@inproceedings{aoki-nakatani-2016-study,
    title = "A Study of the Bump Alternation in {J}apanese from the Perspective of Extended/Onset Causation",
    author = "Aoki, Natsuno  and
      Nakatani, Kentaro",
    editor = "Zock, Michael  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Evert, Stefan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon ({C}og{AL}ex - V)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/W16-5317/",
    pages = "119--124",
    abstract = "This paper deals with a seldom studied object/oblique alternation phenomenon in Japanese, which. We call this the bump alternation. This phenomenon, first discussed by Sadanobu (1990), is similar to the English with/against alternation. For example, compare hit the wall with the bat [=immobile-as-direct-object frame] to hit the bat against the wall [=mobile-as-direct-object frame]). However, in the Japanese version, the case frame remains constant. Although we fundamentally question Sadanobu`s acceptability judgment, we also claim that the causation type (i.e., whether the event is an instance of onset or extended causation; Talmy, 1988; 2000) could make an improvement. An extended causative interpretation could improve the acceptability of the otherwise awkward immobile-as-direct-object frame. We examined this claim through a rating study, and the results showed an interaction between the Causation type (extended/onset) and the Object type (mobile/immobile) in the direction we predicted. We propose that a perspective shift on what is moving causes the {\textquotedblleft}extended causation{\textquotedblright} advantage."
}