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On the verb-raising analysis of non-constituent coordination in Japanese

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Published/Copyright: July 18, 2023
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Abstract

This study argues against the verb-raising analysis of Japanese Non-Constituent Coordination (NCC), and consequently supports an alternative analysis with no recourse to verb movement in Narrow Syntax. I show that the verb-raising analysis under-generates regarding VP-fronting in Japanese. Furthermore, I point out that this analysis makes wrong predictions about the scope between heads and elements inside NCC. I conclude that there is no syntactic V-to-T-to-C verb-raising in Japanese NCC.


Corresponding author: Ryoichiro Kobayashi, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1–1–1 Sakuragaoka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156–8502, Japan, E-mail:

Funding source: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Award Identifier / Grant number: JP21K00574

Acknowledgment

I would like to thank Naoki Fukui, Takaomi Kato, Toru Ishii, Yushi Sugimoto, Takanobu Nakamura, Taihei Asada, Dai Ando, and Takakazu Nagamori for their valuable comments and insightful discussions. Thanks also go to anonymous reviewers of The Linguistic Review and the audience at the 11th edition of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 11) at York in 2015. This project is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant Number JP21K00574. Any shortcomings and remaining errors are of course mine.

  1. Research funding: This project is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant Number JP21K00574.

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