Papers by Hirohisa Kiguchi
On Cyclic Agree in Japanese
한국생성문법학회 국제학술대회, Aug 1, 2005
Language, 2018
This study examines it-clefts in four-and five-year-old English-speaking children using a truthva... more This study examines it-clefts in four-and five-year-old English-speaking children using a truthvalue judgment task. The goal was to find out whether children (i) observe principle C in clefts like It was Spot that he brushed and (ii) access bound-variable interpretations in clefts like It was her pig that every girl carried, despite the lack of c-command between relevant elements in the surface representation. Our experimental finding was that children behave like adults. This suggests that children do not rely solely on the word order of sentences encountered in their linguistic input, but use mechanisms made available by innate linguistic knowledge for interpretation.*
Binding principles and ACD constructions in child grammars
Syntax, 2004
Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 32, 2002
Connectivity Effects in Pseudoclefts in Child Language
Studia Linguistica, 2015
Studia Linguistica, 2006
This paper explores locality conditions on A-movement in Japanese and their interaction with Chom... more This paper explores locality conditions on A-movement in Japanese and their interaction with Chomsky's phases, based on McGinnisÕ (2001, 2004) proposal. Assuming morphologically derived causative constructions share the same structural status with McGinnisÕ (2001, 2004) applicative constructions in the spirit of Marantz (1993), this paper provides evidence that locality constraints on A-movement exist in Japanese and that they should interact with phrasal and ÔphasalÕ structures. Furthermore, this analysis can provide a unified explanation to the (un)availability of long passives both in causative and applicative constructions in various languages. * I thank Duk-ho An, Hiroshi Aoyagi, Ilhan Cagri, Youngmi Jeong, Heidi Harley, Chigusa Morita, and Tomokazu Takehisa for discussion. Special thanks go to Cedric Boeckx for his suggestions and encouragement. I am also grateful for feedback from the audience at NELS 35, Minimalist Theorizing Workshop at Indiana University, and the 6th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, especially Sung-ho Ahn, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, and Hang-jin Yoon. I also thank two anonymous reviewers, whose comments made this a better paper. Abbreviations are as follows.
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 2003
It seems to his) mother that everyone) is handsome. Everyone, seems to his! rnother 1\ to be hand... more It seems to his) mother that everyone) is handsome. Everyone, seems to his! rnother 1\ to be handsome. Note that the fronting of the Q-eicmcnt with local clause internal scrambling also cancels WCO-effects in (II). This is analogous to the cases in (10) if, as Saito (1992) argues, local clause internal scrambling is a species of Amovement. (II)?? John-ga [Mary-ga pro, a!ta)-atode dono hito,-ni-mo alia. John-NOM Mmy-NOM pro mel after evelY 1Jl(lIl-DAT-too met 'Jolm met every persoll) after Mary had met him (pro),'
On Cyclic Agree in Japanese
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Altaic formal linguistics (WAFL 4) : [Harvard University, May 18-20, 2007] , 2008
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2008
Proceedings of CONSOLE 9 , 2000
This paper suggests that some heads attract a maximal projection even when the derivation involve... more This paper suggests that some heads attract a maximal projection even when the derivation involves head adjunction (or head-movement). In this case, the attracted maximal projection can be adjoined to a head by Uriagereka’s (1999) Multiple-Spell-Out. Given this innovation, a possible way to derive postpositions from prepositions will be shown, while dispensing with AGRP and the special status of the Spec-head relation, in order to maintain Kayne’s (1994) LCA within the framework proposed in Chomsky (1998). In addition, N-to-D movement in various languages is also explored.
A minimalist view on long passive
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 2006
English Linguistics 29, 2012
ENGLISH LINGUISTICS, 2007
Juan Uriagereka, Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, x+349pp
Studies in English Literature, 2015
Children's knowledge of the interaction between binding principles and QR
Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics , 2002
MEG responses in the comprehension of Japanese sentences
The Proceedings of the Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 2004
Cyclic A-movement and Agree in Japanese
University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics V.14, 2006
Connectivity effects in child grammar
Advances in Language Acquisition, 2013
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