The Japanese existential possession: A case study of pragmatic disambiguation

S Tomioka - Lingua, 2007 - Elsevier
The Japanese existential construction can be used either to assert the presence of some
entity in a certain location or to indicate that something is an integral part of another. It has
been noted, however, that the part–whole reading seems to disappear when the nominative
NP precedes the locative PP. Contrary to the existing analyses which make appeal to some
constraint on movement to derive this disambiguation effect, this paper presents an
information structural account. The analysis is empirically supported by the lack of …
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