ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
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  • WORD FREQUENCY, ENTRY DATE AND ENTRY STATUS IN RELATION TO STRESS SHIFTS IN ENGLISH NOUN-VERB PAIRS
    CHUNG-YU CHEN
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 231-271
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_231
    ジャーナル フリー
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    This paper seeks to find factors that contribute to the speed of stress shifts in prefixed disyllabic noun-verb pairs of Romance origin. Phillips’ hypotheses on word frequency correlations and her “lexical analysis” are discussed. Comparisons on word frequencies from 3 corpora, entry date and entry status in relation to stress patterns have been carried out on 252 N-V pairs from 12 prefixes in American and British English. Gradient percentages of words with noun entry status are found in present-day paroxytonic, diatonic and oxytonic pairs in four sets of data; no such correlations are found with respect to word frequency or entry date. Noun entry status facilitates the Romance loans’ adaptation to the “noun-Initial, verb-Final” stress pattern of Old English.
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  • A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE vP DOMAIN IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE
    TAKASHI KAYASHIMA
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 272-306
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_272
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    Japanese shows many phenomena which do not fit with the current Minimalist Program (MP) (Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2013)). Many theories in this program crucially depend on φ-features, but alternative possibilities should be pursued to explain various phenomena in Japanese, which lacks overt φ-feature agreement. In this paper, I propose that θ-features play important roles in syntax, and this is the motivation for the movements of DPs as well as Case valuation. Actually, English and Japanese have this θ-feature-based system in common, and many apparent differences can be attributed to two parametric differences, one of which is the morphological parameter and the other is the parameter on v recursion. In addition, it is argued that the latter parameter follows from the former one.
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  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEGATIVE-INITIAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH
    KOJI KOIKE
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 307-339
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_307
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    This paper investigates the development of negative-initial constructions in the history of English, along the three stages of Jespersen’s Cycle. It is proposed that two types of the negative marker ne were in competition at Stage 1, thereby motivating the loss of ne-initial constructions. Turning to Stage 2, the absence of negative inversion is argued to be accounted for in terms of Last Resort. Then, it is shown that the negative marker not has undergone structural competition from Stage 3 onward, but negative adverbs such as never have not. This difference is clearly reflected in the (im)possibility of their being fronted to sentence-initial position in Present-day English.
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  • EMBEDDED IMPERATIVES IN CONTROL
    ASAKO MATSUDA
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 340-376
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_340
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    The present paper argues that certain infinitival complements of English control constructions are embedded imperatives. These complements and root imperatives have identical syntactic structures and featural configurations, with only one exception: while root imperatives are anchored to an external Logophoric Center, embedded imperatives are anchored to an internal Logophoric Center (Bianchi (2003)). This brings about interpretative and morphological differences between them. There are significant advantages in treating control complements, particularly Landau’s (2000) Partial Control complements, as embedded imperatives. Under this view, partial control, implicit control and split control become naturally accountable.
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  • SEMI-LEXICAL CATEGORIES IN WORD-FORMATION: A CASE STUDY IN JAPANESE MIMETIC COMPOUNDS
    RYOHEI NAYA, KEITA IKARASHI
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 377-414
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_377
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    Although various studies have investigated semi-lexical categories, these categories seem to remain poorly understood (Corver and van Riemsdijk (2001a)). This is partly because data in the literature is mostly limited to the phrasal level and to European languages. To deepen our understanding of semi-lexical categories, this paper addresses Japanese compounds which include mimetics as their right-hand constituent (e.g. kabe-don ‘wall-Mim’). These mimetic compounds show peculiar characteristics in light of the right-hand head rule. To account for these peculiarities, we propose that a silent semi-lexical verbal noun occupies the head position of the mimetic compounds. Thus, our proposal will shed new light on semi-lexical categories.
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  • ON THE NATURE OF ENGLISH GERUNDS
    SHO SHIMOKARIYA
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 415-444
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_415
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    The gerundive construction with an Accusative subject in English displays properties of clauses, though its distribution is limited to a Case position, similar to noun phrases. This paper explores the idea that it has a CP structure but its tense head is somewhat ‘defective,’ demonstrating that its idiosyncratic behaviors are fully attributed to the internal structure. In identifying its structure, I will argue against the mechanism of Feature Inheritance and maintain a strict cyclic derivation in a bottom-up fashion, where each syntactic object inherently has its own features. The analysis will also keep to the primary concepts of Chomsky’s (2015) labeling algorithm, enabling us to capture a wide variety of phenomena.
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  • A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN TERMS OF LABELING THEORY
    RUMI TAKAKI
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 445-477
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_445
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    This paper investigates how narrow syntax is responsible for specifying deletion sites and aims to present a unified account for several elliptical constructions. Specifically, I will propose that the optional inheritance of the E-features from a phase head to a non-phase head has to do with marking the deletion sites. Further, following Chomsky’s (2013, 2015) labeling theory, I will present the unified mechanism of the elliptical constructions without recourse to Agree or feature checking of E-features which would require the E-features to have different specifics.
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  • ON THE SCOPE OF NAZE ‘WHY’ IN JAPANESE
    MEGUMI HASEBE, HIDEKI MAKI, FUMIKAZU NIINUMA
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 478-498
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_478
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    This paper investigates the scope of the adjunct wh-phrase naze ‘why’ in Japanese, and shows that there are two patterns of syntactic behavior visible in Japanese (Japanese A and B) with respect to its scope: it is clause-bound in Japanese B, while it is not in Japanese A. It is then argued (i) that the clause-boundedness of naze ‘why’ is a subcase of Comp-trace effects, as found in English, and wh-movement must take place before spell-out, (ii) that naze ‘why’ cannot be base-generated in the Spec of a [−Q] Comp in Japanese B, while it can in Japanese A, (iii) that Korean shows the same tendency in terms of the behavior of the corresponding adjunct wh-phrase way ‘why,’ and (iv) that English shows the same tendency as Japanese and Korean with respect to clefts and relative clauses with why.
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  • IS THE THEORY OF POLITENESS PRAGMALINGUISTIC OR SOCIOPRAGMATIC?: A NEW LOOK INTO THE UNIVERSALITY/CULTURE SPECIFICITY DIVIDE
    The Pragmatics of Politeness (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Geoffrey Leech, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, xvi+343pp.
    HIROAKI TANAKA
    2017 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 511-543
    発行日: 2017年
    公開日: 2021/02/09
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.33.2_511
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    This review paper focusses on how Leech’s (2014) General Strategy of Politeness and its sub-strategies (maxims) of pos-/neg-politeness work in the naturally occurring data of Japanese and English. The ultimate goal is to explore how people in conversation proceeds interactively by aligning themselves with each other in order to attain positive/negative politeness goals. Rather than looking at data pragmalinguistically in the sense of Leech (2014), we maintain the view that politeness phenomena are to be analyzed functionally and sequentially. After reviewing Leech’s most recent approaches, we propose that his (old) cost/benefit or (new) high/low value maxims of politeness principle may be applicable to natural data in some way, but need complete revision in terms of social and functional perspectives.
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