Something visible in Japanese

A number of languages of the world show a striking change in word order when what is modified is an indefinite pronoun: the modifier necessarily appears postnominally (e.g. something visible vs. *visible something). English and French are examples of this ordering pattern. Japanese, a head-final lan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ken Hiraiwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-12-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5100/