The syntax of cleft constructions in Japanese: A base-generation analysis

要旨

The aim of this thesis is to examine the cleft constructions in Japanese, specifically, the CM-Cleft in Japanese, in the hope that it will provide insight into the properties of the Computational System, which is assumed to be at the core of the language faculty. I pursue a base-generation analysis of CM-Cleft in this thesis. I adopt the EPSA (Evaluation of Predicted Schematic Asymmetries) method advocated by Hoji (2009 and subsequent works), which is a method of hypothesis testing in line with the hypothetico-deductive method and it aspires to obtain testability, reproducibility and quantitative analyzability in language faculty science.

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