Sase Bizarre: the Structure of Japanese Causatives
نویسنده
چکیده
In this paper, I present a unified treatment of the three different types of Japanese causatives, the -ni causative, the -o causative and the lexical causative, which relies on a notion of “Late Insertion” of lexical items, as proposed in Halle and Marantz (1993). Crucially, all three are claimed to contain a “CAUSE” morpheme which is spelled out as saseat PF. This morpheme is the reflex of a light verbal head which delimits the eventiveness of a verb, and is hence termed “EventP”. Causers, as initiators of events, are base-generated in Spec-EventP. The lexical causative differs from the two types of syntactic/analytic causative in containing only one “EventP”, while analytic causatives contain two EventPs and hence two events. The many syntactic differences between the two types of analytic causatives are seen to result from the -nicausative controlling an embedded PRO in the embedded subject position, while the -ocausative is a true ECM structure, with the embedded subject raising to the matrix EventP for case-checking.
منابع مشابه
Children's Acquisition of Causatives and Bi-clausality in Japanese: An Experimental Study
The aim of this study is to shed light on children's comprehension of Japanese causative constructions by looking at experimental data. Since the 1960's, a number of studies on Japanese causatives have been done. Despite the fact that there is a fair amount of work in this area, there are only a few acquisition studies. Furthermore, there are only a few studies on acquisition of complex complem...
متن کاملOn the Acquisition of Causatives in Japanese
In studies of the acquisition of Japanese causatives, it has been reported that the morpheme –(s)ase is used at a relatively early period and at this point children can create sentences that have biclausal structures. However, if we closely look at the interpretation of the early utterances of causative sentences, we find that they are lexical causatives not syntactic causatives. Accordingly, w...
متن کاملA Reexamination of the Cross-linguistic Parameterization of Causative Predicates: Japanese perspectives
1. Introduction In this paper, I will examine the syntax and semantics of one subtype of Japanese morphological causative in comparison to other kinds of morphological causatives in Japanese and similar causatives in other languages. I will point out that this subtype does not exhibit biclausal properties typical of more familiar Japanese causative predicates. The observations are discussed in ...
متن کاملA Pregroup Analysis of Japanese Causatives
We explore a computational algebraic approach to grammar via pregroups. We examine how the structures of Japanese causatives can be treated in the framework of a pregroup grammar. In our grammar, the dictionary assigns one or more syntactic types to each word and the grammar rules are used to infer types to strings of words. We developed a practical parser representing our pregroup grammar, whi...
متن کامل