Download or read book The Grammatical Voice in Japanese written by Junichi Toyota and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates how Japanese employs different structures found in the grammatical voice, both synchronically and diachronically. The Japanese voice system, especially the passive voice, has provided much interesting data for typological comparison, and Japanese examples are often cited in various linguistic works. However, the basic structure consisting of a suffix -(r)are is taken for granted as the passive voice, but it has not been thoroughly compared with various structures with similar functions in other languages. It is argued here that various typological comparisons can reveal different interpretations of structures often analysed under a term ‘grammatical voice’ in Japanese. The main argument proposed in this book is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice structure. As the language evolved, the middle voice lost its core function and became more like the passive voice, leaving some residues of earlier middle voice structure even in Modern Japanese. This developmental path is typologically very common, but it has not been recognised in the history of Japanese. This will make the voice continuum in Japanese more complex, i.e. from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair. Thus, the presence of the middle voice in Japanese can provide various solutions to questions that are previously considered in relation to the passive voice. The book starts off with a description of different structures normally discussed under the passive voice in Japanese, and five structures are presented here. Following this, both syntactic and semantic features of the Japanese voice system are discussed separately. These discussions will raise some oddities that are not dealt with satisfactorily in previous analysis, and these points are analysed in historical comparison. Apart from the basic description of five structures, certain grammatical features are studied by comparing Japanese data with similar structures and functions in other languages. In addition, there is a small amount of data used for indicating frequency of structures in the basic description.
Download or read book A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language written by William George Aston and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Simplified Grammar of the Japanese Language modern Written Style written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voicing in Japanese written by Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Download or read book Japanese Grammar written by H.J. Weintz and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scheme Of This Work Is To Provide A Complete Manual Of The Japanese Languahe Rather Than A Phrase-Book For Travellers And Others Temporarily Visiting Japan.
Download or read book A Short Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language written by William George Aston and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hossfeld s Japanese Grammar written by Henry J. Weintz and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Japanese Grammar written by J. Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Japanese grammar for the use of beginners written by Rutherford Alcock and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phonetics of Japanese Language written by P M Suski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives true characters of Japanese speech sounds in reference to European speech sounds. When it was first published in 1931, it was the first book of its kind. There are only 5 Japanese vowel elements as opposed to 18 in English, 13 in French and 8 in German. There are 15 Japanese consonants, 26 in English, 22 in French & 23 in German. Because of the lesser number of elements, it follows that the wider range in vowels and consonants is heard by Japanese ears, so this volume gives average sounds uttered by Japanese in the twentieth century in relation to the English sounds.
Download or read book An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language written by Tatui Baba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in 1873 one of the aims was to protest against an idea that the Japanese language was very imperfect, and therefore it should be exterminated! The second was to give a general idea of the Japanese language as it is spoken.
Download or read book A Grammar of Spoken Japanese written by 松宮弥平 and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passive in Japanese written by Tomoko Ishizuka and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge from the lexical properties of a single passive morpheme interacting with independently-supported syntactic principles and general properties of Japanese. The book both reevaluates numerous properties previously discussed within the literature and introduces interesting new data collected through experiments. This novel analysis also benefits from considering the important issue of interspeaker variability, in terms of grammaticality judgments and context requirements, and its implications for individual grammar. The book will be of interest not only to students and scholars working on passive constructions, but more generally to scholars working on generative grammar, experimental syntax, language acquisition, and sentence processing.
Download or read book Glossika Guide to JAPANESE Pronunciation Grammar written by Michael Campbell and published by Glossika. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about vowels, consonants and various types of Japanese scripts and get to know Japanese grammar in an easy-to-follow format. Download your quick guide to Japanese basics. Throw out all your misconception about this East Asian language and get to know pronunciation tips and grammar how-tos beneficial to your personal training. Learn about vowels, consonants and various types of Japanese scripts to set off your learning journey in the right direction. You’ll appreciate the comprehensive content straightforward and easy to integrate into your study plan. Best yet, the part that confuses most people -- grammar -- is concisely outlined in an easy-to-understand format, so you don’t get too involved with complicated rules that take away the fun in learning from you. >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2x9DJHz) now and start 7-day free trial! >> Learn Japanese with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2IzlorY >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download
Download or read book A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language written by William George Aston and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese written by John Hinds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Present day Japanese has a basic word order of subject, object,, verb (SOV). As a result, it has postpositions rather than prepositions, branching is to the left. rather than to the right, and inflectional endings are added to the right rather than to the left. The goal of the editors of this series is to provide references works for a number of languages which will be uniform in appearance and content.
Download or read book A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language written by William George Aston and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
