Masakazu Kuno
List of John Benjamins publications for which Masakazu Kuno plays a role.
Articles
Negative concord as feature sharing Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 143–158 | Article
2009 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
On the ambiguity of N-words in French Romance 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
2007 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
Symmetry in syntax Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 97–114 | Article
2006