MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #64

Proceedings of FAJL 5: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics

Editor: Matthew A. Tucker, Anie Thompson, Oliver Northrup, and Ryan Bennett, Year:2012

Table of contents:

 

Introduction

Matthew a. Tucker ……v

 

String Vacuity under Japanese Right Node Raising

Jun Abe and Chizuru Nakao…… 1

 

Prosodic Scrambling

Brian Agbayani, Chris Golston, and Toru Ishii …… 15

 

Non-past -ta as a Wh-agreement Morpheme: "Split Ergativity" in Japanese

Shin'ya Asano …… 25

 

Scope Freezing Effects in ga-no Conversion in Japanese

Hsu-te Johnny Cheng and Tsuyoshi Sawada…… 39

 

Accusative-oblique Alternations in Japanese and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis

Shin Fukuda…… 49

 

Disguised Universal Quantification in Japanese: Mirrored by Approximation Modification

Yukio Furukawa…… 59

 

Null C in Nominal Complements and Morphological Merger

Shintaro Hayashi …… 67

 

The Clause-Mate Condition in Japanese Multiple Clefts: a Prosodic Account

Shinichiro Ishihara…… 75

 

A Syntactic Approach to theta-Role Mapping: Evidence from Japanese Passive

Kyumin Kim…… 89

 

Affixal Reflexive Anaphor in Japanese

Maki Kishida…… 101

 

Japanese Exhaustive Focus Particles and Iterativity

Sachie Kotani…… 115

 

Comparatives and Contrastiveness: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Japanese hoo Comparatives

Sachie Kotani…… 126

 

Classification without Assertion

Eric McCready…… 141

 

Operating on Presuppositions: 'sekkaku' Revisited

Eric McCready and Yasutada Sudo…… 155

 

The Existential Construction and Two Types of A-movement in Japanese

Suguru Mikami…… 167

 

Blocking and Causatives: Unexpected Competition Accross Derivations

Shigeru Miyagawa…… 177

 

Japanese Double Plural Form: its Behavior and Implications

Takashi Munakata…… 197

 

Interpretive Economy: a Note on Markedness and Computation

Satoshi Oku…… 207

 

Quantificational Null Objects in Child Japanese

Koichi Otaki and Noriaki Yusa ……217

 

Deriving Global Paradigm Optimization in Japanaese Voice from Constraint Interaction

Shin-ichiro Sano…… 231

 

A Prosodic Approach to Ditransitive Idioms

Kayono Shiobara…… 241

 

Empirical Approaches to Fukuoka Japanese Wh prosody

Jennifer L. Smith…… 251

 

Global and Local Prosodic Realizations of Embedded Wh-phrases

Masahiro Yamada, Satoshi Tomioka, and Sachie Kotani…… 273

 

What Makes Right Dislocation (of wh-phrases) in (Tokyo) Japanese (im)possible?

Hideaki Yamashita…… 287