TY - BOOK AU - Yamamoto,Mutsumi ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Animacy and reference: a cognitive approach to corpus linguistics T2 - Studies in language companion series, AV - P240.65 .Y36 1999eb U1 - 415 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - J. Benjamins KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Animacy KW - Reference (Linguistics) KW - English language KW - Japanese language KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Japanese KW - English KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=5000222 ER -