Yuji Takano
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuji Takano is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1568-1483 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9900
Articles
2026 Surprising constituents revisited New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 60–79 | Chapter
Japanese allows clefts with multiple phrases in the focus position (multiple clefts). Assuming that the focus elements of a multiple cleft form a single constituent, Takano (2020a, 2021a) develops an analysis of such surprising constituents in terms of double sideward movement, made possible by… read more
2003 Why Japanese is different: Nominalization and verbalization in syntax and the distribution of arguments Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 179–211 | Article
A new theory of parametric variation is developed to explain certain differences between English and Japanese. Under a syntactic approach to derivational morphology, a fundamental hypothesis is proposed which states that Japanese is a ‘nominal language’, where all verbs are derived from nouns, and… read more
2000 Nominal Structure: An Extension of the Symmetry Principle The Derivation of VO and OV, Svenonius, Peter (ed.), pp. 219–254 | Article