Toru Ishii
List of John Benjamins publications in which Toru Ishii is involved.
Articles
2026 A movement approach to “gapless” constructions in Japanese New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 35–59 | Chapter
This paper discusses “gapless” topic constructions and relative clauses in Japanese, a discourse-oriented language according to the discourse-oriented vs. sentence-oriented parameter (Huang 1982, 1984; Huang and Li 1996). It has been claimed by, among others, Inoue (1976), Kuno (1973), and Saito… read more
2025 Revisiting the freezing principle: Minimal search-free merge and form copy Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
The goal of this paper is to provide an explanation for both the freezing principle and its exceptions in the framework of Chomsky (2021). In pursuit of the goal, we first review some basic assumptions about Search and Merge in Chomsky (2021), and then introduce the Minimal Search-free Merge… read more