PSEUDO-RIGHT DISLOCATION AND THE BARE-TOPIC CONSTRUCTION IN JAPANESE *
Kensuke Takita · 2012
* Earlier versions of this paper were presented at GLOW in Asia Workshop for Young Scholars held at Mie University in September 2011 and the 38th Linguistics Colloquium held at Nanzan University in October 2011. I thank Duk-Ho An, Masatake Arimoto, Tomo Fujii, Hideki Kishimoto, Yoichi Miyamoto, Keiko Murasugi, Chizuru Nakao, Hiroki Narita, Yosuke Sato, Shigeki Taguchi, Daiko Takahashi, Yuji Takano, W.-T. Dylan Tsai, H.-C. Joyce Tsai, Julio Villa-Garcia, and Hideaki Yamashita for their valuable comments and discussions. I also thank Mamoru Saito for his helpful comments at various points of this work. All errors are of course mine. Part of this work is supported by Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (#22-7194).