Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: Essays in Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda

Abstract

Bridging Interdisciplinary Boundaries: The Case of Kin Terms.- Dracula Conditionals and Discourse.- Grammar and Memory.- The English Stress Cycle and Interlexical Relations.- Sentential Subjects and Proper Government in Chamorro.- The Logic and Functions of the English Past and Perfect.- The Autonomy of the (Syntactic) Lexicon and Syntax: Insertion Conditions for Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes.- Conditions on Propagation of Binding Scope.- Roles and Values: The Case of French Copula Constructions.- Remarks on Phrasing and Prosodic Attachment.- On Psych Predicates.- Wanna-Contraction as Restructuring.- On Suppletion, Selection, and Agreement.- Affirmative Polarity Items and Negation in Japanese.- KARE.- Modularity and Chinese A-not-A Questions.- Pied Piping and Logical Form.- Cleft Sentences and the Territory of Information.- Against Pied Piping in LF.- Binding Properties of French EN.- Remarks on Adverbial Constituent Structure.- The Logic of kara and node in Japanese.- MA.- Verbiness and the Size of Niches in the English Auxiliary.- Extraposition and Parasitic Gaps.- Infinity Is in the Eye of the Beholder.- On One's Own: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Reflexives.- Syntax and Downstep in Japanese.- Sentences in Texts: A Valediction for Sentence Topic.- The Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Adjective Ordering Restrictions.- Edges, Surfaces and Boundaries.- Argument Positions and Configurationality.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.