Mamoru Saito
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mamoru Saito is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1606-822X | E‑ISSN 2309‑5067
Articles
2026 Argument ellipsis, weak heads, and labeling by Case New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 158–182 | Chapter
This paper proposes licensing conditions on argument ellipsis in terms of labeling. Given the LF copy analysis of argument ellipsis, the absence of φ-feature agreement is an overall necessary condition because of the activation condition on agreement. The paper assumes Richards’ (2003) proposal… read more
2017 Japanese wh-phrases as operators with unspecified quantificational force Language and Linguistics 18:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
Japanese wh-expressions appear in various kinds of operator-variable structures, including wh-questions and sentences with universal and existential quantification. The nature of the operator-variable relation is determined by an associated particle, such as the question marker ka or the… read more
2004 5. Genitive subjects in Japanese Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 2, Bhaskararao, Peri and Karumuri V. Subbarao (eds.), pp. 103–118 | Chapter