Partitives and Specificity Effects for Japanese

要旨

Referentiality/Specificity has been shown to play a crucial role in the syntax of DPs when it comes to extraction (Friengo and Higginbotham 1981). In this paper, I propose that some restrictive distribution of a numeral classifier (NC) should be accounted for in terms of specificity effects for Japanese with three pieces of evidence, in support of the phase DP hypothesis (Chomsky 2001, 2007). I also defend the relation between argmenthood and DP is defended, particularly for definite NPs.

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