DPexternal epistemic ‘determiner’s in Japanese
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A sequenceWH-ka has another use: it may be accompanied by a host NP marked by nominativeor accusativemarkers, while occupying a post-nominal position, as in (2a), or a distant position, as in (2b). In these cases, a WH word should semantically agree with the host NP: in (2a,b), the host NP, nomiono (‘drink’), requires a WH word nani (‘what’) specified for [-human] feature rather than [+human] dare (‘who’). These two
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