Psych Movement in Japanese and Some Crucially Related Syntactic Phenomena

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In "'I'he Surface Verb ttemind 1 ,u Postal observes about Enr,llsh Psych Movement verbs as f'ollo-..rs: uAll the relevant verbals which undergo Psych Movement must, in nonha.bitual,nonmodal~ present-tense, declarative contexts have an Experiencer UP which is a. co:re.ferent of the 'subject' HP oi' the next hip:hest verb of sayinp;/thinkin~.In superficiully uncmbedded decJ.a.rntive clauses this means coreference to the 'subject' of' the deleted performative verb.Such coreference :requires the Experiencer NP to be first personn ( p, 160) How, compare his observation with Hideo Teramura!s on some of Japanese 'emotive adJectives' in "Emotive Sentences in Je.paneae. 11ult has oi'ten been noted and discussed by ,Japanese P..rw:ima.rians that there are a fairly large nwnber or adjectives in Japanese, all expressing some kind of emotion or feeling, vhich, in the ~resent indicative form, can be used as predicates for only first person sub,}ects in independent clausesn (p, 7).Also compare Postal's remark: ttrt is not immediately obvious how this accpunt explains the permissibility of sentences like:It struc.kHarry that you were a vampire, which a.re in the past tense" (Underlining Postal rs).( p. l64) with Tera.mura's: "More perplexing is the i'act that a sentence which is unnatural because of its non~irst person subject predicated by a.n emotive adjective turns out to be perfectly acceptable when we change the form of adjective into nas t tense form 1 ' (Underlininr: mine).,-----.The observations quoted above present striking similarities, both semantic and syntactic, between English Psych ~-!ovement verbs and a

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