TY - BOOK AU - Shibatani,Masayoshi AU - Miyagawa,Shigeru AU - Noda,Hisashi TI - Handbook of Japanese Syntax T2 - Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] Series SN - 9781614516613 AV - PL613 .H363 2017 U1 - 495.65 PY - 2017/// CY - Basel/Berlin/Boston PB - De Gruyter, Inc. KW - Japanese language-Syntax KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Basic sentence structure and grammatical categories -- 2. Transitivity -- 3. Topic and subject -- 4. Toritate: Focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses -- 5. The layered structure of the sentence -- 6. Functional syntax -- 7. Locative alternation -- 8. Nominalization -- 9. The morphosyntax of grammaticalization in Japanese -- 10. Modality -- 11. The passive voice -- 12. Case marking -- 13. Interfacing syntax with sounds and meanings -- 14. Subject -- 15. Numeral quantifiers -- 16. Relative clauses -- 17. Expressions that contain negation -- 18. Ga/no conversion -- 19. Ellipsis -- 20. Syntax and argument structure -- 21. Attributive modification -- 22. Scrambling -- Subject index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5116065 ER -