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Abstract

This paper investigated semantic and structural properties of an noun phrase(NP) used with the case marker ‘wa’ in order to reveal characteristics of comitative construction. The comitative construction is in general known to mean that NP arguments contained in a sentence participate simultaneously and cooperatively in a certain event, and because of this semantic property, the comitative construction used to be compared with the symmetric construction. However, this paper mainly focused on the comitative construction to reveal its various aspects. The result of this study could be summarized in two claims. First, this paper has shown that comitative constructions could be divided into two types with respect to semantic properties of an NP combined with ‘wa’. The type distinction of an NP used with ‘wa’ is basically based on the fact that a comitative sentence can contain two NPs combine with ‘wa’. In one type of ‘wa’, the NP argument is understood as a participant who is accompanied in the same type of event taking place at the same time and place, and in the other type of ‘wa’, the NP argument is understood as a participant who works cooperatively with someone to perform an event. Secondly, it is claimed that the two types of ‘wa’ have different structural properties. The NP with ‘wa’ meaning ‘accompaniment’ is analyzed as being adjoined to an NP, but the NP with ‘wa’ meaning ‘cooperation’ is analyzed as being adjoined to a predicate phrase. This paper has shown how the proposed analysis is applied to explain various aspects of the comitative construction.