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Papers by Hiroshi Aoyagi

Research paper thumbnail of On the Predicate Focus Construction in Korean and Japanese

... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focu... more ... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focus construction (HFC) and the construction with a redupulicated verb as in (3) the echo focus construction (EFC). The examples in (2) and (3) show that Japanese lacks the EFC. ...

Research paper thumbnail of On Kuroda's Scope Mystery

Research paper thumbnail of On Agreement-inducing vs. Non-agreement-inducing NPIs

North East Linguistics Society, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of On Morphological Merger : Toward an Explanation of Verbal Agglutination in Japanese and Korean *

Verbal morphology has been one of the central issues in syntax and morphology since the dawn of g... more Verbal morphology has been one of the central issues in syntax and morphology since the dawn of generative grammar. In recent terms, in languages where overt movement of V to T is available, it straightforwardly results in an amalgamation of V and T. For instance, in French, an VO language, the correct constituent order is as in (1)a, but not (1)b. This fact is taken for evidence that this language has overt movement of V to T across negation, which intervenes between the two heads, as indicated in (2) (Pollock 1989, Chomsky 1995: chap. 2).

Research paper thumbnail of On the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives in Japanese

Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2020

This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). A... more This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). Among the two widely-held diagnostics for subjecthood in Japanese, i. e. zibun-binding and subject honorification, the subject of DCUs passes the former but not the latter. First, recognizing two subtypes of ditransitive verbs, verbs of change of possession (VCPs) and verbs of change of location (VCLs), we will note that DCUs are generally formed on VCPs. Next, given our layered verb phrase hypothesis, the ni-phrase in DCUs as well as VCPs is base-generated in Spec of Low Applicative (L-Appl), and it is moved to Spec of v for dat case marking. Spec of v is high enough for zibun-binding. However, since the target of subject honorification is licensed in Spec of High Applicative (H-Appl), the ni-phrase, base-generated in Spec of L-Appl, should further move to Spec of H-Appl. This is prohibited due to a feature-based version of theta criterion.

Research paper thumbnail of On the causative and passive morphology in Japanese and Korean

Open Linguistics, 2021

Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of... more Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of causative–passives in Japanese will be explained by the loci of -sase and -rare, both of which may instantiate more than one functional heads. This hypothesis also gives an account of the marginal status of passive–causatives whose passivized subject (=causee) is animate. Turning to Korean, /Hi/ is univocally causative, and its apparent use as passive is the result of Voice–Cause bundling. Furthermore, the possible and impossible uses of /Hi/ and /Hu/ as passive morphology result from their selectional properties.

Research paper thumbnail of Morphological case marking as phoneticization

The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among differe... more The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among different types of particles in Japanese is best accounted for by the theory of morphological case proposed by Marantz (1992).

Research paper thumbnail of Toward a Unified Account of Morphological Causatives and Passives in Korean

The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the... more The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the late Vocabulary Insertion hypothesis in Distributed Morphology together with an assumption that D is pair-Merged with v, resulting in absorption of the external argument in passive.

Research paper thumbnail of On the Predicate Focus Construction in Korean and Japanese

Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, Feb 1, 2006

... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focu... more ... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focus construction (HFC) and the construction with a redupulicated verb as in (3) the echo focus construction (EFC). The examples in (2) and (3) show that Japanese lacks the EFC. ...

Research paper thumbnail of On Morphological Merger: Toward an Explanation of Verbal Agglutination in Japanese and Korean

Nanzan Linguistics, 2006

This paper attempts to argue that while the fact of verbal agglutination in Japanese is best capt... more This paper attempts to argue that while the fact of verbal agglutination in Japanese is best captured by morphological merger (i.e., lowering), the same fact in Korean is better captured by verb raising.

Research paper thumbnail of On Verb-stem Expansion in Japanese and Korean

Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 2017

In addition to the widely accepted direction of grammaticalization (i.e. from a lexical category ... more In addition to the widely accepted direction of grammaticalization (i.e. from a lexical category to a functional category and from a functional category to another), another direction of grammaticalization, called radicalization, is proposed.

Research paper thumbnail of Toward a Unified Account of Morphological Causatives and Passives in Korean

Locality and Minimalism (Proceedings of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), 2007

The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the... more The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the late Vocabulary Insertion hypothesis in Distributed Morphology together with an assumption that D is pair-Merged with v, resulting in absorption of the external argument in passive.

Research paper thumbnail of Morphological case marking as phoneticization

Proceedings of the 2004 LSK International Conference (Linguistic Society of Korea), 2004

The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among differe... more The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among different types of particles in Japanese is best accounted for by the theory of morphological case proposed by Marantz (1992).

Research paper thumbnail of On the Asymmetry in Passives between Japanese and Korean

JELS (the English Linguistic Society of Japan), 2010

The presence of genuine indirect passive (e.g., formed on an intransitive verb stem) in Japanese ... more The presence of genuine indirect passive (e.g., formed on an intransitive verb stem) in Japanese and its absence in Korean are on a par with the possibility of benefactive auxiliary use of moraw 'receive' in the former and the impossibility of such a use of the equivalent pat 'receive' in the latter. This paper proposes that the differences results from different degrees of activation of Higher Applicative, which appears above VoiceP.

Conference Presentations by Hiroshi Aoyagi

Research paper thumbnail of On the syntax of causative morphology in Korean

Handout distributed at GLOW in Asia XII, 2019

First of all, I argue that the /Hi/ morpheme is univocally causative, and it apparent passive use... more First of all, I argue that the /Hi/ morpheme is univocally causative, and it apparent passive use results from "bundling" of Cause and Voice. Secondly, although multiple verbal suffixation is not highly productive in the present-day Seoul Korean, its reminiscence is found at some point of time or place, which is predicted by the "layered VP hypothesis".

Research paper thumbnail of On Multiple Verbal Suffixation in Japanese and Korean

Oral Presentation at JK25 Satellite Workshop on Morpho-syntax in Japanese and Korean, 2017

While Japanese has developed grammaticalization in two distince ways, i.e., functionalization and... more While Japanese has developed grammaticalization in two distince ways, i.e., functionalization and radicalization, standard Seoul Korean has undergone a rather degenerative process, resulting in a low productivity in multiple verbal suffixation.

Drafts by Hiroshi Aoyagi

Research paper thumbnail of On the Syntax of Causatives in Korean

Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XII & SICOGG21, 2020

This paper argues (i) that morphological passives with /Hi/ in Korean are derived from causatives... more This paper argues (i) that morphological passives with /Hi/ in Korean are derived from causatives, and (ii) that, although multiple suffixation with /Hi/ and /Hu/ is generally prohibited in the present-day Seoul Korean, its reminiscence is found at some point of time or place.

Research paper thumbnail of How high is High Applicative in Japanese and Korean?

As the result of grammaticalization, the verbs of giving and receiving, i.e., yar and moraw, both... more As the result of grammaticalization, the verbs of giving and receiving, i.e., yar and moraw, both have auxiliary uses in Japanese, but only the verb of giving cwu has such a use in Korean. Yar as well as moraw and the exclusive passive-rare instantiates High Applicative above Voice in Japanese; on the other hand, the verb of giving as High Applicative appears lower than Voice but higher than V in Korean.

Research paper thumbnail of On the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives in Japanese

Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2020

This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). A... more This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). Among the two widely-held diagnostics for subjecthood in Japanese, i.e., zibun-binding and subject honorification, the subject of DCUs passes the former but not the latter. First, recognizing two subtypes of ditransitive verbs, verbs of change of possession (VCPs) and verbs of change of location (VCLs), we will note that DCUs are generally formed on VCPs. Next, given our layered verb phrase hypothesis, the ni-phrase in DCUs as well as VCPs is base-generated in Spec of Low Applicative (L-Appl), and it is moved to Spec of v for DAT case marking. Spec of v is high enough for zibun-binding. However, since the target of subject honorification is licensed in Spec of High Applicative (H-Appl), the ni-phrase, base-generated in Spec of L-Appl, should further move to Spec of H-Appl. This is prohibited because Applicative, either High or Low, assigns [+mental state] feature to its Spec.

Research paper thumbnail of On the causative and passive morphology in Japanese and Korean

Open Linguistics, 2019

Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of... more Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of causative-passives in Japanese will be explained by the loci of-sase and-rare, both of which may instantiate more than one functional heads. This hypothesis also gives an account of the marginal status of passive-causatives whose passivized subject (=causee) is animate. Turning to Korean, /Hi/ is univocally causative, and its apparent use as passive is the result of Voice-Cause bundling. Furthermore, the possible and impossible use of /Hi/ and /Hu/ as passive morphology results from their selectional properties.

Research paper thumbnail of On the Predicate Focus Construction in Korean and Japanese

... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focu... more ... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focus construction (HFC) and the construction with a redupulicated verb as in (3) the echo focus construction (EFC). The examples in (2) and (3) show that Japanese lacks the EFC. ...

Research paper thumbnail of On Kuroda's Scope Mystery

Research paper thumbnail of On Agreement-inducing vs. Non-agreement-inducing NPIs

North East Linguistics Society, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of On Morphological Merger : Toward an Explanation of Verbal Agglutination in Japanese and Korean *

Verbal morphology has been one of the central issues in syntax and morphology since the dawn of g... more Verbal morphology has been one of the central issues in syntax and morphology since the dawn of generative grammar. In recent terms, in languages where overt movement of V to T is available, it straightforwardly results in an amalgamation of V and T. For instance, in French, an VO language, the correct constituent order is as in (1)a, but not (1)b. This fact is taken for evidence that this language has overt movement of V to T across negation, which intervenes between the two heads, as indicated in (2) (Pollock 1989, Chomsky 1995: chap. 2).

Research paper thumbnail of On the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives in Japanese

Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2020

This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). A... more This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). Among the two widely-held diagnostics for subjecthood in Japanese, i. e. zibun-binding and subject honorification, the subject of DCUs passes the former but not the latter. First, recognizing two subtypes of ditransitive verbs, verbs of change of possession (VCPs) and verbs of change of location (VCLs), we will note that DCUs are generally formed on VCPs. Next, given our layered verb phrase hypothesis, the ni-phrase in DCUs as well as VCPs is base-generated in Spec of Low Applicative (L-Appl), and it is moved to Spec of v for dat case marking. Spec of v is high enough for zibun-binding. However, since the target of subject honorification is licensed in Spec of High Applicative (H-Appl), the ni-phrase, base-generated in Spec of L-Appl, should further move to Spec of H-Appl. This is prohibited due to a feature-based version of theta criterion.

Research paper thumbnail of On the causative and passive morphology in Japanese and Korean

Open Linguistics, 2021

Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of... more Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of causative–passives in Japanese will be explained by the loci of -sase and -rare, both of which may instantiate more than one functional heads. This hypothesis also gives an account of the marginal status of passive–causatives whose passivized subject (=causee) is animate. Turning to Korean, /Hi/ is univocally causative, and its apparent use as passive is the result of Voice–Cause bundling. Furthermore, the possible and impossible uses of /Hi/ and /Hu/ as passive morphology result from their selectional properties.

Research paper thumbnail of Morphological case marking as phoneticization

The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among differe... more The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among different types of particles in Japanese is best accounted for by the theory of morphological case proposed by Marantz (1992).

Research paper thumbnail of Toward a Unified Account of Morphological Causatives and Passives in Korean

The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the... more The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the late Vocabulary Insertion hypothesis in Distributed Morphology together with an assumption that D is pair-Merged with v, resulting in absorption of the external argument in passive.

Research paper thumbnail of On the Predicate Focus Construction in Korean and Japanese

Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, Feb 1, 2006

... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focu... more ... (J: EFC) eat-pst We will henceforth call the construction with ha or su as in (2) the ha focus construction (HFC) and the construction with a redupulicated verb as in (3) the echo focus construction (EFC). The examples in (2) and (3) show that Japanese lacks the EFC. ...

Research paper thumbnail of On Morphological Merger: Toward an Explanation of Verbal Agglutination in Japanese and Korean

Nanzan Linguistics, 2006

This paper attempts to argue that while the fact of verbal agglutination in Japanese is best capt... more This paper attempts to argue that while the fact of verbal agglutination in Japanese is best captured by morphological merger (i.e., lowering), the same fact in Korean is better captured by verb raising.

Research paper thumbnail of On Verb-stem Expansion in Japanese and Korean

Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 2017

In addition to the widely accepted direction of grammaticalization (i.e. from a lexical category ... more In addition to the widely accepted direction of grammaticalization (i.e. from a lexical category to a functional category and from a functional category to another), another direction of grammaticalization, called radicalization, is proposed.

Research paper thumbnail of Toward a Unified Account of Morphological Causatives and Passives in Korean

Locality and Minimalism (Proceedings of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), 2007

The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the... more The isomorphism of the causative and passive suffix /Hi/ in Korean is well accommodated under the late Vocabulary Insertion hypothesis in Distributed Morphology together with an assumption that D is pair-Merged with v, resulting in absorption of the external argument in passive.

Research paper thumbnail of Morphological case marking as phoneticization

Proceedings of the 2004 LSK International Conference (Linguistic Society of Korea), 2004

The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among differe... more The combinatoric nature of case particles as well as possible and impossible orders among different types of particles in Japanese is best accounted for by the theory of morphological case proposed by Marantz (1992).

Research paper thumbnail of On the Asymmetry in Passives between Japanese and Korean

JELS (the English Linguistic Society of Japan), 2010

The presence of genuine indirect passive (e.g., formed on an intransitive verb stem) in Japanese ... more The presence of genuine indirect passive (e.g., formed on an intransitive verb stem) in Japanese and its absence in Korean are on a par with the possibility of benefactive auxiliary use of moraw 'receive' in the former and the impossibility of such a use of the equivalent pat 'receive' in the latter. This paper proposes that the differences results from different degrees of activation of Higher Applicative, which appears above VoiceP.

Research paper thumbnail of On the syntax of causative morphology in Korean

Handout distributed at GLOW in Asia XII, 2019

First of all, I argue that the /Hi/ morpheme is univocally causative, and it apparent passive use... more First of all, I argue that the /Hi/ morpheme is univocally causative, and it apparent passive use results from "bundling" of Cause and Voice. Secondly, although multiple verbal suffixation is not highly productive in the present-day Seoul Korean, its reminiscence is found at some point of time or place, which is predicted by the "layered VP hypothesis".

Research paper thumbnail of On Multiple Verbal Suffixation in Japanese and Korean

Oral Presentation at JK25 Satellite Workshop on Morpho-syntax in Japanese and Korean, 2017

While Japanese has developed grammaticalization in two distince ways, i.e., functionalization and... more While Japanese has developed grammaticalization in two distince ways, i.e., functionalization and radicalization, standard Seoul Korean has undergone a rather degenerative process, resulting in a low productivity in multiple verbal suffixation.

Research paper thumbnail of On the Syntax of Causatives in Korean

Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XII & SICOGG21, 2020

This paper argues (i) that morphological passives with /Hi/ in Korean are derived from causatives... more This paper argues (i) that morphological passives with /Hi/ in Korean are derived from causatives, and (ii) that, although multiple suffixation with /Hi/ and /Hu/ is generally prohibited in the present-day Seoul Korean, its reminiscence is found at some point of time or place.

Research paper thumbnail of How high is High Applicative in Japanese and Korean?

As the result of grammaticalization, the verbs of giving and receiving, i.e., yar and moraw, both... more As the result of grammaticalization, the verbs of giving and receiving, i.e., yar and moraw, both have auxiliary uses in Japanese, but only the verb of giving cwu has such a use in Korean. Yar as well as moraw and the exclusive passive-rare instantiates High Applicative above Voice in Japanese; on the other hand, the verb of giving as High Applicative appears lower than Voice but higher than V in Korean.

Research paper thumbnail of On the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives in Japanese

Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2020

This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). A... more This paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). Among the two widely-held diagnostics for subjecthood in Japanese, i.e., zibun-binding and subject honorification, the subject of DCUs passes the former but not the latter. First, recognizing two subtypes of ditransitive verbs, verbs of change of possession (VCPs) and verbs of change of location (VCLs), we will note that DCUs are generally formed on VCPs. Next, given our layered verb phrase hypothesis, the ni-phrase in DCUs as well as VCPs is base-generated in Spec of Low Applicative (L-Appl), and it is moved to Spec of v for DAT case marking. Spec of v is high enough for zibun-binding. However, since the target of subject honorification is licensed in Spec of High Applicative (H-Appl), the ni-phrase, base-generated in Spec of L-Appl, should further move to Spec of H-Appl. This is prohibited because Applicative, either High or Low, assigns [+mental state] feature to its Spec.

Research paper thumbnail of On the causative and passive morphology in Japanese and Korean

Open Linguistics, 2019

Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of... more Drawing on the layered verb phrase hypothesis, the unexpected adversity imposed on the subject of causative-passives in Japanese will be explained by the loci of-sase and-rare, both of which may instantiate more than one functional heads. This hypothesis also gives an account of the marginal status of passive-causatives whose passivized subject (=causee) is animate. Turning to Korean, /Hi/ is univocally causative, and its apparent use as passive is the result of Voice-Cause bundling. Furthermore, the possible and impossible use of /Hi/ and /Hu/ as passive morphology results from their selectional properties.