{"pk":49005,"title":"A Simple Phrase Analysis of Psychological Adverbs in Japanese","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper focus on the syntactic properties of psychological adverbs (PAs) constructions in Japanese. Matsuoka (2021, 2023) argues that PAs in Japanese have a CP structure, in which the experiencer PPs occupy Spec, TP of the PAs, and a null operator movement to Spec, CP is involved. However, I argue that the evidence in Matsuoka (2021, 2023) is faced with serious problems in both empirical and theoretical respects; therefore a new  analysis is called for. I propose that PAs in Japanese have a simpler structure, in which neither TP nor CP is projected, and that the experiencer PPs are not syntactically included in PAs; they are adjoined to VP. It is also shown that the structure proposed can account for the various syntactic properties of PAs in Japanese, demonstrating the validity of my proposal.</p>","language":null,"license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vz9x4jb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Masashi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yamaguchi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Kansai Gaidai University","department":"College of Foreign Studies"}],"date_submitted":"2025-07-15T06:29:31.332000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-07-15T22:13:39.966000+02:00","date_published":"2025-07-07T12:00:00+02:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/49005/galley/36954/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/49005/galley/36954/download/"}]}