A Categorial Treatment of Scrambling in Japanese

In generative studies of Japanese, the term 'Scrambling' has been used to account for the intuitively obvious relationship bebween sentences like (la) and (lb). (1) a. John-ga (subj) Bill-o (obj) mi-ta. (see-past) b. Bill-o (obj) John-ga (subj) mi-ta. (see-past) 'John saw Bill.'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kurahone, Akira
Other Authors: University of Texas at Austin
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 1981
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/229536