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Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language” - Volume 24, Issue 1, 2000
Volume 24, Issue 1, 2000
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The Occurrence and Non-Occurrence of the Japanese Direct Object Marker o in Conversation
Author(s): Noriko Fujii and Tsuyoshi Onopp.: 1–39 (39)More LessAlthough in written Japanese grammatical relations such as subject and object are marked by postpositional particles, in informal conversation they may occur without any particles. This paper examines the occurrence and non-occurrence of the direct object marker o in spontaneous informal conversation and clarifies that the choice of object marking is a device to facilitate selective focusing on information. Our study shows that zero-marking is the unmarked option for marking direct objects and o is used when the information indicated by the direct object NP is salient in the discourse or when cognitive processing requires some additonal effort.
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Core-Oblique Distinction and Nominalizer Choice in Japanese and Korean
Author(s): Kaoru Horiepp.: 77–102 (26)More LessIt has been suggested that a core–oblique distinction is not manifested in the grammatical structures of languages like Japanese and Korean, wherein both core and oblique arguments are marked by so-called case-marking particles. This study argues, based on elicitation data from Japanese and Korean as well as Japanese questionnaire data, that a core–oblique distinction in these languages is indeed reflected in the differing selection of sentential nominalizers to mark core and oblique nominalized clauses. Furthermore, this study presents an explanation for the differing selectional patterns of core and oblique marking sentential nominalizers from the viewpoints of markedness and information processing.
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Tensions Between Discourse Structure and Conceptual Semantics: The Syntax of Epistemic Modal Expressions
Author(s): Jan Nuytspp.: 103–135 (33)More LessStarting from an investigation of the information structure (specifically, the possibilities for focalization) of some major epistemic expression forms — modal adverbs and adjectives, mental state predicates, and modal auxiliaries — in Dutch and German (also with reference to English), this paper aims to show how the syntactic structure of these expression types is shaped (also diachronically) by the interaction (or, often, counteraction) of two major functional forces, viz. their conceptual semantics and their (usual) informational status in discourse. The investigation is primarily based on data drawn from corpora of Dutch and German spoken and written language.
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Echo Pronominalization and Complementation in Lakota
Author(s): Regina Pustetpp.: 137–170 (34)More LessThe functional domain of complementation breeds a vast spectrum of construction types. This structural diversification concerns, among other things, the coding of the notional subject of the complement clause. One coding option which invites further study within the functional-typological framework is echo pronominalization. In Lakota, the distribution of echo pronominalization relative to that of alternative coding strategies follows a clear-cut pattern. The continuum which emerges here correlates with a semantic scale that can be characterized in terms of varying degrees of participant involvement.
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