ConSOLE 29 2021 • Leiden University

'Koto-ga' RTOs: A new perspective on raising-to-object constructions in Japanese

Yuya Noguchi

University of Connecticut

yuya.noguchi@uconn.edu
Japanese syntaxraising-to-objectmovement analysis

Abstract

There has been a controversy in the literature about how the raising-to-object construction (RTO) in Japanese should be analyzed. This paper sheds new light on this issue by exploring a novel variant of RTOs that I refer to as 'koto-ga' RTOs, which have gone unacknowledged. More specifically, I discuss properties of 'koto-ga' RTOs and propose an analysis for them. Furthermore, I show that the proposed analysis of 'koto-ga' RTOs gives a new perspective on the issue of how the Japanese RTO in general should be analyzed.

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APA Style

Yuya Noguchi (2021). 'koto-ga' rtos: a new perspective on raising-to-object constructions in japanese. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 29, edited by Annie Holtz, Iva Kovač, Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, Joanna Wall, (pp. 141-159).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{noguchi-kotoga-2021, title={'Koto-ga' RTOs: A new perspective on raising-to-object constructions in Japanese}, author={Yuya Noguchi}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 29}, year={2021}, pages={141-159}, editor={Annie Holtz and Iva Kovač and Rasmus Puggaard-Rode and Joanna Wall} }

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