S éminaire Nominalisations à Paris 8 mercredi 15 décembre

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Le Séminaire Structure Argumentale de l'UMR 7023 vous invite à
une conférence

organisée avec le soutien du projet Egide Aurora France –
Norvège sur les Nominalisations.


La séance aura lieu le mercredi 15 décembre 2010, de 10h à 12h.

Kaori Takamine

Universiteit i Tromsø - CASTL
Verbal nouns and a light verb in Japanese



DATE : mercredi15 déc 2010
HEURE : 10h-12h
LIEU :  Salle 108
        CNRS Pouchet, 59/61 rue Pouchet, Paris 17ème

METRO: Brochant ou Guy Môquet

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Abstract

The aim of this work is a reanalysis of the light verb construction in
Japanese, translating Grimshaw & Mester's (1988) Argument Transfer
analysis to the recent first phase syntax (Ramchand 2008) approach. We
re-examine with a broader range of data syntactic diagnostics that
Grimshaw & Mester use to distinguish the heavy verb suru `do'
from the light verb suru and show that the heavy vs. light distinction
does not capture the facts, but rather that verbal nouns in the light
verb construction show three-way split behavious, which is unexpected
under Grimshaw & Mester's approach, with respect to syntactic
operations such as topicalization, scrambling and relativization.
Furthermore, our data also shows that verbal nouns in the target
construction must be classified into object-denoting nominals and
event-denoting nominals with regard to the aspectual properties of them.
Adopting Ramchand's first phase syntax approach, we argue that the
distinction between the object-denoting verbal nouns and the
event-denoting verbal nouns is accounted for by different positions the
verbal nouns occupy, namely that the undergoer-type of verbal nouns
generated in Spec VP (Ramchand's Spec ProcP) behave as
object-denoting nominals while the rhematic verbal nouns are eventive
nominals codescribing the event together with the head verb. With regard
to the three-way split syntactic behaviours of the verbal nouns, we
argue, adopting Déchaine & Wiltschko's (2002) decomposition of
pronouns, that the differences are attributed to different sizes of the
verbal nouns: (i) nouns need the D-projection in order to undergo
topicalization or scrambling; and (ii) assuming Kayne's (1994)
analysis of N-final relative clauses, relativization involves remnant
movement which is constrained in a way that Collins & Sabel (2007)
state, i.e., it is possible only if the gap contains Φ-features.

This is a joint paper with Naoyuki Yamato.



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