Putting Adpositions in Place: Sortal Domains and Modifier Pps in Japanese

by Kaori Takamine

This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors which indicates that Temporal and Locative appear relatively freely with respect to a certain range of the Modal/Aspect functors in the middle field, whereas the rest of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902725723X
• ISBN13: 9789027257239
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.