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"abstract": "This article defends an \"incremental grammar\" view, where syntactic puzzles are accounted for in terms of how a sentence is parsed online. To this end, we focus on the Multiple Nominative Construction (MNC) in Japanese, offering new data involving \"rightward displacements.\" The displacement patterns of nominative NPs are shown to follow from the way an MNC string is parsed left-to-right. Our incremental account is formalised in Dynamic Syntax, with the upshot that only the licit ordering of nominative NPs in MNC leads to a legitimate structure update.",
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"text": "This article defends an \"incremental grammar\" view, where syntactic puzzles are accounted for in terms of how a sentence is parsed online. To this end, we focus on the Multiple Nominative Construction (MNC) in Japanese, offering new data involving \"rightward displacements.\" The displacement patterns of nominative NPs are shown to follow from the way an MNC string is parsed left-to-right. Our incremental account is formalised in Dynamic Syntax, with the upshot that only the licit ordering of nominative NPs in MNC leads to a legitimate structure update.",
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"text": "Japanese allows Multiple Nominative Construction (MNC), where more than one NP is nominativemarked within a (seemingly) single clause (Kuno, 1973 ; see also references in \u00a72.3).",
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"text": "(1) Ken-ga kami-ga nagai K-NOM hair-NOM long 'Ken's hair is long.'",
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"text": "In (1), both Ken and kami 'hair' are marked by the nominative case particle ga. The initial ga-marked element Ken in (1) is often called \"major subject\" (Kuroda, 1978; 1986; . 1 In this article, we provide new data on MNC in connection with rightward displacements ( \u00a72), and argue that these data are adequately handled from the perspective of \"incremental grammar,\" a view where syntactic puzzles are solved as a reflection of the way a sentence is parsed time-linearly ( \u00a73). Our analysis is formalised within Dynamic Syntax (Cann et al, 2005) , with the bonus of predicting the \"left-right asymmetries\" ( \u00a74).",
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"text": "We begin by clarifying our target. In Japanese, an object NP is typically accusative-marked, but some stative predicates may select a nominative-marked object NP (Koizumi, 2008; Kuno, 1973; 1983) .",
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"text": "(2) Ken-ga eigo-ga hanas-eru K-NOM English-NOM speak-POT 'Ken can speak English.' This article does not analyse MNC data such as (2) which involve a nominative-marked object.",
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"text": "In generative syntax, some scholars have argued that MNC (1) is derived from (3).",
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"text": "(3) Ken-no kami-ga nagai K-GEN hair-NOM long 'Ken's hair is long.'",
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"text": "In Kuno (1973) , \"subjectivization\" applies to the genitive-marked NP Ken-no, which turns it to the nominative-marked subject NP Ken-ga. Analyses along with these lines include \"nominativization\" (Shibatani, 1977) , \"possessor raising\" (Ura, 1996) , and \"genitive raising\" (Tateishi, 1991) . The type of MNC sentences such as (1), which is related to \"genitive\"-involving sentences like (3), has been studied most extensively. Since the other kinds of MNC have distinct syntactic and semantic properties (Kikuchi, 1996; Kobayashi, 2010) , we focus on the type of MNC illustrated in (1).",
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"text": "It is further noted that more than two ga-marked NPs are licensed in the (1)-type of MNC, as shown in (4). Examples with more than two ga-marked NPs are also addressed in our study.",
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"text": "(4) Ken-ga imouto-ga kami-ga nagai K-NOM sister-NOM hair-NOM long 'Ken's younger sister's hair is long.'",
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"text": "Having clarified our research target, we now offer new data on MNC in connection with \"rightward displacement\" where the term displacement is used for the purposes of description. Compared with the simple sentence (5), Japanese has three rightwarddisplacement constructions: relatives (6), clefts 7, and postposing (8). In (6)-(8), sushi appears to the right of the clause in question. (e in (6)-(8) is used to notate \"gap\" in a theory-neutral manner.) 7, no is a nominalising complementiser (Kizu, 2005) . In (8), yo is a final particle, indicating that (8) is uttered colloquially; though Japanese is verbfinal, a non-verbal item may appear to the right of the sentence in casual speech (Kuno, 1978) .",
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"text": "For an MNC string which contains the n-number of ga-marked NPs in a single clause (setting aside ga-marked object NPs; see \u00a72.1), let us notate the sequence of such NPs as <NP 1 , NP 2 , \u2026, NP n >. We then put forward the following generalisation:",
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"text": "(9) Generalisation",
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"text": "For MNC with <NP 1 , NP 2 , \u2026, NP n >, only the leftmost NP 1 may be \"right-displaced.\"",
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"text": "Relatives. Consider the MNC sentence (10). While NP 1 sono-otoko 'that man' may be a head noun (i.e. appear to the right of the relative clause) as in (11), this is not the case with NP 2 imouto 'younger sister' and NP 3 kami 'hair' as shown in (12)-(13). In particular, it is (at first glance) unexpected that (22), where NP 2 GDP in (20) occurs to the right of the clause, seems fine. (22) may not be completely acceptable, but our contention is that for those who accept (22), (23) would also be acceptable.",
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"text": "2 (23) GDP-ga nihon-ga takai GDP-NOM Japan-NOM high 'It is GDP that is high in Japan.'",
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"text": "Provided that (23) is a basis for (22), acceptability of (22) is not problematic for the generalisation (9) since NP 1 in (23) is GDP.",
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"text": "In a similar vein, the cleft sentence (24) and the postposing sentence (25), where NP 2 GDP occurs to the right of the clause, do not pose a problem for the generalisation (9), given that they are related to the MNC sentence (23).",
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"text": "(24) [nihon-ga e takai] no]-wa GDP-da [Japan-NOM high] NMNS]-TOP GDP-COP 'It is GDP that is high in Japan.' (25) nihon-ga e takai-yo, GDP-ga Japan-NOM high-FP GDP-NOM 'GDP is high in Japan.'",
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"text": "To take (27) as an example, a semantic structure is built up as it is incrementally parsed, as shown in each step of (28)-(30). Within DS, a structure is expressed in binary-branching tree format. and sleep' is of type e\u2192t (i.e. function from a typee content to a type-t content). In (28)-(29), the symbol ?t is used. Generally, ?\u03b1 requires that the node be decorated with \u03b1 before the parse process finishes. The constraint ?t is met in (30), where the type-t content (i.e. proposition that Ken sleeps) appears at the node in question.",
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"text": "Ken' : e ?e, ?\u03b1 where ?\u03b1 is a requirement that this node be decorated with a content related to Ken' For simplification, informal symbols such as ?\u03b1 are used. 4 The requirement ?\u03b1 is met by the parse of kami 'hair,' as reflected in the term \u03b1 in (35 Ken' : e \u03b1 : e long' : e\u2192t where \u03b1 is as explicated in 35A LINK relation can be reiterated, which deals with MNC strings with more than two ga-marked NPs. (For this, the \"structural underspecification\" device must be employed.) Based on this analysis, let us turn now to the examples presented in \u00a72.2. Kempson and Kurosawa (2009) Note that the term \u03b1 reflects the content of the relative clause. In Cann et al. (2005) and Kempson and Kurosawa (2009) , this process is formulated as the general action of LINK Evaluation. Now consider (11)-(13), repeated as (40)-(42). \u03b1 : e \u03b2 : e where \u03b1 denotes an individual that bears a \"sister\" relation to another individual x; \u03b2 denotes the hair of \u03b1",
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"text": "I am grateful to the two PACLIC referees, Koji Kamada, and Mika Kizu for their beneficial comments on earlier versions of the present article. This work was supported by the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund of 2017.",
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"text": "Parsing imouto-ga kami-ga nagai long'(\u03b2) : t \u03b1 : e \u03b2 : e long' : e\u2192t where \u03b1 and \u03b2 are as explicated in(43)"
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"text": "Clefts.A DS treatment of Japanese clefts has been offered inSeraku (2013). (46) [[Ken-ga e tabeta] no]-wa sushi-da [[K-NOM ate] NMNS]-TOP sushi-COP 'It is sushi that Ken ate.' <clefts>"
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