Ellipsis and wa-marking in japanese conversation
Auteur :
Fry, John
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780415967648
Date de publication :
16 mai 2003
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
570 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.