%0 Journal Article %A Kishimoto, Hideki %T Transitivity of ergative case-marking predicates in Japanese %D 2004 %J Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language” %V 28 %N 1 %P 105-136 %@ 0378-4177 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.28.1.05kis %I John Benjamins %X In this article, I argue that ergative case-marking predicates in Japanese, which take two non-canonically case-marked arguments, are best described as transitive predicates having subjects and direct objects, rather than as intransitive predicates without any direct objects — contrary to Shibatani’s recent proposal (Shibatani 1999, 2001a, b, Shibatani and Pardeshi 2001). More specifically, ergative case-marking predicates are argued to be transitive, as originally conceived by Kuno (1973) and others, on the basis that outer dative/nominative phrases display subject properties, while inner nominative phrases exhibit positive object properties. Furthermore, it is argued that ergative case-marking constructions do not constitute a sub-type of double subject construction by showing that they are licensed in a different way. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.28.1.05kis