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Many studies in processing English report that verb information plays a significant role in
processing the rest of the sentence (eg, Boland & Tanenhaus, 1991). Japanese is subject …

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 …

I make two proposals in this article:(a) an economy condition on the operation Copy, which
states that Copy should apply to as small an element as possible, and (b) the “two types of …

This dissertation analyzes the postposing construction in Japanese--sentences in which one
or more constituents appear following the matrix predicate. Two types of postposing are …

The purpose of this study is twofold: it attempts to give an analysis of certain syntactic
properties of a negative polarity construction in Japanese, and argues, based upon the …

This thesis explores a syntactic theory of scope and some of its consequences. Central to
the proposed theory are the claims that the syntactic concept of scope is characterized in …

Within the framework of minimalist program proposed by Chomsky (1992), this thesis
explores scrambling in Korean with respect to crossover, reconstruction effects and binding …

Most current work in linguistics acknowledges that the organization of linguistic information
in a sentence is sensitive to the speaker's assumptions regarding his hearer's knowledge …

Using the eye-tracking method, the present study depicted pre-and post-head processing for
simple scrambled sentences of head-final languages. Three versions of simple Japanese …