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Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation - Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics 1st edition
John Fry
Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation - Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics 1st edition
John Fry
Investigating the operation ellipsis and wa-marking in a corpus of colloquial Japanese speech, this title shows that Japanese conversation obeys certain principles of argument ellipsis that appear to be language universal: the tendency to omit transitive and human subjects and the tendency to express no more than one argument per clause.
218 pages, Illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 16, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780415967648 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 220 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 13 mm · 570 g |
Language | English |