The aim of this paper is to resolve an issue in Japanese linguistics that has been discussed by numerous authors including Kuno (1980, 1983), Takubo (1985), Kato (1989), and Masuoka (1991) under the rubric of "negator scope." I will argue that the issue of "negator scope" is automatically resolved if we make (i) a rather uncontroversial assumption that a focused expression is associated with a scope and (ii) a somewhat more controversial, but nevertheless defensible assumption that NegP does not exist in Japanese.
(S. Yatabe, "Negation and focusing in the grammar of Japanese," in Takao Gunji, ed., Studies on the Universality of Constraint-Based Phrase Structure Grammars (Report of the International Scientific Research Program, Joint Research, Project No.06044133, Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture, Japan), Osaka University, 1996, pp. 217-225.)