A Reference Grammar of Japanese 9780824843861

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A Reference Grammar of Japanese
9780824843861

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Samuel E. Martin

Table of contents :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
0. NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS: SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, ACCEN, JUNCTURE
1. SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONl NUCLEAR SENTENCES(PREDICATES) AND EXPANDED SENTENCES(SIMPLEXES); SENTENCE CONVERSIONS
2. PREDICATE ADJUNCTS
3. EXPANSION CONSTRAINTS; NOUN SUBCATEGORIZATION
4. VOICE CONVERSIONS
5. NUCLEAR FOCUS AND RESTRICTION: SPLIT NUCLEI
6. EXALTATION
7. DESIDERATIVES
8. NEGATION
9. ADVERBALIZATIONS
10. FAVORS
11. THE PERFECT
12. TENTATIVES AND HORTATIVES
13. ADNOMINALIZATIONS; TYPICALLY ADNOMINAL AND ADVERBIAL WORDS
14. NOMINALIZATIONS: GENERAL AND SPECIFIC
15. SENTENCE EXTENSIONS
16. COMMANDS AND REQUESTS
17. CONJUNCTIONALIZATIONS
18. HEARSAY-REPORTING
19. THE SEMBLATIVE
20. THE EVIDENTIAL: -SOO/-GE DA
21. QUOTATIONS
22. STYLIZATIONS
23. INTERJECTIONS; AFTERTHOUGHTS; MINOR SENTENCES OF VARIOUS TYPES
24. CONNECTORS AND SENTENCE-OPENERS; OPENING ELLIPSIS
25. APPOSITION
26. NAMES, TITLES
27. ITERATIVE DEVICES
28. ELLIPTICAL EXPRESSIONS
29. DEMONSTRATIVES; DEICTICS AND ANAPHORICS; PRONOUNS
30. USAGE CONTRAINTS; AGRAMMATISMS; IDIOMS; LEXICAL COMPUNDS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX