This is a book about syntax, a system of structured expressions that figure in various aspects
of human cognition, language in particular. Provided with finite discrete elements (lexical …

Contrary to the conventionally assumed system of labeled phrase structure, this thesis will
argue for the hypothesis that the theory of bare phrase structure (Chomsky 1994, 1995 et …

This thesis is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-
drop languages where null arguments are claimed to be derivable via the process called …

This thesis attempts to assimilate head movement as far as possible to phrasal movement. In
particular, I argue that if we assume that the computational system of natural languages …

This paper provides a prosodic, syntactic and semantic analysis of prosodic F-effects in
interrogatives. It is argued that alternative questions involve a question-related F-feature on …

This chapter discusses the phenomenon of sluicing, a type of clausal ellipsis whereby an
entire interrogative clause is missing save for a wh-phrase. Sluicing consists of a number of …

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 …

In this paper, I argue that a subtype of right dislocation (RD) in Cantonese introduces
defocus in a sentence. It involves a process of defocalization, the core semantic function of …

The primary goal of this paper is to understand the information structure of right dislocation
(RD). I report a variation in RD in Asian languages with regard to the information structural …

This article aims to elucidate the true nature of the so-called Double-o Constraint (DoC) in
Japanese. The nature of the DoC has long been discussed in the literature since Harada's …