Japanese/Korean Linguistics

In the literature, properties of scrambling out of control clauses in Japanese are not completely clear.  For example, although some argue that scrambling out of control clauses provoke weak-crossover effects, others claim that it does not (e.g. see Nemoto 1993, 1999, Takano 2009, 2010, Yoshimoto 2012, Goto 2017, and references therein).  Based on the previous studies (e.g., Skumoto 2024a), this paper endeavors to clarify its properties by providing more data and shows that weak-crossover effects are not provoked in scrambling out of control clauses.  Furthermore, I consider an analysis of scrambling out of control clauses from the perspectives of phases (cf. Chomsky 2000, Saito 2017a, Goto 2017, Sakumoto 2024a, among others).