The Syntax of Possession in Japanese

ISBN-13: 9780415941624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 212 str.

Takae Tsujioka;Tsujioka Takae

Opis

This dissertation investigates the syntax of possession in Japanese within the framework of the Minimalist Program. A primary focus is on the question of how possessive semantics is represented in syntax at the sentential level when there seems to be no designated verb of possession - specifically, in possessives with verbs aru be.inanimate, iru be.animate and suru do. Takae Tsujioka seeks the source of possessive semantics in the nominal domain. Adapting Szabolcsi's (1994) analysis of Hungarian possessives, the author proposes that possessive sentences with aru and iru are derived from existential sentences via possessor extraction (= E-Possessive). The possessor DP is base-generated within the possessee DP, and later raises to Spec, TP] to check EPP feature of T. It is shown that unavailability of scrambling as opposed to topicalization follows from the general constraint on remnant movement.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theoretical Assumptions; Chapter 3 Nominal and Clausal Possessives; Chapter 4 E-possessive and Locative; Chapter 5 The Structures of Possessors; Chapter 6 Inalienable Possession Construction with ‘do’;

O autorze

Takae Tsujioka, edited by Laurence Horn Yale University