In the resent surge of interest in clause periphery, the previous
literature is now abundant in studies of allocutive markings and other
discourse-oriented expressions (Haegeman and Hill 2013; Miyagawa 2012,
2017; Zu 2015, 2018; Portner et al. 2019). As the view has become a
standard assumption that a speaker-hearer coordinate is present in the
outermost layer of the sentence (aka performative hypothesis, Ross 1970),
discourse-oriented elements that appear in non-clause periphery have drawn
researchers’ attention; e.g., embedded addressee-honorifics/allocutivity
(Yamada 2019; Kaur and Yamada 2019; Alok 2020), overt second person
pronouns (Alok and Baker 2020; Kaur and Yamada 2021). Maintaining the
performative hypothesis, recent studies have proposed some grammatical link
between the Adr/c in clause periphery and the instance below it; syntactic
binding for pronouns (Alok and Baker 2020), and a postsyntactic
morphological node-sprouting for an addressee-honorific marker (Yamada
2019). In this study, we develop this direction with unprecedented data
from Japanese, aka, phrase-final particles (PFPs), and demonstrate how
unexpected non–clause-peripheral elements are analyzed by a combination of
extant theoretical devises without violating performative hypothesis.