(Un)availability of "Bare Adjedives" and Hidden Small Clauses

Articulating the IP-internal structure of Kayne's (1994) D-CP analysis of nominal modification, I will claim that (un)availability of "bare adjectives" in adjectival nominal modification between English and Japanese are to be attributable to different natures of hidden small clauses (SC): (i) null vs. overt copulas; (ii) internal morphological make-ups of adjectives; and (iii) presence vs. absence of agreement-inducing functional category in SCs (cf. Kikuchi and Takahashi 1991), coupled with Chomsky's (1995) uniformity condition on chains. I will also discuss several issues pertaining to my proposal, including: (i) relative clausal nature of prenominal adjectival modifiers in Japanese; (ii) nature of arguments involved in adjectival and adverbial ku-forms in Japanese; and (iii) structural differences of adjectives and adverbs between English and Japanese.