TY - JOUR
T1 - The visibility guideline for functional categories
T2 - Verb raising in Japanese and related issues
AU - Fukui, Naoki
AU - Sakai, Hiromu
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This paper discusses the issues concerning functional categories in Japanese as they pertain to Universal Grammar. A minimalist guideline called the Visibility Guideline for Functional Categories is proposed, according to which functional categories are required to be "detectable" (directly or indirectly) in the primary linguistic data. Various candidates for functional categories in Japanese are examined in light of the Visibility Guideline, and it is concluded that none of them is qualified as an active functional category inducing formal and mechanical computations. An alternative view of the relevant phenomena in terms of "PF reanalysis" is put forth, and the analysis is extended to the case marking mechanism in Japanese. An overall picture of Japanese grammar is also suggested as the result of the discussion on functional categories: In many areas of Japanese grammar, PF and semantic mechanisms are at work in place of mechanical computations in narrow syntax.
AB - This paper discusses the issues concerning functional categories in Japanese as they pertain to Universal Grammar. A minimalist guideline called the Visibility Guideline for Functional Categories is proposed, according to which functional categories are required to be "detectable" (directly or indirectly) in the primary linguistic data. Various candidates for functional categories in Japanese are examined in light of the Visibility Guideline, and it is concluded that none of them is qualified as an active functional category inducing formal and mechanical computations. An alternative view of the relevant phenomena in terms of "PF reanalysis" is put forth, and the analysis is extended to the case marking mechanism in Japanese. An overall picture of Japanese grammar is also suggested as the result of the discussion on functional categories: In many areas of Japanese grammar, PF and semantic mechanisms are at work in place of mechanical computations in narrow syntax.
KW - Agree
KW - Functional categories
KW - Mechanical computation
KW - PF case marking
KW - PF reanalysis
KW - V-to-T raising
KW - Visibility Guideline for Functional Categories
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U2 - 10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00080-3
DO - 10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00080-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038712733
VL - 113
SP - 321
EP - 375
JO - Lingua
JF - Lingua
SN - 0024-3841
IS - 4-6
ER -