Temporal -made in Japanese and its interaction with aspect and polarity
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The main puzzle that Japanese -made gives rise to is that it has two uses, the until-use and the by-use. In this paper we attempted to analyze the two uses uniformly. The core idea is that in both uses -made introduces domain alternatives, and a phonologically null alternative-sensitive operator introduces additional inferences based on them. We employed two such operators, exc and exh. The former accounts for the until-use, as in Alxatib’s 2023 account of English until. The latter plays a crucial role in our account of the infelicity of the combination of the by-use of -made and a durative predicate as well as of the obviation effects.
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