Theoretical and Empirical Investigations into Locality on Long-distance Dependencies in Generative Grammar

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22520511
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: TORU Ishii 明治大学, 文学部, 教授 (30193254)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
• Keywords: 英語学 / 言語学 / 生成文法 / 統語理論 / 比較統語論

Research Abstract

This study proposes that while the ECP (Empty Category Principle) effects should be derived from constraints on syntactic structures, the subjacency and CED (Condition on Extraction Domain) effects should be due to constraints on prosodic structures within the phonological component (in the process of externalization), i.e. during the mapping from Spell-Out (PF-Transfer) to PF . It is shown that our proposal straightforwardly explains why the subjacency and CED effects are only observed in the overt component, whereas the ECP effects are observed not only in the overt and but also in covert components. This study differs from the previous studies on locality in that while the latter deals with all the locality phenomena in a unified way, our analysis claims that locality is an epiphenomena, consisting of the effects of constraints in the two different components of the grammar, the syntactic component and phonological component.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Complementizer Stacking, Dual Selections, and Relabeling (2013)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Sixth Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 6), MITWPL, ed. by Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland (Cambridge MA : MITWPL) Pages: 73-84
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Review of Seth Cable (2010) The Grammar of Q : Q-particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping (2013)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: Studies in English Literature(The English Literary Society of Japan) Volume: English Number 54 Pages: 155-165
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Multiple scrambling in Japanese (2012)
  • Author(s): Agbayani, Brian, Chris Golston and Toru Ishii
  • Journal Title: JELS, The English Linguistic Society of Japan
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Long-distance Passives in Japanese (2012)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: Three Factors and Syntactic Theory (Proceedings of the 14th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), ed. by Bun-Sik Park (Hankuk Publishing) Pages: 129-149
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Prosodic scrambling (2011)
  • Author(s): Agbayani, Brian, Chris Golston and Toru Ishii
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Fifth Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 5), MITWPL, ed. by Matthew Tucker, Anie Thompson, Oliver Northrup, and Ryan Bennett(Cambridge MA : MITWPL) Pages: 15-24
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Multiple reflexives in Japanese (2011)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2010, ed. by Dina Bailey and Victoria Teliga (California State University, Fresno) Pages: 105-117
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Prosodic scrambling (2011)
  • Author(s): Agbayani, Brian, Chris Golston and Toru Ishii
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Fifth Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 5), MITWPL , ed. by Matthew Tucker, Anie Thompson, Oliver Northrup, and Ryan Bennett (Cambridge MA : MITWPL) Pages: 15-24
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] On Symmetric Aspects of Grammar
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: English Linguistics(The English Linguistic Society of Japan) Volume: Volume 31, Number 1(to appear)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Evidential Marker in the Nominal Right Periphery : The Japanese Hearsay Marker -Tte
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 9)(Cambridge, MA : MITWPL) Volume: (to appear)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Syntactic and Prosodic Scrambling in Japanese
  • Author(s): Agbayani, Brian, Chris Golston and Toru Ishii
  • Journal Title: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Springer Volume: (to appear)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Dual Selections and Relabeling in Japanese and Korean
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: Japanese/Korean Linguistics, ed. by Mikio Giriko, Kyoko Kanzaki, Naonori Nagaya, and Akiko Takemura, Published for the Stanford LinguisticsAssociation by Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University Volume: Volume 22(to appear)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The subject condition and its crosslinguistic variation
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2011(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Volume: (to appear)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Evidential Marker in the Nominal Right Periphery : The Japanese Hearsay Marker Tte (2013)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Organizer: WAFL 9 (the Ninth Workshop in Formal Altaic Linguistics)
  • Place of Presentation: Cornell University
  • Year and Date: 20130000
• [Presentation] Complementizer stacking, dual selections, and relabeling (2013)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Organizer: FAJL 6 (the 6th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference)
  • Place of Presentation: Humboldt University, Germany
  • Year and Date: 20130000
• [Presentation] Dual Selections and relabeling in Japanese and Korean (2012)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Organizer: the 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
  • Place of Presentation: the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20120000
• [Presentation] Long-distance passives in Japanese (2012)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Organizer: the 14th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar
  • Place of Presentation: Dongguk University, Korea
  • Year and Date: 20120000
• [Presentation] The subject condition and its crosslinguistic variation (2011)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Organizer: WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) 2011
  • Place of Presentation: Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] Long-distance passives and the major subject construction in Japanese (2011)
  • Author(s): I shii, Toru
  • Organizer: the Minimalist Program : Quo Vadis?
  • Place of Presentation: University of Potsdam, Germany
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] Multiple scrambling in Japanese (2011)
  • Author(s): Agbayani, Brian, Chris Golston and Toru Ishii
  • Organizer: ELSJ International Spring Forum 2011
  • Place of Presentation: The English Linguistic Society of Japan, Shizuoka University
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] On multiple reflexives in Japanese (2010)
  • Author(s): Ishii, Toru
  • Organizer: WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) 2010
  • Place of Presentation: California State University, Fresno
  • Year and Date: 20100000
• [Presentation] Prosodic scrambling (2010)
  • Author(s): Agbayani, Brian, Chris Golston and Toru Ishii
  • Organizer: the FAJL 5 (the 5th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference)
  • Place of Presentation: University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Year and Date: 20100000
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~tishii/Toru_Ishii/