Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contras

This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this

The topic of secondary predication has attracted much attention especially in the generative literature. The present volume distinguishes itself from previous v

Information structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. This book contains studies of the grammatical organizatio

This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determ