Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures, contributed a chapter, "Movement of Arguments and Negative Feature" to the book Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments, edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann.The chapter by Kamiya investigates syntax and phonology interface.
Phonological information is relevant to interpretations as well as grammatical judgments. Kamiya's contribution is to show that this is true with the interaction of a universal quantifier and negation in Japanese. He assumes that negative feature which resides in NegP moves to the left periphery position in which negation takes scope over a universal quantifier.
Kamiya claims that as long as C or sentential left edge exits, stressing on negative morpheme produces negation-over-universal-quantifier reading is possible. In the end, Japanese data show that negative feature can move to the left peripheral position for focus feature checking, and this is the case only to negative morpheme. The key point is that stressing causes this movement. Hence this paper suggests that phonological information feeds meaning.
Phonological information is relevant to interpretations as well as grammatical judgments. Kamiya's contribution is to show that this is true with the interaction of a universal quantifier and negation in Japanese. He assumes that negative feature which resides in NegP moves to the left periphery position in which negation takes scope over a universal quantifier.
Kamiya claims that as long as C or sentential left edge exits, stressing on negative morpheme produces negation-over-universal-quantifier reading is possible. In the end, Japanese data show that negative feature can move to the left peripheral position for focus feature checking, and this is the case only to negative morpheme. The key point is that stressing causes this movement. Hence this paper suggests that phonological information feeds meaning.
