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Published 2007.
This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects
induced by discourse-based ...
Published 2007.
This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects
induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed are
investigated from a broader comparative perspective.
Unlike previous works on Japanese generative syntax, this book is based partially on informant surveys, including the distribution of adverbials and the
categorical status of nominative-Case-marked adverbials, as well as an exhaustive survey of ditransitive predicates in terms of word formation and idioms
in Koujien, one of the most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries.
A systematic syntactic study of the nature of clause-final particles in Japanese, an area previously only explored in the framework of discourse analysis,
is also presented. It is shown that the EPP may be satisfied by such discourse-related elements as topic and focus and by these sentence final particles.
