Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation

John Fry

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2003

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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.

ISBN-13
9780415967648
ISBN-10
0415967643
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2003
Publication date
2003-05-16
Pages
220
Dimensions
229x152x
Weight
570