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Volume 28, Issue 2
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  • ON EXTRAPOSITION FROM NP CONSTRUCTIONS: A PHASE-BASED ACCOUNT
    HIROYOSHI TANAKA
    2011 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 173-205
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: June 26, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.28.2_173
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    This paper explicates grammatical properties of Extraposition from NP (ExNP) constructions in English in terms of the Phase Theory in Chomsky (2008). We assume that Edge Features (EF) in phase heads can be a driving force for rightward mergers (linearly unrestricted EFs) and transmitted from phase heads to their selecting heads due to the derivationally interpretive mechanism (EF-inheritance). These phase-based assumptions allow extraposed phrases to be adjoined to the rightward position in a single transferred domain where a modification relation can be derivationally formed between relevant phrases and their host DPs. Finally, we show that our approach can be successfully extended to Secondary Predicate (SP) constructions.
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  • ON THE COMPLEMENT STRUCTURES AND GRAMMATICALIZATION OF SEE AS A LIGHT VERB
    YUSUKE KUME
    2011 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 206-221
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: June 26, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.28.2_206
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    In Present-day English, there are some cases in which inanimate subjects are selected by a class of perception verbs, especially see, which denote the existence or causation of the events expressed by their complements. It is suggested that the semantic difference between existence and causation is associated not only with the types of inanimate subjects, i.e. time/location vs. others, but also with the two possible complement structures of see, i.e. Asp(ect)P vs. VP. Moreover, it is proposed that see was grammaticalized into a light verb denoting existence/causation during the Late Modern English period via generalization, shift of meaning, and semantic bleaching.
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  • INTRODUCTION: LINEAR INFORMATION ACROSS GRAMMAR
    HISAO TOKIZAKI
    2011 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 222-226
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: June 26, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.28.2_222
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  • THE NATURE OF LINEAR INFORMATION IN THE MORPHOSYNTAX-PF INTERFACE
    HISAO TOKIZAKI
    2011 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 227-257
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: June 26, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.28.2_227
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    This paper claims that the hierarchical structure of morphosyntax is mapped onto a linear sequence of elements with prominence and different strengths of juncture, which play a role in parsing the structure intended by the speaker. The mapping of left-branching and right-branching structure shows asymmetry in the strengths of juncture. This junctural asymmetry comes from the phonetic implementation of speech signals. It is argued that the strong juncture in left-branching structure makes it quasi-compound. Unmarked word-stress location works as a constraint on complement movement, deriving left-branching from right-branching structure in the base, thus taking the place of a head-directionality parameter. This analysis therefore dispenses with the need for linear information in morphosyntax.
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  • SIGNIFICANCE OF LINEAR INFORMATION IN PROSODICALLY CONSTRAINED SYNTAX
    KAYONO SHIOBARA
    2011 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 258-277
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: June 26, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.28.2_258
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    This paper argues for the significance of linear information in the computational component. In the grammatical model adopted here, syntactic and prosodic derivations proceed in parallel from left to right in the manner of Phillips’ (1996, 2003) incremental structure-building, and a syntactic object is spelled out as a prosodic object in multiple steps. The approach to linearization based on this model provides a prosodically-based account of the robust contrast between Japanese and English VP-internal, ditransitive idioms: obligatory adjacency in Japanese and optional and extensive disjointness in English. This approach reinforces the significance of linear information in the syntax, which is constrained by prosody (Zec and Inkelas (1990)).
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  • REPRESENTING PHONOLOGY WITHOUT PRECEDENCE RELATIONS
    KUNIYA NASUKAWA
    2011 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 278-300
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: June 26, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.28.2_278
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    In the pursuit of a strictly monostratal model of phonology, syllable/prosodic structure is fully specified in lexical representations. Accordingly, information relating to the linear order of segments is redundant in representations: dependency relations holding between syllabic categories are sufficient to account for phonological phenomena. This paper therefore investigates the possibility of omitting from phonological representations all precedence relations between units, which would allow positional precedence to be viewed merely as a by-product of phonetic interpretation relevant to the sensorimotor systems. As such, the division between phonology and its external systems would parallel the division between syntax and performance systems.
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