＜論説＞The Nature of Focus Movement:A View from the Scope Interactions of Focus Particle Phrases in Japanese
Hideharu Tanaka, 秀治 田中 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2017
This paper explores the syntax of focus particle phrases (FPPs) in Japanese, namely NPs (or PPs) suffi xed by focus particles, such as additive mo ‘also,’ contrastive wa ‘at least’, and negative-concord sika ‘only’. In the literature, Rizzi (1997) proposes that focused constituents must undergo movement to the left periphery of a clause in order to satisfy the Focus Criterion, regardless of whether the movement is overt or covert. Given that the LF criteria are universal, it is predicted that Japanese FPPs must satisfy the Focus Criterion by moving to [Spec, FocP] overtly or covertly, because they contain focused constituents. This paper claims that this prediction is false. In order to support this claim, this paper reveals that each FPP has a different LF relation to the position of Neg, and thus has a fi xed LF relation to each other. In light of these fi ndings, this paper shows that the FPP movement cannot be criterion-driven movement in the sense of Rizzi (1997), and that it is merely an instance of scrambling (Saito 1985, 1989, 1994), which must be overt and can be undone at LF.