Nominative subjects can’t move to the left periphery in Japanese

This paper attempts to argue convincingly that nominative subjects in Japanese cannot move to Spec-C if they are phonetically realized; in fact, they should remain in Spec-T from the viewpoint of the nominative case assignment mechanism in Japanese.

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Acta Mongolica
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2024-12-31
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https://doi.org/10.22353/am.202401.07
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Categorization, perception, and language
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Nominative subjects can’t move to the left periphery in Japanese

Nobuaki Nishioka, Nozomi Moritake
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Nominative subjects can’t move to the left periphery in Japanese

Nobuaki Nishioka, Nozomi Moritake
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Abstract

This paper attempts to argue convincingly that nominative subjects in Japanese cannot move to Spec-C if they are phonetically realized; in fact, they should remain in Spec-T from the viewpoint of the nominative case assignment mechanism in Japanese.

Acta MongolicaVol. 22(606)
Kyushu University (JP)
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Categorization, perception, and language
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