Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL]

Herausgegeben von: Yukinori Takubo, Haruo Kubozono und Yo Matsumoto

ISSN: 2626-9201

e-ISSN 2626-921X

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The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics series publishes new research monographs as well as edited volumes from NINJAL’s biannual symposia for scholars and researchers. Each symposium is organized around a pressing topic in linguistics. Each volume presents cutting-edge perspectives on topics of central interest in the field. This is the first series of scholarly monographs and collections to publish in English on Japanese linguistics and its related fields.

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"Following in the steps of the highly successful Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics, the new NINJAL-Mouton collaboration promises to deliver high quality research results in language and cognition. Centering on the pertinent issues in and around Japanese linguistics, each and every one of the topics covered in the series has an immediate impact on research well beyond Japanese, but especially in such areas as grammatical theory, comparative syntax, and language typology."

Masayoshi Shibatani, Deedee McMurtry Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.

Buch Open Access 2023

Polarity-Sensitive Expressions

Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages

Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada, Ikumi Imani

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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Polarity (positive, negative) is one of the most fundamental concepts in the system of language and there are many expressions that are sensitive to polarity. For example, any in English and wh-mo in Japanese appear in negative contexts, but not in positive contexts. While previous studies have shown that polarity-sensitive expressions are a general phenomenon in languages, it has also become clear that there are variations in polarity-sensitive expressions. This volume explores the variations in polarity-sensitive expressions through comparisons between Japanese and other languages, such as English, German, Spanish, and Old Japanese, and examines the environments and contexts in which polarity-sensitive expressions occur, as well as the types of (cross-linguistic) variation allowed. The value of the present volume lies in its inclusion of research papers inquiring into various types of polarity-sensitive expressions, such as negative-, positive-, and discourse-sensitive polarity items as well as their variations. The research indicates new directions for the study of polarity-sensitive expressions in the fields of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110755121
ISBN:: 9783110755121
ISBN:: 9783110754995
ISBN:: 9783110755213
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Japanisch-Ryūkyū
Fachgebiet:: Sino-tibetische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Chinesisch
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kontrastive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch Open Access 2023

Volume 2 Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors

Masatoshi Koizumi

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives compiles over 30 state-of-the-art articles on Japanese psycholinguistics. It emphasizes the importance of using comparative perspectives when conducting psycholinguistic research. Psycholinguistic studies of Japanese have contributed greatly to the field from a cross-linguistic perspective. However, the target languages for comparison have been limited. Most research focuses on English and a few other typologically similar languages. As a result, many current theories of psycholinguistics fail to acknowledge the nature of ergative-absolutive and/or object-before-subject languages. The cross-linguistic approach is not the only method of comparison in psycholinguistics. Other prominent comparative aspects include comprehension vs. production, native speakers vs. second language learners, typical vs. aphasic language development. Many of these approaches are underrepresented in Japanese psycholinguistics.

The studies reported in the volumes attempt to bridge these gaps. Using various experimental and/or computational methods, they address issues of the universality/diversity of the human language and the nature of the relationship between human cognitive modules. Volume 2, Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors, provides studies on the interaction between linguistic and non-linguistic factors.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110778939
ISBN:: 9783110778939
ISBN:: 9783110779073
ISBN:: 9783110778816
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Japanisch-Ryūkyū
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kontrastive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch Open Access 2023

Volume 1 Cross-Linguistic Studies

Masatoshi Koizumi

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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The studies reported in the volumes attempt to bridge these gaps. Using various experimental and/or computational methods, they address issues of the universality/diversity of the human language and the nature of the relationship between human cognitive modules. Volume 1, Cross-Linguistic Studies, compares Japanese and other languages, including well-studied languages such as English, as well as lesser-studied languages such as Kaqchikel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778946
ISBN:: 9783110778946
ISBN:: 9783110779066
ISBN:: 9783110778809
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Japanisch-Ryūkyū
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kontrastive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2022

Irregular Phonological Marking of Japanese Compounds

Benjamin Smith Lyman’s Pioneering Research on Rendaku

Timothy J. Vance

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835–1920) was an American geologist and mining engineer who worked for the Japanese government as a foreign expert in the 1870s. He is famous among linguists for an article about a set of Japanese morphophonemic alternations known as rendaku (sometimes translated as “sequential voicing”). Lyman published this article in 1894, several years after he returned to the United States, and it contains a version of what linguists today call Lyman’s Law. This book includes a brief biography of Lyman and explains how an amateur linguist was able to make such a lasting contribution to the field. It also reproduces Lyman’s 1894 article as well as his earlier article on the pronunciation system of Japanese, each followed by extensive commentary. In addition, it offers an English translation of a thorough critique of Lyman’s 1894 article, published in 1910 by the prominent Japanese linguist Ogura Shinpei. Lyman’s work on rendaku included much more than just Lyman’s Law, and the final chapter of this book assesses all his proposals from the standpoint of a modern researcher.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755107
ISBN:: 9783110755107
ISBN:: 9783110755015
ISBN:: 9783110755237
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Japanisch-Ryūkyū
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2022

The Theory and Practice of Language Faculty Science

Hajime Hoji, Daniel Plesniak, Yukinori Takubo

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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The book demonstrates that it is possible to study the language faculty with the core scientific method, i.e., by deducing definite predictions from hypotheses and obtaining and replicating experimental results precisely in accordance with the predictions.

In light of the "reproducibility crisis" as extensively addressed in recent years in a number of fields, the demonstration that rigorous replication can be obtained in the study of the language faculty in terms of correlational and categorical predictions is particularly significant. While the claim has been made over the years that Chomsky’s research program is meant to be a scientific study of the language faculty, a conceptual and methodological articulation has never been made as to how we can accumulate our knowledge about the language faculty by the basic scientific method, including, most crucially, how exactly we can put our hypotheses to rigorous empirical and experimental test.

The book proposes how to do that by providing a conceptual basis for the methodology for language faculty science. The book also offers empirical demonstrations of the viability of the proposed methodology. The experiments were conducted with Japanese and English speakers.

Overall, the book explores new directions for the study of the mind.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724790
ISBN:: 9783110724790
ISBN:: 9783110724899
ISBN:: 9783110724677
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Japanisch-Ryūkyū
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Volume 1 Case Studies

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks Motion Event Descriptions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology.　This two-volume book provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic, based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages across the globe as part of a research project conducted by　NINJAL The chapters are based on　papers presented at international conferences (most at NINJAL international symposium held in January 2019, some at International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences in 2017 and 2019). The book provides valuable descriptions of familiar and unfamiliar 　languages 　as well as insightful discussions of controversial issues based on those descriptions. This book　would interest students in linguistics and cognitive science in Asia, Europe and North America.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110690866
ISBN:: 9783110690866
ISBN:: 9783110690873
ISBN:: 9783110690828
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Typologie
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton