Empirical and Theoretical Investigations into Language

 

- A Festschrift for Masaru Kajita -

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

 

Preface                                                                                                             vii

Selected Works of Masaru Kajita                                                                           xi

Abbreviations                                                                                                                                      xxi

 

New Developments of Negative Sentences in Modern English

Masatomo Ukaji                                                                                                  1

 

English Indirect Passives

Joseph Emonds                                                                                                  19

 

Floating Quantifiers: Their Distribution, Their Internal Structure

and the Theory of Phrase Structure

Masahiro Akiyama                                                                                             42

 

Descriptive Of-Phrases in English:

Toward an Analysis from a Developmental Viewpoint

Minoru Amanuma                                                                                             54

 

On Aspectual Away

Teruo Asakawa                                                                                                  70

 

A Note on English Progressive Futurates

Ichiro Asano                                                                                                      85

 

Licensing Conditions for Sentence Adverbials in English and Japanese

Shuji Chiba                                                                                                       95

 

Toward the Proper Characterization of Aspectual Shifts

Kazuaki Ezure                                                                                                  110

 

Except and Except For: A Diachronic Perspective

Masaaki Fuji                                                                                                   125

 

When an Uninformative Copular Clause Is Followed by a Relative Clause:

A Thematization through Clause Superposing

Hajime Fukuchi                                                                                               138

 

On the Empty Light Verb

Masao Fukuhara                                                                                              147

 

The Syntactic Behavior of Allege-Type Verbs

Hideaki Genfey                                                                                                160

 

Aspectual -Te Complex Predicates in Japanese:

With Particular Reference to the -Te Aru Construction

Hiromi Kizu Hayashi                                                                                         174

 

On the Scope of Occasional

Kaori Hayashi                                                                                                  189

 

Differential Manifestations of gModalityh between Japanese and Korean:

A Typological Perspective

Kaoru Horie                                                                                                     205

 

A Note on the Peculiarity of the GET -ING Construction

Yasuhiro Ichikawa                                                                                            217

 

On Language and Complexity: A Note on de Boer (2001)

Masayuki Ike-uchi                                                                                            231

 

What Wh-Echo-Questions Tell Us about the Architecture of Language Faculty

Toshiaki Inada and Noriko Terazu Imanishi                                                         241

 

Interrogative Adjuncts in Japanese: A Preliminary Study

Yasuo Ishi                                                                                                        281

 

Constructional Blending: The gSubject + Adverbial Adjuncth Construction

Sachie Kajita                                                                                                   297

 

Negation in Classical Japanese: A Minimalist Perspective

Yasuhiko Kato                                                                                                  314

 

Embraced Negative Object Constructions in the Paston Letters

Osamu Koma                                                                                                   326

 

Phrasal Compounds: A Study Based on English, Japanese

and Mandarin Chinese Data

Chiaki Komatsu                                                                                                340

 

Nonrestrictive Restrictive Relative Clauses in English

Tsuguyo Kono                                                                                                  355

 

External Possession Constructions in English: A Dynamic View

Tomomi Kougo                                                                                                 369

 

The Acquisition of the Meaning and the Distribution of Quantificational

Expressions in English and Japanese: A Dynamic View

Shigeko Matsufuji                                                                                            386

 

Typologies of Lexicalization Patterns and Event Integration:

Clarifications and Reformulations

Yo Matsumoto                                                                                                  403

 

Mixture of Morphological and Syntactic Elements in English: A Dynamic View

Junya Morita                                                                                                   419

 

Constraints on Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Time-Relationship Adverbs

Tetsuharu Moriya and Kaoru Horie                                                                     435

 

Where Do Conjoined WH-Phrases Come from?

Yukio Nagahara                                                                                               447

 

Complex Motion Predicates and the Purposive Marker Ni in Japanese

Naoki Nakajima                                                                                               462

 

Notes on the Japanese Supporting Verb SUGIRU: A Syntax-Semantics Mismatch

Tsuguro Nakamura                                                                                            477

 

Denominalization in the Generative Lexicon

Kentaro Nakatani                                                                                             493

 

Syntax, Semantics, and In-Between: In Defense of Predicative

Kazuo Nakazawa                                                                                              510

 

There Contact Clauses in English Nursery Rhymes

Noriko Nakazawa                                                                                             524

 

On the Expression Rinse in Shampoo:

A New Type of Japanese Compound Coined from English Words

Takayasu Namiki                                                                                              538

 

A Semantic Analysis of Collocations between Words and Their Prepositions

Akira Ogawa                                                                                                   551

 

A Scope Theory of Tense and Adnominal Modifiers

Toshiyuki Ogihara                                                                                            567

 

A Beautiful Two Weeks: Its Syntactic Structure and the Semantic Relations

of the Adjective to the Numeral and Head Noun

Tsutomu Ohna                                                                                                  577

 

A Dynamic Approach to the Onefs Way-Construction in English:

From Simple Composition to Phrasal eLexicalf Idioms to Constructional Idioms

Takeshi Omuro                                                                                                 588

 

On the So-Called Japanese gEel-Sentencesh in Japanese

Tetsuya Sano                                                                                                    604

 

Prenominal Modifiesrs in English: An Outline of a Dynamic Analysis

Kazutaka Sasaki and Takao Yagi                                                                        612

 

Verbs of Gesture and the Expression of Body Parts

Hirosi Shimada                                                                                                 619

 

On Lexicalized Phrases

Reiko Shimamura                                                                                             631

 

Adjectival Passives and Japanese gIntransitivizing Resultativeh

V-Te Aru Construction

Junko Shimoyama                                                                                             647

 

Innate Constraints on Language Variation:

Evidence from the Acquisition of Japanese

Koji Sugisaki                                                                                                   662

 

Polesemy, Lexical Underspecification, and Movement

Takeru Suzuki                                                                                                  676

 

The English Exclamative and Its Subtypes

Mineko Takahashi and Hiroshi Takahashi                                                           691

 

Unbounded Motion Events and the Way Construction

Takayuki Takao                                                                                                706

 

Some Observations and Speculations on the English Comparative Correlative

Mitsuo Tani                                                                                                     718

 

A Note on Negative Concord in Orosius

Shin-ichiro Tomine                                                                                            732

 

Three Kinds of Resultatives: To Death, To Onefs Death & Dead

Masako Tsuzuki                                                                                                747

 

Mukatuk-u: A Japanese Verb Cured of Nausea With a Zero Passive Morpheme

Taira Uchida                                                                                                    762

 

On the Form and Meaning of Aspectual Markers -Yor-u and -Too

in the Northern Kyusyu Dialect

Saeko Urushibara                                                                                             778

 

On the Distribution of Some Emotive Modifiers

Kazuhiro Ushie                                                                                                 793

 

A Note on the Relative Clauses in Concealed Questions

Yoshihiko Watanabe                                                                                          805

 

NPI Even Does Not Exist: Remarks on Scope Assignment to Focus Particles

Takao Yagi                                                                                                       817

 

A Note on the Role of Adjacency in Phonological Change

Norio Yamada                                                                                                  832

 

Notes on Null Subjects in Childrenfs WH-Drop Questions

Kyoko Yamakoshi                                                                                             836

 

Anaphora and Reference-Point Ability

Masa-aki Yamanashi                                                                                         846

 

A Dynamic Approach to the Reduced Pseudocleft in

Spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Tomoko Yoshino                                                                                               858

 

 

Editorial Board                                                                                              873