Adverbial particle modification and argument ellipsis in Japanese
Adverbial particle modification and argument ellipsis in Japanese
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DOI：
10.1007/s10831-021-09233-z
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发表时间：
2022-03
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0.5
通讯作者：
H. Kishimoto;Kazushige Moriyama
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作者：
H. Kishimoto;Kazushige Moriyama
本文表明，根据它们在论点省略语境中的表现，可以将状语分为“强”和“弱”两种类型。在实参省略句结构中，强类状语从句（take ' only ‘）不允许空实参包含其状语意义，而弱类状语从句（sae ’ even '）允许空实参选择性地包含其状语意义。我们认为状语“only”（属于强类型）在QR后以其宿主DP作为补体投射到其最大投影，而状语“even”（属于弱类型）通过QR与其宿主DP相连而不进一步投射。只有当空参数被解释为参考其前词的LF结构时，才能解释状语粒子行为的差异。关于这两种类型状语的数据提供了充分的证据，使我们能够选择LF复制分析而不是其他可选的句法分析。
This paper shows that adverbial particles are divided into the “strong” and “weak” types depending on how they behave in the context of argument ellipsis. In the argument ellipsis construction, the strong type of adverbial particle (dake‘only’) does not allow a null argument to include its adverbial meaning, while the weak type of adverbial particle (sae‘even’) allows a null argument to include the adverbial meaning optionally. We argue that the adverbial particledake‘only’ (which belongs to the strong type) projects to its maximal projection taking its host DP as a complement after QR, while the particlesae‘even’ (belonging to the weak type) is adjoined to its host DP by QR without projecting any further. The divergence in the behavior of adverbial particles can be accounted for only if null arguments are interpreted with reference to the LF structures of their antecedent arguments. The data regarding the two types of adverbial particles provide substantial evidence that allows us to choose the LF copying analysis over the other alternative syntactic analyses.