News
- May. 7-9, 2010 FAJL5, UC Santa Cruz
- Special session: Prosody in Grammar
- Sep. 6, 2009 WAFL6, Nagoya Univ. Japan
- Satoshi Tomioka presented "Japanese Embedded Questions Are Nominal: Evidence from QVE"
- Sachie Kotani presented "Focus Particles and Suru-Support in Japanese"
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Grant Description
Many interesting and influential theoretical claims have been made in generative syntax based upon the scope interpretations of Wh-questions in Japanese. It is well-known, however, that many of the syntactic judgments reported there are fuzzy, unstable and variable. The most common approach to this problem in the field has been to suppress such chaos, appealing to "dialectal variations," and to pursue an analysis in accordance with each researcher's own intuition. Several recent research papers are converging on the evocation that the study of formal aspects of grammar should be conducted with careful attention to a larger context of language, and that exercising such caution may be the key to bring back order to the chaos of the field.
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Contact Information
Yoshihisa Kitagawa (Indiana University)
kitagawa AT indiana DOT edu
Memorial Hall Room 325
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812) 855-0041
Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware)
stomioka AT udel DOT edu
46 E. Delaware Ave. Room 204
Newark, DE 19716
(302) 831-6347
Sponsored by
National Science Foundation Grant # BCS-0650415 (Indiana University)
National Science Foundation Grant #BCS-0650385 (University of Delaware)
URL: http://www.ling.udel.edu/focus/
Since September 2007
Last updated Nov.22, 2009
Maintained by Masahiro Yamada (myamada AT udel DOT edu)