LF Intervention Effects and Nominative Objects in Japanese
Kenshi Funakoshi, Masahiko Takahashi · Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) · 2014
LF Intervention Effects and Nominative Objects in Japanese This paper provides new data to tease apart existing analyses of the wide scope behavior of nominative objects in the Japanese potential construction. An object can get nominative or accusative Case in the Japanese potential construction (Kuno 1973). Significantly, only nominative objects can take scope over the potential