@misc{oai:barrel.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003921,
 author = {Takano, Hisako},
 month = {2016-01-26},
 note = {This study concerns the theory of parameters in general, the semantics of Japanese common nouns (CNs) in particular. It is an attempt to find a parametric account for the NP typology, and is also an attempt to provide a proper semantic theory which will encompass a variety of issues surrounding this universal lexical class: the mass/count distinction, genericity, and quantification. These issues, which have been scrutinized independently in the literature, will be raised and discussed in one perspective, i.e., a quest for some semantic universals of this lexical class. The hypothesis which I examine and defend here is that a parametric schema in syntax is provided by semantic feature differences intrinsic to a universal lexical class. The parametric feature I propose is one which determines either a quantificational or a generic interpretation as the canonical one for a language. If the CN denotation consists of a predicate which is to define a sortal object (set) and a free variable which is to provide means to quantify over the entities (Gupta, 1980), a nominal domain can be built either by taking the predicate part primitive, or by taking the variable part primitive. The former choice will yield a language with a generic interpretation as the canonical one (Japanese), the latter, a language with a quantificational interpretation as the canonical one (English). Adopting the type of nominal domain proposed by Link (1983), I propose a single, multi-sorted domain for the interpretation of Japanese CNs matched by multi-sorted variables which are selected for by verbal predicates and which determine the interpretation as mass, singular or plural. The analyses presented here have a number of relevant　aspects with those theories recently developed in the formal semantics including Partee's type-shifting principles (1987), and Heim's quantifier-free interpretation of indefinites (1982). It will be argued that Japanese case-marking particles are determiners which perform some universal typeshifting functions. The quantification in Japanese will be characterized as NP-external quantification, which is a direct consequence of the parametric choice that a language makes for the nominal domain., doctoral, course},
 title = {Syntactic and semantic natures of Japanese common nouns},
 year = {}
}