University in 1992 under the title On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese.
Revisions have been made extensively in every chapter, but except for a few sections in …

This article demonstrates that the analysis of the affixal Japanese causative morpheme-(s)
ase requires an explicit treatment of the morphology–syntax interface, because it exhibits …

This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral
dissertation, which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case absorption and support it …

The paper divides verbal alternations which, broadly speaking, involve the cognitive notion
of Causation into (i) causativization,(ii) decausativization. The latter operation is identical …

One of the ongoing debates in linguistic theory has focused on distinguishing the
component of word-formation and characterizing the relation between morphology and …

Standard Case licensing principles (see Chomsky 1981, 1986, 1995) are designed to
handle situations where the Case licensing feature of the relevant local head alone …

This paper investigates two ways goals of motion events can be expressed in so-called 'verb-
framed'languages (Talmy 2000), focusing on the Japanese postpositions-made and-ni. It is …

This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its
interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading …

This paper discusses major issues that have arisen in the analysis of sentences with
complex predicates in Japanese from early transformational grammar to the present …

This paper re-examines two types of constructions that have featured in the discussion of
possessor ascension in Bantu: one type–an applicative construction–is associated with …