ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

A LOCAL RELATION BETWEEN PARTICLES AND VERBAL PREFIXES IN ENGLISH

KAZUHISA ISHIKAWA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 249-275
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.249

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This paper aims to account for the restriction on cooccurrence of particles and verbal prefixes like re- and un-. We first show that Old English particles had a cooperative relation to certain verbal prefixes in imparting spatial or completive meanings to verbs. By assuming an abstract null prefix, we next claim that this relation was retained after the OE prefixes disappeared. Noting that this relation is similar to that between a negative operator and a negative head, we propose a principle parallel to the Neg Criterion, and explain the cooccurrence restriction. Finally, we revise it to cover some locative argument PPs as well as particles.

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ON THE NATURE OF THE NULL OPERATOR IN TOUGH CONSTRUCTIONS

NAOSHI NAKAGAWA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 276-304
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.276

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This paper is concerned with the idiosyncratic nature of the null operator in tough constructions and its effects on their derivation. The null operator is a nonspecific bare NP and cannot be interpreted at LF. I propose that the null operator is therefore deleted and the trace in the infinitival clause is reanalyzed as an anaphor at LF. This analysis accounts for the fact that tough constructions show SSC effects, which are peculiar to A-bound elements. Furthermore, it interacts with complex-adjective formation at LF and explains the fact that SSC effects show up only when the infinitival clause has a lexical subject.

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THE MINIMAL LINK CONDITION AND THE THEORY OF MOVEMENT

TORU ISHII

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 305-329
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.305

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This paper presents new empirical evidence for Chomsky's (1995, 1998, 1999) featural view of movement, which claims that the core part of movement is an operation on formal features, Attract/Move-F or Agree, with displacement of a category α being a consequence of pied-piping. Empirical support for the featural view of movement comes from the presence/absence of superiority effects, which has resisted any minimalist account. It is shown that superiority facts straightforwardly follow from the featural Minimal Link Condition (MLC), which is based on the featural view of movement, but not from the categorical MLC, which is based on the traditional Move-α view of movement. It is also shown that the wh-island constraint, which prima facie undermines the credibility of the featural MLC, can be subsumed under the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC).

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ISLAND EFFECTS ON INVISIBLE MOVEMENT OF FOCUS PARTICLES

A CASE STUDY OF KOSO AND SAE IN JAPANESE

MASAKI SANO

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 330-360
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.330

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This paper is primarily concerned with the syntactic and semantic properties of two focus particles in Japanese, koso and sae. Occurrence of these particles is shown to be licensed by the head of a clausal category they take scope over. The licensing relation in both cases is subject to island constraints on movement including the Complex NP Constraint (CNPC), suggesting that it is an instance of the movement operation constrained by UG. Both particles can, however, escape from the effect of CNPC with essentially the same mechanism, under the same principles of UG. The mechanism appears not specific to constructions with these particles but more general, applying to apparently different constructions involving wh.

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THE SEMANTICS OF THE‘BODY PART OFF’CONSTRUCTION

SHIGEYASU SAWADA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 361-385
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.361

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This paper examines the nature of a particular syntactic configuration to be termed the body part off construction, which is typically exemplified by They worked their butts off. It will argue that the construction is not an instance of the isolated idiomatic expressions found in English, but instead falls into a larger configurational pattern that can be construed as having an intensifier reading.
The basic hypothesis is that the proper interpretation of this construction is in part determined by a pragmatically based rule of construal which language users evoke so as to interpret otherwise pragmatically inappropriate sentences, thereby overriding the constructionally entailed resultative interpretation.

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BE GOING TO AND BE ABOUT TO

JUST BECAUSE DOC BROWN WAS GOING TO TAKE US BACK TO THE FUTURE DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO DO SO

NAOAKI WADA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 386-416
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.386

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The aim of this paper is to explain, from a systematic and unified point of view, the following two facts: (i) sentences containing be going to (be going to-sentences) can easily go with adverbials of future time reference such as tomorrow, while sentences containing be about to (be about to-sentences) basically cannot, and (ii) in narrative texts be going to-sentences in the past tense tend to be used to indicate fulfillment of the situation expressed by the infinitive, whereas be about to-sentences in the past tense tend to be used to imply unfulfillment of it. To provide an explanatory basis for these two issues, the present paper formulates the temporal structures of be going to- and be about to-sentences. It is shown that the temporal structures interact with such factors as metonymy and the nature and grammar of narrative texts, resulting in the observed differences between the two types of sentences.

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ON THE TYPOLOGY OF SUBJECT RAISING AND ENGLISH

HIROYUKI URA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 417-426
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.417

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MOVEMENT IN GAPPING CONSTRUCTIONS

YOSHIO NAKAMURA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 427-433
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.427

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In this paper I have posed a new analysis of remnant movement in English Gapping constructions. I have also made some speculations concerning the direction which future research might take, in the hope that many questions left unanswered will eventually fall into place.

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Economy of Derivations: From Global to Local (C. Collins, Local Economy)

ETSURO SHIMA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 434-458
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.434

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Prominence, Phrasing, and Movement (M. L. Zubizarreta, Prosody, Focus, and Word Order)

HISAO TOKIZAKI

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 459-487
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.459

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Faithfulness and Semantic Interpretation in OT (P. Barbosa et al., Is the Best Good Enough?: Optimality and Competition in Syntax)

TAKEO KURAFUJI

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 488-513
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.488

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On Overt Object Raising (J. T. Runner, Noun Phrase Licensing)

KUNIHIRO IWAKURA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 514-537
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.514

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Formalizing Functionalism: A Schematization-Based Linking Theory (R. D. Van Valin et al., Syntax: Structure, Meaning and Function)

WATARU NAKAMURA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 538-572
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.538

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Stricture and Word Formation in English (J. Padgett, Stricture in Feature Geometry)

HIDEKI ZAMMA

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 573-590
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.573

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Toward a Unified Account of Imperatives: Elimination of Complexity in Grammar (E. Potsdam, Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative)

MAKOTO KONDO

2000 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 591-613
Published: 2000
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.17.591

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