Research on Japanese prosody, especially on the pitch accent system of the language, has
for a long time found that a single domain “phonological phrase” is not sufficient. Rather, two …

This dissertation is a study of the syntactic structure of noun phrases. In particular, this study
focuses on the Pronoun-Noun Construction (PNC) which is composed of a non-possessive …

One of the most fundamental properties of human language is its hierarchical organization.
A linguistic expression like (1a) is not merely a linear sequence of words, as in (1b), but is …

This dissertation investigates code-switching (CS), the concurrent use of more than one
language in conversation, commonly observed in bilingual speech. Assuming that code …

This monograph is intended as a contribution to the field of bilingualism from a generative
syntax perspective at a variety of levels. It investigates code-switching between Korean and …

Japanese has two peculiar types of relative clause (RC), No-RCs and De-RCs. In these
types of relative clause, what looks like a (pivot) head noun appears at the left edge of the …

The Japanese language does not possess articles. Demonstratives do not obligatorily
appear in the left periphery of noun phrases (NPs). Bare NPs can be definite and indefinite …

The DP Hypothesis proposes that nominal phrases can be analyzed as consisting of
Determiner Phrase (DP) on top of Noun Phrase (NP); however, there is a debate on whether …

La Hipótesis del Sintagma Determinante propuesta por Abney (1987) ha cobrado gran
importancia dentro del marco de Gramática Universal y ha despertado un gran interés en …

This paper aims to investigate the morphosyntactic properties of the person feature in the
English imposter construction studied by Collins & Postal. In this construction, the same …