In this article, I bring to light a seeming bracketing paradox in the morphology of Japanese honorifics, and tentatively suggest that the paradox stems from a certain discrepancy between morphosyntactic and prosodic constituent structure.
(S. Yatabe, "A bracketing paradox in Japanese honorifics," in Akira Baba et al., eds., Hasegawa Kinsuke Kyôju Kanreki Kinen Ronbun-shû (Essays in Linguistics and Philology Presented to Professor Kinsuke Hasegawa on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday), Kenkyûsha, Tokyo, 1995, pp. 333-343.)