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Share Paper 3847

Some Reconstructions Are by Default Semantic
Yusuke Yagi
420-429 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

This paper (re)investigates what are dubbed as "A-properties" and "A'-properties" of Japanese scrambling from a semantic perspective. It aims to establish the following two claims: (i) "A-scrambling", despite its alleged anti-reconstruction property, can be reconstructed for scope. It suggests that Semantic Reconstruction (Cresti 1995; Rullman 1995) is an available option for interpreting scrambling chains. Furthermore, Semantic Reconstruction is available across all three kinds of scrambling attested in Japanese. (ii) "A-properties" and "A'-properties" are better understood by semantic terminologies.

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Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Shweta Akolkar, Amber Galvano, Akil Ismael, Kang Franco Liu, and Line Mikkelsen
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