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The aim of this paper is to present that quantifiers in Korean and Japanese cannot be floated in θ-positions, in compliance with Bošković’s seminal observation in 2004 based on multiple languages. The so-called “standard” and “nonstandard” paradigms (Miyagawa and Arikawa, 2007), involving floating quantifiers created by subject movement, will be specifically examined. The result will be that only the former but not the latter paradigm has the floating quantifiers in θ-positions, proving the validity of the given constraint. I further show that the nonstandard paradigms, unlike their corresponding standard ones, are associated with topic movement, and have the effect on making a room for the subject to move to and merge with a Q in the non-θ-positions, confirming the constraint in question. This analysis will be shown to have important theoretical consequences, desirably furnishing a simple and natural account for vexing problems that otherwise arise under the previous approaches, namely, the arbitrariness and string vacuous problems of scrambling incorporated in such works as Miyagawa and Arikawa (2007) and Miyagawa (2010).
