Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order

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Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, "syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the.  Read more... Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Numeral quantifiers and thematic relations; 2 Telicity, stranded numeral quantifiers, and quantifier scope; 3 Argument structure and ditransitive verbs in Japanese; 4 Nominalization and argument structure Evidence for the dual-base analysis of ditransitive constructions in Japanese; Appendix to Chapter 4 Challenges to the dual-base analysis of ditransitives; 5 Genitive subjects in Altaic and specification of phases; 6 The genitive of dependent tense in Japanese and its correlation with the genitive of negation in Slavic 7 Blocking and Japanese causatives8 Blocking and causatives revisited Unexpected competition across derivations; 9 Historical development of the accusative case marker; 10 The Old Japanese accusative revisited Realizing all the universal options; Notes; References; Index