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[13790] Hajime Hoji (→ [13626]) Oct/10/2003 (Fri) 17:16
RE: The WECOL handout
It is perhaps worth noting that Ueyama (1998) arrived at the generalizations in sections 3.2.1 and 3.2.3 of the WECOL handout by focusing on paradigms, without resumption, that involve a certain type of binder-bindee pairs, so to speak, concentrating on the distribution of bound variable construal that is crucially based on a c-command relation at LF. If we included in our discussion bound variable construal that can arise independently of LF c-command, we would no longer be able to maintain the generalizations in question. Hoji 2003 (the Lingua paper) provides a summary of the relevant empirical materials. It is striking that the resumption paradigms, without involving bound variable construal, exhibit the same patterns as the paradigms discussed in Ueyama 1998, with respect to various OS (i.e., so-called scrambling) constructions. It should also be noted that the generalizations included in the WECOL handout constitute just a small portion of the empirical evidence in support of Ueyama's theory of anaphoric relations and her analysis of the OS constructions in Japanese, with other confirming evidence coming from the examination of a wide range of phenomena, including quantifier scope (a series of works by J.-R. Hayashishita) and local disjointness effects (in the sense of principle B of the binding theory). Kiyoko Kataoka's forthcoming dissertation (Kyushu University) discusses what is often called negative polarity items in Japanese, and investigates interactions among negation, the distribution of bound variable construal, quantifier scope, resumption, and the OS (i.e., so-called scrambling) constructions, providing further confirmation of the proposal in Ueyama 1998. Again, the clear generalizations emerge only if we focus on a certain type of interpretations that arise only on the basis of a c-command relation at LF.

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[13626] Hajime Hoji Sep/30/2003 (06:25)The WECOL handout: Resumption in Japanese