On complement selection in Spanish and Japanese

要旨

This paper focuses on some curious parallelism between Spanish and Japanese. In particular, it shows that complement clause selection in these languages can be captured by the semantic categories proposed by Lahiri (1991 , 2002 ). It demonstrates that these two languages obey the exact same constraints on complement selection by examining Japanese data along the lines of Lahiri’s verbal classification. It also shows that the analysis of Japanese complementizers proposed by Saito (2010) should be extended to account for a wider range of Japanese data. This extended analysis is shown to be able to capture all the shared parallelisms between the two languages.

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