Mitsuaki Shimojo

Salience of Information in Japanese

Discourse and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

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Produktbeschreibung

"Featuring a wide range of authentic language examples, this book uses the framework of Role and Reference Grammar to explore how 'salience' is conveyed in Japanese. It is essential reading for researchers and students of syntax and its interfaces with pragmatics and discourse, as well as linguists of Asian languages"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781009421829
• ISBN-10: 1009421824
• Artikelnr.: 69963116

Autorenporträt

Mitsuaki Shimojo is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His notable publications include Argument Encoding in Japanese Conversation (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
Notes on transcriptions
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Backward-looking salience and argument forms: discourse analysis
4. Backward-looking salience and argument forms: RRG representations
5. Predicate-less constructions
6. Forward-looking non-salience and arguement forms
7. Concluding remarks.