The (w)hole of the doughnut: Syntax and its boundaries
S.-Y. Kuroda
[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 1] 1979. ix, 256 pp.
S.-Y. Kuroda
List of John Benjamins publications for which S.-Y. Kuroda plays a role.
Title
Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2004 Tree pruning Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 303–311 | Article
This paper was originally written in 1965. It introduces two principles that determine the derivation of surface structure constituent trees from underlying deep structure trees. The first principle specifies that a non-branching node is eliminated, unless it is a preterminal node directly… read more
1988 Whether We Agree or Not: A Comparative Syntax of English and Japanese Lingvisticæ Investigationes 12:1, pp. 1–47 | Article
1987 A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrenceand Faulkner (of course, in
Japanese translation) Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa, Hinds, John, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard (eds.), pp. 143 ff. | Article
1987 A Topological Approach to Structural Equivalence of Formal Languages Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984, Manaster-Ramer, Alexis (ed.), pp. 173 ff. | Article
1985 La Sémantique des Démonstratifs Japonais Lingvisticæ Investigationes 9:1, pp. 69–81 | Article
Semantics of the Japanese demonstratives. Japanese has a three-way distinction of demonstratives, kore (this), sore (that) and are (that). The distinction between sore and are in their deictic use is much like one found in Latin: sore refers to something near the hearer, are to something not near… read more
1979 The Semantics of the Japanese Topic Marker Wa Lingvisticæ Investigationes 3:1, pp. 75–85 | Article
