Dissertation Information for Hisami Konishi SpringerNAME:
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Abstract: "This dissertation is an analysis of perspective-shifting constructions in Japanese in the framework of lexicase, a strictly constrained lexicon-driven approach to dependency grammar which has been used in the analysis of 76 languages. 'Perspective-shifting' refers to strategies for alternative lexical encodings of a single external event. Constructions containing such related words encode distinct conceptual events. All languages make available mechanisms for using a single root, corresponding roughly to a single objective event, to appear as the stem of distinct but related words in different syntactic patterns. When such mechanisms involve the creation of words differing in lexically encoded case relation configurations, they will be referred to as 'perspective-shifting' mechanisms. The grammatical principles governing perspective-shifting constructions representing a single event are conceived of as mapping relationships between the heads of different constructions, and are formalized in terms of Derivation Rules. These rules state correspondences between dependents of the heads of the constructions, and indirectly formalize the relation between corresponding constituents in these constructions as well. |
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