Person Restriction and Syntactic Structure of Japanese Modals

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Japanese modality has been one of the hottest issues in traditional Japanese linguistics. It has been explored in the round and mainly discussed semantically and pragmatically. This paper argues for assuming at least two independent phrasal categories headed by modal forms, Utterance-modal Phrase (henceforth U-modalP) and Epistemic-modal Phrase (henceforth E-modalP), in terms of the following three points: (i) their occurrence in an embedded clause, (ii) person restrictions and (iii) the EPP-satisfaction in C. We would not presume to criticize previous meaning-based fruitful outcomes, but attempt to focus our attention on forms and syntactic positions of Japanese modals.

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