A Generative Approach to Quantification in Japanese Dialects

About this project

Japan Grant Number
JP18K00574
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Project/Area Number
18K00574
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type
  • Multi-year Fund
Review Section / Research Field
  • Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research Institution
  • Osaka University
Project Period (FY)
2018-04-01 〜 2023-03-31
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
4,420,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 3,400,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 1,020,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

The current study clarified the syntactic and semantic properties of logical connectives, in particular disjunction in Japanese. We reported that Japanese disjunction exhibits rescuing effects, based on data from the Kumamoto Hichiku dialect, which allows two types of nominative subject: one in vP and the other in TP. This finding shows that Japanese disjunction is a positive polarity item, and no syntactic movement plays any crucial role in determining its scope domain. We also investigated the function of the Focus feature in Agree operation, examining the relationship between focus and ellipsis, and showed that the complex of the Focus feature and the (genitive) Case feature activates the Ellipsis feature. Likewise, the complex of the Focus feature and the potential suffix licenses nominative object.

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