N-no Hito and the Syntax of Japanese Nominal Phrases

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ArticlesThe syntactic properties of N-no hito construction in Japanese are discussed. It is shown that the occurrence of -no hito after a common noun is restricted to the argument use of the nominal phrase, hence adds to the evidence that argument nominals and predicative nominals are syntactically different in Japanese. In light of the extended DP hypothesis, hito is argued to be an intermediate head lying in between N and D. As for the categorial identity of hito, two possibilities are presented, namely hito-as-#0 and hito-as- Gend/Class0.