Author： Bobaljik Jonathan Wurmbrand Susi
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0925-8558
Source： Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol.16, Iss.1, 2007-03, pp. : 27-42
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Abstract
This paper contrasts two families of approaches to certain affixal verb constructions in Japanese, with particular emphasis on the ’potential’ construction. Scope facts in this construction have been offered as support for complex predicate analyses, in which there is no syntactic constituent consisting of the object and lower verb, to the exclusion of the potential head -
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