ORIGINAL PHRASES INCLUDING ‘SPACE’ IN DESIGN THEORIES BY CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARCHITECTS

Making Space for Interaction: Architects Design Dialogues

In face-to-face conversation, the arrangement of bodies and the shared physical environment provides a rich set of resources for communication. People use the location and orientation of their gaze, heads, hands, and torsos, to help to define, amongst other things, when a conversation begins and ends, their levels of mutualengagement, their participant roles in the conversation (e.g. speaker, h...

Two By-phrases in Japanese Passive*

Scrambling of Wh-phrases in Japanese

Despite the a priori desiratum of assimilating the derivation and interpretation of wh-questions in Japanese to that in English, empirical evidence shows that overt displacement of wh-phrases in Japanese is not the same as overt wh-movement in English. The syntax of wh-phrases in Japanese is essentially the same as that of non-wh-phrases. Failure of scope reconstruction in certain cases is not ...

On Interpretation of Resultative Phrases in Japanese

The present paper attempts to formalize the semantic interpretation of resultative phrases in Japanese in the framework of Generative Lexicon, with a focus on the semantic subject of resultative phrases, i.e. the entity which resultative phrases are predicated of. The semantic subject cannot always be identified with the direct object of transitive verbs or the subject of unaccusative verbs, as...

Nominative-marked Phrases in Japanese Tough Constructions

In this paper we conduct a detailed examination of the tough construction in Japanese with the main focus on some types of nominative case particles ga. They are correlated with the difference not only in the nominativegenitive case alternation but also in the semantic or pragmatic interpretation. Based on these data, we discuss the categories of the nominative case particles and derivations fo...