ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
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Volume 29, Issue 1
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  • SYNTACTIC FEATURE TRANSFER AND REFLEXIVE BINDING IN INTERLANGUAGE
    NAO ISHINO
    2012 Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 1-37
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: July 20, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.29.1_1
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    The purpose of this paper is not simply to give an empirical description, but rather to give a theoretical explanation of the syntactic mechanism for reflexive binding in interlanguage grammar by proposing Feature Transfer and Feature Learning Hypothesis, with the idea of φ-feature (de)composition. Our hypothesis demands that formal features in an L1 item, if specified featurally, should be transferred to interlanguage grammar, while underspecified features in an L1 item should not. We will demonstrate that the reflexives in the interlanguage grammar of Japanese learners of English are φ-defective and their syntactic properties are explained with our hypothesis coherently under the current minimalist binding theory through Agree.
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  • CONTEXTUALIZING TAUTOLOGIES: FROM RADICAL PRAGMATICS TO MEANING ELIMINATIVISM
    TOMOHIRO SAKAI
    2012 Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 38-68
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: July 20, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.29.1_38
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    The purpose of this paper is to show that the linguistic meaning of tautological sentences of the form X is X does not correspond to any propositional content and to propose an analysis based on Contextualism, in particular on Meaning Eliminativism, its most extreme form. On the one hand, the radical-pragmatic assumption, shared even by recent cognitive approaches, that X is X expresses a logical tautology leads to various paradoxes. On the other hand, the radical-semantic view that its interpretations cannot be fully calculated by universal principles suffers from theoretical shortcomings. I will argue that the simple fact that X is X consists of two applications of X to the same object provides the basis for the interpretation of X is X.
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