A Study of Sentence Adverbs in Japanese : Part 2

We will present a theory which can explain the scopal difference in Japanese sentences adverbs on the basis of the observation presented in the previous paper. In this article, we will present a little bit radical theory of scope assignment. We suppose that adverbs are freely introduced into syntax in conformity with the definition of Merge. We presume that the scope assignment itself is determined between an adverb and its head in the maximal domain. However, we radically propose that an adverbs has its own scope feature. This must be checked at LF. If the scope feature is not checked, it is judged as ungrammatical as a violation of Full Interpretation. This analysis is better than any others, because we propose no special device to explain the scope phenomenon of adverbs