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Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics Journal Title: Lingua Volume Number: 113 Issue Number: 4-6 Issue Date: April - June 2003 ISSN: 0024-3841 Year 2003 Subtitle: Formal Japanese syntax and universal grammar: The past 20 years Main text: Special Triple Issue of Lingua: Formal Japanese Syntax and Universal Grammar: The Past 20 years Special Issue Price: JPY 4100.00 / USD 40 / EUR 40 Formal Japanese syntax and universal grammar: the past 20 years Edited by Naoki Fukui, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan * An anthology of articles which provides focused and indepth discussions on some of the central topics in Japanese syntax. * Contributions covering central topics of formal Japanese syntax from leading theoretical syntacticians who work extensively on Japanese. * Original articles making original proposals, while providing an elegant and informative overview of a number of central topics. Table of Contents Formal Japanese syntax and universal grammar: the past 20 years (Naoki Fukui). The visibility guideline for functional categories: verb raising in Japanese and related issues (Naoki Fukui and Hiromu Sakai). Falsifiability and repeatability in generative grammar: a case study of anaphora and scope dependency in Japanese (Hajime Hoji). Complexa predicates and predicate raising (S.-Y. Kuroda). A derivational approach to the interpretation of scrambling chains (Mamoru Saito). Wh and operator constructions in Japanese (Akira Watanabe). Null arguments: the case of Japanese and Romance (Mihoko Zushi). For further information and to order a copy of this special issue, please see: http://www.socscinet.com/linguistics/lingua Lingfield(s): SyntaxMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue