Multiple Representation of Japanese Complex Predicates : A Lexicalist Analysis of Subject and Object Honorific Forms
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Lexicalist approaches to syntax can benefit from multidimensionality of representation as exhibited by Ailohanan(1997). Subject and object honorific forms in Japanese are shown to be complex predicates with its second component grammaticalized and triggering argument-sharing of the two components of the predicate. Multidimensional representation makes it possible to account for the Gricean inference mechanism working during the argument-sharing process of these honorific forms.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000