The Syntax of Possession in Japanese

212 Pages·2002·4.341 MB·English

by  Takae Tsujioka

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THE SYNTAX OF POSSESSION
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Takae Tsujioka
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Tsujioka, Takae
The syntax of possession in Japanese / by Takae Tsujioka.
p. cm. - (Outstanding dissertations in linguistics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Japanese language--Possessives. I. Title. II. Series.
PL629.P66 T75 2002
49S.6'5-dc21 2002021318
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-94162-4 (hbk)
For my loving parents, Harne and Norio Tsujioka
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
CHAPTER 1 3
Introduction 3
l.1 Issues in possessive syntax 3
1.2 A sketch of clausal possessives in Japanese 9
1.2.1 Lexical verbs of possession 10
1.2.2 The possessive/locative/existential parallelism 11
1.2.3 Adjectival modification and possessive syntax 14
1.3 Organization and synopsis 16
CHAPTER 2 19
Theoretical Assumptions 19
2.1 Conceptual background 19
2.2 Features and Checking Theory 20
2.3 The theory of Attract and the locality condition 21
CHAPTER 3 23
Nominal and Clausal Possessives 23
3.1 The Hungarian E-possessive 24
3.2 The Japanese E-possessive 29
3.2.1 Proposal: Possessor extraction in Japanese 30
3.2.2 Muromatsu (1997): Honorification as agreement? 32
3.2.3 A puzzle conceming scrambling 36
3.2.4 The Unambiguous Domination Constraint 40
3.3 Hungarian-Japanese contrasts 49
3.4 Previous analyses of the Japanese E-possessive 53
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3.4.1 Homophonous ant 53
3.4.2 Homophonous aru AND iru 57
3.5 Sununary of Chapter 3 59
CHAPfER4 61
E-possessive and Locative 61
4.1 Previous approaches to the possessive/locative parallelism 63
4.1.1 Pragma-semantic approach 63
4.1.2 Homophonous transitive-intransitive pairs 66
-U.3 Two types of small clause 70
4.1.4 Summary of Section 4.1 72
4.2 Proposal: Extending the E-possessi ve accOlmt 72
4.2.1 Existential interpretation and D-incorporation 73
4.2.2 Stmctures of the locative, the existential, and the E-possessive 76
4.2.3 How the E-possessive accowlt works 83
4.2.4 "Subjecthood" in Japanese and Checking Theory 88
4.2.5 The scrambling puzzle revisited 92
4.2.6 Animacy alternation 95
4.2.7 Sunullary of Section 4.2 96
4.3 E-possessive and locative in Hungarian 97
4.4 Summary of Chapter 4 100
Appendix to Chapter 4: On the categorical status of the possessor and the
locational phrase 10 1
CHAPfER5 107
The Stmcnlfes of Possessors 107
5.1 Proposal: the two positions of possessors 109
5.2 Alienable and inalienable possessors 111
5.2.1 The notion of inalienability in gnullillar 112
5.2.2 A thematic approach to inalienable possessors 114
5.2.3 The position of alienable possessors 117
5.2.4 Inalienability in Japanese 121
5.3 Attributive adjectives in Japanese 122
5.4 Hungarian-Japanese contrast 132
5.5 Summary of Chapter 5 133
Appendix to Chapter 5: A survey of inalienability in Japanese 134
I. Body Parts 134
II. Kinship tenns 135
Table oj Contents ix
III. Part-whole 136
IV. Colors! shapes 137
V. Other Attributes 138
VI. Summary 138
CHAPfER6 139
Inalienable Possession Construction with 'do' 139
6.1 Properties of the IPC with· do' 140
6.1.1 Obligatory modification 140
6.1.2 Inalienability 142
6.1.3 Verb fonn 144
6.2 Proposal: the syntax of the IPC with' do' 147
6.3 No possessor-raising in the IPC with 'do' 150
6.4 Small v in possessives 154
6.4.1 Proxy verb suru? 154
6.4.2 The Bahuvrihi possessive in Yaqui 157
6.4.3 A note on possessional adjectives in English 163
6.5 SlUumary of Chapter 6 166
Bibliography 167
Index 181