In this article, I argue that Japanese syntactic nominalization, formed with the nominalizer kata 'way', has a structure in which kata takes vP as its complement. It is claimed that overt head movement of all verbal heads below kata derives a complex nominal head. I propose that the nominalizing suffix - unlike tense - does not have an EPP feature, so that the arguments of syntactic nominals remain in their Merge positions without A-movement. This property of syntactic nominalization allows us to discern how and where arguments are merged and moved, and provides evidence for a split VP structure. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Kishimoto, H. (2006). Japanese syntactic nominalization and VP-internal syntax. Lingua, 116(6), 771–810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2005.03.005
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