NDLI: Surprising Constituents

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Taka, Yuji
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	This article discusses the nature of apparently surprising phenomena found in Japanese. Two or more elements of a sentence, excluding the verb, can appear rather freely in the focus position of Japanese cleft constructions. These elements cannot possibly be considered to form a base-generated constituent and hence the existence of such "surprising constituents" poses an interesting problem for syntactic theory. It is shown that an approach that appeals to overt verb raising to account for surprising constituents is inadequate for a number of reasons. An alternative approach is proposed in which surprising constituents are formed by "oblique movement" (movement of an element to another element that does not dominate it). Consequences of this proposal are explored for related theoretical and empirical domains.
Starting Page	243
Ending Page	301
Page Count	59
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258558
Journal	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728560
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Chinese Comparative Linguistics Japanese Languages and Literature Theoretical Languages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language History and Philosophy of Science

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Surprising Constituents