Syntax and Semantics: Structure and Case Marking in Japanese

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SYNTAX and SEMANTICS: VOLUME 22 Structure and Case Marking in Japanese CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments 1. Arguments and Adjuncts 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Arguments, Adjuncts, and Case Marking 1.3. Arguments and Modular Theory of Grammar 1.4. Arguments and Phrase Structure 1.5. Phrase Structure in Japanese 1.6. A Note on the Lexical Analysis of Complex Predicates 2. Numeral Quantifiers and Thematic Relations 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Past Studies of the Numeral Quantifier 2.3. Mutual C-Command Requirement on Predication 2.4. Ergative Verbs 2.5. Further Evidence: NQ-Scrambling 2.6. A Unified Account of NQ-Scrambling 2.7. LF-Extraction of WH-NQ 2.8. Summary 3. Ergatlve Construction 3 .1. Evidence Based on the Numeral Quantifier 3.2. Remarks on the Nominative Case Marker ga 3.3. Ergative Constructions in Other Languages 3.4. Verbal Compounding 3.5. Ergative Hypothesis and ga/no Conversion 3.6. Ergative Nominals 3. 7. Summary 4. Paradigmatic Structures and the Causatives 4.1. Two Approaches to Causative Verbs 4.2. Paradigmatic Structures and Blocking 4.3. PDS and Japanese Causatives 121 4.4. Nonoccurring Causative Verbs and Blocking 4.5. Summary 5. A Uniform Approach to the Passive 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The Status of the Object NP in the Causative-Passive Construction 5.3. A Uniform Lexical Approach to the Passive 5.4. Dative Case and Case Absorption 5.5. Summary of the Possible Passive Structures 5.6. The Passive in Japanese and Other Languages: A l..earnability Issue 5.7. Aspectual Markers and the Passive 5.8. Case Absorption, Nominative ga, and Object NPs 5.9. Summary 6. Historical Development of the Accusative Case Marker 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Case Theory 6.3. Distribution of OJ Particle o 6.4. Further Evidence 6.5. Other Verbal Forms 6.6. Word Order 6.7. Language Change 6.8. Further Evidence: The Tale of the Heike 6.9. Modern Japanese o 6.10. Summary References Index SYNTAX and SEMANTICS