Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya presented at Generative Linguistics in Poland 6 on April 5-6, at the University of Warsaw. The presentation was titled "Covert movement, reconstruction and edge phenomena in nominalizations" (with Angeliek van Hout at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Thomas Roeper at University of Massachusetts). This paper examines that the reconstruction of quantifiers which is caused by quantifier raising and covert operations in sentential levels can also be observed in nominalizations.
The phenomena can be observed in Japanese and English which are completely different languages. He argues that abstractly the sentential and nominal structures are the same, and the relevant phenomena can be explained in a uniform manner in different languages.
The phenomena can be observed in Japanese and English which are completely different languages. He argues that abstractly the sentential and nominal structures are the same, and the relevant phenomena can be explained in a uniform manner in different languages.
