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Peer reviewedJosephs, Lewis S. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Japanese, Semantics
Peer reviewedKishimoto, Hideki – Language, 1996
Using data from Japanese, this article shows that the distinction between unergatives and unaccusatives is fully determined on the basis of the verb's inherent lexical meanings. (55 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grammar, Japanese, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedKuno, Susumu; Takami, Ken-ichi; Wu, Yuru – Language, 1999
Critiques Aoun and Li's (1993) syntactic analysis of quantifier-scope interpretations in English, Chinese, and Japanese, showing serious theoretical problems with their results and proposing a quantifier-scope analysis that avoids those problems. The proposed expert system considers several important considerations and arrives at a composite…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Grammar, Japanese
Peer reviewedBabyonyshev, Maria; Gibson, Edward – Language, 1999
Presents two questionnaire experiments that investigated the processing complexity of a variety of nested constructions in Japanese. The results are discussed in terms of the syntactic-prediction locality theory. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Japanese
Peer reviewedLakoff, Robin – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Japanese, Language
Peer reviewedSmith, Donald L. – Language, 1978
Mirror images in constituent order are found in a wide range of parallel clause types in Japanese and English. Three detailed explanations for linear orderings are provided. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, Generative Grammar
