Grammaticalization and Sequential Voicing in Japanese

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This article argues that sequential voicing (SV), which was traditionally regarded as an exclusively morphophonological phenomenon that takes place in compounds, is also available in some syntactic phrases headed by formal nouns (FNP) and that the asymmetry between the FNPs and lexical noun phrases in terms of the possibility of SV is attributed to the assumption that syntactic incorporation of V to FN through T does not violate Li's (1990) prohibition against improper head movement only if the FN is decategorized to a functional category via grammaticalization.

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