ABSTRACT
Phrasal suffixation can potentially build a structure that is not derived by phrase structure rules. The author's hypothesis immediately predicts that in order for the alternating case marking patterns to exist for one predicate, the predicate must be morphologically complex in order for the base for reanalysis to exist. It is briefly noted in Kuno that the alternating case marking exists only with ‘stative derivatives’, by which Kuno refers to complex predicates involving -tai and -reru. There is an additional small piece of evidence showing that morphological transparency affects the reanalysis. It can consequently be said that certain cases of syntactic word formation rule create a ‘marked’ structure in the language. It is also conceivable that the type of structure building can result in a structural ambiguity, which is often susceptible to a reanalysis. By the time conjunction reduction applies, the case marking on the second NP has already been changed.
