The main aim of this article is to argue that Japanese allows verb-stranding verb phrase
ellipsis (VVPE). For this purpose, I examine data involving null adjuncts, and propose a new …

This thesis is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-
drop languages where null arguments are claimed to be derivable via the process called …

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 …

Abstract Since Ross (1967), it has been observed that there are configurations from which
otherwise unbounded movement operations cannot occur, and they are called islands …

In this article, I argue for an ellipsis analysis of Japanese null arguments on the basis of a
novel observation that covert extraction (ie, extraction that does not affect word order) is …

This dissertation investigates the nature of ellipsis phenomena, focusing on Japanese.
There have been many proposals regarding how elements get to be unpronounced. This …

This dissertation aims at constructing a syntactic and (to a lesser extent) semantic theory of
quotative complementation in Japanese mediated by the reporting suffix to, Rep for short …

This paper argues that the null clausal complement in Japanese is not derived via CP
ellipsis but is rather an instance of pro. The availability of sloppy interpretation in the …

This book is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-
drop languages, where arguments such as subjects and objects can be productively …