Deducing Transfer from Merge, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of the 2017 Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, 1, 12, 16 Oct. 2017, Canadian Linguistic Association
Labelability and interpretability, Manabu Mizuguchi, Studies in Generative Grammar, 27, 2, 327, 365, May 2017, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
A-movement: Successive cyclic or one fell swoop?, Manabu Mizuguchi, Coyote Papers 22: Proceedings of the Arizona Linguistics Circle 13, 22, 32, May 2020, University of Arizona Linguistics Circle
Subject movement and the problem of determinacy, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of the 22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 201, 211, Aug. 2020, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
Asymmetric labeling, Manabu Mizuguchi, Studies in Generative Grammar, 30, 4, 471, 486, Nov. 2020, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Determinacy is one of the desiderata imposed on syntax. This paper argues as one of its consequences that asymmetry is maximized in language and considers the labeling of XP-YP, which is problematic given the maximization of asymmetry. I propose asymmetric labeling for symmetric XP-YP structures. I argue that XP-YP can be labeled asymmetrically given Agree and Transfer, both of which make asymmetric relations possible, showing that it does not go against deterministic rule application. The discussion in the paper suggests that asymmetry is not a preference for labeling.
A-movement: Its successive cyclicity revisited, Manabu Mizuguchi, Linguistic Research, 37, 3, 439, 475, Dec. 2020, Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University, This paper reconsiders the successive cyclicity of A-movement, which has been controversial in the literature. I argue that contrary to what has been argued, A-movement can be both successive cyclic and non-successive cyclic, showing that this proposal follows as one consequence of simplest Merge, which applies freely. I claim that whether A-movement proceeds successive cyclically or not depends on how Merge applies to C and T (as well as v and R) in the derivation. I show that the discussion in the paper is cross-linguistically endorsed. It is also shown that the proposal has favorable implications for clausal construction, the labelability of T and wager-class sentences. The present paper is one illustration of Merge playing a key role in syntactic derivation, supporting the hypothesis that the operation is the core of the Faculty of Language.
Interaction of Merge and labeling: Consequences for hyperraising, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of the 2017 Western Conference on Linguistics 2017, 110, 121, Apr. 2018, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno
Scrambling to the edge and the locality of movement, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of the 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 285, 304, Aug. 2018, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
Optional raising and labeling in ECM, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of Western Conference on Linguistics 2018, 118, 129, Apr. 2019, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno
Optional raising in ECM and labeling of XP-YP, Manabu Mizuguchi, Studies in Generative Grammar, 29, 2, 373, 411, Jun. 2019, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
Label weakness and the EPP, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of the 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World & the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 507, 516, Oct. 2019, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
Ambiguous labeling and Full Interpretation, Manabu Mizuguchi, Studia Linguistica, 73, 3, 563, 603, Dec. 2019, Wiley, Syntactic objects constructed by Merge are label-less and are identified
or labeled by a labeling algorithm called Label for interpretation at the interfaces. It has been argued that the set of the form {{XP}, {YP}} (or simply, XP-YP) incurs labeling ambiguity and cannot be labeled unless [i] either XP or YP moves out or [ii] X and Y agree. This paper considers labeling of XP-YP and argues that labeling ambiguity can be tolerated, causing no labeling failure. I claim that XP-YP can be labeled either or , which is a natural consequence of minimal computation. The well-formedness of labeling is attributable to the CI interface (or conditions imposed by the CI system), with syntax not caring about the
outcome of labeling. I show that ambiguous labeling is empirically supported and removes unwanted stipulations on labeling.
Ways of solving (counter-)cyclic A-movement in phase theory, Manabu Mizuguchi, Linguistic Research, 36, 3, 325, 363, Dec. 2019, Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University
Phases and counter-cyclicity of A-movement, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of the 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 257, 277, Aug. 2014
Consequences of feature inheritance for subject movement, Manabu Mizuguchi, Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 325, 334, Jul. 2014, Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Reconsidering phase-internal derivations: Are they exceptional or not?, Manabu Mizuguchi, English Linguistics, 30, 1, 75, 110, Jun. 2013, English Linguistic Society of Japan, This paper explores phase-internal derivations and considers their consequences for Minimalist theorizing. With the discussion of extraction from subjects, we claim that phase-internal derivations are step-by-step processes, and argue against simultaneous, parallel applications of operations at the phase level. We argue that our claim is theoretically favorable, and show that it can naturally explain extraction phenomena as well as grammatical behaviors of multiple wh-questions. We also take a fresh look at "wellformed" extraction from subjects and subject wh-movement. We propose new analyses and provide empirical evidence in their favor. The discussions in this paper strengthen the argument that step-by-step procedures explain language.
Derivations within a phase: Step by step or all at once?, Manabu Mizuguchi, JELS 29: Papers from the Twenty-Ninth Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 107, 113, Feb. 2012
Scrambling and the structure of TP: Remarks on Miyagawa (2001), Manabu Mizuguchi, Working papers of Ueda Women's Junior College, 35, 121, 130, Jan. 2012
Non-canonical agreement: Its implications for Case/φ-feature checking, Manabu Mizuguchi, JELS 27: Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 129, 138, Mar. 2010
On A- and A'-movement properties of scrambling, Manabu Mizuguchi, English Linguistics, 27, 1, 60, 79, Jun. 2010, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, This brief article considers Japanese clause-internal scrambling and proposes an analysis which explains both of its A-movement and A'-movement properties. Based on the proposed analysis (scrambling as “quasi”-raising), we rethink the movement operation, claiming that scrambling is the most basic or barest form of movement in syntax. We also discuss favorable theoretical consequences of the proposed analysis for movement. © 2010, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.
Extraposition and cyclic syntax, Manabu Mizuguchi, English Linguistics, 26, 2, 293, 328, Dec. 2009
A role of T-to-C movement in syntax: A case study of that-trace effects, Manabu Mizuguchi, Memoirs of Nagano National College of Technology, 43, 1, 15, Jun. 2009
Certain similarities and differences between scrambling and raising, Manabu Mizuguchi, Walpurgis 2009, 79, 94, Mar. 2009
Derivational syntax and the adjunct condition, Manabu Mizuguchi, JELS 26: Papers from the Twenty-Sixth Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 161, 170, Mar. 2009
Derivation, minimalism, and that-trace effects, Manabu Mizuguchi, English Linguistics, 25, 1, 56, 92, Jun. 2008, The English Linguistic Society of Japan
Some remarks on extraction out of subjects, Manabu Mizuguchi, Transactions of Kokugakuin University, 46, 161, 195, Feb. 2008
Derivational explanation of 'that-trace' effect, Manabu Mizuguchi, JELS 24: Papers from the Twenty-Fourth Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 121, 130, Mar. 2007
Move to a head: Another way to satisfy the EPP and its consequences, Manabu Mizuguchi, Dokkyo Working Papers in Linguistics, 33, 1, 31, Feb. 2007, English Linguistics Major, Graduate School of Foreign Languages, Dokkyo University
EPP, scrambling and A/A' properties: A preliminary study, Manabu Mizuguchi, The World of Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Kinsuke Hasegawa on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 182, 203, Sep. 2005
Scrambling and its theoretical implications in the minimalist program, Manabu Mizuguchi, Dokkyo Working Papers in Linguistics, 30, 1, 44, Feb. 2005
Derivational Overturning Effects: A Case Study of Condition A, Manabu Mizuguchi, Dokkyo Working Papers in Linguistics, 27, 19, 45, Sep. 2003
Reflexivization is not reducible to movement: A Critique of Hornstein's (2001) reductionist approach to reflexivization, Manabu Mizuguchi, Dokkyo Working Papers in Linguistics, 26, 23, 66, Feb. 2003
Pair-Merge and de-activation of T, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 03 Aug. 2016, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul, South Korea
External pair-Merge and its effects on C, Manabu Mizuguchi, Alberta Conference on Linguistics 2016, 29 Oct. 2016, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Label weakness and interpretability, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, 03 Dec. 2016, Tianjin, China
Phase theory through labeling: Implications of ECM, Manabu Mizuguchi, Prairie Workshop on Languages and Linguistics, 18 Mar. 2017, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Labeling in ECM and its implications for phase theory, Manabu Mizuguchi, Manchester Forum in Linguistics 2017, 29 Apr. 2017, Manchester, United Kingdom
Deducing Transfer from Merge, Manabu Mizuguchi, 2017 Canadian Linguistic Association Meeting, 28 May 2017, Canadian Linguistic Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Interaction of Merge and labeling: Consequences for hyperraising, Manabu Mizuguchi, Western Conference on Linguistics 2017, 21 Oct. 2017, Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Subject extraction and clause size, Manabu Mizuguchi, Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 2018, 19 Apr. 2018, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Scrambling to the edge and the locality of movement, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 08 Aug. 2018, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul, South Korea
Merge, externalization and subject extraction, Manabu Mizuguchi, Arizona Linguistics Circle 12, 14 Oct. 2018, Arizona Linguistics Circle, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Infinitival T and its interpretability, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, 24 Nov. 2018, Hangzhou, China
Optional raising and labeling in ECM, Manabu Mizuguchi, Western Conference on Linguistics 2018, 02 Dec. 2018, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, United States of America
Weak T as a label, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 2019 Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop, 27 Apr. 2019, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Label weakness and the EPP, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World & the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 09 Aug. 2019, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul, South Korea
A-movement: Successive cyclic or one fell swoop?, Manabu Mizuguchi, Arizona Linguistics Circle 13, 26 Oct. 2019, Arizona Linguistics Circle, Tucson, Arizona, The United States of America
The EPP revisited, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 36th Northwest Linguistics Conference, 25 Apr. 2020, The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, The United States of America
Subject movement and the problem of Determinacy, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Aug. 2020, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul, South Korea
Phases and counter-cyclicity of A-movement, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 09 Aug. 2014, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Dongguk University
Free merge in minimalist syntax: Superiority effects reconsidered, Manabu Mizuguchi, Workshop in General Linguistics 11, 10 May 2014, The Linguistics Student Organization, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Feature-inheritance: Its implications for subject movement, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 09 Feb. 2013, Arizona State University
The subject position in Japanese: Perspectives from superiority effects, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 145th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 24 Nov. 2012, The Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyushu University
Derivations within a phase: Step by step or all at once?, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 29th Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 13 Nov. 2011, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Niigata University
Non-canonical agreement: Its implications for Case/φ-feature checking, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 27th Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 14 Nov. 2009, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Osaka University
Derivational syntax and the adjunct condition, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 26th Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 16 Nov. 2008, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, University of Tsukuba
'Overt' long-distance raising in Japanese, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 135th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 24 Nov. 2007, The Linguistic Society of Japan, Shinshu University
Derivational explanation of 'that-trace' effect, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 24th Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 04 Nov. 2006, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, University of Tokyo
Wh-in-situ revisited: Three proposals to the derivational minimalism, Tomohiko Ishimori; Manabu Mizuguchi; Miki Obata, The 123th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 18 Nov. 2001, The Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyushu University
Syntax of cleftability of adverbials, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 121th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 26 Nov. 2000, The Linguistic Society of Japan, Nagoya Gakuin University
The investigation of clefted adverbs, Manabu Mizuguchi, The 119th Conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 28 Nov. 1999, The Linguistic Society of Japan, Kobe Shoin Women's University
18K00544, 2018
20K00616, 2020
16K16835, 2016, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Optimal syntactic derivation through simplest Merge: Theoretical and empirical investigation
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Theoretical and empirical explorations of the role of derivations in sentence generation and their mechanisms
Dokkyo Medical University, Dokkyo Medical University Investigator-Initiated Research Grant, Study of phases and phase-based optimal derivational computation
Dokkyo University, Dokkyo University International Research, On phase heads like light verb
Dokkyo Medical University, Seki Minato Research Encouragement Grant, Syntactic computation from the viewpoint of Japanese ''scramblng'': Its theoretical and empirical study
Nagano National College of Technology, Special Research Grant, Integrated research on the theory of derivational computation
Nagano National College of Technology, Special Research Grant, A theoretical study of the mechanisms of linguistic derivations in the mental grammar
20K00616, Optimal syntactic computation that generates properties of language: A theoretical and empirical study focusing on clause structure and the subject
18K00544, Interfaces of root clauses to their semantic interpretations: A biolinguistic approach, This research has focused on the parametric variation in the semantic interpretation of root clauses covering (i) the so-called sequence of tense phenomenon, (ii) the obligatory/optional presence of tense morphemes, (iii) the presence/absence of sentence-final particles and (iv) restrictions on focus particles. In the first year, the parallel corpus was assembled from one English novel and two versions of its Japanese translation, to which two versions of its Chinese translation were added later. The three languages differ as to the obligatoriness of tense morphemes and the sequence of tense, but it was uncovered that they are subject to essentially the same pragmatic principle in the temporal interpretation of their discourses. The project also dealt with phenomena specific to Japanese such as argument ellipsis, indirect passives, the no-da construction, and the use of sentence-final particles and focus particles. The results were publicized in eleven papers and five presentations.
16K16835, Optimal syntactic derivation by simplest Merge: Its theoretical and empirical study, This research project, conducted in the framework of the minimalist program for linguistic theory, examined the derivational mechanism in syntactic computation through linguistic phenomena such as subject wh-movement, exceptional Case marking (ECM), scrambling in Japanese. The research endorses the argument that Merge is the core of the Faculty of Language, demonstrating that the operation works in the derivation abiding by the Strong Minimalist Thesis and that the properties of langauge emerge as the result of the interaction of Merge and interfaces.
24720199, A theoretical and empirical study of "derivation" and its mechanisms, The present research focused on derivation in the generation of syntactic structures, dealing with syntactic operations and their applications. In this research, I mainly considered the Merge operation and explored the hypothesis that Merge is constrained by third factor principles. As empirical data, I considered subject movement (both A and A') and explored mechanisms of syntactic derivations. The research did demonstrate that the simplest Merge hypothesis is on the right track. The results I obtained endorse the Strong Minimalist Thesis and I believe that my research has contributed to the understanding of the faculty of language in our mind/brain.
JP20K00616, Optimal syntactic computation that generates properties of language: A theoretical and empirical study focusing on clause structure and the subject