02788cam a22003014a 4500 11781553 20050211215534.0 990826s1999 pau b 001 0 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default to HLCD pc1408-26-99; yf10 08-30-99; yf04 ; to Dewey 08-31-99; aa14 08-31-99; CIP ver., yf07 to shelf 04-14-00; yf04 to BCCD 04-20-00; yf04 Copy 2 to BCCD 03-20-01 99046742 1556199139 (alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC engjpn pcc PL585 .M53 1999 495.6/5 21 Miyamoto, Tadao. The light verb construction in Japanese : the role of the verbal noun / Tadao Miyamoto. Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 1999. xiii, 233 p. ; 23 cm. Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; v. 29 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index. Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 -- Introduction 1 -- An Overview of Light Verb Constructions 1. -- Japanese Suru and Verbal Nouns (VN's) 4 -- Light vs. Heavy Suru Hypotheses 10 -- Synopsis of This Study 17 -- CHAPTER 2 -- Types of Nominals 25 -- Nominal Types 25 -- Japanese Nominals 29 -- Two Test Constructions 33 -- Tests Based on the Constructions 38 -- Summary 50 -- CHAPTER 3 -- Mono- vs. Bi-Predicational VN-o Suru 53 -- Type A Telic Monopredicational VN-o Suru 54 -- Type B Atelic Monopredicational VN-o Suru 61 -- Type-shift 64 -- The Isolation of Bipredicational VN-o Suru 68 -- Type C Atelic Bipredicational VN-o Suru 76 -- Type D Telic Bipredicational VN-o Suru 85 -- Summary 90 -- CHAPTER 4 -- Control Structure 95 -- Control Hypotheses 95 -- Lexical Evidence 97 -- Morphosyntactic Evidence 104 -- Syntactico(semantic) Evidence 105 -- Summary 108 -- CHAPTER 5 -- A Conceptual Semantic Analysis 111 -- The Conceptual Structure of VN-o suru Constructions 113 -- Aspectual Accounts 124 -- Summary and Remarks 133 -- CHAPTER 6 -- A Syntactic Analysis 137 -- Three Types of Accusative Phrases 137 -- Things To Be Accounted For. 145 -- Syntactic Accounts of Monopredicational VN-o Suru 147 -- Syntactic Accounts of Bipredicational VN-o Suru 151 -- Derivations 160 -- Summ ary 167 -- CHAPTER 7 -- The Unaccusative Hypothesis 171 -- What is the Unaccusative Hypothesis? 172 -- Unaccusativity and VN-o suru 173 -- Search for Unaccusative Diagnostics 182 -- Accounts of Intransitive VN-o su r Forms 192 -- Summary 204 -- CHAPTER 8 -- Closing Remarks 209 -- References 213 -- Index 225. Japanese language Verb. Japanese language Noun phrase. Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/99046742.html