Complement selection and wh -scope in Japanese

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of East Asian Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-04 DOI:10.1007/s10831-018-9188-y

Tomoyuki Yoshida

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Abstract

Lahiri (Questions and answers in embedded contexts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002) shows that the semantic categories <propositions> , <questions> , and <utterances> play a crucial role for complement selection in Spanish. This paper argues that Lahiri’s analysis can be directly applied to Japanese. In the course of discussion, the behavior of the sequence of complementizers (-no-ka-to) is examined in detail. It is suggested that we can analyze Japanese verbs and s-selection in a parallel way with Lahiri’s analysis of Spanish verbs if we extend Saito’s (J Jpn Linguist 26:85–100, 2010; Beyond functional sequence: the cartography of syntactic structures, vol 10, pp 255–274, 2015) analysis of the Japanese complementizer -to. It is also suggested that the behavior of verbs selecting commands as their complement can be captured if an additional semantic category <commands> is postulated. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the distinction between a question and a report of a question is crucial for wh-scope interpretation. In particular, a question CP ceases to constitute an island for wh-scope interpretation when it is embedded as part of a report. This observation suggests that an account of wh-island effects along the line of minimality effects cannot be employed to explain the interpretation of wh-phrases embedded in a report of a question.

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日语中的补语选择和补语范围

Lahiri（《嵌入式语境中的问题与答案》，牛津大学出版社，牛津，2002 年）指出，语义范畴 "命题<、"问题<和 "语篇<对西班牙语中的补语选择起着至关重要的作用。本文认为，拉希里的分析可以直接应用于日语。在讨论过程中，我们详细研究了补语（-no-ka-to）序列的行为。有学者提出，如果我们扩展斋藤（J Jpn Linguist 26:85-100, 2010; Beyond functional sequence: the cartography of syntactic structures, vol 10, pp 255-274, 2015）对日语补语-to的分析，我们就可以用与拉希里对西班牙语动词的分析平行的方式分析日语动词和s-选择。研究还提出，如果假设有一个额外的语义类别<命令>，就能捕捉到动词选择命令作为补语的行为。此外，研究还证明，疑问句和疑问句报告之间的区别对于wh-scope解释至关重要。特别是，当问题 CP 作为报告的一部分嵌入时，它就不再构成语篇范围解释中的 "岛"。这一观察结果表明，按照最小化效应的思路来解释wh-island效应并不能用来解释嵌入问题报告中的wh-短语。

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期刊介绍： The study of East Asian languages, especially of Chinese, Japanese and Korean, has existed for a long time as a field, as demonstrated by the existence of programs in most institutions of higher learning and research that include these languages as a major component. Speakers of these three languages have shared a great deal of linguistic heritage during the development of their languages through cultural contacts, in addition to possible genealogical linkage. These languages accordingly possess various common features. Another important factor that ties them together as a field is that they have shared a common tradition of linguistic scholarship, a tradition that distinguishes itself from the study of western languages. Against this tradition, much recent work has approached these languages from a broader perspective beyond the area, considering them within contexts of general theoretical research, bringing new lights to old problems in the area and contributing to current issues in linguistic theory. But there continues to be good reason for scholars working in this approach to hold a special interest in each other''s work. Especially with the amount of most recent theoretical work on these languages, the field of theoretical East Asian linguistics has been fast growing. The purpose of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics is to provide a common forum for such scholarly activities, and to foster further growth that will allow the field to benefit more from linguistic theory of today, and enable the languages to play a more important role in shaping linguistic theory of tomorrow.