On clause and intonational phrase in Japanese: The syntactic grounding of prosodic constituent structure

E Selkirk - Gengo Kenkyu, 2009 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This paper reviews evidence from recent research on Japanese sentence prosody, in
particular Kawahara and Shinya (2008) on coordinated clauses and Kubo (1989) et seq …

[图书][B] Questions

V Dayal - 2016 - books.google.com
This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions,
and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, conducted within the formal semantics tradition …

Indeterminate pronouns: The view from Japanese

A Kratzer, J Shimoyama - … in information structure, alternatives and scalar …, 2017 - Springer
The quantificational system in Japanese makes use of so-called indeterminate pronouns,
which take on existential, universal, interrogative, negative polarity, or free choice …

[图书][B] The grammar of Q: Q-particles, wh-movement, and pied-piping

S Cable - 2010 - books.google.com
The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one
that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under …

Intervention effects follow from focus interpretation

S Beck - Natural Language Semantics, 2006 - Springer
The paper provides a semantic analysis of intervention effects in wh-questions. The
interpretation component of the grammar derives uninterpretability, hence ungrammaticality …

[图书][B] Quantification

A Szabolcsi - 2010 - books.google.com
Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence
structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …

[图书][B] Phases: An essay on cyclicity in syntax

K Abels - 2012 - books.google.com
The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the
interfaces.'Phases' provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective. If phases are fundamental …

[图书][B] Composing questions

H Kotek - 2019 - books.google.com
An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention
effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement. In this book, Hadas Kotek …

Indeterminate phrase quantification in Japanese

J Shimoyama - Natural Language Semantics, 2006 - Springer
This paper examines the question of how so-called indeterminate phrases in Japanese
(Kuroda 1965) associate with relevant particles higher in the structure. In the universal …

Parametric variation in the semantics of comparison: Japanese vs. English

S Beck, T Oda, K Sugisaki - Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2004 - Springer
This paper proposes a semantic analysis of comparison constructions in Japanese which is
crucially different from the standard semantics of comparatives as developed for English and …