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 Jôchi Daigaku Gengo Gakkai Kaihô (Proceedings of Sophia University Linguistic Society), No. 13, 1998, pp. 117-136.)