A Reference Grammar of JapaneseThis title explains the use of Japanese words such as wa, ga and mo looking at the rules and meanings of words in their literary forms. |
Contents
spelling punctuation accent juncture | 15 |
nuclear sentences predicates and expanded sentences | 28 |
Predicate adjuncts | 34 |
Expansion constraints noun subcategorization | 176 |
Voice conversions | 287 |
split nuclei | 316 |
Exaltation | 331 |
Desideratives | 355 |
14 | 841 |
CION | 881 |
Sentence extensions | 914 |
Commands and requests | 959 |
Conjunctionalizations | 968 |
Hearsayreporting | 984 |
sooge dá | 991 |
Stylizations | 1026 |
Negation | 366 |
Adverbializations | 392 |
Favors | 597 |
Tentatives and hortatives | 605 |
Adnominalizations typically adnominal and adverbial words | 616 |
5a Adjectival nouns | 745 |
7a Conjunctio | 817 |
10 | 831 |
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Common terms and phrases
accent adjectival noun adjective adjuncts adnominalized adverb ári áru átta auxiliary bakari child colloquial conjoined copula d'atte dake daroo dative datta dé mo dekiru derived desu desyoo dialects ellipsis epitheme essive examples expressions focus gerund gúrai hazu hito hodo hón hóo infinitive intransitive itta Japanese juncture kara Káre kita kodomo Kono Kore koso koto kudasai kúru Kyōto Kyūshū lexical literary marker meaning miru mitai mo nái monó N₁ N₂ nádo nái náku nara naranai náru nátta natte negative ni/ga nominal onná Ōno optionally Ōsaka oxytonic particle passive phrase postadnominal precopular noun predicate propredication sensei sentence sigoto sika simatta sinai sita sité sometimes Sore speakers suru tamé thematized things toki tokoro Tōkyō tomodati transitive verb underlying V-ru V-te verb verbal noun vowel wa/mo Watasi yori zibun zútu zya nái