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