary to fact.…”

Section: Honorification and Object Shiftmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mikami 1970). If honorification is construed as 'subject' agreement, it is reasonable to assume that honorification is, in unmarked cases, triggered by a subject, which is located in [Spec, T], but that other DPs can be the target of honorification, provided that they stand in a close possessive relation with the subject, as specified by Tsunoda (1996). Further, if it is assumed that agreement morphology on the verb can only be licensed when an agreement-trigger is located in 'agreement' position above VP before Spell-Out, the ill-formedness of (102b) may be deduced from the fact that the nominative phrase, which can be a potential trigger for verb alternation, remains in a VP-internal position in overt syntax.…”

Section: Honorification and Object Shiftmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Locational verbs, agreement, and object shift in Japanese

Kishimoto¹

2000

The Linguistic Review

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In Japanese, the locational verbs iru (animate) and aru (inanimate) can express locative-existential meanings when they are intransitive, and possessive meanings when they are transitive. The animacy alternation that occurs between aru and iru is conditioned by the subject of an intransitive locative-existential verb, and by the object of a transitive possessive verb. In Japanese, animacy agreement is generally obligatory, but when the inanimate verb aru is used transitively, agreement does not obtain (unless it is forced by other factors). This peculiar behavior of animacy agreement in Japanese is shown to follow straightforwardly on the assumption that the light verb associated with the animate verb iru has a strong D-feature to attract its nominative phrase overtly, while the light verb associated with the inanimate verb aru has a weak D-feature, which does not require its overt movement, and that instantiation of agreement is contingent upon whether or not the nominative phrase is overtly raised to [Spec, v/. This paper demonstrates that Japanese is a language which selectively induces oven object shift.

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A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure

Kumashiro

2016

Human Cognitive Processing

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This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes schematic conceptual structures for the major constructions in the language and defines Japanese case marking and grammatical relations in purely conceptual terms. The work thus makes a convincing case for the conceptual basis of grammar, thereby constituting a strong argument against the autonomy of syntax hypothesis of Generative Grammar. The volume should be of interest to any researcher wishing to know how Cognitive Grammar, whose primary focus has been on the non-syntactic aspects of language, can explain the clausal structure of a given language in a detailed, comprehensive, yet unifying manner. In addition to its theoretical findings, the volume contains a number of revealing analyses and interpretations of Japanese data, which should be of great interest to all Japanese linguists, irrespective of their theoretical persuasions.

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The possession cline in Japanese and other languages

Cited by 27 publications

References 5 publications

The Medio-Active Construction in Nyulnyulan Languages

The Medio-Active Construction in Nyulnyulan Languages

Locational verbs, agreement, and object shift in Japanese

A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure

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