Daigo Akiba

List of John Benjamins publications in which Daigo Akiba is involved.

Article

Akiba, Daigo 2014 Interpreting modals by phase heads Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 19–42 | Article

This paper proposes that modal meanings are interpreted by modal features on phase heads (cf. Chomsky 2000, 2001). Epistemic modal auxiliaries are base-generated above v*P/vP, and they are in an Agree relation with a phase head C, which then carries an interpretable modal feature to be transferred… read more