This article proposes that, with Fiengo and May's (1994) indexing theory, a full-fledged
reconstruction approach to null argument phenomena in such languages as Chinese …

This paper presents evidence that Japanese has prosodic scrambling of phonological
phrases (ϕ) in addition to the well-studied syntactic scrambling of XPs. All cases of …

This paper investigates negative structure in Japanese. The scope of Japanese negation
appears to be narrower than that of English, which has led to different treatment of Japanese …

In this paper, I argue that the indirect object of a ditransitive verb is always base-generated
higher than the direct object. The word order alternation between the arguments in …

This article discusses what happens when locality requirements—which favor short
dependencies—come into conflict with antilocality requirements—which rule out …

It is sometimes claimed that generative grammar does not need specific methodology
because, being a branch of natural science, it should be governed by general principles of …

* This is a modified version of" Sloppy Identity and Bound Variable Anaphora," presented at
the Workshop on 'Atomism'and Binding at Leiden University, February 15-17, 1996. Most of …

This chapter discusses issues of controller choice by examining mood constructions in
Japanese, where mood markers are overtly realized in the control clause. We show that split …

This paper explores how the hypothetico-deductive method can be applied to research
concerned with the properties of the language faculty. The paper first discusses how we can …

This paper argues against syntactic verb movement in Japanese, through a case study of
Non-Constituent Coordination (NCC) in Japanese and a dialectal variation of Korean. I …