Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese

We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’). Although these three NSIs behave differently, we demonstrate that the two traditional NSI categories of Negative C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miyagawa, Shigeru, Nishioka, Nobuaki, Zeijlstra, Hedde
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Published: Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111966
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6134-9463