← Back

Verbs & Verb Groups

Verb groups (ru/u/irregular), ます-form, dictionary form and conjugation
ヴォイス体系の理論
theory of the voice system
voice theory
Causative, passive, and their interaction
受身の類型
types of passive
direct/indirect passive
Direct, indirect, and adversative passives
使役の意味論
semantics of the causative
causative semantics
Coercive vs permissive causation (に vs を)
自他交替
transitivity alternations
transitivity pairs
Systematic intransitive/transitive verb pairs
非対格性
unaccusativity
unaccusative hypothesis
Unaccusative vs unergative intransitives in Japanese
アスペクト: ている の意味論
aspect: semantics of te iru
te iru aspect
How verb type determines te iru interpretation
複合動詞の語彙化
lexicalisation of compound verbs
compound verb types
Lexical vs syntactic compound verbs
結果構文
resultative constructions
resultatives
Te aru and resultative state expressions
ムード・モダリティ・テンス
mood, modality, tense interaction
MMT interface
How these categories interact in the verb
証拠性表現
evidentiality
evidential markers
そうだ/らしい/ようだ as evidential system