Conspiracy of form and context for proper semantic interpretation: The implications of lonesome numeral classifiers in Japanese  

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Fukushima, Kazuhiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 39 no. 5 (May 2007), page 960-989.
Topik: Syntax/semantics and pragmatics interface; Competence vs. performance; Constraint-Based Lexicalism; Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar; Japanese; Numeral classifiers
Fulltext: Fukushima_Kazuhiko.pdf (443.86KB)

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Semantic flexibility and pragmatic dynamism ofnumeral classifiers in Japanese are witnessed through their unexpected behavior in giving rise to ‘unusual looking’ constituents. The unusual constituents are pernicious from a point of view upholding the concept of rigid/stereotypical syntactic constituency often presupposed by traditional theories of syntax. Following Fukushima (2002, 2003), it is argued that, in order to capture such apparently odd behavior of numeral classifiers, an ‘inclusive’ grammatical framework is effective and adequate, which is capable of simultaneously synthesizing information pertaining to both form and context.

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