In this article, I first attempt to determine the syntactic structure of negative sentences in Japanese, and demonstrate that the negative morpheme -(a)na- and the verb stem that immediately precedes it in a negative sentence do not necessarily form a morphosyntactic constituent. Then I show that the scope relations between negators and quantifiers in Japanese are not uniquely determined by the c-command relations holding between them at syntactic representational levels such as Logical Form, and suggest an alternative analysis based on simple Montague Grammar mechanisms.
(S. Yatabe, "Nihongo ni okeru hitei-ji, ryôka-shi no sukôpu no kettei [Determination of the scope of negators and quantifiers in Japanese]," in Takane Ito, ed., Bunpô Riron: Rekishikon to Tôgo [Grammatical Theory: Lexicon and Syntax], University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 2002, pp. 249-272.)
(This is a revised version of my 1998 paper with the same title.)