The Axial Part Phrase in Japanese

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, coo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaori Takamine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2007-01-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/77