THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN

ELSJ

Volume 39

Volume 38

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Volume 39, Issue 1

Articles

Copy Raising in English and the Null Operator Abandonment Hypothesis for Pronominal Binding
Pages 1-36, Yukihiro Kanda
Complementizers at the Syntax-Phonology Interface
Pages 37-70, Jun Tamura

Notes and Discussion

How to Restrict Movement under Free Merge
Pages 71-81, Yuya Sakumoto

Reviews

Kageyama, Taro and Wesley M. Jacobsen (eds.) (2018) Transitivity and Valency Alternations: Studies on Japanese and Beyond
Pages 82-93, Suguru Mikami
Ionin, Tania and Ora Matushansky (2018) Cardinals: The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions
Pages 94-106, Kenta Mizutani
Bouzouita, Miriam, Anne Breitbarth, Lieven Danckaert, and Elisabeth Witzenhausen (eds.) (2019) Cycles in Language Change
Pages 107-116, Satoshi Nakagawa
Becker, Misha and Kamil Ud Deen (2020) Language Acquisition and Development: A Generative Introduction
Pages 117-127, Reiko Okabe
Dikken, Marcel den (2018) Dependency and Directionality
Pages 128-139, Naoto Tomizawa

Volume 39, Issue 2

Articles

On Internal Pair-Merge and Ambiguous Chains
Pages 157-190, Tomonori Otsuka

Brief Articles

That Guy Who Is Weirdly Unspecific: A Fictional Entity in Encyclopedic Knowledge
Pages 191-203, Rana Sato

Notes and Discussion

Tell Me, What Discourse Functionality Does Tell Me Have?
Pages 204-215, Keita Ikarashi and Patrick Maher
PP Extraposition as Non-Restrictive Nominal Appositives
Pages 216-228, Naoki Nakamura

Review Articles

Simplest Merge is All We Have in Syntax: The End of Syntax Indeed?
Pages 229-255, Tomio Hirose

Reviews

Athanasiadou, Angeliki and Herbert L. Colston (eds.) (2020) The Diversity of Irony
Pages 256-267, Kairi Igarashi
Jackendoff, Ray and Jenny Audring (2020) The Texture of the Lexicon: Relational Morphology and the Parallel Architecture
Pages 268-280, Tsuguro Nakamura
Kagan, Olga (2020) The Semantics of Case
Pages 281-292, Ryohei Naya
Sakamoto, Yuta (2020) Silently Structured Silent Argument
Pages 293-305, Tomokazu Takehisa
Nasukawa, Kuniya (2020) Morpheme-Internal Recursion in Phonology
Pages 306-317, Naoya Watabe

Volume 38, Issue 1

Articles

An In-Situ Analysis of Why-Stripping
Pages 1-32, Hiroko Kimura
Analysis of Subject Contact Relative Constructions Based on Split Feature Inheritance
Pages 33-73, Tetsuya Matsuyama

Brief Articles

The Uniform Hypothesis of Ni-Passives in Japanese and Movement into θ-Position
Pages 74-90, Ryoichiro Kobayashi
Labeling in Inversion Constructions
Pages 91-105, Masako Maeda
Benefactive Adverbial Constructions in Japanese: A Comparison with English
Pages 106-126, Koichi Miyakoshi

Notes and Discussion

Genitive Subjects in Mongolian Exclamatives
Pages 127-138, Lina Bao, Shulun and Hideki Maki

Review Articles

Native Speakers Are Creative and Conservative: What Explain Me This Reveals about the Nature of Linguistic Knowledge
Pages 139-163, Shinya Hirasawa and Yoshiki Nishimura

Reviews

Kotek, Hadas (2018) Composing Questions
Pages 164-175, Yusuke Imanishi
Dayal, Veneeta (2016) Questions
Pages 176-187, Hisashi Morita

Volume 38, Issue 2

Articles

Discourse Patient Paradoxes
Pages 203-241, Koichi Miyakoshi

Notes and Discussion

Argument Ellipsis and NP-Ni in Indirect Passives
Pages 242-249, Ryoichiro Kobayashi
Focus Fronting and Pseudogapping in English as Evidence for Two Types of Focus Projection
Pages 250-262, Shohei Nagata
Am I Understood?: Passivization and Foregrounding
Pages 263-275, Akihiko Sakamoto and Kevin M. McManus

Reviews

Tomasello, Michael (2019) Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
Pages 276-286, Chie Fukada
Kishimoto, Hideki and Taro Kageyama (eds.) (2019) Rekishikon Kenkyu no Aratana Apurochi (New Approaches to Lexicon Research)
Pages 287-296, Mina Sugimura
Fonteyn, Lauren (2019) Categoriality in Language Change: The Case of the English Gerund
Pages 297-308, Katsuya Sugiura