The occurrence and non-occurrence of the Japanese direct object marker o in conversation

Studies in Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-39

  Fujii, Noriko ^a   Ono, Tsuyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989367396     PISSN: 03784177     EISSN: 15699978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sl.24.1.02fuj     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Chafe, Wallace. 1974. “Language and consciousness”. Language 50:111-33.
2. Chafe, Wallace. 1976. “Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics and point of view”. In: Li, Charles N. (ed.), Subject and topic 25-55. New York: Academic Press.
3. Chafe, Wallace. 1987. “Cognitive constraints on information flow”. In: Tomlin, Russell (ed.), Coherence and grounding in discourse 21-51. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
4. Chafe, Wallace. 1994. Discourse, consciousness, and time. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
5. Chafe, Wallace and Danielewicz, D. 1987. “Properties of spoken and written language”. Horowitz, Rosalind; and Samuels, S. Jay (eds), Comprehending oral and written language 83-113. San Diego: Academic Press.
6. Clancy, Patricia M. 1980. “Referential choice in English and Japanese narrative discourse”. Chafe, Wallace (ed.), The pear stories: cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production 127-202. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
7. Comrie, Bernard. 1978. “Definite direct objects and referent identification”. Pragmatics Microfiche 3.1.DS.
8. Du Bois, John W. 1980. “Beyond definiteness: the trace of identity in discourse”. In: Chafe, Wallace (ed.), The pear stories: cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production 203-274. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
9. Fujii, Yoko. 1991. “Nihongo-bun ni okeru gojun no gyakuten: danwa goyoo-ron teki shiten kara no bunseki” (Reversed word order in Japanese: an analysis from a discourse-pragmatic perspective) Gengo Kenkyuu 99: 58-81.
10. Givon, T. 1979. On understanding grammar. New York: Academic Press.
11. Givon, T. (ed.). 1983. Topic continuity in discourse: a quantitative crosslanguage study. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
12. Givon, T. 1985. “Iconicity, isomorphism and non-arbitrary coding in syntax”. In Haiman, John (ed.), Iconicity in syntax 187-219. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
13. Givon, T. 1990. Syntax: a functional-typological introduction. Vol.2. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
14. Givon, T. 1995. Functionalism and grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
15. Grimshaw, Jane; and Mester, Armin. 1988. “Light verbs and 0-marking”. Linguistic Inquiry 19/2: 205-32.
16. Haiman, John. 1983. “Iconic and economic motivation”. Language 59: 781-819.
17. Hinds, John. 1982. Ellipsis in Japanese. Edmonton, Alberta: Linguistic Research Inc.
18. Hopper, Paul J.; and Thompson, Sandra A. 1984. “The discourse basis for lexical categories in universal grammar”. Language, 60/4: 703-752.
19. Hopper, Paul J.; and Thompson, Sandra A. 1993. “Language universals, discourse pragmatics, and semantics”. Language Sciences 15/4: 357-376.
20. Jacobsen, W. M. 1992. The transitive structure of events in Japanese. Tokyo: Kuroshio Publishers.
21. Kindaichi, Kyoosuke et al. 1994. Shinsen Kokugo-jiten (7th edition). Tokyo: Shoogakukan.
22. Kuno, Susumu. 1973. The structure of the Japanese language. Cambridge: MIT Press.
23. Kusakabe, Madoka. 1992. “Danwa ni okeru fukugoo-dooshi no sentaku” (The selection of verb compounds in discourse). Ms., University of Oregon.
24. Lee, Hyo Sang; and Thompson, Sandra A. 1989. “A discourse account of the Korean accusative marker”. Studies in Language 13: 105-128.
25. Longacre, Robert E. 1976. An anatomy of speech notions. Lisse: The Peter De Ridder Press.
26. Longacre, Robert E. 1983. The grammar of discourse. New York: Plenum Press.
27. Manoliu-Manea, Maria. 1994. Discourse and pragmatic constraints on grammatical choices. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
28. Martin, Samuel. 1975. A reference grammar of Japanese. New Haven: Yale University Press.
29. Masunaga, Kiyoko. 1988. “Case deletion and discourse context”. In: Poser, William J. (ed.), Papers from the second international workshop on Japanese syntax 145-156. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
30. Matsuda, Kenjiroo. 1996. Variable zero-marking of (o) in Tokyo Japanese. Ph.D. dissertation. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science report 96-20. University of Pennsylvania.
31. Matsumura, Akira. 1995. Daijirin. Tokyo: Sanseidoo. 2nd edition.
32. Maynard, Senko K. 1993. kaiwa bunseki (Conversation analysis). Tokyo: Kuroshio Publishers.
33. Mithun, Marianne. 1984. “The evolution of noun incorporation”. Language 60/4: 847-894.
34. Mithun, Marianne. 1992. “Is basic word order universal?” In: Payne, Doris (ed.), Pragmatics of word order flexibility 15-61. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
35. Miyagawa, Shigeru. 1989a. Syntax and Semantics 22: structure and case marking in Japanese. San Diego: Academic Press.
36. Miyagawa, Shigeru. 1989b. “Light Verbs and the ergative hypothesis”. Linguistic Inquiry 20/4: 659-668.
37. Mori, Toshiro; and Givon, T. 1987. “Zero object-marking in colloquial Japanese: the pragmatics of ‘optional deletion’”. Ms., University of Oregon.
38. Nihon daijiten kankoo kai (ed.). 1975. Nihon kokugo daijiten Vol.14. Tokyo: Shoogakukan.
39. Ono, Tsuyoshi. 1992. “The grammaticization of the Japanese verbs oku and shimau”. Cognitive Linguistics 3: 367-390.
40. Ono, Tsuyoshi; and Suzuki, Ryoko. 1992a. “Word order variability in Japanese conversation: motivations and grammaticization”. Text 12: 429-445.
41. Ono, Tsuyoshi; and Suzuki, Ryoko. 1992b. “The development of a marker of speaker’s attitude: the pragmatic use of the Japanese grammaticized verb shimau in conversation”. Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
42. Ono, Tsuyoshi; and Thompson, Sandra A. 1997. “On deconstructing ‘zero anaphora' in Japanese”. Proceedings of the twenty-third annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley.
43. Saito, Mamoru. 1985. Some asymmetries in Japanese and their theoretical implications. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT.
44. Schegloff, E. A. 1979. “The relevance of repair for syntax-for-conversation”. In: T. Givon (ed.), Syntax and Semantics 12: Discourse and syntax 261-88. New York: Academic Press.
45. Schegloff, E. A.; Jefferson, G.; and Sacks, H. 1977. “The preference for selfcorrection in the organization of repair in conversation”. Language 53/2: 361-82.
46. Shibamoto, Janet S. 1985. Japanese women’s language. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
47. Shibatani, Masayoshi. 1977. “Grammatical relations and surface cases”. Language 53: 789-809.
48. Shibatani, Masayoshi. 1990. The languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
49. Suzuki, Ryoko; and Tsuyoshi, Ono. 1991. “Japanese ga, spotlighting, and intransitives in spoken narratives”. In: Clancy, Patricia M.; and Thompson, Sandra A. (eds), Asian discourse and grammar 144-152. Santa Barbara: Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara [Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics 3].
50. Suzuki, Satoko. 1995. “The functions of topic-encoding zero- marked phrases: a study of the interaction among topic-encoding expressions in Japanese”. Journal of Pragmatics 23: 607-626.
51. Takahashi, Naoko. 1998. “The function of o in Japanese”. Japanese Korean Linguistics Vol. 8.
52. Tamori, Ikuhiro. 1977. “NP and particle deletion in Japanese discourse”. In: Keenan E.; Ochs, Elinor; and Bennett, Tina L. (eds), Discourse across time and space 243-263. Los Angeles: Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California [Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 5].
53. Tannen, Deborah (ed.). 1982. Spoken and written language: exploring orality and literacy. Norwood, New Jersey:Ablex.
54. Tomlin, Russell S. 1987. “Linguistic reflection of cognitive events”. In: Tomlin, Russell (ed.), Coherence and grounding in discourse 455-479. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
55. Tsujimura, Natsuko. 1990. “Ergativity of nouns and case assignment”. Linguistic Inquiry 21/2: 277-287.
56. Tsujimura, Natsuko. 1996. An introduction to Japanese linguistics. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
57. Tsutsui, Michio. 1984. Particle ellipses in Japanese. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois.
58. Uchida, Yoshiko; and Nakayama, Mineharu. 1993. “Japanese verbal noun constructions”. Linguistics 31: 623-666.
59. Watanabe, Yasuko. 1986. “Two kinds of ellipsis in Japanese discourse: a quantitative text study”. Studies in Language 10: 337-351.
60. Wright, S.; and Givon, T. 1987. “The pragmatics of indefinite reference: quantified text-based studies”. Studies in Language 11: 1-33.