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A feature-checking analysis of Japanese scrambling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2004

TOMOKO KAWAMURA
TOMOKO KAWAMURA
Affiliation:
SUNY-Stony Brook
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Abstract

This paper explains several unique aspects of scrambling. Using the scrambling feature (Σ-feature) proposed by Grewendorf & Sabel (1999), I discuss (a) what derives the difference between A-scrambling and DP-movement, (b) why scrambling shows radical reconstruction properties, while an operator–variable relation is established in wh-questions, and (c) why we find several types of scrambling. I propose a Feature Interpretation Principle, which states that a feature checking relationship established in derivation is preserved at LF. I show that the Feature Interpretation Principle, together with the multiple feature-checking parameter of Ura (1996) and the nature of heads, explains most of the unique properties of scrambling.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 45 - 68
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Part of this paper was presented at SUNY-Stony Brook in 2002 and at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the LSA. I would like to thank the participants of both meetings for their useful questions and comments. I am grateful to John Bailyn, Jonathan Bobaljik, Dan Finer, Caroline Heycock, Mamoru Saito, Richard Larson, Shigeru Miyagawa, and two anonymous JL referees for helpful discussions and suggestions.