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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of contents
Introduction
I Standard Japanese
1 The semantic basis of Japanese transitive-intransitive derivational patterns
2 Phonological and semantic subregularities in noncausative-causative verb pairs in Japanese
3 Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs
4 Valency and case alternations in Japanese
5 The role of lexical semantics in the reorganization of the resultative construction
II Dialects and Ryukyuan
6 Anticausativization in the northern dialects of Japanese
7 Aspect and non-canonical object marking in the Irabu dialect of Ryukyuan
III History
8 Japanese transitivity pairs through time – a historical and typological perspective
9 The historical source of the bigrade transitivity alternations in Japanese
IV Acquisition
10 Children’s ‘erroneous’ intransitives, transitives, and causatives: Their implications for syntactic theory
11 Children’s use of morphosyntax and number of arguments to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs
12 The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese
V Beyond Japanese
13 “Ambivalent voice”: Markedness effects in valency change
14 Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies
15 The role of morphology in valency alternation phenomena
Appendix A: List of core transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992))
Appendix B: List of additional transitivity pairs in Japanese (by Yo Matsumoto, a revision of Jacobsen (1992))
Subject index
Endnotes
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