Lahiri (Questions and answers in embedded contexts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002) shows that the semantic categories <propositions> , <questions> , and <utterances> play a crucial role for complement selection in Spanish. This paper argues that Lahiri’s analysis can be directly applied to Japanese. In the course of discussion, the behavior of the sequence of complementizers (-no-ka-to) is examined in detail. It is suggested that we can analyze Japanese verbs and s-selection in a parallel way with Lahiri’s analysis of Spanish verbs if we extend Saito’s (J Jpn Linguist 26:85–100, 2010; Beyond functional sequence: the cartography of syntactic structures, vol 10, pp 255–274, 2015) analysis of the Japanese complementizer -to. It is also suggested that the behavior of verbs selecting commands as their complement can be captured if an additional semantic category <commands> is postulated. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the distinction between a question and a report of a question is crucial for wh-scope interpretation. In particular, a question CP ceases to constitute an island for wh-scope interpretation when it is embedded as part of a report. This observation suggests that an account of wh-island effects along the line of minimality effects cannot be employed to explain the interpretation of wh-phrases embedded in a report of a question.

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日语中的补语选择和作用域

Lahiri（嵌入式上下文中的问题和答案，牛津大学出版社，牛津，2002年）表明，语义类别<propositions，<questions>和<utterances>对于西班牙语的补语选择起着至关重要的作用。本文认为，拉希里的分析可以直接应用于日语。在讨论过程中，complementizers的序列的行为（ -无- KA -到）进行详细检查。建议如果我们扩展Saito（J Jpn Linguist 26：85–100，2010;超越功能序列：句法结构的制图，vol），可以与Lahiri对西班牙动词的分析同时进行分析10，第255-274，2015年），日本补语的分析-到。还建议如果假设附加的语义类别<commands>，则可以捕获选择命令作为其补语的动词的行为。此外，它证明了一个问题和问题的报告之间的区别是至关重要的wh -scope解释。特别地，当问题CP作为报告的一部分被嵌入时，它就不再构成wh- scope解释的孤岛。这一观察表明，一个帐户WH沿着极小影响线路-Island效果不能被用来解释的解释WH -phrases嵌在一个问题的报告。