Question marker drop in Japanese
Question marker drop in Japanese
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日语问号下降
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-009-1972-3
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
0.5
通讯作者：
T. Yoshida
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文献类型：
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作者：
K. Yoshida;T. Yoshida
虽然日语被归类为使用形态疑问标记来表示疑问句的语言，但有人指出，在这种语言的非正式讲话中，疑问标记有时可以省略。本文讨论了一些以前没有注意到的限制，这一现象，并试图解释他们的框架内的原则和参数的方法。我们认为，只有当句子的疑问特征可以适当地检查时，疑问标记才可以省略。基于与已被研究的语言的跨语言比较，我们认为I-to-C头部移动是日语以及没有疑问标记的语言（例如，英文和法文）。本文还讨论了这种分析的各种理论结果
Although Japanese has been classified as a language that utilizes morphological question markers to indicate interrogative sentences, it has been pointed out that question markers can sometimes be omitted in informal speech in this language. This paper discusses some previously unnoticed restrictions on this phenomenon and attempts to account for them within the framework of Principles and Parameters approach. We argue that question markers may be omitted only if interrogative features of the sentence can be properly checked. Based on cross-linguistic comparison with well-studied languages, we claim that I-to-C head-movement is one of the options for interrogative feature checking in Japanese as well as languages without question markers (e.g., English and French). Various theoretical consequences from this analysis are also discussed