TY - JOUR
T1 - Invisible movement in sika-nai and the linear crossing constraint
AU - Tanaka, Hidekazu
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* Mark Baker, Jose Bonneau, Nigel Duffield, Nobert Hornstein, Miyoko Ikawa, Takako Kawasaki, Kazuki Kuwabara, Masatake Muraki, Masanori Nakamura, Ileana Paul, Lisa Travis, Mihoko Zushi, and an anonymous JEAL reviewer are thanked for critical and constructive comments on earlier versions of this paper. This paper is a revised version of the paper that was presented in a colloquium at Tokyo Area Circle of Linguistics (TACL) at Meiji Gakuin University on March 27, 1993. Thanks go to Daisuke Inagaki, Heizo Nakajima, Koichi Takezawa, Shigeo Tonoike, and especially Nobuko Hasegawa and Yasuo Ishii for their insightful comments and suggestions. I express my gratitude to Vivianne Phillips for carefully correcting stylistic errors. The usual disclaimers apply. The final stage of this work is supported by the FCAR 94-ER-0578 grant, Max Blinz fellowship and Government of Canada Award, for which I am grateful.
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PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Sika-nai is a Japanese word for only. This paper proposes that sika-nai should be analyzed along the line of Watanabe (1991, 1992), who claims that Japanese has invisible syntactic wh-movement. We propose that sika has an invisible operator. Nai heads its own projection, NegP. The invisible operator moves to NegP-Spec in syntax. As evidence for this analysis, it will be demonstrated that sika-nai shows effects of the Subjacency Condition, the Proper Binding Condition, and the Linear Crossing Constraint. These principles interact with scrambling and wh-movement in such a way as to further confirm our analysis. We advance an argument against Chomsky's (1992) proposal that there is no S-Structure condition.
AB - Sika-nai is a Japanese word for only. This paper proposes that sika-nai should be analyzed along the line of Watanabe (1991, 1992), who claims that Japanese has invisible syntactic wh-movement. We propose that sika has an invisible operator. Nai heads its own projection, NegP. The invisible operator moves to NegP-Spec in syntax. As evidence for this analysis, it will be demonstrated that sika-nai shows effects of the Subjacency Condition, the Proper Binding Condition, and the Linear Crossing Constraint. These principles interact with scrambling and wh-movement in such a way as to further confirm our analysis. We advance an argument against Chomsky's (1992) proposal that there is no S-Structure condition.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1008202213790
DO - 10.1023/A:1008202213790
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037879022
SN - 0925-8558
VL - 6
SP - 143
EP - 188
JO - Journal of East Asian Linguistics
JF - Journal of East Asian Linguistics
IS - 2
ER -