S.-Y. Kuroda

List of John Benjamins publications in which S.-Y. Kuroda is involved.

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The (w)hole of the doughnut: Syntax and its boundaries

S.-Y. Kuroda

From the author’s preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was… read more

[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 1] 1979. ix, 256 pp.

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Kuroda, S.-Y. 2004 Tree pruning Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 303–311 | Article

This paper was originally written in 1965. It introduces two principles that determine the derivation of surface structure constituent trees from underlying deep structure trees. The first principle specifies that a non-branching node is eliminated, unless it is a preterminal node directly… read more

Kuroda, S.-Y. 1988 Whether We Agree or Not: A Comparative Syntax of English and Japanese Lingvisticæ Investigationes 12:1, pp. 1–47 | Article

Kuroda, S.-Y. 1987 A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrenceand Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation) Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa, Hinds, John, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard (eds.), pp. 143–164 | Article

Kuroda, S.-Y. 1987 A Topological Approach to Structural Equivalence of Formal Languages Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984, Manaster-Ramer, Alexis (ed.), pp. 173–190 | Article

Kuroda, S.-Y. 1985 La Sémantique des Démonstratifs Japonais Lingvisticæ Investigationes 9:1, pp. 69–81 | Article

Semantics of the Japanese demonstratives. Japanese has a three-way distinction of demonstratives, kore (this), sore (that) and are (that). The distinction between sore and are in their deictic use is much like one found in Latin: sore refers to something near the hearer, are to something not near… read more

Kuroda, S.-Y. 1979 The Semantics of the Japanese Topic Marker Wa Lingvisticæ Investigationes 3:1, pp. 75–85 | Article

Kuroda, S.-Y. 1977 Description of Presuppositional Phenomena From a Nonpresuppositionalist Point of View Lingvisticæ Investigationes 1:1, pp. 63–161 | Article