Hiroki Narita

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hiroki Narita is involved.

Title

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax

Hiroki Narita

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 218] 2014. xii, 268 pp.

Article

Fukui, Naoki and Hiroki Narita 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