Towards a Unified Analysis of Japanese Adverb Types and Their Syntactic Positions

Abstract

This paper aims to integrate what has been claimed in the proposals of Jackendoff (1972) and Cinque (1999) with studies on Japanese adverbs and to propose a unified analysis for the position of Japanese adverbs. Specifically, I divide Japanese adverbs into three types: CP adverbs, , while scrambled DPs target FocP. My point is that the positions of adverbs mark the boundaries of vP, IP, and CP.