ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a few more suffixes that can be analyzed as attaching to a unit larger than a verb. It also examines two verbal suffixes which syntactically attach to a V’ phrase in terms of their scopes and in comparison with their corresponding English expressions. The chapter discusses some nominalizing suffixes which attach to a phrase and form predicate nominals, aims to see that the pattern is especially productive with predicate nominal formation, and explains some subordination suffixes. There are number of morphemes in Japanese which attach to an infinitival form of a verb in a clause and make the whole clause subordinate. They express a temporal relation of some sort between the main clause and the subordinate clause. The chapter suggests a new approach to the morphology of passive constructions based on the assumption pursued in this work that the domain of suffixation can be flexible across lexical and phrasal levels.
