Titlebook: Japanese Syntax and Semantics; Collected Papers S.-Y. Kuroda Book 1992 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992 Index.Japanese.Japani

groggy

What can Japanese Say About Government and Binding?, the government and binding theory and developed in parallel to it at first. What is claimed in essence is that (1) Japanese sentences have a flat structure, lacking the category VP, (2) not only are they flat, but they are like mobiles, lacking linear word order, and (3) finally, sentences with so-

容易做

Movement of Noun Phrases in Japanese,. Contrary to the widely held view that Japanese lacks movement in syntax, I wish to claim that ‘tough’ sentences involve movement of noun phrases. The study of ‘tough’ sentences will then lead us to the problem of multiple . sentences and to that of ‘topic’. Again, contrary to the prevailing view t

Frenetic

What Happened after the Movement of NPS in Japanese in La Jolla?, to the participants of the Workshop in Japanese Syntax at La Jolla, without repeating observations and arguments behind them. Then I am going to add some observations made on the third topic of the paper, i.e. on the topic of topic, which I made at the time of the workshop and other observations wh

名次后缀

Whether We Agree or Not: A Comparative Syntax of English and Japanese,The topic is prominent in Japanese; it is not in English. Japanese has double or multiple subject structures; English does not. Such are the major typological differences between English and Japanese, and some linguists entertain the idea that parametric differences concerning Deep Structure exist b

使出神

Case Marking, Canonical Sentence Patterns, and Counter Equi in Japanese (A Preliminary Survey),ted due to the assumption that the ordinary Equi (hereafter Straight Equi) and Counter Equi NP Deletion apply freely as variant, once the condition for Equi is met. In addition, it will be claimed that the ‘nominative’ marker . and the ‘accusative’ marker . are introduced by a transformation (Case Marking) cyclically.

溃烂

Book 1992elates to other issues in syntax and semantics. These two themes can be traced back to my 1965 MIT dissertation. The problem of the so-called topic marker wa is a perennial problem in Japanese linguistics. I devoted Chapter 2 of my dissertation to the problem of wa. My primary concern there was tran

Influx

Judgment Forms and Sentence Forms,The reader may wish to look at the last subsection of this Introduction (subsection 1.5) and the last section of this Chapter (Section 12, Summary and Conclusion) in order to anticipate where this study leads us.

信徒

Pivot-Independent Relativization in Japanese,de this familiar type of relativization Japanese also possesses the type of relative clause which recently has increasingly drawn linguists’ attention and which is commonly referred to as ‘headless relative clause’.

认识

树上结蜜糖

Movement of Noun Phrases in Japanese,e study of ‘tough’ sentences will then lead us to the problem of multiple . sentences and to that of ‘topic’. Again, contrary to the prevailing view that topics are generated in situ, I will contend that topics, or topics that in a certain sense deserve to be so named, are derived by movement.