MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #55
Proceedings of FAJL 4: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics
Table of Content
Double Universal Quantifiers as Negative Polarity Items in Japanese
Masahiko Aihara
The Structures and the Derivations of Existential Sentences with aru/iru ‘be’
Masahiro Akiyama
Verbal Nouns in Japanese Are So Called for Good Reasons
Seiki Ayano and Masaaki Kamiya
Projections of Aspect in Japanese
Shin Fukuda
Lexical Cues to Foreignness in Japanese
Ben Gelbart and Shigeto Kawahara
Movement of a Shifty Operator
Yurie Hara
Non-Case-Theoretic Aspects of Nominative-Genitive Conversion Naomi Harada Japanese Passivization Revisited: Promotion of Possessors
Tomoko Ishizuka
Prosodic Adjunction in Japanese Compounds
Junko Ito and Armin Mester
Scrambling and the EPP in Japanese: From the Viewpoint of the Kumamoto Dialect in Japanese Sachiko Kato
The Perfect Marker –tei- in Japanese
Masaru Kiyota
Semantics of the Anti-Quantifier Zutsu
Mana Kobuchi-Philip
The Japanese Internally Headed Relative Clause is not an E-type Pronoun
Yusuke Kubota and E. Allyn Smith
Asymmetric Voicing and Relativized Markedness
Kazutaka Kurisu
Phase to Phase: Complementizer -to as a Bridge
Takashi Munakata
Counter Equi “NP”-trace Pronunciation
Hiroki Narita
A New Type of Nominal Ellipsis in Japanese
Yosuke Sato and Jason Ginsburg
Patterns of Default Accentuation in Japanese: Evidence from Nonce Words
Lisa Shiozaki
Noun Phrase Ellipsis and Syntactic Parameters: A View from Child Japanese
Koji Sugisaki
Differential Comparative Construction in Japanese Takuro Tanaka Fquant-Matching before the EPP Satisfaction
Yukiko Ueda
Toward a Better Understanding of Japanese Scramblings: On the “Semantically Vacuous” and “Interpretively Vacuous” Properties
Hideaki Yamashita
Miyagawa’s (1989) Exceptions: An Ergative Analysis
Yuko Yanagida