JAPANESE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

JAPANESE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

Studies in Natura! Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 27 Managing Editors Joan Maling, Brandeis University James McCloskey, University o/california, Santa Cruz Ian Roberts, University o/wales, Bangor Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University o/venice Jane Grimshaw, Brandeis University Michael Kenstowicz, M. L T., Cambridge Hilda Koopman, University o/california, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University o/connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, M.I.T., Cambridge John J. McCarthy, University 0/ Massachusetts, Amherst The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

s.-y. KURODA Department of Linguistics University of California, San Diego JAPANESE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Collected Papers SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

Library ofcongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kuroda. S.-Y. Japanese syntax and semantics collected papers / by S.-Y. Kuroda. p. cm. -- (Studies in natural language and linguistic theory v. 27) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Japanese language--syntax. 2. Japanese language--semantics. 1. Title. II. Serles. PL613.K87 1992 495.6'5--dc20 91-27026 ISBN 978-0-7923-1391-5 ISBN 978-94-011-2789-9 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2789-9 AlI Rights Reserved 1992 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1992 N o part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, inciuding photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vil INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1/ Judgment Forms and Sentence Forms 13 CHAPTER 2 / Remarks on the Notion of Subject with Reference to Words Like also, even, and only 78 CHAPTER 3/ Pivot-Independent Relativization in Japanese 114 CHAPTER 4 / A Remark on Certain Constructions with the Word naka in Japanese 175 CHAPTER 5/ On Japanese Passives 183 CHAPTER 6/ Case-Marking, Canonical Sentence Patterns, and Counter Equi in Japanese (A Preliminary Survey) 222 CHAPTER 7 / What Can Japanese Say About Government and Binding? 240 CHAPTER 8/ Movement of Noun Phrases in Japanese 253 CHAPTER 9/ What Happened After the Movement of NPs in La Jolla? 293 CHAPTER 10 / Whether We Agree Or Not: A Comparative Syntax of English and Japanese 315 REFERENCES 358 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 367 INDEX OF TERMS 369 INDEX OF WORDS 372

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Permission to reprint the articles reproduced here from the following sources is gratefully acknowledged: 'Remarks on the notion of subject with reference to words like also, even, and only', Part I. Annual Bulletin, Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, University of Tokyo, 3,111-129. 'Remarks on the notion of subject with reference to words like also, even, and only', Part II. Annual Bulletin, Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, University of Tokyo, 4,127-152. 'Pivot-independent relativization in Japanese I', Papers in Japanese Linguistics 3, 59-93. 'Pivot-independent relativization in Japanese II', Papers in Japanese Linguistics 4, 85-96. 'Pivot-independent relativization in Japanese III: Types of Japanese relatives', Papers in Japanese Linguistics 5,157-179. 'A remark on certain constructions with the word naka in Japanese', in Kazuko Inoue, Eichi Kobayashi and Richard Linde (eds.), Issues in Syntax and Semantics - Festschrift for Masatake Muraki, Sansyusya, Tokyo, 1983. 'Case-marking, Canonical Sentence Patterns and Counter Equi in Japanese', in Hinds, John and Irwin Howard (eds.), Problems in Japanese Syntax and Semantics, Kaitakusha, Tokyo, 1978. 'On Japanese passives', in Bedell, George, Eichi Kobayashi and Masatake Muraki (eds.), Explorations in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Kazuko Inoue, Kenkyusha, Tokyo, 1979. 'What can Japanese say about government and binding', WCCFL2, Stanford Linguistics Association, pp. 153-164. 'Movement of noun phrases in Japanese', in Imai, Takashi and Mamoru Saito (eds.), Issues in Japanese Linguistics, Foris, Dordrecht, 1986. 'What happened after the Movement of Noun Phrases in La Jolla', in Kuroda, s.-y. (ed.), Working Papers from the First SDF Workshop in Japanese Syntax, UCSD, 1986. 'Whether we agree or not', Linguisticae Investigationes 12, 1-47. Reprinted in Poser, William J. (ed.), Japanese Syntax, CSLI, Stanford, 1988. Some passages in Chapter 1 are incorporated verbatim from 'Cognitive and syntactic bases of topicalized and nontopicalized sentences in Japanese', in Hoji, Hajime (ed.), Proceedings of the First Southern California Japanese! Korean Linguistics Conference, CSLI, Stanford University, 1990. vii