This is a significantly expanded, revised version of JAPANESE, a part of the London Oriental
and African Language Library series, originally published in 2002. The main purpose of this …

This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

Japanese has two types of focus constructions, Cleft and the 'No da'in-situ focus construction
(cf., Koizumi 1995, Kuroda 1992, 1999, Matsuda 1997 for the former and Kuno 1973 for the …

This study investigates adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. In line with
other recent typological research in the context of complex sentences and clause-linkage, it …

Nominative-Genitive Conversion (hereafter NGC) in Japanese, which is also often called
Ga/No Conversion, is one of the most intriguing syntactic phenomena in the history of …

This dissertation is a case study of the syntax of the left periphery, using exclamatives in
English and Japanese. In the first part, I discuss exclamatives in Japanese in detail by …

Abstract Since Ross (1967), it has been observed that there are configurations from which
otherwise unbounded movement operations cannot occur, and they are called islands …

This dissertation provides a study of a language that adds another dimension to the
semantics of degree constructions in natural languages that has long been monopolized by …

Recent studies of Japanese clausal comparatives have yielded several competing
theoretical views of their syntax and semantics that have different implications for the issue …

This thesis aims to reveal the mechanisms and constraints involving in long-distance
dependency formation in the static knowledge of language and in real-time sentence …