Book Title

Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages

Publisher

Springer Nature

Year of Publication

2024

ISBN

9789811944444 / (ebook) 9789811944451

Introduction

This book contains new research essays of linguistic interface studies in or related to East Asian languages. Written by 14 colleagues or former students of Yoshihisa Kitagawa, it is also a book paying tribute to his decades of scholarships on linguistic interface studies. The chapters therein range from interface studies in syntax and other linguistic areas such as morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, language evolution, and language faculty science. The languages under discussion are mainly East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, but also include Jordanian Arabic and Spanish, under comparative studies with respect to East Asian languages. The book appeals to both seasoned and novice researchers in linguistics, East Asian languages, and modern languages.

Table of Contents

Forword – David Pesetsky
1. Introduction (Jen Ting and Yu-Yin Hsu)
2. Incorporating Phonological Features into Merge: A Case Study of Noun Compounds in Kansai Dialects (Ayumi Ueyama and J.-R. Hayashishita)
3. The Grammar of Reciprocality and Collectivity in Arabic and Mandarin (Basem Ibrahim Malawi Al- Raba’a and Thomas Grano)
4. The Hypothesis of Categorization Origins of Merge and Labeling in Evolinguistics: Its Implications to the Labeling System in Syntax and East Asian Linguistic Study (Koji Hoshi)
5. Bare Quotatives as Embedded Speech Acts (Satoshi Tomioka and Jooyoung Kim)
6. Impersonal Bei Sentences in Early Mandarin: Form and Function (Jen Ting)
7. Re: The Interpretive Functions of the So-Called Japanese Topic Marker Wa (Masanori Deguchi)
8. Focus Inside: Evidence from Spanish and Chinese (Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo and Yu-Yin Hsu)
9. Recursive Focus Prosody (Shinichiro Ishihara and Joost van de Weijer)
10. The L2 Acquisition of Semantico-Pragmatic Properties of Korean Topic and Focus Particles (Jung-Eun Choi)
11. Prediction, Experiment, and Replication in Language Faculty Science: A Conceptual Illustration (Hajime Hoji)

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