Fragmentary utterances such as 'short'answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic
antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis …

A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to explain how natural languages are acquired.
This paper describes some recent findings on how learners acquire syntactic knowledge for …

Originally published in 1994, this volume shows that the structural relation'government'holds
not only between the verbal head and its object but also between the verbal head and its …

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 …

This article surveys major results of the research conducted in the area of operator
constructions in Japanese in the last 20 years or so, casting them under the light of the …

This paper argues for the presence of an agreeing functional head in Japanese, on the
basis of an ellipsis phenomenon called Sluicing. It is argued that the existence of Sluicing …

This paper examines apparent cases of sluicing in Japanese and concludes that these do
not instantiate sluicing as found in English, but rather a kind of reduced cleft in which the …

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 …

In this paper, I present an analysis of two controversial phenomena in Japanese as
“concealed clefts.” One is the sluicing phenomenon examined in detail in Takahashi 1994 …