1. Two main themes connect the papers on Japanese syntax collected in this volume: movements of noun phrases and case marking, although each in turn relates to

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, br

Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad. More recentl

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