On the Word Order Restrictions Involving Shika in Japanese

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  • 「しか」の語順現象をめぐって
  • 「 シカ 」 ノ ゴジュン ゲンショウ オ メグッテ

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This paper describes the word order restrictions of shika and focus particles (FPs) in negative sentences. These restrictions include restrictions in the distribution of FPs like sae/koso, on the one hand, and in the semantic interpretation of the relative scope of FPs like made/dake and negation, on the other. Both of these phenomena can be explained by the general syntactic property of agreement in Japanese FPs. This paper also points out the same kinds of phenomena are observable in negative polarity items (NPIs) and numeral quantifiers. This suggests that there is a more generalized restriction among quantifiers in Japanese.

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