A Dynamic Syntax Modelling of Postposing in Japanese Narratives
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Japanese is prescriptively said to be verb-final, but it exhibits postposing in colloquial register, where an element is placed after a verb. Based on narrative data, we show that the syntactic type of postposed element is quite diverse and that, contrary to the prevalent, opposing view, Japanese postposing is not restricted to a matrix clause. These issues are addressed in Dynamic Syntax, with the outcome of developing some formal aspects of the framework.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015