Modularity in Language: Constructional and Categorial Mismatch in Syntax and Semantics

by Etsuyo Yuasa

Overview

Modularity in Language is the first systematic study of regularities in idiosyncratic complex clauses in Japanese and English. It establishes a general framework for the investigation of idiosyncrasies and exceptions in grammar in a multi-modular approach to grammar and in the process sheds light on the architecture of grammar. The book is aimed at those interested in grammatical theories in general, the parallel architecture of grammar, Constructional Grammar, the syntax/semantics interface, and Japanese linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110197525
Publisher:	De Gruyter Mouton
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	209
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Etsuyo Yuasa is Professor at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1. What this book is about
1.2. Regularity and idiosyncrasies in grammar
1.3. Multi-modular approaches to grammar
1.4. The notion of autonomy and mismatch revisited
1.5. The notion of construction in multi-modular approaches of grammar
1.6. Organization of this study

Chapter 2: Correspondence and mismatch

2.1. Prototypes
2.2. Mismatch

Chapter 3: Coordination-subordination mismatch

3.1. Introduction
3.2. Properties of coordination and subordination
3.3. Constructions with mixed properties
3.4. Analysis
3.5. Conclusion

Chapter 4: Dependency mismatch I - Nonrestrictive relative clause

4.1. Introduction
4.2. Properties of subordinate structures and independent structures
4.3. Mixed properties of nonrestrictive relative clauses
4.4. Analysis
4.5. Implication

Chapter 5: Dependency mismatch II - performative adverbial clauses

5.1. Mixed properties of performative adverbial clauses in English
5.2. Mixed properties in Japanese adverbial clauses
5.3. Analysis
5.4. Conclusion

Chapter 6: Categorial mismatch

6.1. Introduction
6.2. Properties of nouns and subordinating conjunction markers in Japanese
6.3. Mixed properties of some subordinating conjunction markers
6.4. Analysis
6.5. Source of categorial mismatches: grammaticalization
6.6. Conclusion

Chapter 7: Conclusion

7.1. Constructional approach to mismatch
7.2. Nature of each level of grammar
7.3. Interrelations among constructions
7.4. Future direction of multi-modular approaches to grammar

References