THE ANALYSIS OF BINARY FEATURES IN JAPANESE

<p><span lang="EN-US">The purpose of this paper is to understand the structure of binary features in Japanese, since definiteness can be explained by pointing out to the syntactic, semantic and featural aspects of the language. Even though the discussion includes privative, attributive features as well, we will confine this article to the problem of binary features. Different theories, models and approaches take different views on how features should be understood in Japanese in terms of whether features resemble labels or categories and what variation should be allowed within a single system of features as seen before</span></p>