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Verb Raising and Theta-Driven Movement : A Comparative Minimalist Approach with Particular Reference to Japanese / Akemi Matsuya.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguistische Arbeiten ; 490Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: Reprint 2017Description: 1 online resource (171 p.) : Zahlr. AbbContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783484304901
  • 9783110919707
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495.6/5
LOC classification:
  • PL585.M327 2004
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Clausal Architecture and Multiple Predicate Formation -- 2. Control Constructions -- 3. Passives, PRO, and Theta-Movement -- 4. Causatives and Theta Movement -- 5. Double Object Constructions and the Dative -- 6. Summary -- References
Summary: Under the framework of the Minimalist Program, this book attempts to clarify that greedy movement in Japanese fulfills locality and is driven by checking theta roles as well as Case, categorial features, and so on as formal features. The findings are as follows: the Spec of TP and an uninterpretable [+V] feature make successive cyclic verb raising possible, thus producing a complex verb (Multiple Predicate Formation). MPF and the [+ Spec TP] parameter attribute nonobligatory controlled PRO in the subject position of the adjunct to checking the nominative Case at the Spec of TP within the adjunct. Overt verb raising beyond the nonfinite clause boundary enables the long distance A-movement in the control constructions. The derivational difference among ni direct passives, ni indirect passives, and ni yotte direct passives is due to the three corresponding types of checking theta roles and Case. The impossibility of scrambling ni indirect passives is predicted by the exhaustion of the theta roles. The semantic difference between o-causatives and ni-causatives is caused by dative NP's checking Case and theta roles. No passives of noncoercive causatives are produced because of the exhaustion of theta roles at TP. The passivization in double object constructions are limited by the functions of dative markers in Case and theta role checking.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Clausal Architecture and Multiple Predicate Formation -- 2. Control Constructions -- 3. Passives, PRO, and Theta-Movement -- 4. Causatives and Theta Movement -- 5. Double Object Constructions and the Dative -- 6. Summary -- References

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Under the framework of the Minimalist Program, this book attempts to clarify that greedy movement in Japanese fulfills locality and is driven by checking theta roles as well as Case, categorial features, and so on as formal features. The findings are as follows: the Spec of TP and an uninterpretable [+V] feature make successive cyclic verb raising possible, thus producing a complex verb (Multiple Predicate Formation). MPF and the [+ Spec TP] parameter attribute nonobligatory controlled PRO in the subject position of the adjunct to checking the nominative Case at the Spec of TP within the adjunct. Overt verb raising beyond the nonfinite clause boundary enables the long distance A-movement in the control constructions. The derivational difference among ni direct passives, ni indirect passives, and ni yotte direct passives is due to the three corresponding types of checking theta roles and Case. The impossibility of scrambling ni indirect passives is predicted by the exhaustion of the theta roles. The semantic difference between o-causatives and ni-causatives is caused by dative NP's checking Case and theta roles. No passives of noncoercive causatives are produced because of the exhaustion of theta roles at TP. The passivization in double object constructions are limited by the functions of dative markers in Case and theta role checking.

Issued also in print.

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