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Yu Izumi

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Open access Jul 2026

A Semantic Specification of Expressive Small Clauses in Japanese

This paper develops a semantic analysis of Japanese expressive small clauses (ESCs)—phrases comparable to English You fool!—within Portner et al.’s (2019) participant-structure framework. We analyze ESCs and the nominal particle -me as conventional-implicature operators that update the hierarchical ranking of individua...

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