Naoki Fukui
List of John Benjamins publications in which Naoki Fukui is involved.
2026 The notion of “subject” and CED under Symmetrizing Syntax New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 80–116 | Chapter
This chapter aims at providing a minimal characterization of the notion of “subject,” building primarily on Narita and Fukui’s (2022) notion of Generalized Predication (GP). We will argue that subjecthood is not due to some specific categorial feature or its X-bar-theoretic projections, but… read more
2008 On certain differences between noun phrases and clauses Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management, Høeg Müller, Henrik and Alex Klinge (eds.), pp. 265–286 | Article
Along with the noted similarities that have prompted much important study in the development of the theory of phrase structure and movement, nouns and verbs (and their projections) exhibit remarkable differences. These differences have often been neglected or otherwise discredited in favor of the… read more
2004 Spelling-Out Scrambling Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 109–141 | Article
This paper offers a new analysis of Japanese scrambling, under which some instances of scrambling phenomena are derived from the process of linearization. It is specifically proposed that the absence of formal agreement in Japanese enables Spell-Out to apply solely to an argument of the verb. The… read more
2000 Nominal Structure: An Extension of the Symmetry Principle The Derivation of VO and OV, Svenonius, Peter (ed.), pp. 219–254 | Article