Although the traditional term “function words” or Chomsky's (1970) notion of “non-lexical
categories” has much in common with the contemporary notion of “functional categories”, it …

Two types of dependency Two types of dependency Abstract The aim of this thesis is to
examine the linguistic conditions on anaphoric relations between two linguistic expressions α …

This paper aims to illustrate how we might proceed to attain repeatability and falsifiability in
generative grammar, on the basis of discussion of concrete empirical materials in Japanese …

Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form
an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory …

This dissertation is a generative-grammatical study of the constructions called sluicing and
stripping in Japanese. It argues for the thesis, advocated by Hoji & Li (1994) and Fukaya & …

The sentences of the form in (1b) are often referred to as instances of the Scrambling
construction, in contrast to those of the “unmarked word order” in (1a): 1 (1) a. NP-NOM NP …

The Demonstratives in Modern Japanese Page 1 The demonstratives in modern Japanese*
Hajime Hoji (University of Southern California) Satoshi Kinsui (Osaka University) Yukinori …

If “the aim of science is, on the one hand, a comprehension, as complete as possible, of the
connection between the sense experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the …

In generative grammar, inverse scope readings, for example the reading that each girl has a
(different) boy loving her for the sentence some boy loves every girl, are generally treated as …

Demonstratives, Bound Variables, and "Reconstruction" Effects Page 1 DEMONSTRATIVES,
BOUND VARIABLES, AND RECONSTRUCTION EFFECTS* Hajime Hoji, Satoshi Kinsui …