caa a22 4500 475756614 CHVBK 20180406123539.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008311420647 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008311420647 Koisumi Masatoshi Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, 980-8579, Sendai, Japan aut String Vacuous Overt Verb Raising [Elektronische Daten] [Masatoshi Koisumi] Although evidence is abundant for overt syntactic verb raising in head initial languages, no convincing evidence has been found for comparable verb movement in head final languages such as Japanese. This state of affairs has led some researchers to conclude that there is no Head Parameter as such in UG. In this paper, we present arguments for overt verb raising in Japanese, thereby defending the validity of the Head Parameter with its two values [head initial] and [head final]. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/3(2000-07-01), 227-285 0925-8558 9:3<227 2000 9 10831 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008311420647 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008311420647 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Koisumi Masatoshi Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, 980-8579, Sendai, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/3(2000-07-01), 227-285 0925-8558 9:3<227 2000 9 10831 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer