What Happened after the Movement of NPS in Japanese in La Jolla?

Abstract

In this paper I would first like to summarize the main points of my paper ‘Movement of Noun Phrases in Japanese’ (Kuroda 1986a), which was distributed to the participants of the Workshop in Japanese Syntax at La Jolla, without repeating observations and arguments behind them. Then I am going to add some observations made on the third topic of the paper, i.e. on the topic of topic, which I made at the time of the workshop and other observations which came to my attention later. Here I am going to make astronger case for the movement theory of topics, overriding the reservations I expressed at the time of the workshop.