Susumu Kuno

Biographic Data

ID733293
NAMESusumu Kuno
GIVEN NAMESSusumu
FAMILY NAMEKuno
SIGNATUREKUNO S
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Subject, Theme, and the Speaker's Empathy--a Reexamination of Relativization Phenomena

    Susumu KunoCHAPTERSubject and Topic2026

    In Kuno (1973 , Chapters 20, 21), I enumerated various characteristics that Japanese thematic sentences and relative clause constructions share, and hypothesized that Japanese relative clauses are derived not by deleting an ordinary NP, but by deleting the theme of the embedded clauses. Namely, I proposed that 1-la and 1–2a, for example, are derived not from the intermediate structures 1-lb and 1–2b, but from 1-lc and 1–2c: 1–1a [Hanako ga yonda]…

  • A note on sluicing with implicit indefinite correlates

    Open AccessSoo-Yeon Kim, Soo‐yeon Kim et al.ARTICLENatural Language Semantics2013Cited by: 1References: 12

  • On the non-canonical double nominative construction in Japanese: The particle ga as an object marker

    Susumu Kuno, Yuki JohnsonARTICLEStudies in Language2005

    Japanese has two types of double nominative constructions — the first exemplified by sentences such as Taroo ga otoosan ga sinda “Taro — (his) father has died,” and the second by sentences such as Taroo ga eigo ga yoku dekiru “Taro can (speak) English well.” Kuno (1973a, b) claimed that the first is a double-subject construction, while the second is a subject–object construction. This analysis has recently been challenged by Shibatani (2001a, b, …

  • Response to Aoun and Li

    Open AccessSusumu Kuno, Ken-Ichi Takami et al.ARTICLELanguage2001

    Kuno, Takami, and Wu (1999) showed that Aoun and Li's (1993) syntactic analysis of quantifier scope interpretation in English, Chinese, and Japanese makes incorrect predictions about the grammaticality and ambiguity of certain types of sentences. They proposed instead an expert system based on the interaction of syntactic and other principles that ranks the relative strengths of the potential scope interpretations of a given sentence. Aoun and Li…

  • Quantifier Scope in English, Chinese, and Japanese

    Susumu Kuno, Ken-Ichi Takami et al.ARTICLELanguage1999Cited by: 6

    This article critically examines Aoun and Li's (1993) syntactic analysis of quantifier scope interpretations in English, Chinese, and Japanese, and it shows that (i) there are serious theoretical problems with Aoun and Li's account of scope interpretations for the double object and topicalization constructions; (ii) there are ambiguous sentences that Aoun and Li's analysis predicts to be unambiguous; and (iii) there are unambiguous sentences whic…

  • Grammar and Discourse Principles: Functional Syntax and GB Theory

    Patrick Farrell, Susumu Kuno et al.ARTICLELanguage1995

  • Functional Syntax: Anaphora, Discourse and Empathy

    William O’grady, William O'Grady et al.ARTICLELanguage1988

  • Honorific Marking in Japanese and the Word Formation Hypothesis of Causatives and Passives

    Susumu KunoARTICLEStudies in Language1987

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  • On Some Functional Constraints on Cliticization in Italian

    Susumu Kuno, GRAZIELLA TONFONIARTICLEStudies in Language1983

    Cliticization in Italian has been relatively well studied from a syntactic point of view, but it has not been examined at all from a functional standpoint. This paper addresses itself to the task of identifying various discourse constraints on the process. First, we propose that a focus constituent in a sentence cannot be cliticized even if its antecedent is clearly identifiable from the preceding context. More interestingly, we show that a nonfo…

  • Principles of Discourse Deletion-Case Studies From English, Russian and Japanese

    Susumu KunoARTICLEJournal of Semantics1982

    A syntactically optional constituent in a sentence can be deleted if it is recoverable from the preceding context. This does not mean, however, that all such constituents are deletable. This paper hypothesizes that there is a pecking order of deletion, which dictates that deletion should proceed from less important to more important information. Evidence is drawn from English, Russian and Japanese in support of this hypothesis. Interaction of thi…

  • Relative Clauses in Thai

    Susumu Kuno, Preya WongkhomthongARTICLEStudies in Language1981

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  • Characterizational and Identificational Sentences in Thai

    Susumu Kuno, Preya WongkhomthongARTICLEStudies in Language1981

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  • The Structure of the Japanese Language

    Roy Andrew Miller, Susumu KunoARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1977

  • The Structure of the Japanese Language

    Noriko A Mccawley, Susumu KunoARTICLELanguage1976Cited by: 2