Volitionality on the split intransitivity: An acceptability judgment study

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This study investigated the volitionality effect on split intransitivity in Japanese with respect to licensing of floating numeral quantifiers (FNQ), a syntactic unaccusativity diagnostic in Japanese. An acceptability judgment experiment was conducted to examine whether volitionality represented with the combination of an animate subject and a volitional adverbial phrase reduces the acceptability of the FNQ sentences, assuming that volitionality contributes to an unergative interpretation. Our results were as predicted and concluded that volitionality is a determinant factor for dividing the unaccusative/unergative structure in Japanese.

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