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"abstract": "Case\" and \"grammatical function\" are central to syntactic theories, but rigorous treatments of these notions in surface-oriented grammars like Dynamic Syntax (DS) are pending. Within DS, it is simply held that a case particle resolves structural uncertainty (i.e., unfixed node) in the course of incremental tree update. We model the relation between \"case\" and \"grammatical function\" with special reference to Japanese. In this language, the nominative case particle ga normally marks a \"subject\" NP, but it may mark an \"object\" NP. Moreover, ga may occur more than once within a single clause. We will address these issues by proposing the \"maximal exclusion\" approach to structural uncertainty.",
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"text": "Case\" and \"grammatical function\" are central to syntactic theories, but rigorous treatments of these notions in surface-oriented grammars like Dynamic Syntax (DS) are pending. Within DS, it is simply held that a case particle resolves structural uncertainty (i.e., unfixed node) in the course of incremental tree update. We model the relation between \"case\" and \"grammatical function\" with special reference to Japanese. In this language, the nominative case particle ga normally marks a \"subject\" NP, but it may mark an \"object\" NP. Moreover, ga may occur more than once within a single clause. We will address these issues by proposing the \"maximal exclusion\" approach to structural uncertainty.",
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"text": "\"Case\" and \"grammatical function\" are central to any syntactic theories; a number of constructions exhibit unique case-marking patterns and linguistic generalisations are often stated with reference to grammatical function (Keenan and Comrie, 1979) . Rigorous accounts of these concepts, however, are pending in \"surface-oriented\" grammars such as Dynamic Syntax (DS) (Kempson et al., 2001) . The aim of this article is to clarify the relation between case and grammatical function in formal-grammar terms, with examples drawn from Japanese.",
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"text": "As will be stated in \u00a72, the case-marking system of Japanese challenges surface-oriented grammars. In particular, DS, which explicates the mechanism whereby a string of words is parsed online and a structure is progressively built up, has not seriously tackled the relation between case and grammatical function (see \u00a73). In this article, we advance the DS formalism from the perspective of \"maximal exclusion\" so that it models the relation between case and grammatical function in Japanese (see \u00a74). We then apply this account to further data relating to \"Major Subject Constructions\" (see \u00a75).",
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"text": "In this article, we construe case and grammatical function in line with Comrie (1989) .",
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"text": "Firstly, \"case\" is a morphological category. In Japanese, a case particle is typically attached to a noun (or a nominalised element).",
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"text": "(1) Ken-ga ringo-o tabe-ta K-NOM apple-ACC eat-PAST 'Ken ate an apple.'",
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"text": "In (1), ga indicates that Ken bears a nominative case, while o indicates that ringo 'apple' bears an accusative case.",
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"text": "Secondly, \"grammatical function\" refers to a relation which an NP in a sentence has with respect to the predicate in the sentence. Examples include \"subject,\" \"object,\" and so on. These are abstract concepts, and they are identified based on syntactic tests in each language/dialect.",
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"text": "The focus of our enquiry is \"subject.\" Keenan (1975) offers a set of universal \"subject\"-properties, although \"subject\" is captured gradably depending upon properties observed. The standard tests for subjecthood in Japanese are as follows (Kishimoto, 2004; Tsujimura, 2013; Tsunoda, 2009) :",
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"text": "\u2022 \u03b1 is a subject if it may be a target of a certain \"honorification\" operation. \u2022 \u03b1 is a subject if it may be an antecedent of the reflexive anaphor jibun 'self.'",
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"text": "Let us illustrate the former property with (2).",
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"text": "(2) sensei-ga ringo-o otabeninat-ta teacher-NOM apple-ACC eat.HON-PAST 'That teacher ate an apple.'",
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"text": "In (2), the honorific form otabeninat 'eat' elevates the referent of sensei 'teacher.' Sensei is thus said to be a subject of the predicate otabeninat.",
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"text": "For some frameworks, grammatical function is a primitive concept. In Lexical-Functional Grammar, SUB, OBJ, etc. are postulated as \"attributes\" in the attribute-value matrices (Dalrymple, 2001 ). On the other hand, Dynamic Syntax (DS) dispenses with such primitive concepts; grammatical functions are defined structurally, as in the grammar models that have been developed in Chomsky (1965 Chomsky ( , 1995 , etc. For instance, \"subject\" is structurally designated as follows: an element on the argument node which is immediately dominated by the root node is said to be a \"subject\" of the predicate in this structure.",
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"text": "In DS, no serious attention has been paid to the issue of how case relates to grammatical function, 1 and it has been simply assumed that the nominative particle ga marks a subject NP (Cann, et al. 2005; Seraku, 2013) . This stipulation may hold of (1)-(2), but it is unsustainable due to the following facts (Kuno, 1973; NKK, 2009; Shibatani, 1978) :",
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"text": "\u2022 Ga may mark an object NP.",
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"text": "\u2022 A subject NP may be marked with ni, a dative particle (see \u00a74.6).",
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"text": "These properties are not found in all verbs; the gamarking of an object NP, for instance, is normally possible only with \"stative\" predicates (Koizumi, 2008; Kuno, 1973) . The first two properties are illustrated in (4). (See \u00a74- \u00a75 for further data.) (4) watashi-ga ringo-ga tabe-tai (koto) 2 I-NOM apple-NOM eat-want (COMP) 'I want to eat an apple.'",
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"text": "This single clause has two occurrences of ga. 3 The second NP ringo 'apple' is not a subject because it lacks the \"subject-properties,\" unlike sensei in (2) (Koizumi, 2008: 142-5) . On the other hand, ringo in (4) is characterised as an object NP according to syntactic tests for objecthood (Kishimoto, 2004) . Therefore, the simple correspondence between ga and \"subject\" cannot deal with data like (4), as has been a residual issue within DS.",
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"text": "DS models the process whereby the parser takes a string of words and gradually builds up a semantic structure. This mapping is direct in that syntactic structure is not postulated at any level. Within DS, \"dynamic\" refers to \"online parsing,\" and \"syntax\" refers to an abstract system that maps a string onto a semantic structure in a progressive manner (Cann et al., 2005; Kempson et al., 2001 Kempson et al., , 2011 .",
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"text": "For an illustration, the parse of the whole string (5) creates the semantic structure (6). Each node conveys information about (i) semantic content such as Ken' and (ii) semantic type such as e (\"entity\" type). The node decorated with Ken' is at a \"subject\" position; a subject node is a type-e daughter of the root node in a propositional tree.",
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"text": "A tree is binary; a left-hand node is an argument node, and a right-hand node is a functor node. For instance, the right daughter of the root in (6) is a functor node, which takes the type-e content Ken' and returns the type-t content sleep'(Ken').",
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"text": "A tree update starts with the AXIOM (7). At this initial stage, there is only a root node, and it is annotated with ?t. ?t is a \"requirement\" that this node will be decorated with a type-t content. The parser executes general and lexical actions to meet requirements until no outstanding requirements are left in the tree. General action. General actions are tree update actions whose applications are not triggered by the parse of a lexical item. If Ken-ga ne in (5) is parsed, it yields the semantic tree (8).",
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"text": "(8) Parsing Ken-ga ne ?t",
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"text": "As each daughter node is specified for content and type, the parser may perform functional application. This is not lexically triggered, and it is formalised as the general action ELIMINATION. The execution of this action outputs (6). (The tense suffix -ta is disregarded in this article.) Lexical action. Each lexical item encodes a set of actions for tree update. Consider (9). (9) ne-ta sleep-PAST 'Someone (or a salient person) slept.'",
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"text": "(11) Node-Position Labelling Tn 0Tn 00Tn 01Tn 010Tn 011When a node is assigned a numeral \"\u03b1,\" its left daughter is assigned \"\u03b10\" and its right daughter \"\u03b11.\" Since the root receives \"0,\" its left daughter receives \"00\" and its right daughter \"01.\" Let us then introduce LOCAL *ADJUNCTION, a general action to posit a node whose position in a tree is initially uncertain and needs to be resolved within a local structure.",
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"text": "(12) LOCAL *ADJUNCTION ?t, Tn 0Ken' : e, <\u2191 01* >(Tn 0)In <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0)), \"1*\" is an arbitrary succession of \"1\" (including none). <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0)) means: if you go up from an argument node by one node (and optionally keep going up through functor nodes), you will reach the root node, as marked with Tn(0) (Blackburn and Meyer-Viol, 1994) . In (12), the dashed line visually displays structural uncertainty. <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0)) indicates that this node is at some argument position within a local structure although the exact position is uncertain at this point. Structural uncertainty may be fixed in two ways: (i) the general action of UNIFICATION (see \u00a74.2) or (ii) lexical actions encoded in a case particle. As for (ii), it has previously been held that the parse of a case particle resolves an unfixed node (Cann et al., 2005; Seraku, 2013) . The nominative particle ga, for instance, has been assumed to resolve an unfixed node as a \"subject\" node. (This analysis is similar to the \"constructive case\" analysis within LFG (Nordlinger, 1998) .)",
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"text": "This past DS analysis of case particles, however, encounters the problem mentioned in the paragraph around (4). In the next section, we will abandon this previous view of case particles, and propose an alternative approach.",
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"text": "It has been held in DS that a case particle uniquely determines a landing site for an unfixed node (Cann et al., 2005) . In this article, we propose that a case particle reduces the range of landing sites by maximally excluding potential sites modulo the limitations imposed by each case particle.",
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"text": "(13) Proposal: General Claim a. A case particle excludes all landing sites for an unfixed node but a few candidates. b. Such \"candidates\" differ depending on the type of a case particle.",
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"text": "Thus, a case particle may not immediately resolve an unfixed node. If the number of potential landing sites is reduced to one, however, it will amount to immediate resolution. 13is consonant with the central DS view: a tree is gradually built up, with various constraints posited by general and lexical actions constraining the way the tree grows. Concerning (13)b, we assume (14) for ga.",
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"text": "(14) Proposal: Nominative Particle Ga a. Ga excludes all but a subject node and an object node. b. If the above exclusion has already occurred, further exclusion occurs: exclude all but a subject node or an object node (not both).",
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"text": "(14) will be illustrated in \u00a74.2- \u00a74.5 (and formalised in the Appendix). Further, other case particles than ga are briefly discussed in \u00a74.6.",
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"text": "Suppose the parser processes the string (15). At the time of parsing Ken, the tree (16) has been built up. (Other Tn-statements than Tn(0) are omitted in this and subsequent tree displays.) <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0)) specifies the set of constraints (17).",
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"text": "(17) {<\u2191 0 >(Tn(0)), <\u2191 01 >(Tn(0)), <\u2191 011 >(Tn(0)) \u2026} Recall that <\u2191 0 >(Tn(0)) refers to a subject position, <\u2191 01 >(Tn(0)) refers to an object position, and so on. Thus, (17) indicates that an unfixed node may be fixed at any argument position within a local tree. The next element is ga. According to (14)a, ga excludes all but a subject and an object node.",
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"text": "(18) Parsing Ken-ga ?t, Tn 0Ken' : e, <\u2191 0(1) >(Tn(0)) \"(1)\" in <\u2191 0(1) >(Tn(0)) means that the presence of \"1\" is optional, as delineated in (19).",
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"text": "Unlike 17, (19) indicates that an unfixed node may be fixed at a subject or an object node (but not other nodes). In this way, the parse of ga tightens the constraint <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0)) to <\u2191 0(1) >(Tn(0)). The rest of the process is as usual: the parse of ne 'sleep' yields the tree (20) (cf., (10)).",
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"text": "(20) Parsing Ken-ga ne ?t, Tn 0U : e, <\u2191 0 >(Tn(0)) sleep' : e\u2192t Ken' : e, <\u2191 0(1) >(Tn(0)) The intransitive verb ne creates a subject node, which is marked with <\u2191 0 >(Tn(0)). UNIFICATION, then, merges this subject node with the unfixed node. (UNIFICATION is a general action to combine a description of an unfixed node with that of a fixed node of the same type; see \u00a73.2.) Ken' : e, <\u2191 0 >(Tn(0)) sleep' : e\u2192t ELIMINATION (i.e., functional application) outputs the final state; see (6) in \u00a73.1.",
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"text": "Let us turn to example (22). The parse of tabe creates a subject node. This node is compatible with the constraint <\u2191 0(1) >(Tn(0)) of the unfixed node. Thus, UNIFICATION may be run, merging the description of the unfixed node with that of the subject node. After ELIMINATION is run, the final state emerges. ",
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"text": "Let us then examine (26), repeated from (4).",
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"text": "In the light of the \"double-o constraint\" (Harada, 1973) , Shibatani (1978: 289-92) shows that the omarked NPs as in (34)-(35) have the grammatical function of \"object.\" Setting aside complex issues, 4 we thus hold that o always marks an object NP. (36) amounts to immediately resolving an unfixed node as an object node. So, as far as o is concerned, our \"maximal exclusion\" approach converges with the \"unique-determination\" approach (Cann et al., 2005; Seraku, 2013) . The dative particle ni usually marks an indirectobject NP (37), but in some environments, ni may mark a subject NP (38). Two caveats are in order. First, the ni-marking of a subject NP is not possible with all predicates, and the possibility of such ni-marking must be encoded in each predicate (Shibatani, 1978: 224) . 5 Second, although ni appears in other contexts (NKK, 2009) , ni in these environments would be characterised as postpositions, such as ni 'at' and ni 'to.' In this section, we have re-considered the role of case particles in structure building from the angle of \"maximal exclusion.\" 6",
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"text": "An exception isNakamura et al. (2009), which will be surveyed in \u00a75. Kiaer (2014) also handles relevant data, but the formal details of her account are not clear.",
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"text": "Without koto, (4) would sound better with the topic particle wa in place of the first instance of ga due to \"exhaustivity\"(Kuno, 1973). Such meaning disappears in embedded clauses, and scholars thus often put koto at the end of sentence. For the interests of brevity, we do not follow this practice in the rest of this article.3 Ga in ringo-ga is interchangeable with the accusative particle o in (4). The interchangeability is affected by various factors such as \"style\" and \"transitivity\"(Iori, 1995; Noda, 1996: 264-5), with cross-speaker variations(Shibatani, 1978: 230-2).",
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"text": "First, o may mark an adverbial element(Mihara, 1994). This use of o would be an instance of the postposition o. Second, o is said to appear in \"small clauses\" or \"ECM\" constructions, but their theoretical status is contentious(Kawai, 2008;Kuno, 1976).",
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"text": "The set of predicates allowing \"SUB-ni OBJ-ga\" is a proper subset of the set of predicates allowing \"SUB-ga OBJ-ga\"(Kuno, 1973: \u00a74). (\"SUB\" means a subject NP, and \"OBJ\" an object NP.) For predicates allowing the ni-marking of SUB, we assume: if ni excludes all but a subject node, the subject node is annotated with ?DMS (Dative Marking of Subject); cf., (33).6 Case particles also appear in head-internal relatives(Kuroda, 2005). Within DS, this construction has been analysed inSeraku (2013), and our account of ga, o, and ni is compatible with Seraku's analysis.",
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"text": "Formally, (\u03b9, x, sister'(Ken')(x)). 9 Formally, (\u03b9, x, height'(\u03b9, y, sister'(Ken')(y))(x)).",
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"text": "This article largely benefitted from the comments provided by the three anonymous PACLIC referees, Ruth Kempson, and Akira Ohtani. This work was supported by the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund of 2016.",
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"text": "\u2022 A post-ga NP must be overtly present.\u2022 A post-ga NP is a \"relational\" noun (at least, for the type of MSC illustrated in (40)).Our contention is that the parse of Ken-ga in (40) yields the tree (47).(47) Parsing Ken-ga ?t, Tn 0Ken' : e ?e, ?\u2203x.Fo(x R(x, Ken') ), <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0)) ?\u2203x.Fo(x R(x, Ken') ) requires that this node will be decorated with a content in relation R to Ken'. (Fo is a \"formula\" predicate (Cann et al., 2005) .) This requirement lacks a metavariable U, and data such as Ken-ga in (45) are ruled out. The requirement is fulfilled by the parse of imouto 'younger sister,' as shown in (48). a' SISTER(a', Ken') denotes an individual a' who is in a sister relation to Ken. 8(48) Parsing Ken-ga imouto ?t, Tn 0Ken' : e a' SISTER(a', Ken') : e, <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0))The rest of the parse process is as outlined in \u00a74.2. The final state is given in (49).(49) Parsing Ken-ga imouto-ga yasashii sweet'(a' SISTER(a', Ken') ) : t, Tn(0)Ken' : e a' SISTER(a', Ken') : e sweet' : e\u2192tNote that the tree update triggered by the parse of a major subject may occur more than once. For instance, the parse of Ken-ga imouto-ga se in (50) gives rise to (51), where b' HEIGHT(b', a') represents the height of the individual who is the sister of Ken. 9 (50) Ken-ga imouto-ga se-ga takai K-NOM sister-NOM height-NOM high 'Ken's younger sister's height is high.'(51) Parsing Ken-ga imouto-ga se ?t, Tn(0) b' HEIGHT(b', a') : e, <\u2191 01* >(Tn(0)) a' SISTER(a', Ken') : e Ken' : e",
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