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Putting Adpositions in Place: Sortal domains and modifier PPs in Japanese
Kaori Takamine
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 240] 2017
► pp. 61–108

Chapter 3
The hierarchy of PPs in Japanese

Article outline
  • 3.1Modifier postpositional phrases in Japanese
    • 3.1.1Difference between modifiers and arguments
      • Selectional restriction
      • ‘Do so’ test
    • 3.1.2The list of modifier PPs under examination
      • Diagnostics: Soo su substitution
      • Diagnostics: Selectional restriction
      • Difference between the postposition ni and the Dative Case particle ni
  • 3.2The order of PPs in Japanese
    • 3.2.1Focus neutral order
      • Background: A configurational and movement approach to scrambling
      • Scrambling with semantic effects
      • Ishihara (2000)
      • Application of the FNO test to PPs
    • 3.2.2Quantifier scope
      • Quantifier scope ambiguity between arguments
      • Application of the quantifier scope test to PPs
    • 3.2.3Results of the tests
      • The result of the FNO test
      • The result of the QS test
  • 3.3Unifying the hierarchies
    • 3.3.1Intermediate PP positions
      • Pseudo-cleft
      • VP-fronting
    • 3.3.2Temporal and Locative
  • 3.4Summary
  • Notes