A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the
correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning …

Stripping and Sluicing in Japanese and Some Implications Page 1 (1999) To appear in WCCFL
18. Stripping and Sluicing in Japanese and Some Implications TERUHIKO FUKAYA AND …

This thesis is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-
drop languages where null arguments are claimed to be derivable via the process called …

This thesis attempts to assimilate head movement as far as possible to phrasal movement. In
particular, I argue that if we assume that the computational system of natural languages …

This paper aims to illustrate how we might proceed to attain repeatability and falsifiability in
generative grammar, on the basis of discussion of concrete empirical materials in Japanese …

This article presents two on‐line self‐paced reading studies and three off‐line acceptability
judgment studies on the processing of backward anaphoric dependencies in Japanese in …

In this article, I argue for an ellipsis analysis of Japanese null arguments on the basis of a
novel observation that covert extraction (ie, extraction that does not affect word order) is …

This paper investigates the syntax and semantics of the Japanese comparative construction
that utilizes yori 'than', which functionally corresponds to the English more-comparative …

The NP/DP-language Distinction as a Scale and Parameters in Minimalism Hiromune Oda,
Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 2022 The d Page 1 The NP/DP-language Distinction as a …

This dissertation is a generative-grammatical study of the constructions called sluicing and
stripping in Japanese. It argues for the thesis, advocated by Hoji & Li (1994) and Fukaya & …