Note on Japanese Epistemic Verb Constructions: A Surface-Compositional Analysis
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This paper offers a new analysis of the raising to object construction in Japanese. This has been extensively discussed following Kuno (1976) for the case where the matrix predicate is an epistemic verb. Under CCG analysis an o-marked phrase is a surfacecompositional object rather than a raised argument. This new approach correctly predicts the thetic and categorical judgments of epistemic verb constructions, which have hitherto only been accounted for by the studies which emphasize only the syntactic aspects of the construction.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009