Mitsuaki Shimojo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mitsuaki Shimojo is involved.

Articles

Shimojo, Mitsuaki 2008 How missing is the missing verb? The verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 285–304 | Article

The construction containing the so-called “lonesome numeral classifier” would be a challenge for syntactic theory because of the absence of a verb which is expected for a case-marked argument. Properties of the construction have been unclear between two competing approaches, a VP analysis which… read more

Shimojo, Mitsuaki 2002 Functional theories of island phenomena: The case of Japanese Studies in Language 26:1, pp. 67–123 | Article

This paper examines island effects in Japanese in four extraction types — relativization, topicalization, postposing, and wh-question formation — in terms of the “aboutness” condition claimed by Haig (1996). The condition is supported for relativization and topicalization; however, further… read more