학술논문
Null-expletive Subject in Japanese
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 18, Iss , Pp 1-24 (1993)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2378-7600
1043-3805
1043-3805
Abstract
In the current Government and Binding framework, every sentence must have a subject. When the matrix subject position is non-thematic, it is filled by an expletive. Japanese, however, lacks an overt expletive. This raises the question of whether the language has an expletive which is null, or raises an embedded subject to the matrix subject position. I will argue that Japanese does indeed have a null-expletive by discussing how a negative polarity item behaves