@article{1c5f507d7c6a4b3b890d44dae02d4958,
title = "Projections of events and propositions in Japanese: A case study of Koto-nominalized clauses in causal relations",
abstract = "This paper proposes a syntax and semantics of nominalized clauses headed by koto in Japanese. We argue that the koto-nominalized clause can denote either a concrete event or an abstract proposition. Koto serves as a maximality operator for clauses as well as NPs. The sentential koto is syntactically ambiguous depending on the structure with which koto merges. Finally, our analysis also has a strong implication for the linguistic distinction between physical causation and causal judgment.",
keywords = "Causation, Event semantics, Kind, Maximality, Nominalization",
author = "Yurie Hara and Youngju Kim and Hiromu Sakai and Sanae Tamura",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank four anonymous reviewers and the editor Anik{\'o} Lipt{\'a}k for their valuable comments. Thanks are also due to Adam Catt, Makoto Kanazawa, Christopher Kennedy, Jonathan Kent, Katsuhiko Sano, Yukinori Takubo, Rudy Toet, Satoshi Tomioka, and the audience at the 20th conference on Japanese/Korean linguistics (October 2010), Semantics Research Group (July 2010), Kaken workshop at Kyoto (July 2010), the Sakura workshop in Paris (September 2010) as well as 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (October 2010) for their valuable discussions. The research is partly supported by JSPS Japan-France Integrated Action Program (SAKURA) and the grant-in-aid for scientific research (A) from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science # 23242020 , ⿿Typological variation and plasticity of neurocognitive mechanism for language processing: A View from comparative studies on East Asian Languages⿿. All remaining errors are our own. ",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1016/j.lingua.2013.05.003",
language = "English",
volume = "133",
pages = "262--288",
journal = "Lingua",
issn = "0024-3841",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}