Kenichi Ariji
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kenichi Ariji is involved.
Article
2006 A unique feature of the direct passive in Japanese Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 403–440 | Article
It has long been assumed that in the English passive a passive subject (such as the boy in The boy was scolded by Professor Smith) undergoes NP-movement from its original object position to get Nominative Case. Similarly, the direct passive in Japanese (e.g., Sono-otokonoko-ga Smith-sensei-ni… read more
