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写真a

 
TANAKA Hidekazu
 
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor
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Professor
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生成文法を用いて理論的な言語研究をしています

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Degree

  • PhD in Linguistics ( 1999.7   McGill Univeristy )

  • Ph.D in Linguistics ( 1999.6 )

Research Interests

  • syntax, locality, movement, ellipsis, English, Japanese

  • ellipsis/deletion

  • movement

  • locality constraints

  • Syntax

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics  / Generative linguistics, locality constraints, ellipsis

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics  / syntax

Education

  • McGill University   PhD Program, Department of Linguistics  

    1993.8 - 1999.7

  • McGill University   Department of Linguistics, PhD Program  

    1993.9 - 1998.9

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    Country： Canada

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Research History

  • Okayama University   文学部   Professor

    2020.4

  • Okayama University   Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences   Professor   PhD in Linguistics

    2014.4

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    Country：Japan

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  • Okayama University   文学部   Associate Professor

    2014.4 - 2020.3

  • The University of York   Department of Language and Linguistic Science   Lecturer

    2003.9 - 2014.3

  • The University of York   Department of Language and Linguistic Science   Lecturer

    2003.7 - 2014.3

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    Country：United Kingdom

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  • University of Minnesota   Program in Linguistics   Lecturer

    2000.9 - 2003.7

  • University of Minnesota   Institute of Linguistics and Slavic Language,   Visiting Assistant Professor

    2000.9 - 2003.7

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  • University of British Columbia   Department of Linguistics

    1999.9 - 2000.8

  • University of British Columbia   Department of Linguistics   Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow

    1999.9 - 2000.6

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Professional Memberships

  • English Linguistic Society of Japan

    2014.4

Committee Memberships

  • Okayama Linguistics Forum   Organizer, Chair  

    2021.4   

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  • English Linguistics Society of Japan   Board Member  

    2019.4   

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  • English Linguistics Society of Japan   Board member  

    2018.4   

 

Papers

  • Syntactic Identity and Ellipsis Reviewed International journal

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    The Linguistic Review   42   79 - 110   2011.4

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：De Gruyter  

  • Voice Mismatch and Syntactic Identity Reviewed International journal

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    42   470 - 490   2011.4

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：MIT Press  

  • Against verb-stranding VP-ellipsis in Japanese: Reply to Funakoshi (2016) Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Journal of East Asian Linguistics   32 ( 1 )   2023.2

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    DOI： 10.1007/s10831-022-09250-6

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  • Verb Echo Answers and Ellipsis Operations: A Reply to Sato and Hayashi (2018) Reviewed

    Syntax   2023

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  • VP-Deletion, TP-Deletion and Argument Ellipsis in Japanese

    2022

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  • 感嘆文の統語論 Invited Reviewed

    田中秀和

    統語構造と語彙の多角的研究 岸本秀樹先生還暦記念論集   133 - 146   2020.4

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    Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Part of collection (book)   Publisher：開拓社  

  • 感嘆文の統語論 Invited Reviewed

    岸本秀樹先生還暦記念論集

    133 - 146   2020.3

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  • 書評　省略現象と文法理論　島越郎 Invited Reviewed

    田中秀和

    英文学研究   140 - 148   2019.4

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    Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：日本英文学会  

  • 書評 省略現象と文法理論 島越郎 Invited Reviewed

    英文学研究   140 - 148   2019.3

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  • Fragment Answers with Focus Particles Reviewed

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    35   152 - 158   2018.4

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  • Toritate and Functional Categories Reviewed

    田中秀和

    MIT Working Papers in Linguistics   88   443 - 450   2018.4

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  • Toritate and Functional Categories Reviewed

    Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics13. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 88   443 - 450   2018

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  • Fragment Answers with Focus Particles Reviewed

    Journal of English Linguistic Society   35   152 - 158   2018

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  • Island Repair and the Derivation by Phase Reviewed

    Phase Theory and Its Consequences: The Initial and Recursive Symbol S   119 - 150   2016.9

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  • Island Repair and the Derivation by Phase Invited

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    119 - 150   2016.4

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  • How to Say Why To, and Why Reviewed

    Journal of English Linguistic Society   33   284 - 289   2016

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  • とりたて詞のカートグラフィー

    岡山大学文学部紀要   66   67 - 80   2016

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  • Multiple Accusative Constructions: The Case of V-tate in Japanese

    Mika Kizu, Hidekazu Tanaka, Peter Sells

    Japanese/Korean Linguistics   22   277 - 292   2015

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  • Antecedent contained deletion in the domain of a raised object Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Linguistic Review   31 ( 2 )   401 - 434   2014.6

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    When a verb takes two complements, the first complement, typically an accusative object, c-commands the second complement, and the second complement can host a relative clause containing antecedent contained deletion (ACD). This simple fact, which, upon careful considerations, reveals that English accusative objects raise to a higher position than previously thought. The theoretical claim is that objects raise to check Case to the outer vP-spec. We argue that the v consists of two separate heads, the higher v[acc] and the lower vθ; objects raise to the outer spec of vPθ; and that the verb moves to the head of the higher v[acc]. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston.

    DOI： 10.1515/tlr-2014-0005

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  • Antecedent Contained Deletion in the Domain of a Raised Object Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    31   401 - 434   2014.4

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  • Interrogative slifting in English Reviewed

    Bill Haddican, Anders Holmberg, Hidekazu Tanaka, George Tsoulas

    Lingua   138   86 - 106   2014.1

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    This paper analyzes English ". wh-slifting" sentences (for example, How old is she do you think). We argue that these sentences are not scope-marking constructions nor are they derived by simple clausal pied-piping as an alternative to wh-extraction. We show that such sentences are akin to declarative slifting sentences, but more restricted than the latter particularly in the kinds of evidential predicates they co-occur with. We argue that the slifted question is not first merged as the complement of the main clause, but that the relationship between the two clauses is mediated by an evidential morpheme, which takes the do you think-clause as its specifier. This analysis, which explains several properties of wh-slifting that distinguish it from scope-marking constructions and Basque-type clausal pied-piping, partially reconciles wh-slifting questions with paratactic approaches to quotative constructions. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.

    DOI： 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.10.006

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  • Raising out of V+tate Phrases Reviewed International coauthorship

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    MIT Working Papers in Linguistics   66   277 - 292   2013.4

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  • Interrogative Slifting in English Reviewed International coauthorship

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Lingua   138   88 - 106   2013.4

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  • Raising out of V+tate Phrases Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka, Mika Kizu, Peter Sells

    Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6 MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 66   227 - 250   2013

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  • Syntax of Quantifiers in Japanese Reviewed

    Studies in Japanese and Korean Linguistics   187 - 200   2012

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  • Multiple Negative Fragmentary Answers

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    11   103 - 119   2011.4

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  • Syntactic identity and ellipsis Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Linguistic Review   28 ( 1 )   79 - 110   2011.3

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    Under what conditions is ellipsis possible? Fiengo and May (Indices and identity, MIT Press, 1994), Fox (Economy and semantic interpretation, MIT Press, 2000), and Rooth (Ellipsis redundancy and reduction redundancy, 1992), among many others, conclude that syntax plays a role in ellipsis, at least in part. Merchant (The syntax of silence: sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis, Oxford University Press, 2001: p19-25) challenges this view, and argues that ellipsis in general, or sluicing in particular, is conditioned purely by semantics, providing arguments against syntactic accounts. More recently, this view is challenged by Chung (Sluicing and the lexicon: the point of no return, Ms. University of California, 2006) and Merchant himself (Voice and ellipsis, Ms. University of Chicago, 2007, Linguistic Inquiry 39: 169-179, 2008b), who provide evidence for the relevance of syntax. This article shows that Merchant's (The syntax of silence: sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis, Oxford University Press, 2001) arguments do not constitute a real challenge to a syntactic account. In so doing, it is also demonstrated that syntax does play a role in ellipsis. We then develop a syntactic isomorphism condition on ellipsis that accounts for observed facts. © Walter de Gruyter.

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  • Voice mismatch and syntactic identity Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Linguistic Inquiry   42 ( 3 )   470 - 490   2011

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    On the basis of an asymmetry between VP-deletion and pseudogapping, Merchant (2008a) concludes that ellipsis is conditioned by syntax. This article demonstrates that both pseudogapping and VP-deletion potentially allow voice mismatch. The unacceptable cases of voice mismatch in these constructions are attributed to a discourse factor (Kehler 2000, 2002). Nevertheless, since sluicing does not allow voice mismatch (Merchant 2001, 2007) even in the same context that allows voice mismatch in VP-ellipsis, Merchant's (2007, 2008a) conclusion is still valid. A syntactic condition on ellipsis is proposed, based on a semantic condition from Takahashi and Fox 2005. Kehler's discourse explanation is phrased in a revised format. © 2011 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Multiple Negative Fragmentary Answers

    York Papers in Linguistics   11   103 - 119   2011

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  • Island Insensitive Constructions in Japanese Reviewed

    8   219 - 234   2011

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  • Fragments Reviewed

    6   185 - 195   2006

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  • Antecedent Contained Deletion without Quantifier Raising

    173 - 184   2005

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  • Not So Tough: a Response to Harley Reviewed

    http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/   2004

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  • On the Categorial Status of Raising Complements Reviewed

    York Papers in Linguistics   1   213 - 222   2004

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  • Remarks on Beck’s Effect: Linearity in Syntax Reviewed

    Linguistic Inquiry   34   314 - 323   2003.9

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  • Raising to object out of CP Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Linguistic Inquiry   33 ( 4 )   637 - 652   2002.12

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  • Mechanism of Large-Scale Pied-Piping Reviewed

    Proceedings from Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 3, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 41   75 - 89   2002

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  • Large Scale Pied-Piping and the Minimal Scope Principle Reviewed

    Proceedings from Student Conference in Linguistics 9, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 36   2001

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  • Multiple Wh-Questions and Multiple Wh-Specifiers Reviewed

    Proceedings from West Coast Conference in Linguistics   19   507 - 517   2001

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  • Summary of Conditions on Logical Form Derivations and Representations

    Glot International   5   2001

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  • Raised Objects and Superiority Reviewed

    Linguistic Inquiry   30   317 - 325   1999.12

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  • LF wh-Islands and the Minimal Scope Principle Reviewed

    Natural Language and Linguistic Theory   17   371 - 402   1999.9

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  • LF Pied-Piping of wh-in-Situ Reviewed

    Lingua   109   183 - 194   1999.6

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  • Multiple wh-Questions and the Unique Spec Hypothesis Reviewed

    Proceedings from Western Conference in Linguistics   1999

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  • Reconstruction in Long-Distance Cleft Constructions Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka, Mika Kizu

    Proceedings from WCCFL 18 Coyote Working Papers in Linguistics   99 - 107   1999

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  • Right-dislocation as scrambling Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Journal of Linguistics   37 ( 3 )   551 - 579   1997.7

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  • Invisible movement in sika-nai and the linear crossing constraint Reviewed

    Hidekazu Tanaka

    Journal of East Asian Linguistics   6 ( 2 )   143 - 188   1997.4

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  • LF Movement of wh-in-Situ Reviewed

    Proceedings from Eastern Conference on Linguistics 96, Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics.   1997

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  • Raising to Object in English, French, and Japanese Reviewed

    English Linguistics

    9   39 - 60   1992.10

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Research Projects

  • Interfaces of root clauses to their semantic interpretations: A biolinguistic approach

    Grant number：18K00544  2018.04 - 2022.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    This research has focused on the parametric variation in the semantic interpretation of root clauses covering (i) the so-called sequence of tense phenomenon, (ii) the obligatory/optional presence of tense morphemes, (iii) the presence/absence of sentence-final particles and (iv) restrictions on focus particles. In the first year, the parallel corpus was assembled from one English novel and two versions of its Japanese translation, to which two versions of its Chinese translation were added later. The three languages differ as to the obligatoriness of tense morphemes and the sequence of tense, but it was uncovered that they are subject to essentially the same pragmatic principle in the temporal interpretation of their discourses. The project also dealt with phenomena specific to Japanese such as argument ellipsis, indirect passives, the no-da construction, and the use of sentence-final particles and focus particles. The results were publicized in eleven papers and five presentations.

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