LF extraction of naze: Some theoretical implications
LF extraction of naze: Some theoretical implications
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低频提取鼻孔:一些理论意义
DOI:
10.1007/bf00134490
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Naoki Fukui
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作者:
Naoki Fukui
This paper investigates various facts, all of which are related to LOGICAL FORM (LF) extraction of naze'why'in Japanese. The Wh-phrase naze has been assumed to be a typical adjunct Wh-element in Japanese, ie, the counterpart of English why, and consequently, its behavior with respect to the EMPTY CATEGORY PRINCIPLE (ECP) has been examined in the literature (cf. in particular, Lasnik and Saito (1984)). In what follows, I will present various new facts concerning LF extraction of naze, all of which point to the same conclusion-that the notion of BARRIER relevant to antecedent-government in particular, and to antecedent-trace relations in general, must be defined in terms of L-marking rather than in terms of category types such as NP, S', etc. This argument provides new empirical evidence for Chomsky's (1986) approach to the proper characterization of the concept of barriers in syntax (narrowly understood) and LF. Furthermore, I will argue that the facts presented in this paper cast doubt on the standard characterization of Japanese naze as a well-behaved adjunct with respect to the ECP, and lead us to the rather surprising conclusion that Japanese lacks true adjuncts in the sense relevant to the ECP. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 1 introduces very briefly the relevant part of Chomsky's (1986) barriers theory. In section 2, I will present a set of Japanese data concerning LF extraction of haze. Section 3 shows how the data presented in section 2 can be handled naturally within Chomsky's (1986) framework, in which the relevant notion of barriers is defined in terms of L-marking. Section 4 investigates theoretical implications of the facts about haze extraction for linguistic* Preparation of this material was supported by the MIT Center for Cognitive Science under a grant from the AP Sloan Foundation's program in Cognitive Science. Portions of this paper were presented to the Workshop on Oriental Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and in a colloquium at Cornell University. The audiences provided me with a number of suggestions that helped improve the content of this paper. I would like to thank Noam Chomsky, Ken Hale, Howard Lasnik, Luigi Rizzi, Mamoru Saito, and three anonymous reviewers of NLLT for valuable comments and suggestions. I am also indebted to Andy Barss, Kazuko Harada, Shin Oshima, Tova Rapoport, and Peggy Speas for helpful comments and discussions. All the shortcomings that may remain are of course my own.