T/SM and Binding Paradox in Japanese

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A sentence with a psychological (psych) predicate exhibits many peculiar properties. Mysteriously, its acceptability is unpredictable by natural language principles. This article examines two examples that are acceptable but seemingly violate such principles. One is the -Criterion, and the other is the Binding Principle (A). Pesetsky (1995) argued that the apparent violation of the -Criterion (his Target/Subject Matter, or the T/SM Restriction) can be accounted for by the Economy Principle. In particular, he claimed that an example with the T/SM Restriction is unacceptable because the head movement involves an uneconomical step. It follows that a sentence with the T/SM Restriction does violate a natural language principle. Thus, the unacceptable sentences with the T/SM Restriction are no longer a mystery because they violate natural language principles. I argued that the Japanese examples with the T/SM Restriction violate the Economy Principle in terms of the DP-movement, not the head-movement. I also presented new Japanese examples that do not show the T/SM Restriction (the T/SM Paradox), and argued that the psych predicates of those examples have a different structure. The apparent violation of the Binding Principle (A) (the Binding Paradox) in English was explained by the derivational definition of ccommand (Pesetsky 1995). However, the same explanation does not hold for the Binding Paradox in Japanese. I provided a solution that is consistent with the Mutual C-Command Requirement (MCR) (Miyagawa 1989) and the Chain-Binding Mechanism (Barss 1986). Thus, the Binding Paradox also dissolves into a predictable phenomenon that obeys the natural language principles.

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