Genitive quantifiers in Japanese as reverse partitives
- Quantificational determiners in Japanese can be marked with genitive case. Current analyses (for example by Watanabe, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, to appear) treat the genetive case marker in these cases as semantically vacuous, but we show that it has semantic effects. We propose a new analysis as reverse partitives. Following Jackendoff (MIT-Press, 1977), we assume that partitives always contain two NPs one of which is phonologically deleted. We claim that, while in normal partitives the higher noun is deleted, in reverse partitives the lower noun is deleted.
Author: | Uli Sauerland, Kazuko Yatsushiro |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1127466 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/qplusno.pdf |
Publisher: | ZAS |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Report |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2004 |
Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2009/05/04 |
Tag: | Japanisch |
Issue: | November 2004 |
Page Number: | 28 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 216268435 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |