On the Formation of Verb Compounds in Early Middle Japanese

On the Formation of Verb Compounds in Early Middle Japanese

This paper is dedicated to the formation of verb compounds in Early Middle Japanese, a stage of the Japanese language used in the Heian Period (794–1185). The findings reveal that current verb compounds have come a long way from Old Japanese. Multiple verbs in Old Japanese are assigned to an associa...

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Main Author: Wenchao LI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2013-12-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Subjects:
Old Japanese
Early Middle Japanese
verb compounds
argument structure
grammaticalisation
Online Access:http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/649

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