TY - JOUR AU - Tamura, Jun PY - 2017/06/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Another Look at Verb Movement in Japanese JF - Linguistica Atlantica JA - Ling Atlan VL - 36 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/25648 SP - AB - This paper is a response to Hatakeyama et al (2008), who argue for V-to-I in Japanese mainly on the basis of the distribution of the particle mo. I retest their data and reach a different result: Japanese verbs stay in situ at all times, and the relevant linearizations arise from phrasal versus head movement around mo, a particle that I define as a functional head (versus XP clitic in the cited study). Key words: Japanese, verb movement, mo, aspectual head, modal head. ER -