02366nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr5000222 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 990113s1999 ne sb 001 0 eng 1556199325 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)665835070 P240.65 .Y36 1999eb 415 21 Yamamoto, Mutsumi, 1942- Animacy and reference [electronic resource] : a cognitive approach to corpus linguistics / Mutsumi Yamamoto. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c1999. xvi, 278 p. Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 46 Includes bibliographical references and index. Ch. 1. What is 'Animacy'? -- Ch. 2. What Does Animacy Do to Human Language? -- Ch. 3. Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese -- Ch. 4. Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy -- Ch. 5. Agency and Animacy -- Ch. 6. A Neverending Story of Animacy -- Appendix. Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in Corpus. Case Study 1. Yukio Mishima, Hyaku-man Yen Senbei ('One Million Yen Rice Cracker' or 'Three Million Yen'). Case Study 2. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express. Case Study 3. Asahi Shinbun and Asahi Evening News. Case Study 4. Newsweek. Case Study 5. The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and Systems and Computers in Japan. Case Study 6. Scientific American. Case Study 7. 'Tetsuko no Heya'. Case Study 8. Viewpoints. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Grammar, Comparative and general Animacy. Reference (Linguistics) English language Animacy. Japanese language Animacy. English language Grammar, Comparative Japanese. Japanese language Grammar, Comparative English. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Studies in language companion series ; v. 46. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=5000222 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 17657 17657