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BINDING AND SCOPE DEPENDENCIES WITH 'FLOATING QUANTIFIERS'
IN JAPANESE
by
Emi Mukai
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LINGUISTICS)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Emi Mukai
Object Description
| Title | Binding and scope dependencies with 'floating quantifiers' in Japanese |
| Author | Mukai, Emi |
| Author email | emukai@usc.edu;emiamym@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Linguistics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-02-01 |
| Date submitted | 2012-05-07 |
| Date approved | 2012-05-07 |
| Restricted until | 2012-05-07 |
| Date published | 2012-05-07 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hoji, Hajime |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Li, Audrey Simpson, Andrew Meeks, Lori |
| Abstract | The primary concern of this thesis is how we can achieve rigorous testability when we set the properties of the Computational System (hypothesized to be at the center of the language faculty) as our object of inquiry and informant judgments as a tool to construct and/or evaluate our hypotheses concerning the properties of the Computational System. I propose to adopt, as one possible solution to this testability issue, the Evaluation-of-Predicted-Schematic-Asymmetry method (the EPSA method) advocated by Hoji (2009, 2010, and subsequent works). ❧ I first provide a summary of this method in Chapter 2, crucially addressing its important aspects, (i) schematic asymmetries, (ii) the use of data involving the linguistic intuition that is (most likely) constrained by conditions at LF, and (iii) the model of conducting research. These aspects are based on three of the research heuristics adopted in Hoji 2009 and 2010, namely, the ""attain testability"" heuristic, the ""maximize testability"" heuristic, and the ""maximize our chances of learning from errors (in a non-trivial manner)"" heuristic. ❧ Chapters 3 and 4 provide a case study of conducting research in accordance with the EPSA method, making recourse to the dependency-related data (i.e., wide-scope Distributive Reading (DR) and Bound Variable Anaphora (BVA)) involving so-called floating quantifiers in Japanese. ❧ In addition to the significance of offering a case study under the EPSA method, Chapters 3 and 4 make a unique contribution because the past literature on DR or BVA has rarely discussed the constraints on the DR and BVA possibilities on the basis of data involving floating quantifiers. I claim in Chapter 3 that it is not the position of a floating quantifier but that of its host NP that is crucial to the availability of the DR and BVA readings. Chapter 4 investigates the DR possibility with a floating quantifier in the so-called scrambling construction. I refine Ueyama's (1998) by proposing that the ""scrambled object"" base-generated above the subject is outside the TP. It is by investigating the DR and BVA possibilities with floating quantifiers that we have been able to arrive at these conclusions. ❧ In Chapter 5, I first make an attempt to formalize the syntax and semantics of the sentence involving a floating quantifier by analyzing it as a form of the copula sentence, rather than a sentence with a generalized quantifier. I then discuss some (well-known) 'floating-quantifier phenomena' that are independent of any dependency relations, and observe that they can be accounted for, i.e., are consistent with, the proposed analysis. Chapter 5 differs from Chapters 3 and 4 in that the former offers compatibility-based arguments while the latter testability-based arguments. What is offered in Chapter 5 is therefore not nearly as significant as what is offered in Chapters 3 and 4 from the perspective of obtaining insight into the Computational System. Chapter 5 nonetheless provides us with a new insight with regard to 'floating quantifier phenomena' in Japanese. |
| Keyword | generative grammar; language faculty; Japanese; 'floating quantifiers'; binding dependencies; scope dependencies |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Mukai, Emi |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-MukaiEmi-776.pdf |
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| Full text | BINDING AND SCOPE DEPENDENCIES WITH 'FLOATING QUANTIFIERS' IN JAPANESE by Emi Mukai A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LINGUISTICS) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Emi Mukai |
