This paper focuses on Japanese partitives and a construction involving disjunction, A ka B no dottika (the Japanese counterpart of the English either/or construction). This construction has never been treated as a partitive construction but shows properties of partitives. The paper investigates the syntactic structure of the constructions and claim that both constructions can be explained by proposing a structure in which both the “whole” and the “part” project a Determiner Phrase (DP) independently and the whole DP is in the Specifier position of the part DP. The present proposal also explains some restrictions on the word order of the constructions.
内容記述
Articles
雑誌名
Linguistic research : working papers in English linguistics
巻
32
ページ
1 - 22
発行年
2018-06
書誌レコードID
AA10462609
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出版者
東京大学英語学研究会
出版者別名
Tokyo University English Linguistics Association
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The Syntactic Structure of Japanese Partitives and the Either/or Construction
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