"Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and morphology to semantics, acquisition, processing and phonology, from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives, this collection reflects the breadth of the honoree's research interests, which span multiple research subfields in numerous Asian languages"--.

• Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• List of works by John B. Whitman
  • Books
  • Edited books
  • Edited special issues
  • Refereed articles and book chapters
  • Papers in refereed conference proceedings
  • Other publications
• Part I. Syntax and morphology
• 1. On complement selection in Spanish and Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Complementizers in Japanese
  • 3. Saito’s account for the C-comp ‘-(no)-ka-to’
  • 4. Verb classification based on semantic categories
    • 4.1 Lahiri (2002)
    • 4.2 Class I verbs
    • 4.3 Class II verbs
    • 4.4 Class III verbs
    • 4.5 Class IV verbs
    • 4.6 Class V verbs
    • 4.7 Class VI verbs
  • 5. Further parallelisms
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 2. The syntactic status of ‘by’-phrases in Korean and Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Two types of passives in Korean and Japanese
    • 2.1 Korean passives and an Agent-oriented adverb
    • 2.2 Idiosyncrasies of HI passives
    • 2.3 Japanese passives and their Korean counterparts
  • 3. The syntactic status of ‘by’-phrases
    • 3.1 Thematic properties of ‘ey uyhay’-phrases
    • 3.2 Thematic properties of ‘eykey’-phrases
    • 3.3 Thematic properties of ‘ni’-phrases
    • 3.4 Thematic properties of ‘ni yotte’-phrases
  • 4. The origin of the affectedness constraint in Japanese
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 3. Displaced modification
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Marathi and Japanese picture-noun constructions
    • 2.1 The basic properties
    • 2.2 The structure
  • 3. Genitive subjects in Japanese
    • 3.1 Nominative-genitive conversion
    • 3.2 Clausal idioms
  • 4. Sensorial nouns
  • 5. Theoretical implications
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• 4. Some asymmetries of long distance scope assignment in Sinhala
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. ‘Wh’-constructions with and without pseudo-clefting
    • 2.1 General characteristics
    • 2.2 Pseudo-clefting
    • 2.3 Island effects and overt particle movement
  • 3. The peculiar scope phenomena
    • 3.1 ‘Wh’-phrases with non-separable Q
    • 3.2 Null operator strategy in the pseudo-cleft construction
    • 3.3 Scope asymmetries
    • 3.4 The Japanese case
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• 5. Autosegmental evaluative morphology in Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Augmentatives and diminutives: Evaluative morphology
  • 3. Mimetics in Japanese
    • 3.1 Lexicological status
    • 3.2 Morphophonology of mimetics
    • 3.3 Positional phonesthemes of segmental phonemes
  • 4. Palatalization as diminutive
  • 5. Voicing as augmentative
  • 6. Evaluative morphology in Japanese mimetics
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• Part II. Interfaces
• 6. On the distribution of the discourse particles -‘yo’ in Korean and -‘ne’ in Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic data
  • 3. An analysis
  • 4. Consequences
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 7. ‘Wh-’indefinites in East Asian languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. ‘Wh’-indefinites in Chinese and Japanese
    • 2.1 Data
    • 2.2 Interim analysis
  • 3. ‘Wh’-indefinites in Korean
    • 3.1 Data
    • 3.2 Proposal
    • 3.3 Evidence from other languages
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Part III. Diachrony
• 8. Resultative and termination
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aspect in Late Archaic Chinese
  • 3. Evolution of YI from verb to secondary predicate
    • 3.1 Late Archaic Chinese YI
    • 3.2 Structural reanalysis
  • 4. Extension of aspectual YI as a native development
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• 9. Differential argument marking and object movement in Old Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Object movement
    • 3.1 Differential Object Marking
    • 3.2 Word order
    • 3.3 Topicalization
    • 3.4 Object movement in nominal based split languages
    • 3.5 Parametrization
  • 4. A historical origin for OSV word order
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• 10. Possessive nominal phrases in Lamaholot
  • 1. Introduction: The Austronesian word order
  • 2. The Lamaholot language and its clausal and nominal architectures
  • 3. Prenominal possessors
  • 4. Postnominal possessors, focus movement, and contextual allomorphy
  • 5. Diachrony and the role of language contact
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• Part IV. Psycholinguistics
• 11. An experimental study of children’s comprehension of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous acquisition studies of causatives in Japanese
    • 2.1 Murasugi & Hashimoto 2004 and Murasugi, Hashimoto & Fuji 2007
    • 2.2 Okabe (2008)
  • 3. Experiments
    • 3.1 Experiment 1
      • 3.1.1 Method
      • 3.1.2 Results of Experiment 1
    • 3.2 Experiment 2
      • 3.2.1 Picture selection task
      • 3.2.2 Truth value judgment task
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
• 12. Parsing Chinese relative clauses with structural and non-structural cues
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Uncertainty reduction in sentence processing
  • 3. Chinese relative clauses
    • 3.1 Ambiguities in Chinese relative clauses
    • 3.2 Experimental studies of Chinese RC processing
    • 3.3 The role of animacy in Chinese RC processing
  • 4. Predicting the processing difficulty of Chinese RCs
    • 4.1 Chinese grammars
    • 4.2 Counting constructions in the Chinese treebank
    • 4.3 Modeling results: The animacy effect in Chinese RC processing
    • 4.4 Discussions
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Part V. Phonology
• 13. The inexorable spread of 〈ou〉 in Romanized Japanese
  • 1. Kana
  • 2. Long vowels and vowel sequences
  • 3. ‘Kana’ spelling reform
  • 4. Disparity between /ou/ and /ei/
  • 5. Romanization(s)
  • 6. Word processing
  • 7. The future
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 14. Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous studies
  • 3. Experiment
    • 3.1 Data collection
    • 3.2 Results
      • 3.2.1 Pitch fall
      • 3.2.2 Pitch rise
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 Penultimate accent rule
    • 4.2 Reanalysis of existing data
    • 4.3 Exceptions and variation
    • 4.4 Summary
  • 5. Comparison with Japanese
    • 5.1 Pitch fall
    • 5.2 Pitch rise
  • 6. Conclusions and future agenda
    • 6.1 Summary
    • 6.2. Future agenda
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 15. The role of perceived similarity and contrast
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Experiment
    • 2.1 Identification of non-native vowels using natural stimuli
      • 2.1.1 Method
      • 2.1.2 Results
    • 2.2 Identification of synthesized stimuli
      • 2.2.1 Method
      • 2.2.2 Results
  • 3. Discussion
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 16. The status of schwa in Indonesian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Schwa cross-linguistically
  • 3. Accounts of schwa in (Standard) Indonesian
  • 4. Standard Indonesian vs. Colloquial Indonesian
  • 5. Methodology
    • 5.1 Research questions and factors
    • 5.2 Data: Jakarta Field Station Corpus
    • 5.3 Data: Phonological patterns investigated
  • 6. Results
    • 6.1 Realization of schwa
      • Reliability of transcription
      • Categorical or gradient realization
      • Insertion and/or deletion?
    • 6.2 Factors affecting variability of schwa
      • Inter vs. intra speaker variation?
      • Phonological conditioning
      • Morphological and lexical factors
      • Stylistic and lexical factors
  • 7. Discussion and conclusions
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• 17. Quantitative and qualitative restrictions on the distribution of lexical tones in Thai
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Quantity and quality in distributional restrictions of tones
  • 3. Tonal distribution in the early 19th century
  • 4. Tonal distribution in the early 20th century
  • 5. Explaining the distributional changes
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• Subject index