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Antecedent-contained argument ellipsis in Japanese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Daiko Takahashi
This article aims to provide new and solid evidence for the observation made in the previous literature that antecedent containment needs to be resolved in overt syntax in cases of antecedent contained deletion in Japanese. The evidence is new in the sense that it is based on argument ellipsis, which the recent literature has convincingly shown to be available in Japanese, rather than verb-stranding
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The syntax of individuating and measuring pseudo-partitives in Alasha Mongolian J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez
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Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
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A/Ā-Operations at the Mongolian Clausal Periphery J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Zhiyu Mia Gong
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The blocking effect in Vietnamese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Quy Ngoc Thi Doan, Eric Reuland, Martin Everaert
This article explores a restriction on non-local binding in Vietnamese—the blocking effect—including a systematic comparison with its Mandarin Chinese counterpart. Our finding is that the blocking effect in Vietnamese appeared to be rather different from that in Mandarin but, in fact, employs essentially the same syntactic mechanism. While binding of Mandarin ziji is governed by a [+participant] feature
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A pseudo-sluicing analysis of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Xue Bai, Daiko Takahashi
This paper provides a detailed description of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian and proposes to analyze them in terms of so-called pseudo-sluicing. It has been noted in the literature that the comparable construction in Khalkha Mongolian does not exhibit the so-called case-matching effect, a phenomenon in which the case of a remnant interrogative phrase matches that of its correlate in
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Phonetic correlates to Khalkha Mongolian vowel contrasts: duration, formants and voice quality J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Michael J. Kenstowicz
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Constraint reranking in diachronic OT: binary-feet and word-minimum phenomena in Austronesian J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Alexander D. Smith
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Anaphoric definiteness marking in Korean: focusing on subject definites J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Min-Joo Kim
This article takes a close look at subject anaphoric definites in Korean, with the goal of identifying (i) the distribution of anaphoric bare nouns and demonstrative-NPs and (ii) their form-meaning correlation. I show that the choice between an anaphoric bare noun and a demonstrative-NP is not as free as has been held in the literature (e.g., Ahn in THAT thesis: A competition mechanism for anaphoric
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The de-construction in Wenzhounese: how it differs from the bǎ-construction in Mandarin J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Chen Xie
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The right node raising analysis of coordinated wh-questions in Japanese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Jun Abe
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The relationship between Chinese zhiyou ‘only’ and cai: a matter of morphosyntax J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Daniel Hole
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The semantics and sociopragmatics of the Japanese honorific titles san, kun, and chan: some focal points of variation J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 David Y. Oshima
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Syntax and semantics of NPs in Chinese possessive topic constructions J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Alan Hezao Ke
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Japanese rare-constructions and the nature of the passive J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Jinwoo Jo, Yuki A. Seo
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Aspectual deictic verbs in Mandarin Chinese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Wei-Min Wu
This paper examines the aspectual use of deictic verbs in Mandarin Chinese. I will argue that, like many other languages, Mandarin Chinese also allows deictic verbs to express viewpoint aspect. In particular, the aspectual deictic verb in the pre-VP position shows prospective aspect, linking the present state to a future event, and the aspectual deictic verb in the post-VP position refers to the internal
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Extraction asymmetries in topic structures: a comparative analysis J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Wei-wen Roger Liao, Grant Hung-Ta Kao
We review two conflicting accounts of the argument-adjunct (a)symmetry found in topic structures in English and in the Romance languages. Based on the contrast, we examine topic structures in Mandarin Chinese, especially the behaviors of adjunct topics in multiple-topic sentences, embedded clauses, and non-declarative sentences. We observe a systematic extraction asymmetry in these environments between
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Against verb-stranding VP-ellipsis in Japanese: reply to Funakoshi (2016) J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Hidekazu Tanaka
Japanese has a deletion operation, called argument ellipsis, that targets arguments (Oku in A theory of selection and reconstruction in the minimalist program, 1998). The operation does not apply to adjuncts, and thus, adjuncts are unelidable. Funakoshi (J East Asian Linguist 25(2):113–42, 2016), following in the footsteps of Otani and Whitman (Linguist Inquiry 22:345–58, 1991), argues that adjuncts
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Two steps to high absolutive syntax: Austronesian voice and agent focus in Mandar J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Dan Brodkin
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Two cases of doubled pronouns in Amarasi J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Tamisha L. Tan
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(Embedded) short answers to wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 Chi-Ming Louis Liu
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On the syntax of rhetorical questions: evidence from Cantonese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Sze-Wing Tang
In this paper, it is argued that sentences with sai2mat1 ‘needn’t’ in Cantonese are rhetorical questions and sai2mat1 ‘needn’t’ is a root modal that undergoes movement to a higher position above TP, exhibiting epistemic-like properties. Under the cartographic approach, the rhetorical reading is derived by an interrogative feature [Int] of C, a null negative operator in CP, and an interpretable assertive
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zhi-{yao, you} ‘only-{need, have}’: on two conditional connectives in Mandarin J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Alexander Wimmer
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Reconsidering multiple scrambling in Japanese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Akihiko Arano
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Bare nouns, incorporation, and event kinds in Mandarin Chinese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Qiongpeng Luo
This article motivates and develops a compositional account for bare noun incorporation (BNI) constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin BNI constructions, taking the form of V-O compounds, exhibit a constellation of properties (e.g., obligatory narrow scope, institutionalized meaning, reduced discourse capacity, restricted modification of incorporated nominals, etc.) which are typically associated
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The possessive morphosyntactic strategy of gradable predication in Taiwanese Southern Min and the measure function J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Chen-Sheng Luther Liu
The TSM u N construction adopts the possessive morphosyntactic strategy of gradable predication to construct a gradable predicate headed by the possessive verb u ‘have’. The possessive verb u ‘have’ inside, in addition to retaining its possessive meaning, introduces a functional projection (i.e., MeasP) headed by Meas, which denotes a measure function measuring the denotation of the N component along
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Two types of plurals and numeral classifiers in classifier languages: the case of Korean J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 So-Young Park
This paper explores two types of plurals and their co-occurrence relationships with numeral classifiers in Korean. It proposes a split-head plural analysis, namely, a group plural marked with -huy or -ney as the realization of an n head and a sum plural with -tul as the realization of a Cl head that subsequently head-raises to a Num head. Moreover, potential ambiguous structures for numeral classifiers
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Focus without pitch boost: focus sensitivity in Japanese why-questions and its theoretical implications J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Satoshi Tomioka
Unlike typical wh-questions, why-questions are known to be focus-sensitive, but the linguistic realization of their focus sensitivity shows an unexpected pattern in Japanese. The phrase that immediately follows a causal wh-phrase can be considered as the focus associate without any focal prominence. This prosodic pattern contradicts the generally accepted view that a focused phrase invariably receives
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Adverbial particle modification and argument ellipsis in Japanese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-03-05 Hideki Kishimoto, Kazushige Moriyama
This paper shows that adverbial particles are divided into the “strong” and “weak” types depending on how they behave in the context of argument ellipsis. In the argument ellipsis construction, the strong type of adverbial particle (dake ‘only’) does not allow a null argument to include its adverbial meaning, while the weak type of adverbial particle (sae ‘even’) allows a null argument to include the
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Exploring meaning-sound systematicity in Korean J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Hana Jee, Monica Tamariz, Richard Shillcock
Studies of word-level meaning-sound systematicity in English and four other European languages have shown that words that sound similar tend to have similar meanings. The term ‘systematicity’ in this research tradition is defined as statistically non-arbitrary relations between sub-domains of language, in contrast to the traditionally assumed Saussurian arbitrariness. We explore such systematicity
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On wh-copying in Mon J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Isaac Gould
This paper presents the first detailed study of pronouncing multiple wh-pronouns within the same dependency in Mon (Mon-Khmer). I argue the data involve movement, and thus a wh-copying construction: multiple wh-copies can be pronounced, either in full pronoun form or in a reduced pronoun form—and I propose reduction occurs via m-merger (Harizanov in Nat Lang Linguist Theory 32:1033–1088, 2014). This
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The typology of sibilant place contrasts in the high-front vowel context across Chinese dialects J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Li, Mingxing
Previous studies have shown that the occurrence of a phonological contrast may be influenced by its phonetic contexts such that the same consonantal contrast is allowed in one vowel context but avoided in another. For sibilants, one observed tendency is the avoidance of their place contrasts in a phonetic [_i] context, e.g., a [si-ɕi-ʂi] contrast is absent in Mandarin Chinese, although the same sibilant
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A pragmatic explanation of the mei-dou co-occurrence in Mandarin J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Liu, Mingming
Mandarin universal terms such as mei-NPs in preverbal positions usually require the presence of dou ‘all/even’. This motivates the widely accepted idea from Lin (Nat Lang Semant 6:201–243, 1998) that Mandarin does not have genuine distributive universal quantifiers, and mei-NPs are disguised plural definites, which thus need dou—a distributive operator (or an adverbial universal quantifier in Lee (Studies
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ECM subjects in Japanese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-10-17 Kishimoto, Hideki
The present paper argues that ECM subjects undergo A-movement to Spec of ForceP in the subordinate clause, but not to the matrix object position, in Japanese ECM constructions where a complementizer is required for the embedded clause. ECM subjects are argued to move to Spec of ForceP, accessible to the matrix predicate, while a topic fills the lower TopP. It is suggested that an ECM subject appears
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Two categorial issues of degree constructions in Mandarin J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Zhang, Niina Ning
This squib argues against Yiwen Zhang’s (J East Asian Linguist 29:393–434, 2020) adjective analysis of the Mandarin word you ‘have’ to the left of a gradable noun, as in you yongqi ‘have courage’, showing that it is a verbal element. It also shows that for a gradable predicate of any category, if the question under discussion is about a comparison of individuals with respect to a gradable property
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A compositional mechanism for pairwise predication in the Korean Left-Node Raising construction J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Lee, Jungmee
This paper investigates the various properties of the so-called Korean Left-Node Raising (LNR) construction, including its interpretation when a summative or symmetrical predicate occurs at the left periphery. While previous authors (Nakao in Proceedings of the 33rd annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania working papers in Linguistics, vol 16, pp 156–165, 2010; Chung in Stud
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Selection and argument structure: the case of morphological causatives in Korean J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Jinwoo Jo
This paper proposes that morphological causatives in Korean are formed through the causative head, Caus(e), selecting for an element of category Voice as its complement. Under the proposed view, various properties of the causative in Korean are examined and accounted for. Specifically, it is claimed that the limited productivity of morphological causatives and the ungrammaticality of morphological
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Asymmetries in doubling and Cyclic Linearization J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-05-08 Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
This paper investigates asymmetries in doubling among verbs, objects and subjects in Cantonese. It is shown that each of these elements has a distinct doubling profile in topic constructions and right dislocation: doubling is sometimes prohibited, required or optional. Couched in terms of the copy theory of movement, I suggest that the operation responsible for erasing copies in a movement chain is
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Plural events and the progressive particle in Dalad Chinese, and the final-over-final condition J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Xuhui Hu, Yuchen Liu
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Correction to: The syntax of pronoun fronting in Late Archaic Chinese negated clauses J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Edith Aldridge
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-021-09221-3
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The syntax of pronoun fronting in Late Archaic Chinese negated clauses J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2021-03-03 Edith Aldridge
This paper proposes a syntactic analysis of the complex phenomenon of pronominal object fronting in negated clauses in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). I first propose that partitive case is assigned to objects in LAC negated clauses, accounting for the fact that only pronouns in LAC undergo fronting, since they have a person feature and cannot be licensed by a defective case like partitive. I next identify
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Referentiality, individuation and incompletive readings J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Anqi Zhang
As an exception to Krifka’s (in: Bartsch, Benthem, Emde Boas,Semantics and contextual expression, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1989) famous generalization that a quantized incremental theme always induces an event-homomorphic completive reading, Singh (Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 17(1): 469–479, 1991, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 3(2): 107–146, 1998) observes that in Hindi
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Nominal property concepts and substance possession in Mandarin Chinese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Yiwen Zhang
This paper investigates two puzzles regarding property concept (PC) lexemes (Dixon in Where have all the adjectives gone? And other essays in semantics and syntax. Mouton, The Hague, 1982) in Mandarin: why degree modifiers such as hen ‘very’ are compatible with gradable adjectives such as gao ‘tall’ as well as PC nominals such as zhihui ‘wisdom’, but not with concrete mass nouns such as shui ‘water’
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External degree constructions in Mandarin J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Niina Ning Zhang
This paper analyzes the Mandarin counterpart of a German construction that is initiated with a [degree + determiner] cluster, such as total die Party ‘a total party’. It shows that the Deg-to-D head movement in German is also seen in the Mandarin hao + yi + ge construction. Moreover, it argues that in Mandarin, the head cluster moves further out of the DP, explaining why the construction rejects an
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Revisiting phonotactic repairs in Cantonese loanword phonology: it’s all about sC J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-08-13 Alex Hong-Lun Yeung
Different factors have been claimed to affect the choice of repair on English words with ill-formed Cantonese phonotactics in Cantonese loanword phonology. The first half of this paper presents experimental evidence showing that variation is observed only when repairing different onset cluster types: there is vowel epenthesis for s + consonant (sC) clusters but deletion of the second consonant for
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Reduced NP comparatives in Korean and their implications. J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-08-13 Duk-Ho An
In this paper, I examine a novel type of comparative construction in Korean, namely, reduced NP comparatives (RNC), and consider its implications. On the surface, RNC may appear to be a case of the usual NP comparative construction in that two NPs are involved. But, unlike typical NP comparatives, the element bearing the marker of the standard of comparison in RNC does not directly participate in the
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Idioms, argument ellipsis and LF-copy J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Yosuke Sato
In this paper, I make critical use of certain word order and semantic properties of ditransitive expressions to develop an argument for the LF-copy theory of argument ellipsis (Oku in A theory of selection and reconstruction in the minimalist perspective, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1998; Saito in Lang Res 43:203–222, 2007; in: Shibatani, Miyagawa, and Noda (eds) Handbook of Japanese syntax
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Syntax and processing in Seediq: a behavioral study J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Hajime Ono, Jungho Kim, Manami Sato, Apay Ai-yu Tang, Masatoshi Koizumi
Syntactic properties such as word orders are a major factor determining the difficulty of a sentence. In SO-type languages where the subject (S) precedes the object (O) in canonical word order, there is clear evidence that the SO word order is preferred over the OS word order. We investigate to what extent this SO bias is maintained even in typologically diverse languages like Truku, an Austronesian
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Low predicate inversion in Mandarin J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Niina Ning Zhang
A VP, AP, or NP in a predicate can undergo a clause-internal movement in Mandarin Chinese (e.g., Ta yaomai shuqu ‘He wants to buy books’, Tashoude hen ‘He is very thin’, and Ta shibendanyi ge ‘He is a fool’). The pfmoving element must be predicative, and the landing site must be lower than any functional element in the IP-domain of the clause. The paper shows that there is a formal dependency between
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Agentive versus non-agentive motions immediately influence event apprehension and description: an eye-tracking study in a VOS language J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-03-12 Manami Sato, Keiyu Niikuni, Amy J. Schafer, Masatoshi Koizumi
The embodied cognition hypothesis postulates that human cognition is fundamentally grounded in our experience of interacting with the physical world (Barsalou in Behav Brain Sci 22:577–609, 1999). Research has shown bi-directional associations between physical action and the processes of understanding language: language comprehension seems to activate implied visual and motor components (Zwaan and
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The syntax of Korean VP anaphora: an experimental investigation J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Kyeong-min Kim, Chung-hye Han, Keir Moulton
The Korean VP anaphor (VPA) kuleha or kulay ‘do so’ has often been argued to involve ellipsis of an articulated VP structure, which is replaced with the surface form at PF (e.g., Cho in Lang Res 32:621–636, 1996; Ha in Korean J Linguist 35:471–487, 2010; Park in Linguist Res 32:693–718, 2015). In this paper, we present empirical data that does not support such a characterization, obtained from two
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Cartographic syntax of performative projections: evidence from Cantonese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2020-01-30 Sze-Wing Tang
It is argued in this paper that a sentence should consist of at least three layers, namely proposition, grounding, and response, which are formed by a number of functional categories, such as Event, Temp, Focus, Degree, and CoA. A cartographic analysis of the performative projections can be supported by the data of the sentence-final particles in Cantonese, focusing on the sentence-final particle ho
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Labeling and verb-initial word order in Seediq J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 Edith Aldridge
This paper proposes an analysis of VP fronting in the VOS Austronesian language Seediq in the theory of Labeling. In the same vein as Massam (Nat Lang Linguist Theory 19:153–197, 2001), I propose that verb-initial word order results at least in part from fronting the verb and object together in the VP when the object is indefinite and nonspecific, but the object vacates the VP when it is specific or
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The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of covert pied-piping in Sinhala and Japanese Wh -questions J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Hisashi Morita
This paper is a study of Japanese and Sinhala wh-questions, both of which employ a special particle called a Q-particle, ka in Japanese and də in Sinhala, forming QP. A Q-particle is normally base-generated adjacent to a wh-phrase or at the edge of an island when a wh-phrase is inside. However, under very restricted circumstances, a Q-particle can merge with TP, and the whole TP can be pied-piped to
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Papers on Seediq: Grammar and processing J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Kate Pilson
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A structural account of the difference between achievements and accomplishments: evidence from Changsha Xiang Chinese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Man Lu, Anikó Lipták, Rint Sybesma
This paper offers an analysis of ka41, an aspectual element in Changsha Xiang Chinese. It is argued that this element occupies a position in the inner-aspectual structure of the clause, between the higher aspectual marker ta21 and the lower elements expressing a lexical result (like clean in wash clean). On the basis of its co-occurrence with various verb types, we treat ka41 as an achievement marker:
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Parallel copying in dislocation copying: evidence from Cantonese J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2019-07-10 Jackie Yan-Ki Lai
Cantonese exhibits dislocation copying, a phenomenon whereby some syntactic material in a canonical sentence is repeated after the sentence particle. This paper demonstrates that the familiar Move-and-Elide analysis does not readily accommodate the structural properties of dislocation copying. Instead, the derivation of dislocation copying involves the formation of parallel Ā-chains. The apparent copying
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Prosodically conditioned neutral-tone realization in Tianjin Mandarin J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2019-06-15 Qian Li, Yiya Chen
While prosodic boundaries are known to affect the acoustic realization of segments and lexical full tones, no study thus far has examined how the f0 realization of a neutral tone is influenced by different prosodic boundaries. This study set out to fill this knowledge gap by investigating the effect of prosodic boundary on neutral-tone realization in Tianjin Mandarin, a variety which has been reported
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Aspect shift without coercion: continuous causative verbs in Japanese and Korean J. East Asian Linguist. (IF 0.346) Pub Date : 2019-05-18 Toshiyuki Ogihara, Eun-Hae Park
This article discusses special agentive transitive verbs in Japanese and Korean (such as noru/thata ‘board’) that yield concrete result states (which we call target states) that are under the agentive subject’s control throughout their duration. These verbs (continuous causative (CC) verbs) produce two distinct interpretations: accomplishment and target state readings. The latter surface with several