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Japanese is one of the languages where wh-phrases, such as nani ‘what’, dare ‘who’, etc., appear in the ‘argument-positions’ (A-positions), viz. those positions in the sentence where, typically, NPs appear and are assigned θ-roles, in contrast to languages like English, where such expressions are expected in the ‘operator-positions’ (Ā-positions) — in the case of English, wh-expressions occupy the clause-initial position of an interrogative clause at S-structure (SS).
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Cf. Pesetsky (1987) and Takubo (1985) for more observations on this.
Cf. Inoue (1978), for example, though her arguments do not directly draw on wh-constructions.
Cf. Kuno (1978), where it is shown that discourse-deletion phenomena are generally subject to this condition, which requires that deletion be maximal with respect to a given domain.
Higginbotham and May (1981) argue that this type of factor is relevant to the restriction on the operation that they refer to as Absorption, which has the effect of collapsing a pair of wh-operators into one operator which ranges over pairs of individuals.
Choe (1987) independently develops basically the same analysis as the present study for the type of phenomenon that has been dealt with here. Incidentally, J.Huang (p.c.) informs me that an earlier version of Huang (1982a) contained a similar idea based on pied-piping at LF. The same conclusion is anticipated given the observations of H.S. Lee (1982).
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Nishigauchi, T. (1990). Subjacency and Logical Form. In: Quantification in the Theory of Grammar. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1972-3_2
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