Japanese Generative Grammar

List of ContributorsPrefaceContents of Previous VolumesSubject The Concept of Subject in Grammar "Nominative" in the Port-Royal GrammarSubject Raising Introduction Subject Raising in Japanese Subject Raising and PassivizationReflexivization : A Transformational Approach Introduction Basic Conditions on Reflexivization Emotive Causatives and Backward Reflexivization Nonagentive Causatives and Backward Reflexivization ConclusionReflexivization: An Interpretive Approach Introduction Summary of Past Works on the Reflexive Zibun The Cyclic Principle and Reflexivization as a Transformation Interpretation Rules of Japanese Reflexives Assignment of Preferred ReadingsPassivization Introduction Background Evidence for and Against the Nonuniform Theory An Alternative Analysis of Zibun Summary and ConclusionsCausativization Introduction Morphology Syntax Semantics Integration of Syntax and Semantics Concluding RemarksRelativization Introduction Conditions on Relativization 'Range Topic' and 'Instance Topic'Complementation Background and Scope of this Chapter Noun versus Predicate Complementation The Nominalizers Koto and No The Syntactic Status of Tokoro Complements Previous Analyses of To Yuu Survey of Predicate ComplementationNegation Introduction Naide Versus Nakute The Inherent Negative Mai Neg Raising The Particle Wa and the Scope of Negation Negative Polarity ItemsTense, Aspect, and Modality Introduction Tense and Aspect in Independent Clauses Tense and Aspect in Subordinate Clauses Tense and Aspect in Spatial, Relative, and Verb Complement Clauses Modality in Independent and Dependent ClausesNominal Compounds Introduction Compound Types Arguments against Transformational Analysis Semantics of Compounds ConclusionHonorifics Introduction Classification of the Honorifics Morphology Titles and Personal (Pro)Nouns Justification of the Transformational Analysis of Honorification Subject Honorification Object Honorification Honorification in Noun Phrases Honorification in Complement Constructions Remarks on Performative Honorifics Final RemarksBibliographyIndex