Case, argument structure, and word order [electronic resource] / Shigeru Miyagawa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Numeral quantifiers and thematic relations -- 2. Telicity, stranded numeral quantifiers, and quantifi er scope -- 3. Argument structure and ditransitive verbs in Japanese / with Takae Tsujioka -- 4. Nominalization and argument structure : evidence for the dual-base analysis of ditransitive constructions in Japanese -- 5. Genitive subjects in Altaic and specifi cation of phases -- 6. The genitive of dependent tense in Japanese and its correlation with the genitive of negation in Slavic -- 7. Blocking and Japanese causatives -- 8. Blocking and causatives revisited : unexpected competition across derivations -- 9. Historical development of the accusative case marker -- 10. The old Japanese accusative revisited : realizing all the universal options.

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