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Comments on verb doubling construction in Japanese
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Michiya Kawai
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May 19, 2017
Abstract
The analysis offered in “Verb doubling construction in Japanese” is critically reviewed. The analysis yield verb doubling construction (VCD) by moving a verb-tense complex (VTC) in T to C, and phonetically realizing both the moved VTC in C and its copy in T. The analysis suffers from various shortcomings. Among them, it relies upon a problematic formulation of Doubly Filled Comp Filter, and the analysis incorrectly predicts the possibility of VDC in embedded contexts. The present study offers a brief outline of a plausible alternative of VDC that involves a phonetically null sentence-final particle (SFP) whose phonetic content is copied from the predicate at the phonetic interface.
Keywords: Areas of interest: verb doubling construction (VDC); predicate iteration; sentence final particles; copy theory of movement; phonetic copying
Published Online: 2017-5-19
Published in Print: 2015-1-1
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Areas of interest: verb doubling construction (VDC);
predicate iteration;
sentence final particles;
copy theory of movement;
phonetic copying
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