Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2016

Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation

Edited by: Taro Kageyama and Hideki Kishimoto

Volume 3 in the series Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512097

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About this book

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

Author information

Taro Kageyama, NINJAL; Hideki Kishimoto, Kobe University, Japan

Reviews

This handbook is an enormous asset for the linguistic research community at large. Japanese is a language full of fascinating phenomena in the domain of word formation and its relation to syntax, and thus an important test bed for theories of the architecture of grammar. With its detailed description of the facts and its impressive list of renowned scholars of Japanese, this volume is a reliable guide and a source of inspiration for further research.
Geert Booij, Professor Emeritus, University of Leiden

This is both the most comprehensive and most accessible work yet on the lexicon, morphology, and word formation in Japanese, a language whose rich vocabulary has a complex and layered history that is reflected in the depth and breadth of the modern idiom. The editors have brought together from around the world the leading scholars on the many topics that comprise this fascinating subject. The book will be a benchmark for many years to come.
Mark Aronoff, Distinguished Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxv
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxxvii
Introduction Taro Kageyama and Hideki Kishimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Lexicon and vocabulary items
1. Vocabulary strata and word formation processes Taro Kageyama and Michiaki Saito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Lexical categories Hideki Kishimoto and Satoshi Uehara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Sino-Japanese words Hideki Kobayashi, Kiyo Yamashita and Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
4. Mimetics Kimi Akita and Natsuko Tsujimura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
5. The morphology of English loanwords Mark Irwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
II. Morphology and word formation
6. Word structure and headedness Takayasu Namiki and Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
7. Noun-compounding and noun-incorporation Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
8. Verb-compounding and verb-incorporation Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
9. Conversion and deverbal compound nouns Yoko Yumoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
10. Derivational affixation in the lexicon and syntax Yoko Sugioka and Takane Ito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
11. Complex predicates with -te gerundive verbs Kentaro Nakatani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
12. Light verb constructions with verbal nouns Tadao Miyamoto and Hideki Kishimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
13. Inflection Koichi Takezawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
14. Lexical integrity and the morphologysyntax interface Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
III. Word classes and syntactic behavior
15. Lexical meaning and temporal aspect Wesley M. Jacobsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
16. Stative and existential/possessive predicates Hideki Kishimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
17. Agent nominals Naoyuki Ono Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
18. Complement-taking nouns Yuji Nishiyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	631
19. Idioms Hideki Kishimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	665
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	703

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 40
- Main content: 707
Keywords: Japanese; Linguistics; Lexicon; Language Contact

eBook

Published: January 29, 2016
ISBN: 9781614512097

Hardcover

Published: January 29, 2016
ISBN: 9781614512752