Koichi Nishida

• Yamaguchi Prefectural University

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 287-299

It is argued that possessive indefinites in sentences like John enjoys a student's life share common properties with bound pronouns in sentences like Every man loves his wife. The properties of indefinites of this kind are explained by the theory of inter-N-bar anaphora, proposed by Tsurusaki (1985) and developed by Hirose (1997). They are shown to...

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This article is concerned with the pragmatic conditions under which a given nominal expression can be used anaphorically. Levinson (2000) proposes to account for the conditions in terms of what he calls“the general anaphora pattern, ”but his account does not fully apply to lexical noun phrases in anaphoric use. Levinson's idea is extended into a mo...

It is shown that the semantic properties of reflexive clauses are extended to apply to a particular type of discourse. “Reflexive discourse, ” in our terms, is marked by a type of indefinite noun phrase the properties of which are modeled after those of reflexive pronouns and related expressions. This type of noun phrase is found in both English an...

1. Introduction In this article, I discuss three types of interpretation of noun phrases (henceforce, NPs) in English and constructions related to them. The three types of interpretation are called "reference-to-a-single-entity" reading, ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=538584&tocid=100052899&page=53-74

The idea that the descriptive content expressed by the head nominal of an NP is translated into a predicate is by no means novel. Russell (1905), for instance, translates the definite description in subject position ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=394337&tocid=100052401&page=1-22

This paper is a sequel to my earlier paper Nishida 1996, but concentrates on a more specific topic than I did in that paper. The purpose of this paper is to analyze predicate nominals in terms of grammatical number. I wiee argue that the grammar of predicate nominals has two aspects with respoct to number. ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylime...

In this joint reserach we argue about the hypothesis concerning spcificational it is Xs developed recently by R. Declerck, namely that the italicized sentences in (1) are reduced it-clefs from full it-clefts such as (2): ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=225413&tocid=100025101&page=319-322

What would be a way to reveal historical characteristics of Japanese ideas or culture? To answer this question, Masao Maruyama devised a theory of ‘‘koso’’. This term could be translated into ‘‘old layer’’ in English. By this, he means ‘a obstinate repeated pattern of ideas and feelings.’ This concept had been revealed in three categories: ethical...

The idea of "kegare" is important in considering the idea of evil in Japanese intellectual history. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what 'kegare' means in Kojiki and Nihonsyoki that mark the beginning of Japanese intellectual history. In the first section, this paper will focus on the expressions relating to 'kegare', and analyze their usag...

It is well known that preposition TO obligatorily appears in Passive Perception Verb Complements (PPVCs). However, no satisfactory account has been given to the very question of why TO is inserted into the PPVCs. ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=473824&tocid=100052424&page=103-104

The joint research examines the semantic characterization of the nouns which can take a content clause, as exemplified in (1). (1) Mcgovern's accusation that Nixon is irresponsible is well known. (McCawley 1979:143) ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=324760&tocid=100052394&page=347-348

In this joint reaearch, we discuss (un)boundedness and its relation to a range of phenomena in English, such as referential properties of NPs, generic sentences, and the aspectucal type of a situation described by a verb, or more broadly, by a sentence. ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=394337&tocid=100052409&page=149...

In this report, I argue that it is reasonable and necessayr to postulate two different sorts of copular be 's in order to properly describe and account for the grammatical phenomena that copular sentences display, relying largely on the data that Declerck (1998) offers. ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=236367&tocid=1...

Recent studies of copular sentences have focused on the question of how copular be shold be characterized in relation to the classification of copular sentences (Heycock (1995), Rothstein (1995), Zaring (1996), etc.). As is well known, copular sentences of the from NP, be NP2 have several ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?iss...

In this paper I will discuss some aspects of the definite NPs which are formally singular, but semantically related to plural reference. I will call this relation between an NP and the objects referred to by the NP the one-to-many correspondence. The one-to-many correspondence that I am going to discuss ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio...

In this joint research we are concerned with a semantic analysis of the modal auxiliaries in English, focusing in paricular on a certain use of must, as exemplified in (1): (1) Smokers must have dirriculty in giving up smoking. ... http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/mylimedio/dl/page.do?issueid=254036&tocid=100052369&page=307-308

Thesis (Ph. D. in Linguistics)--University of Tsukuba, (A), no. 2224, 2000.3.24