8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Standard Japanese
5. 1 The semantic basis of Japanese transitiveintransitive derivational patterns 21
6. 2. Phonological and semantic subregularities in noncausative-causative verb pairs in Japanese 51
7. 3. Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs 89
8. 4. Valency and case alternations in Japanese 125
9. 5. The role of lexical semantics in the reorganization of the resultative construction 155
10. II. Dialects and Ryukyuan
11. 6. Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese 183
12. 7. Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan 215
13. III. History
14. 8. Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective 249
15. 9. The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese 289
16. IV. Acquisition
17. 10. Children’s ‘erroneous’ intransitives, transitives, and causatives: their implications for syntactic theory 313
18. 11. Children’s use of morphosyntax and argument structure to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs 341
19. 12. The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese 357
20. V. Beyond Japanese
21. 13. “Ambivalent voice”: markedness effects in valency change 389
22. 14. Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies 423
23. 15. The role of morphology in valency alternation phenomena 445
24. Appendix A: List of core transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) 479
25. Appendix B: List of additional transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992)) 489
26. Subject index 497