eprintid: 1461349
rev_number: 46
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datestamp: 2015-11-18 11:41:12
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type: article
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creators_name: Sudo, Y
title: Hidden nominal structures in Japanese clausal comparatives
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
divisions: F72
keywords: Japanese, Comparative construction, Degree nominals, Noun deletion, Semantic variation
note: © The Author(s) 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
abstract: Recent studies of Japanese clausal comparatives have yielded several competing theoretical views of their syntax and semantics that have different implications for the issue of crosslinguistic variation in comparative constructions. This paper aims at contributing to this debate by offering a novel syntactic analysis of Japanese clausal comparatives. The main proposal is that despite their appearance, Japanese clausal comparatives involve a nominal structure whose nominal head is deleted by a syntactic deletion operation, and therefore are underlyingly phrasal comparatives. It is demonstrated that this analysis explains peculiar syntactic and semantic properties of Japanese (seemingly) clausal comparatives, some of which have been unidentified in the previous literature. The proposed account also allows us to dispense with the previously proposed semantic variation specific to degree constructions, and entertain a more conservative view of crosslinguistic variation where the differences between Japanese-type and English-type comparative constructions are solely attributed to their morphosyntactic properties.
date: 2015-02
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-014-9125-7
vfaculties: VFBRS
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_source: crossref
elements_id: 1011684
doi: 10.1007/s10831-014-9125-7
lyricists_name: Sudo, Yasutada
lyricists_id: YSUDO56
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of East Asian Linguistics
volume: 24
number: 1
pagerange: 1 - 51
issn: 0925-8558
citation:        Sudo, Y;      (2015)    Hidden nominal structures in Japanese clausal comparatives.                   Journal of East Asian Linguistics , 24  (1)   1 - 51.    10.1007/s10831-014-9125-7 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-014-9125-7>.       Green open access   
 
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