Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. List of works by John B. Whitman xiii
5. Part I. Syntax and morphology
6. Chapter 1. On complement selection in Spanish and Japanese 3
7. Chapter 2. The syntactic status of by -phrases in Korean and Japanese 23
8. Chapter 3. Displaced modification 45
9. Chapter 4. Some asymmetries of long distance scope assignment in Sinhala 73
10. Chapter 5. Autosegmental evaluative morphology in Japanese 97
11. Part II. Interfaces
12. Chapter 6. On the distribution of the discourse particles - yo in Korean and - ne in Japanese 125
13. Chapter 7. Wh- indefinites in East Asian languages 139
14. Part III. Diachrony
15. Chapter 8. Resultative and termination 157
16. Chapter 9. Differential argument marking and object movement in Old Japanese 181
17. Chapter 10. Possessive nominal phrases in Lamaholot 207
18. Part IV. Psycholinguistics
19. Chapter 11. An experimental study of children’s comprehension of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese 229
20. Chapter 12. Parsing Chinese relative clauses with structural and non-structural cues 253
21. Part V. Phonology
22. Chapter 13. The inexorable spread of 〈ou〉 in Romanized Japanese 287
23. Chapter 14. Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean 303
24. Chapter 15. The role of perceived similarity and contrast 331
25. Chapter 16. The status of schwa in Indonesian 343
26. Chapter 17. Quantitative and qualitative restrictions on the distribution of lexical tones in Thai 371
27. Subject index 387