Diachrony of complex predicates in Japanese

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dc.citation.journalTitleRice Working Papers in Linguistics
dc.citation.volumeNumber1
dc.contributor.authorLanz, Linda A.
dc.contributor.orgLinguistics Department
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-11T22:41:09Z
dc.date.available2009-02-11T22:41:09Z
dc.date.issued2009-02-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines two types of complex predicates in Japanese from a diachronic perspective. The two-fold purpose is bring more diachronic data into the dialogue on complex predicates and to evaluate the claim by Butt and Lahiri (1998) that light verb constructions are diachronically stable. Using Japanese data it is possible to test this hypothesis. While the serial verb construction has become more restricted with time, over the centuries the light verb construction [N(-ACC) suru] has remained stable and become dramatically more frequent. Using natural written data rather than constructed examples, I demonstrate that in previous stages of Japanese - namely Old Japanese and Classical Japanese - the SVC had fewer restrictions on internal order, transitivity mismatches were possible, and motion verb grammaticalization was less developed than Modern Standard Japanese. In contrast, the suru-type light verb construction has undergone no significant changes in any attested stage of Japanese other than increase in token frequency.
dc.identifier.citationLanz, Linda A.. "Diachrony of complex predicates in Japanese." <i>Rice Working Papers in Linguistics,</i> 1, (2009) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21856">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21856</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/21856
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subject.keywordlinguistics
dc.subject.keywordlanguage
dc.subject.keywordsyntax
dc.subject.keywordmorphosyntax
dc.subject.keywordserial verbs
dc.subject.keywordcomplex predicates
dc.subject.keywordlight verb construction
dc.subject.keywordJapanese
dc.titleDiachrony of complex predicates in Japanese
dc.typeJournal article
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