Idioms, Mixed Marking, and the Base-generation Hypothesis for Ditransitives in Japanese

Assistant Professor for Teaching Takae Tsujioka has published an article in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics (20[2], 2011, pp. 117-143) called “Idioms, Mixed Marking, and the Base-generation Hypothesis for Ditransitives in Japanese”. It is her rebuttal to critiques voiced by Hideki Kishimoto, professor at Kobe University. The article is based on Professor Tsujioka's presentation at a colloquium at University of Delaware, October 29, 2010. The following is the abstract from the Journal.

This paper replies to Kishimoto’s (2008, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17: 141–179) challenge to Miyagawa and Tsujioka (2004, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 13: 1–38) on the use of idioms as evidence for the base-generation hypothesis for Japanese ditransitives. The paper points out problems with Kishimoto’s proposal, then presents alternative analyses of Kishimoto’s data. It argues that a closer look at a wider range of data including mixed marking cases of sa-nominalization in both idiomatic and non-idiomatic contexts lends further support for Miyagawa and Tsujioka (2004).