The light verb construction in Japanese : the role of the verbal noun / Tadao Miyamoto.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.

Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 -- Introduction 1 -- An Overview of Light Verb Constructions 1. -- Japanese Suru and Verbal Nouns (VN's) 4 -- Light vs. Heavy Suru Hypotheses 10 -- Synopsis of This Study 17 -- CHAPTER 2 -- Types of Nominals 25 -- Nominal Types 25 -- Japanese Nominals 29 -- Two Test Constructions 33 -- Tests Based on the Constructions 38 -- Summary 50 -- CHAPTER 3 -- Mono- vs. Bi-Predicational VN-o Suru 53 -- Type A Telic Monopredicational VN-o Suru 54 -- Type B Atelic Monopredicational VN-o Suru 61 -- Type-shift 64 -- The Isolation of Bipredicational VN-o Suru 68 -- Type C Atelic Bipredicational VN-o Suru 76 -- Type D Telic Bipredicational VN-o Suru 85 -- Summary 90 -- CHAPTER 4 -- Control Structure 95 -- Control Hypotheses 95 -- Lexical Evidence 97 -- Morphosyntactic Evidence 104 -- Syntactico(semantic) Evidence 105 -- Summary 108 -- CHAPTER 5 -- A Conceptual Semantic Analysis 111 -- The Conceptual Structure of VN-o suru Constructions 113 -- Aspectual Accounts 124 -- Summary and Remarks 133 -- CHAPTER 6 -- A Syntactic Analysis 137 -- Three Types of Accusative Phrases 137 -- Things To Be Accounted For. 145 -- Syntactic Accounts of Monopredicational VN-o Suru 147 -- Syntactic Accounts of Bipredicational VN-o Suru 151 -- Derivations 160 -- Summ ary 167 -- CHAPTER 7 -- The Unaccusative Hypothesis 171 -- What is the Unaccusative Hypothesis? 172 -- Unaccusativity and VN-o suru 173 -- Search for Unaccusative Diagnostics 182 -- Accounts of Intransitive VN-o su r Forms 192 -- Summary 204 -- CHAPTER 8 -- Closing Remarks 209 -- References 213 -- Index 225.

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