Masakazu Kuno

List of John Benjamins publications for which Masakazu Kuno plays a role.

Articles

This paper takes up the long-standing questions on the nature of negative concord items (NCIs) in Southern Romance, with special reference to Italian. NCIs in Italian present two riddles for the theory of syntax and semantics, viz., the preverbal- postverbal asymmetry and the apparent semantic… read more
Kuno, Masakazu 2007 On the ambiguity of N-words in FrenchRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 213–228 | Article
This paper argues that n-words in French are ambiguous between negative quantifiers and bipolar items, which are a type of polar sensitive items that must occur in the contexts that license both negative and positive polarity items. The ambiguity thesis is basically in line with Herbuger’s (2001)… read more
Kuno, Masakazu 2006 Symmetry in syntaxMinimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 97–114 | Article