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Toward a unified analysis of the scope interpretation of complex predicates in Japanese: Evidence from the light verb construction


In this paper, I first make an observation that there is a certain
parallelism in the scope interpretation possibilities of adverbs and
quantifiers with respect to different types complex predicates in
Japanese, drawing on a comparison of the light verb construction and
the causative construction. I will then argue that previous approaches
to complex predicates in Japanese in the lexicalist tradition
(Matsumoto 1996; Manning et al. 1999) fail to capture this
generalization successfully. Finally, building on a novel approach to
syntax/semantics interface in HPSG by Cipollone (2001), I develop an
analysis of the semantic structure of complex predicates that accounts
for the empirical observation straightforwardly.