This book reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Watanabe takes a fundamentally different approach from previous analyses by examining the syntactic distribution of temporal suffixes in Manyōshū, an eighth-century poetry collection.
This monograph explores the grammar of PP modifiers in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) PP modifiers are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors w…
Putting Adpositions in Place -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Preliminaries -- 1.2 Theoretical background -- 1.2.1 The Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, 2005, 2008) -- 1.2.2 The…
This monograph explores the grammar of PP modifiers in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) PP modifiers are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors w…
This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors w…
This monograph explores the grammar of PP modifiers in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) PP modifiers are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors w…
This monograph explores the grammar of PP modifiers in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) PP modifiers are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors w…
Much attention in theoretical linguistics in the generative and Minimalist traditions is concerned with issues directly or indirectly related to movement. The EPP (extended projection principle), introduced by Chomsky in 1981, appeared to coincide with morphological agreement, a…