• The axial part phrase in Japanese 

      Takamine, Kaori (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2006)
      In this paper, I investigate the categorial status of spatial terms in locative/directional expressions in Japanese. I will show that a certain class of spatial terms have a distinct categorial status from both regular postpositions and nouns. On one hand, syntactic diagnostics such as doubling, coordination by to, and co-occurrence with demonstratives indicate that these spatial terms belong to a ...
    • Resultative predicates in Japanese 

      Takamine, Kaori (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2007)
      Washio (1997; 1999) observes that resultative predicates are divided into two different groups, strong and weak resultatives, depending on ‘patienthood’ of the object. This typology of resultatives seems to capture a point of crosslinguistic variation in resultatives; Japanese has weak but not strong resultatives, while English has both. Washio also observes that there is another group of examples ...