The Base-generation Approach to the Spray/Load Alternation in Japanese
This article presents a syntactic account of the spray/load alternation in Japanese (e.g., nuru ‘smear’, tsumeru ‘pack’, etc.,). Fukui, Miyagawa and Tenny (1985) claim that the alternation verbs show the double object structure under a single VP node; namely both the Material (i.e., something tha...
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University of Arizona Linguistics Circle
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/240311 |