An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded
view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse …

Offers an explanation for a long-standing question in the typological distinction among
languages with respect to formation of interrogatives which use questions words such as" …

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The primary proposal of this thesis that in questions, a" Q morpheme must undergo syntactic
movement from a clause-internal position to a clause-peripheral position. Throughout this …

In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be
successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar …

This paper argues that wh-in-situ in Japanese in fact involves S-structure movement of an
invisible entity and therefore that the Subjacency effects discovered and used as evidence …

Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing
particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical …

This paper proposes that 'why'in wh-in-situ languages (Korean, Japanese, and Chinese) is
directly merged into [Spec, CP] of the clause it modifies. This proposal not only captures long …

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 …

A logicosemantic analysis of certain kinds of wh-clauses is developed, on which wh-phrases
translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted …