Abstract
This paper investigates two types of predicate emphasis constructions in Japanese: the Affirmative Negative Emphatic Construction and the Emphatic Iterative Construction. It observes that a negative predicate cannot be in past tense in these constructions, and claims that a locality constraint holds between Emphasis and Negation. It suggests that a special property of a past tense form of negation in Japanese can be attributed to a morphological reanalysis.
Highlights
In this paper I examine the syntactic properties of two types of predicate emphasis constructions in Japanese and their relation with negation
This paper has examined two types of predicate emphatic constructions in Japanese, and has observed the fact that the two constructions share the property of disallowing the emphasis of a negative predicate in past tense
I have claimed that this is due to a locality restriction imposed on the relation between an emphasis feature and negation, and suggested that a morphological reanalysis of a past tense form of negation may be responsible for the intervention effect
Summary
In this paper I examine the syntactic properties of two types of predicate emphasis constructions in Japanese and their relation with negation. The ANEC takes the form, X-no X-NEG-no-tte, in which an affirmative predicate followed by no is juxtaposed with its negative counterpart.
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