The Generalized Projection Principle and Its Implications for Passive Constructions

Hoshi, Hiroto

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“…1C; see red arrows). (For recent literature supporting the movement analysis for Japanese passive sentences adopted here, see, e.g., Hoshi [1991], Shibatani [1990], and Terada [1990]; for an alternative proposal, refer to Kuroda [1979]). Crucially, passive and causative sentences differ in that in the former, but not in the latter, a syntactic ''movement'' reanalysis process is involved (cf.…”

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Who was the agent? The neural correlates of reanalysis processes during sentence comprehension

Hirotani

Makuuchi

Rüschemeyer

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Human Brain Mapping

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Sentence comprehension is a complex process. Besides identifying the meaning of each word and processing the syntactic structure of a sentence, it requires the computation of thematic information, that is, information about who did what to whom. The present fMRI study investigated the neural basis for thematic reanalysis (reanalysis of the thematic roles initially assigned to noun phrases in a sentence) and its interplay with syntactic reanalysis (reanalysis of the underlying syntactic structure originally constructed for a sentence). Thematic reanalysis recruited a network consisting of Broca's area, that is, the left pars triangularis (LPT), and the left posterior superior temporal gyrus, whereas only LPT showed greater sensitivity to syntactic reanalysis. These data provide direct evidence for a functional neuroanatomical basis for two linguistically motivated reanalysis processes during sentence comprehension.

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Section: The Present Study In Japanese: Aims and Hypothesesmentioning

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Who was the agent? The neural correlates of reanalysis processes during sentence comprehension

Hirotani

Makuuchi

Rüschemeyer

et al. 2011

Human Brain Mapping

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“…The experimental design adopted here is limited in recognizing whether such a comprehension difficulty evolved because of thematic reanalysis or its interplay with syntactic reanalysis. A passive sentence involves thematic reanalysis and syntactic reanalysis (for theoretical assumptions, see Hoshi, 1991Hoshi, , 1999Miyagawa, 1999). Hirotani et al (2011) compared neurocognitive processes when native Japanese speakers process active, passive, and causative sentences.…”

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Incremental comprehension of Japanese passives: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm

Mitsugi

2017

Applied Psycholinguistics

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Psycholinguistic research has shown that sentence processing is incremental (e.g., Altmann & Kamide, 1999). In Japanese, a verb-final language, native speakers use case markers to incrementally assign thematic roles and predictively activate a structural representation of upcoming linguistic items. This study examined whether second-language learners of Japanese, guided by case markers, generate predictions as to whether the upcoming verb involves the active or passive voice. The results show that the native speakers made predictive eye movements before the verb, but the learners did not; the learners were less efficient in using case-marker cues than the native speakers and relied more on verb morphology information. These results suggest that case markers guide thematic role assignments, expediting the processing for Japanese native speakers. Learners may depend more on information from the verb to compensate for the inefficiency in case-marker-driven predictive processing.

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“…Whereas analyzes Mandarin long passives like English tough constructions under the proposal of Chomsky (1981), he analyzes Mandarin short passives like English get-passives under the proposals of Hoshi (1991Hoshi ( , 1994a. While familiar be passives involve raising from VP-internal position to subject position (80a), get passives involve a combination of raising + control.…”

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Psych verbs in English and Mandarin

Cheung

Larson

2014

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Psych verb constructions show peculiar properties. They appear to project the same θ-relations into inverse configurations (John fears sharks/Sharks frighten John). Furthermore, Experiencer Object psych verb constructions admit backward binding in apparent violation of familiar c-command conditions (Pictures of himself anger John). We offer a solution to both puzzles drawing crucially on data from English and Mandarin. We argue that apparent θ-role inversion is an illusion, and that Experiencer Subject psych verb constructions like John fears sharks are not in fact simple transitive constructions but instead involve a concealed clause with a silent predicate (John fears [CP sharks PRED]). Regarding backward binding, we argue for an updated version of Belletti and Rizzi's (1988) analysis of Experiencer Object psych verbs in which the putative Theme is a Source that is underlyingly c-commanded by the Experiencer.Keywords psych verbs · intensionality · concealed complement clauses · applicatives· English · Mandarin 1 Introduction: The problem of psych constructionsPsych constructions pose a number of challenges to syntactic theory. As shown in (1)- (2), Experiencer Subject (ES) and Experiencer Object (EO) psych verbs in English appear to assign the same θ-roles of Experiencer and Theme. 1 But the structural positions of the corresponding arguments are reversed or "flipped" in the two constructions (Lakoff 1970;Postal 1974). This apparent "θ-role inversion" challenges the Universal Alignment Hypothesis (UAH) of Perlmutter and Postal (1984) and the corresponding Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH) of Baker (1988), which require identical thematic relationships to be realized in identical structural configurations. The exact identity of the non-experiencer θ-role in (1) and (2) is controversial; we label it here as THEME mainly for convience. The important point is that the same pair of roles appears to be involved in the two exemples; we return to a more careful discussion of this issue below. 2 In this study we concentrate on what Landau (2010) terms "Class I" psych verbs like fear and "Class II" psych verbs like frighten, largely putting aside discussion of his "Class III" psych verbs like appeal; the latter resemble the Class II type, but exhibit a dative preposition (to) on the experiencer (or, in other languages, dative case marking) as opposed to a simple accusative object (i): THEME EXPERIENCERThe idea appealed to Julie. (Landau 2010: 6) This is the Pre-Published Version.

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The Generalized Projection Principle and Its Implications for Passive Constructions

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Who was the agent? The neural correlates of reanalysis processes during sentence comprehension

Who was the agent? The neural correlates of reanalysis processes during sentence comprehension

Incremental comprehension of Japanese passives: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm

Psych verbs in English and Mandarin

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