Personal Pronouns and Argument Structure in Japanese
Author | : Reijirou Shibasaki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN-10 | : 0542463555 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780542463556 |
Rating | : 4/5 (556 Downloads) |
Download or read book Personal Pronouns and Argument Structure in Japanese written by Reijirou Shibasaki and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequency analysis is crucial to the goals of this dissertation. Recently, we have witnessed a growing body of research by functionally oriented linguists (e.g. Bybee and Hopper 2001; Barlow and Kemmer 2001; Du Bois et al. 2003) and psycholinguistics (e.g. Elman et al. 1996) who regard grammar as a dynamic system that emerges from language use. In this usage-based and frequency-based approach to grammar, grammar is seen not as autonomous (one of the central tenets of generative linguistics), but as a dynamic system that emerges from recurrent patterns of use in naturally occurring discourse.