Titlebook: Cleft Constructions in Japanese Syntax; Mika Kizu Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005 Index.rela

发誓放弃

Conclusions,hat the cleft construction is not a distinct theoretical entity, but rather, that the construction results from a combination of other basic structures which are required in the grammar of the Japanese language on all accounts.

ineluctable

Lucy Marta Schellin,Sandro José Froehner6a, 1986b and many others), with some consideration of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995 and others). In a cleft construction, a focal element is displaced from the remainder of the clause, and then connected to this remainder with a copula. Although this construction has been broadly investigate

贪心

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0037-3 position in clefts must be occupied by a single constituent. While we briefly examined the internal structure of the predicate of clefts to explain this second property, we have not looked closely at the internal structure of the nominalized clauses (or presuppositional clauses) of the construction

手榴弹

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0037-3. It has been proposed in previous research that, unlike English elided structures, Japanese sluicing is derived from cleft constructions (Kizu 1997, Kuwabara 1995, 1996, Nishiyama 1995, Nishiyama, Whitman and Yi 1996). In this analysis, presuppositional clauses are phonologically empty or deleted g

净礼

Gratuitous

misshapen

新鲜

Mobile

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0037-3In Chapter 3, we examined the basic properties of presuppositional clauses in Japanese clefts. Let us now extend the domain of inquiry from simple cleft constructions to more complex cleft sentences.

后退

Topicalization and Cleft Constructions,The main purpose of this chapter is to show that cleft constructions in Japanese parallel topic constructions in syntactic structure. This basic line of analysis has already been claimed by Hoji (1990), but we will explore further into this issue here, and will argue for a slightly different analysis from Hoji’s.