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[darth_blade]

Hello, fellow linguaphiles

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[kywai]

I'm actually taking a class on Japanese linguistics right now! Here are some open questions we've touched on:
- Rendaku/sequential voicing
- Prosodic word formation restrictions (cf. loan-word clipping, nickname formation)
- Non-configurationality/word-order scrambling
- Wh-movement and Wh-in-situ
- Scrambling and scope
- Paticularities of comparatives (e.g. "bigger"; it's not possible to say "The shelf is taller than the door is wide." in Japanese).

If any of these topics pique your interest I have some references for all of them.

[darth_blade]

Thank you very much!
If it's not a lot of trouble, could you give me all the references you have? If not, sequential voicing would be my choice - I've was interested in it even before I started working on my current thesis, and now you've reminded me about it. Perhaps I could look into peculiarities of voicing in the dialects, if there are any.

[darth_blade]

By the way, I see you have generative grammar in your list of interests. If you want, I can upload for you a scanned copy of the book I'm translating. It seems to be one of the first attempts to analyze Japanese in the framework of transformational grammar. It's probably more than a little outdated now, but is still a fascinating work.

[kywai]

Some books

[harehare]

the topic i want to research so much is "how to understand subjectless japanese sentence" (because it always makes me want to bang my head to the wall). the problem is i haven't got enough knowledge to do it;p
maybe you could research that?