Multiple Feature-Checking: A Theory of Grammatical Function Splitting

Ura, Hiroyuki

doi:10.1515/jjl-1998-0116

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“…Following Chomsky (1995), Koizumi (1995), and Ura (1996), we assume that multiple specifier positions of a single head are allowed as one aspect of parametric variation, and Japanese T is such a case. That is, the nominative Case of T has the ability to check off two (or more) nominative Cases, and two (or more) specifier positions are created in TP in Japanese as in (8).…”

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“…1 Full Transfer/Full Access model Schwartz (1998) and Schwartz & Sprouse (1994;1996; propose the Full Transfer/Full Access (FT/FA) model, where they claim that the final state of the first language (L1) grammar fully transfers to the initial state of the second language (L2) grammar, and that the L2 initial grammar will restructure where it cannot parse L2 input, under the constraints imposed by operations of UG. If this model is correct and the L1 grammar fully transfers to the L2 grammar, it is predicted that JLEs will use nominative forms in English in places where DPs are marked with the nominative case-marker ga, and accusative forms in English in places where DPs are marked with the accusative case-marker o.…”

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“…Further research will be required into this distinction, but we assume here that the accusative object is used as a default form and the accusative or nominative subject is used as an unspecified form. Wakabayashi (1997;2002) proposes the Lexical Learning/Lexical Transfer (LL/LT) model, where he claims that SLA results from lexical learning as in L1 acquisition (see Clahsen et al, 1994;1996) and an L2 lexicon is newly built either by learning features of lexical items from scratch from L2 input or by transferring features of L1 lexical items. This model assumes the following developmental sequences in SLA.…”

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“…In Japanese, T can have two specifier positions and have the ability to check off two (or more) nominative Cases, and the double nominative construction is allowed (see Ura, 1996). The nominative Cases of the subject and object move to specifier positions of T, and they are eliminated by the nominative Case of T as in (31).…”

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“…1 We call the former type of verbs non-stative verbs and the latter type stative verbs (e.g. Kuno, 1973;Saito, 1982;Shibatani, 1990;Tateishi, 1991;Mihara, 1994;Koizumi, 1995;Ura, 1996;Takezawa and Whitman, 1998). 2 Note that this division is a syntactic one so that it can play an important role with respect to object case-marking in Japanese.…”

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The acquisition of pronominal case-marking by Japanese learners of English

Suda

Wakabayashi

2007

Second Language Research

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Eighty-one seventh- and eighth-grade students (age 12—14) learning English in Japanese classrooms were tested on their knowledge of English case-marked pronouns in sentences like He likes her, * He likes she and * Him likes her. The aim of the study was to evaluate the predictions of three theories of second language (L2) development against the results obtained. Given the case-marking properties of Japanese, the Full Transfer/Full Access model of Schwartz (1998) and Schwartz and Sprouse (1994; 1996; 2000), the Minimal Trees model of Vainikka and Young-Scholten (1994; 1996a; 1996b; 1998) and the Lexical Learning/Lexical Transfer model of Wakabayashi (1997; 2002) make different predictions about the kinds of patterns of case-marked pronouns that will be found in the second language English of early learners with Japanese first language (L1). It is argued that the results are consistent with the predictions of the Lexical Learning/Lexical Transfer model, but with neither Full Transfer/Full Access nor Minimal Trees.

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German possessor datives: raised and affected

Lee-Schoenfeld

2006

J Comp German Linguistics

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The German POSSESSOR DATIVE CONSTRUCTION (PDC) is an instance of EXTERNAL POSSESSION: a single nominal acts simultaneously as possessor, that is, a subpart of a larger nominal phrase, and as a BENEFACTIVE or MALEFACTIVE (AFFECTEE) argument of the verb. The challenge is to understand the mechanisms that make this dual functioning possible. Following Landau [Lingua 107 (1999) 1], this paper presents a POSSESSOR RAISING analysis, arguing that the POSSESSOR DATIVE (PD) moves from the specifier of the possessed nominal to a verbal argument position. The analysis is implemented in a dynamic structure-building framework, where heads with their selectional features are introduced in the course of the derivation, and it is in principle possible that an argument that gets merged into the structure to take on one thematic role raises into a newly built sentence domain to fulfill another thematic role. This movement and the resulting double h-role assignment are crucially driven by formal features; that is, both stem from the fact that, in its origin site, the raised argument is not case-licensed. An additional caselicensing head is needed for the derivation to converge. This head is an affectee light verb which assigns inherent dative case to the argument in its specifier. Thus, unlike Landau's account of PDCs in Hebrew, where PDs can be interpreted as affected

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