The presence of head-raising and resumptive-stranding in Japanese relative clauses

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ID19494759
AuthorsYasuyuki Kitao (Shimizu (Japan), corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume58
Issue3
Pages313-335
Publication date2011-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Linguistica Hungarica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1216-8076 • E-ISSN: 1588-2624
PublisherAkademiai Kiado Zrt. (PUBLISHER • HU)
DOI10.1556/aling.58.2011.3.7
OpenAlexW2072488567
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Japanese relative clauses (RCs) show peculiar characteristics. For instance, while weak crossover effects reveal that relativization includes movement, the absence of island effects seems to demonstrate that relativization does not include movement. Therefore, an improved characterization of Ishii's last-resort analysis of relativization in Japanese is needed within the framework of the MP . In this paper, I claim that reconstruction/connectivity effects show that Japanese RCs include promotion/head-raising. I then propose that the amendment of Boeckx's ( The proposed analysis conforms to Inclusiveness. Also, I claim that the unavailability of A-scrambling in Japanese RCs, which could be raised as an objection to the promotion/head-raising analysis, is due to the ban on Improper Movement

Generative grammar · Law and economics · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Political science · Scrambling · Sociology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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