Invisible Agr in Japanese

The purpose of this article is to show that, even in a language like Japanese which lacks overt morphological agreement, Agreement Phrases not only exist, but also play an important role in the grammar. Evidence comes primarily from facts about scope interaction in certain complex predicate constructions. The article also presents indirect support for the core idea of Watanabe's (1993) three-layered Case theory

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