Kuroda(1988) claims that structural differences between English and Japanese are attributed to the parametric difference that languages are parametirized as to whether X-agreement is forced or not. In this paper I refute his analysis of Japanese as a ...
Kuroda(1988) claims that structural differences between English and Japanese are attributed to the parametric difference that languages are parametirized as to whether X-agreement is forced or not. In this paper I refute his analysis of Japanese as a non-forced agreement language by showing that there is a forced agreement between verb and its complement. Following the line of Webelhuth(1989), it will be argued that parametric differences must be sought within a maximal projection of a head. If in Japanese there is an X-agreement between verb and its complement and no X-agreement between I/C and its Spec, then Japanese should be regarded as a mixed agreement language.