This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

I demonstrate that the null object construction (NOC) in Japanese cannot be analyzed on a
par with VP-ellipsis (VPE) in English, contrary to the suggestion made in Huang 1988, 1991 …

Ditransitive verbs such as send and give appear in two distinct structures in English, the
double object and the to-dative constructions. It is well known that the two differ semantically …

It is well known that personal pronouns in Japanese such as kare'he'and kanozyo'she',
unlike their English counterparts, cannot be construed as bound variables in logical form …

Two types of dependency Two types of dependency Abstract The aim of this thesis is to
examine the linguistic conditions on anaphoric relations between two linguistic expressions α …

This dissertation investigates the structural and interpretive aspects of the Head-Internal
Relative Clause (henceforth, HIRC) construction and the Head-External Relative Clause …

This thesis investigates how prosodic phrasing influences listeners' interpretation of scopally
ambiguous wh-questions in Japanese. It focuses on sentences such as that in (1), in which …

This book examines the syntactic properties of cleft constructions in Japanese within the
Principles and Parameters framework (Chomsky 1981, 1982, 1986a, 1986b and many …

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 …

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