Japanese aspectual verbs have previously been analyzed as control and raising verbs, with their different syntactic behaviors derived from the control/raising distinction. This paper argues against the control/raising analysis of Japanese aspectual verbs, showing that the standard diagnostics do not support the presumed control/raising distinction among Japanese aspectual verbs. As an alternati...

Abstract This paper investigates the question of whether, as is often popularly believed, there may be systematic linguistic differences between different neighborhoods within a city by testing independence “part town” factor separate from social class in north-force merger Manchester, UK, sample 122 speakers. The phonemic contrast explored minimal-pair tests, Cartesian distance, and Pillai sco...