Verb Raising and Theta-Driven Movement: A Comparative Minimalist Approach with Particular Reference to Japanese (Linguistische Arbeiten)

This book demonstrates that greedy movement in Japanese fulfills locality and is triggered by checking formal features including theta roles: the Spec of TP and an uninterpretable [+V] feature enable successive cyclic verb raising that produces a complex verb (Multiple Predicate Formation). The interaction of feature checking and MPF yields nonobligatory controlled PRO, the long distance of A-movement in control constructions, the three types of passives, the semantic difference between coercive and noncoercive causatives, and the constraints on forming passives in double object constructions.Matsuya, Akemi is the author of 'Verb Raising and Theta-Driven Movement: A Comparative Minimalist Approach with Particular Reference to Japanese (Linguistische Arbeiten)' with ISBN 9783484304901 and ISBN 3484304901.