A reference grammar of Japanese
"With an extensive 105-page index, the reader will quickly find explanations for particles such as wa, ga, mo, ni, and de; difficult nouns such as mono, koto, tokoro, wake, hazu, and tame; sentence extensions such as ne, yo, sa, yara, and nari; verb tenses, literary forms, negative forms - in short, everything concerned with the Japanese language. For the serious student, this book is indispensable for clearing up the ambiguities of puzzling Japanese sentences."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Rev. ed View all formats and editions
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2004
1109 pages ; 27 cm
9780824828189, 0824828186
1058029784
Notational conventions: spelling, punctuation, accent, juncture
1. Sentence construction: 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. Adverbializations
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 [l] rasii
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 constraints: agrammatisms; idioms; lexical compounds
Previously published: Rutland, Vt. : C.E. Tuttle Co., 1988