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The verb doubling construction in Japanese
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Yuji Hatakeyama
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Kensuke Honda
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
19. Mai 2017
Abstract
Japanese has expressions such as Basu-ga ki-ta ki-ta ‘A bus has finally come,’ where the verb-tense complex (ki-ta ‘came’ in this example) is doubled. This paper concentrates on these kinds of expressions, calling them the verb doubling construction (henceforth the VDC). The aim of this paper is to investigate the syntactic structure of the VDC in Japanese. Providing five pieces of evidence that the repeated verb-tense complex occupies the head of CP, we claim that the VDC constitutes a CP structure. We further point out that the analysis proposed here strongly supports the copy theory of movement (Chomsky, 1993).
Keywords: Areas of interest: syntax; the verb doubling construction; the verb-tense complex; the copy theory of movement
Published Online: 2017-5-19
Published in Print: 2015-1-1
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Contents
- L1–L2 asymmetry in animacy effects in the processing of Japanese relative clause
- Relative tense in relative clauses
- The verb doubling construction in Japanese
- Comments on verb doubling construction in Japanese
- Aspects of scientific Japanese revealed by JECPRESE
- Book Reviews
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Areas of interest: syntax;
the verb doubling construction;
the verb-tense complex;
the copy theory of movement
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Contents
- L1–L2 asymmetry in animacy effects in the processing of Japanese relative clause
- Relative tense in relative clauses
- The verb doubling construction in Japanese
- Comments on verb doubling construction in Japanese
- Aspects of scientific Japanese revealed by JECPRESE
- Book Reviews
