The passive in Japanese : a cartographic minimalist approach / by Tomoko Ishizuka.

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This book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge from the lexical properties of a single passive morpheme interacting with independently-supported syntactic principles and general properties of Japanese. The book both reevaluates numerous properties previously discussed within the literature and introduces interesting new data collected through experiments. This novel analysis also benefits from considering the important issue of interspeaker variability, in terms of grammaticality judgments and context requirements, and its implications for individual grammar. The book will be of interest not only to students and scholars working on passive constructions, but more generally to scholars working on generative grammar, experimental syntax, language acquisition, and sentence processing.

The Passive in Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables; Abbreviations; A modular analysis of the passive in Japanese; Acknowledgments; Towards a unified theory of Japanese passives; 1.1. The general research program; 1.2. Modularity of grammar; 1.3. The passive voice system in Japanese; 1.3.1. The traditional dichotomy; 1.4. Coalescing the two types of passives; 1.4.1. The polysemy of -rare; 1.4.2. Distributional differences between -rare and -sase; 1.4.3. Indirect passives are pseudo- and genitive passives; 1.5. Research questions.

1.6. Framework and theoretical tools1.6.1. The principles and parameters treatment of English passives; 1.6.2. Collins' (2005) smuggling analysis; 1.7. The proposed analysis; 1.7.1. Lexical properties of -rare; 1.7.2. General properties interacting with -rare; 1.7.3. What -rare does not do; 1.8. The data: Grammaticality judgment surveys; 1.9. Outline of the book; The passive morpheme -rare; 2.1. The distribution of -rare; 2.2. The passive -rare is always a functional element; 2.3.-rare as a voice head; 2.3.1. Establishing a pattern with long passivization; 2.3.2.-rare instantiates voice.

2.4. Lexical properties of -rare2.4.1. Complementation properties of -rare; 2.4.2. The EPP feature of -rare; 2.4.3. Introducing a dative projection; 2.5. Subject honorifics; 2.6. Summary of the chapter; The derived subject in the passive; 3.1. General properties of Japanese; 3.1.1. The absence of an expletive; 3.1.2. Movement and case; 3.2. The accusative passive; 3.3. Dative and source passives derived from ditransitive verbs; 3.3.1. Addressee of v̀erbs of speaking'; 3.3.2. Theme-raising of the passivized ditransitive verb; 3.3.3. The source passive; 3.4. Passivization of causatives.

3.5. Pseudo-passives: Passives with intransitives3.5.1. English pseudo-passives; 3.5.2. Japanese passives derived from obliques; 3.5.3. Postpositional objects incompatible with pseudo-passives; 3.6. The genitive passive; 3.6.1. Genitive passives disguised: Passives requiring context; 3.7. Extra-thematic nominative DPs; 3.8. Summary of the chapter; Ni-passives, ni-yotte-passives, and short passives; 4.1. The ni-phrase; 4.2. The kara-phrase; 4.3. Short passives and ni-yotte passives; 4.3.1. Short passives; 4.3.2. Ni-yotte passives; Revisiting the literature; 5.1. The traditional classification.

5.2. Traditional analyses5.2.1. The standard analysis of indirect passives; 5.2.2. Standard analyses of direct passives; 5.2.3. Standard analyses of possessive passives; 5.3. Are indirect passives special?; 5.3.1. Numeral Quantifier Floating; 5.3.2. The distribution of ni-phrases; 5.4. Summary of the chapter; Further support for movement; 6.1. The gap is a trace; 6.1.1. Is the gap a pro?; 6.2. Reconstruction effects; 6.2.1. Scope interactions; 6.2.2. Idiom reconstruction; 6.2.3. The distributive morpheme zutu; 6.3. A- vs. A-movement; 6.3.1. Reanalyzing long-distance passivization.

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