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Nouns, Particles & Basic Sentences

Nouns, the は/が/を/の particles and basic XはYです sentences
は/が の情報構造
wa/ga and information structure
topic/focus theory
Theoretical accounts of the wa/ga distinction
総記の が と中立叙述
exhaustive ga vs neutral description
ga semantics
Exhaustive-listing vs neutral-description readings
主題化と対比
topicalisation and contrast
topicalisation
Syntax and pragmatics of は
形式名詞の文法化
grammaticalisation of formal nouns
keishiki meishi
How こと/もの/ところ/わけ became grammatical
名詞化: こと/の の対立
nominalisation: koto vs no
nominalisation theory
Syntactic and semantic basis of the choice
数量詞遊離
quantifier float
quantifier floating
Syntax of floating numeral quantifiers
複合語の構造
compound word structure
compound morphology
Head, modification, and rendaku in compounds
借用語の形態
loanword morphology
loanword integration
Truncation, blending, and verbalisation (ググる)
接辞と語形成
affixation and word formation
word formation
Productive prefixes/suffixes (お-, -的, -化)
新語と造語法
neologisms and coinage
neologism formation
How new Japanese words are created