A Syntactic Analysis of Two Types of Predicate Reduplication in Japanese

Abstract

The properties of the two types of predicate reduplication in Japanese are investigated, and their syntactic derivation is proposed based on the copy theory of movement.

Tense intervention effect in negative emphasis: A case study in Japanese

“…First, let us examine the case of the EIC. Ishihara (2014Ishihara ( , 2015 argue that the EIC is derived by head movement of V to a Speech Act head in the C domain, and copy spell-out. Assuming that a functional head hosting an emphasis feature occurs higher than Tense and that Neg(ation) must be in a local relation with the emphasis feature in order to receive an emphatic interpretation, the unacceptability of (14A2, 15A2) follows; no element with a specified feature, i.e.…”

“…Martins (1988)), as in (3), or to emphasize a negative predicate in past tense in the EIC (cf. Ishihara (2014Ishihara ( , 2015), as in (4).…”

“…Before I propose an analysis, however, I briefly go over some of the syntactic properties of the ANEC in section 2, since it has hitherto received little attention in the generative literature. As for the properties and the analysis of the EIC, see Ishihara (2014Ishihara ( , 2015. Section 4 concludes the paper.…”