Personal Pronouns And Argument Structure In Japanese

Download or read book Personal Pronouns and Argument Structure in Japanese written by Reijirou Shibasaki and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequency analysis is crucial to the goals of this dissertation. Recently, we have witnessed a growing body of research by functionally oriented linguists (e.g. Bybee and Hopper 2001; Barlow and Kemmer 2001; Du Bois et al. 2003) and psycholinguistics (e.g. Elman et al. 1996) who regard grammar as a dynamic system that emerges from language use. In this usage-based and frequency-based approach to grammar, grammar is seen not as autonomous (one of the central tenets of generative linguistics), but as a dynamic system that emerges from recurrent patterns of use in naturally occurring discourse.