Abstract
It has been argued recently that the so-called lexical compounds that Kageya-ma (1993) proposes should be reexamined. In fact, many linguists including Nishiyama (1998), Hasegawa (1999) and Saito (2001) have argued that the lexical compounds should be formed in the syntactic component, not in the lexicon. In this paper, the compounds including -kiru in Japanese are examined, and the main claims here are 1) that there are three types of compounds including -kiru in Japanese, 2) that the three types of compounds come from the different syntactic structures. Finally, this paper presents a piece of evidence for the syntax of event structure (cf. Ramchand (2008)).
