Indeterminate Pronoun Binding and Bound Pronouns in Japanese Raising-to-Object Construction: Agree-Based Construal

Abstract

Tozawa, and two anonymous EL reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. A part of this paper was read at the conference 'Pronouns: Syntax, Semantics, Processing' at Higher School of Economics in Moscow on 19 June 2015. I am grateful to Philippe Bourdin, Barbara Partee, and Eric Reuland for their invaluable comments and encouragement. My special thanks also go to Tomoko Haraguchi for discussion at every stage up to the completion of the present version. All remaining errors and inadequacies are my own. This is supported in part by a grant from Nagoya Gakuin University 2015.

ECM subjects in Japanese

“…Kishimoto 2001). In this connection, it is important to see, as pointed out by Takano (2003), that the binding domain of mo extends beyond the embedded clause (see also Akaso 2009Akaso , 2015. As seen in (i), mo can bind a matrix dative argument, as well as an embedded accusative argument.…”