TY - CHAP
T1 - Quantity Expressions in Japanese
AU - Hayashishita, J. R.
AU - Ueyama, Ayumi
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Acknowledgements We are very grateful that we could contribute to this innovative reference book project. We thank Edward Keenan for initiating this project and inviting us to it. In writing this chapter, we have received help from several people, including Kiyoko Kataoka, Tomohide Kinuhata, and Asako Miyachi. Our special thanks go to Tadashi Eguchi and Hajime Hoji, whose comments and suggestions led us to improve the quality of the chapter greatly. We acknowledge that without the help of Ann Hassan on its English exposition, the present chapter was not as readable as it is now. This research was partially supported by the PBRF Research Output Publishing Grant, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Funding Information:
We are very grateful that we could contribute to this innovative reference book project. We thank Edward Keenan for initiating this project and inviting us to it. In writing this chapter, we have received help from several people, including Kiyoko Kataoka, Tomohide Kinuhata, and Asako Miyachi. Our special thanks go to Tadashi Eguchi and Hajime Hoji, whose comments and suggestions led us to improve the quality of the chapter greatly. We acknowledge that without the help of Ann Hassan on its English exposition, the present chapter was not as readable as it is now. This research was partially supported by the PBRF Research Output Publishing Grant, University of Otago, New Zealand.
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about Japanese this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, definited and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier Questionnaire in Chapter 1. It partitions the expression of the semantic types into morpho-syntactic classes: Adverbial type quantifiers and Nominal (or Determiner) type quantifiers. For the various semantic and morpho-syntactic types of quantifiers it also distinguishes syntactically simple and syntactically complex quantifiers, as well as issues of distributivity and scope interaction, classifiers and measure expressions, and existential constructions. The chapter describes structural properties of determiners and quantified noun phrases in Japanese, both in terms of internal structure (morphological or syntactic) and distribution.
AB - After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about Japanese this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, definited and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier Questionnaire in Chapter 1. It partitions the expression of the semantic types into morpho-syntactic classes: Adverbial type quantifiers and Nominal (or Determiner) type quantifiers. For the various semantic and morpho-syntactic types of quantifiers it also distinguishes syntactically simple and syntactically complex quantifiers, as well as issues of distributivity and scope interaction, classifiers and measure expressions, and existential constructions. The chapter describes structural properties of determiners and quantified noun phrases in Japanese, both in terms of internal structure (morphological or syntactic) and distribution.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9_10
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9_10
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T3 - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
SP - 535
EP - 612
BT - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -