Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese

Using deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese, this study shows that agglutinative complex predicate formation is done by recursive application of Merge to roots and functional heads. This process creates a layered syntactic structure, with each layer providing the computational system with...

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Autor principal:	Nakajima Takashi
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	distributed morphology deadjectival verbs layered predicate decomposition Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f1be1621195b433996540c03b1026d7f2021-12-05T14:11:00ZHeads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese2300-996910.1515/opli-2021-0003https://doaj.org/article/f1be1621195b433996540c03b1026d7f2021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2021-0003https://doaj.org/toc/2300-9969Using deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese, this study shows that agglutinative complex predicate formation is done by recursive application of Merge to roots and functional heads. This process creates a layered syntactic structure, with each layer providing the computational system with (i) specific semantic features, (ii) arguments, and (iii) phonetic form (PF) exponents at conceptual–intentional (CI)/sensory motor (SM) Interfaces. The whole amalgam of the root and the functional heads is interpreted as a “word” at PF. Following the general architecture of Distributed Morphology, I will show that the morpheme that derives deadjectival verbs -garu is underlyingly -k-ar-u (k-Copula-T), where k is “little” v that originates in the verbal root k-o “come” and ar- is a copula. They are now grammaticalized functional heads that extend adjectival roots. Crucially, this k is homophonous with “little” a, which makes -garu and the adjective-deriving morpheme -karu (k-Copula-T) parallel. k is voiced in -garu due to a structurally conditioned assimilation rule (Embick 2013). This analysis reveals the mechanisms of agglutinative predicate formation in a precise and detailed manner. Similarly, it gives natural solutions to some of the long-standing problems including how adjectives modify N such as utukusii dansaa “beautiful dancer,” which is ambiguous between attributive modification and a relative clause.Nakajima TakashiDe Gruyterarticledistributed morphologydeadjectival verbslayered predicate decompositionPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENOpen Linguistics, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 42-65 (2021)
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spellingShingle	distributed morphology deadjectival verbs layered predicate decomposition Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Nakajima Takashi Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese
description	Using deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese, this study shows that agglutinative complex predicate formation is done by recursive application of Merge to roots and functional heads. This process creates a layered syntactic structure, with each layer providing the computational system with (i) specific semantic features, (ii) arguments, and (iii) phonetic form (PF) exponents at conceptual–intentional (CI)/sensory motor (SM) Interfaces. The whole amalgam of the root and the functional heads is interpreted as a “word” at PF. Following the general architecture of Distributed Morphology, I will show that the morpheme that derives deadjectival verbs -garu is underlyingly -k-ar-u (k-Copula-T), where k is “little” v that originates in the verbal root k-o “come” and ar- is a copula. They are now grammaticalized functional heads that extend adjectival roots. Crucially, this k is homophonous with “little” a, which makes -garu and the adjective-deriving morpheme -karu (k-Copula-T) parallel. k is voiced in -garu due to a structurally conditioned assimilation rule (Embick 2013). This analysis reveals the mechanisms of agglutinative predicate formation in a precise and detailed manner. Similarly, it gives natural solutions to some of the long-standing problems including how adjectives modify N such as utukusii dansaa “beautiful dancer,” which is ambiguous between attributive modification and a relative clause.
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title	Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese
title_short	Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese
title_full	Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese
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Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese

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