MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #79

Proceedings of FAJL 8: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics

Editor: Ayaka Sugawara, Shintaro Hayashi and Satoshi Ito, Year:2016

• INTRODUCTION Ayaka Sugawara, Shintaro Hayashi, and Satoshi Ito ...... iii
  
  
• MULTI-PHRASAL PREDICATELESS UTTERANCES IN JAPANESE: MOSTLY ON SONG TITLES Masahiro Akiyama ...... 1
  
  
• JAPANESE SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS ARE EQUALLY OPEN TO SUBEXTRACTION. WHY? Shin Fukuda, Chizuru Nakao, Akira Omaki, and Maria Polinsky ...... 13
  
  
• INDEXICAL SHIFTING IN KANSAI JAPANESE VIA WH-MOVEMENT UNDER NOMINALIZATION Shintaro Hayashi, Satoshi Ito, Hisao Kurokami, Koji Shimamura, and Ayaka Sugawara ...... 31
  
  
• JAPANESE GEMINATE DEVOICING ONCE AGAIN: INSIGHTS FROM INFORMATION THEORY Shigeto Kawahara...... 43
  
  
• ON THE POSITION OF NEG IN COORDINATION: NCIS IN JAPANESE AT THE SYNTAX-PROSODY INTERFACE Ryoichiro Kobayashi ...... 63
  
  
• DOES FORCEP DETERMINE ALL THE ILLOCUTIONARY FORCES? -A CASE STUDY OF DICTIONARY FORM IMPERATIVES IN JAPANESE Yuya Noguchi ...... 75
  
  
• TWO TYPES OF JAPANESE “BEFORE” CLAUSES Hiromune Oda and Yuta Tatsumi ...... 87
  
  
• SPEECH ACT PHRASE AND CONJECTURAL QUESTIONS IN JAPANESE Takeshi Oguro ...... 97
  
  
• CLAUSAL COMPLEMENT “REPLACEMENT” Yuta Sakamoto ...... 109
  
  
• HOW LARGE CAN ELLIPTICAL ARGUMENT BE IN JAPANESE? Yosuke Sato ...... 121
  
  
• THE LACK OF AGENT-ORIENTATION FOR ZIBUN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN L1 ACQUISITION Hiroyuki Shimada ...... 131
  
  
• A PHONOLOGICAL APPROACH TO LEFT BRANCH CONDITION: EVIDENCE FROM EXCEPTIONS IN JAPANESE Kayono Shiobara ...... 143
  
  
• A NOTE ON IMPROPER MOVEMENT AND LOCALITY OF AGREE IN JAPANESE Masahiko Takahashi ...... 153
  
  
• SENTENCE-FINAL -KA-YO IN JAPANESE: A COMPOSITIONAL ACCOUNT Ai Taniguchi ...... 165
  
  
• DEVERBAL COMPOUNDS IN JAPANESE: A DISTRIBUTED MORPHOLOGY APPROACH Yuta Tatsumi ...... 177
  
  
• AMOUNT RELATIVES IN JAPANESE Akira Watanabe ...... 189
  
  
• ON THE CONSTITUENCY AND STRUCTURE OF FLOATING NUMERAL QUANTIFIERS IN JAPANESE Hideaki Yamashita ...... 209
  
  
• REPETITIVE COORDINATOR AS A POSTPOSITION Yusuke Yoda ...... 221
  
  
• STEM ALLOMORPHY IN OKINAWAN: SOMETIMES CONDITIONED BY ADJACENCY, SOMETIMES NOT Yasushi Yoshimoto ...... 233