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Publication details [#29704]

Uchida, Yoshiko and Mineharu Nakayama. 1993. Japanese verbal noun constructions. Linguistics 31 (4) : 623–666.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | noun | predicate | verbal behavior

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper explores the regularity in distribution of two verbal noun (VN) constructions in Japanese, VN suru and VN -o suru, consisting of verbal nouns that form complex predicates with the verb 'suru'.