The following publications were written and/or edited by staff members of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

Jidoushi-tadoushi no taishou (Contrastive studies related to transitivity)

Collaborator: Prashant Pardeshi

The book is a collection of papers related to transitivity (the distinction between transitive and intransitive predicates) demonstrating that the notion of transitivity versus intransitivity should be understood as a continuum rather than as a dichotomy. Through a detailed description of prototypical transitive and intransitive clauses and their extensions, the papers in the volume unravel the similarities and differences in the extended usages of transitive and intransitive predicates attested across languages such as Japanese, English, Marathi, Newar, Thai, White Hmong, Turkish and Icelandic in an effort to shed light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying extended usages. Through a multilingual cross-linguistic comparison the papers in this volume offer new insights into longstanding issues such as the so-called DO- vs. BECOME- type language dichotomy, inanimate subject expressions, and experiencer subject expressions.

3,150 yen (Tax included), Kurosio Publishers (Detailed information), June 2010, ISBN: 978-4-87424-485-2

Shin Joyo Kanji Hyo no Moji Ron (Characters on the New Joyo Kanji List)

Contributor: Tomokazu Takada (edited by Moji Kenkyu Kai)

On the occasion of the application of "New Joyo Kanji," various issues around the characters are treated from broad and multiple viewpoints concerning the characters for Japanese notation, language policy and character codes, and language and characters. A total of five discussions are included based on the presentation at the workshop "Characters -(New) Joyo Kanji" held at Hanazono University on July 19, 2008.

3,675 yen (Tax included), Bensey Publishing (Detailed information), December 2009, ISBN: 978-4-585-03227-4

Kekka Kobun no Taiporoji (Typology of Resultative Constructions)

Contributor: Taro Kageyama (edited by Naoyuki Ono)

This is a collection of studies that explore various aspects of "resultative constructions" from the viewpoint of language typology. Resultative constructions were first studied in English generative grammar and have been actively discussed in Japanese and other languages in recent years. The "Typology of Vocabulary Information and Resultative Predicates" by Kageyama presents a universal hypothesis that predicts the hierarchical occurrence of resultative predicates based on qualia structure, which expresses the semantic information in verbs. On this basis, it is demonstrated that adjectival resultative predicates in languages including Japanese, English, Chinese, German, Thai, and Hungarian, are in fact distributed hierarchically.

9,870 yen (Tax included), Hituzi Syobo, November 2009, ISBN: 978-4-89476-469-9

Gengo no taiporoji? (Linguistic Typology)

Collaborator: Prashant Pardeshi

This book offers an introduction to the nascent field of "cognitive typology" which is a fusion of cognitive linguistics (which studies the relationship between human cognition and language) and language typology (which focuses on unraveling language universals and cross-linguistic variation through systematic comparative study of languages across the globe). Chapters 4 and 5 by Pardeshi focus respectively on the passive construction and the semantic extensions of the experientially basic verb “eat” in a wide range of Asian languages and attempt to shed light on the unity and diversity attested across the languages in question and relate those findings to underlying cognitive mechanisms.

3,150 yen (Tax included), Kenkyusha (Detailed information), October 2009, ISBN: 978-4-327-23705-9