ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

ON THE EXPLETIVE CONSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH

KUNIHIRO IWAKURA

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 1-24
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.1

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I advance a new analysis of the expletive construction in which expletive there occurs in Spec of NP. From this analysis it follows that expletive there occurs only when it is followed by an indefinite nominal associate. This analysis not only accounts for the relevant range of data but also enables us to dispense with the exceptional treatment of expletive there regarding the assumption that a strong feature induces overt movement and the assumption that α is in a checking relation only if α heads a nontrivial chain.

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ON SENTENTIAL NEGATION AND THE LICENSING OF NEGATIVE POLARITY ITEMS IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE: A MINIMALIST APPROACH

NOBUAKI NISHIOKA

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 25-54
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.25

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This paper is concerned with the syntax of negative sentences and negative polarity items (NPIs) in English and Japanese and argues for the validity of a feature-checking analysis in the framework of Chomsky (1995). It is demonstrated that the feature-checking analysis based on feature specification on Neg and NPIs can present a unified view of negative sentences and that different distributions of NPIs naturally follow from it. At the same time, it is argued that negative sentences suggest a locality condition supplementary to the Minimal Link Condition in Chomsky (1995), in support of Manzini (1998). This locality condition is incorporated into the analysis as the NEG-Convention.

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MOOD AND COMPLEMENTIZER DELETION

AKIRA HIROE

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 55-77
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.55

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This paper presents a new analysis of complementizer deletion phenomena, focusing in particular on that-deletion in English. More specifically, I propose that in English, when a certain specific mood is projected up onto CP, that-deletion is disallowed, and vice versa. It is argued extensively that despite some differences in the way mood-marking is coded, the same analysis also holds for other languages. In addition, assuming that the definition of mood can be extended to the domain of intersentences, a certain specific mood is involved in the unavailability of complementizer deletion in constructions with factive, response-stance, and manner-of-speaking verbs.

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TRANSITIVE ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISH

SATOKO OSAWA

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 78-103
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.78

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This paper claims that English adjectives, which have been considered to have no ability to assign Case, have a Case assigning ability just like adjectives in morphologically Case marked languages. It is argued that AP and VP exhibit some parallelisms, which indicates the internal phenomena of the two must be accounted for uniformly. If the observed VP-internal phenomena can be attributed to a Case assigning feature of the transitive verbs, it is naturally concluded that the adjectives have a Case assigning feature to be checked off and hence they have a Case assigning ability. This claim consequently leads us to certain revisions of the [±N] distinction for Case assigning ability, the of-insertion rule, and licensing of inherent Case.

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ON THE INTERPRETATION OF CERTAIN MODIFIED NPS

HIROYUKI TAKAGI

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 104-120
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.104

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HAVE constructions allow for object NPs whose modifiers allow one to infer that the referent of the NP cannot stand in a possessive relationship with the referent of the subject, as in I have a missing tooth. Although it is generally held that the inalienability of the object NP plays a crucial role in this phenomenon, there exist examples which do not seem to be cases of inalienable possession. Taking recent psychological research into consideration, we argue that the interpretation in question arises as a consequence of the mechanism that underlies our subjective construal of the world, and show that apparently problematic data are given a cognitively motivated explanation.

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SPLIT-CP, DOUBLY-FILLED COMP, AND LOCALITY OF LANGUAGE CHANGE

HIROYUKI NAWATA

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 121-144
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.121

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This paper aims to account for the syntactic transition of doubly-filled Comp in the history of English in terms of locality of language change. On the assumption that the loss of verb movement in main clauses was a downward shift of the [+F] feature, it will be argued that doubly-filled Comp was permissible from the 14th century to the mid-15th century when [+F] occupied the lower head of the split-CP structure in embedded clauses. This analysis provides substantial support for the idea that the simultaneous demise of V2 and doubly-filled Comp was not a mere coincidence but induced by the same factor.

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VP-ELLIPSIS AND PARASITIC GAPS

MASAHARU SHIMADA

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 145-151
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.145

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VP ELLIPSIS IN ENGLISH

Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing, and Identification, by Anne Lobeck, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995, ix+210pp

TADANORI OKUNO

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 152-183
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.152

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THE ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL-INTERACTIVE TOOLS IN DESCRIBING TENSE IN ENGLISH

Functional Semantics: A Theory of Meaning, Structure and Tense in English, by Peter Harder, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1996, ix+586pp

MARIKO HIGUCHI

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 184-209
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.184

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ANAPHORA: COGNITIVE GRAMMAR ACCOUNT VS. GENERATIVE GRAMMAR ACCOUNT

Anaphora and Conceptual Structure, by Karen van Hoek, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997, xii+250pp

KEN-ICHI TAKAMI

1999 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 210-236
Published: 1999
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.210

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