Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 250] 2018. xx, 390 pp.
Hideki Kishimoto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hideki Kishimoto plays a role.
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Subjects Morphology | Phonetics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2018 Chapter 4. Some asymmetries of long distance scope assignment in Sinhala Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. 73–96 | Chapter
Sinhala is classified as a wh-in-situ language; wh-phrases do not undergo movement, and most typically, their scope is determined relative to the (LF) position of a separable Q element associated with them. Nevertheless, some wh-phrases are not associated with separable Q elements and in such… read more
2018 Chapter 3. Displaced modification: Picture-noun constructions in Marathi and Japanese Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. 45–72 | Chapter
The picture-noun construction in Marathi has a constituent structure in which the imagee-NP marked with genitive case appears outside the participial complement clause, i.e. it does not appear as a direct argument to the verb in the complement clause. It is shown that Japanese has the same type of… read more
2018 Introduction Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. ix–xi | Introduction
2004 Transitivity of ergative case-marking predicates in Japanese Studies in Language 28:1, pp. 105–136 | Article
In this article, I argue that ergative case-marking predicates in Japanese, which take two non-canonically case-marked arguments, are best described as transitive predicates having subjects and direct objects, rather than as intransitive predicates without any direct objects — contrary to… read more