Text and Boundary: A Sideways Glance at Textual Phenomena in Japanese

This research study examines various textual phenomena in Japanese from the particular perspective of boundary. Explicitly signaled “boundaries” in general and “bracket structures” as their special case, are ubiquitous at all levels of linguistic structure. The layered structure of the Japanese sentence as described in detail by Minami Huzio can also be considered as a particular case of bracket structure.