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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ArticlesYukio Hirose: Predication-Based vs. Domain-Based Comparison: A Contrastive Study ofComparative Constructions in English and Japanese

1-25

Akihiko Sakamoto: A Note on the Grammatical Status of Nani: The Marked Use of theUnmarked Wh-Phrase in Japanese

27-40

Kakeru Yazawa: Prosodic Manifestation of Question Tags in Japanese Speakers English

41-50

Keita Ikarashi and Patrick Maher: Cicada Lacks a Public Self: Characterization and thePublic/Private Dichotomy

51-64

Koichi Nishida: Two Types of Proverbs and Self-Reference in Terms of Normative Expressions
65-78
Shiro Takeuchi: On the Presence or Absence of Expletive Voice in English

79-91

Shin-ichi Tanigawa: Root Phenomena under the Labeling Theory: Consequences of External
Pair-Merge of C and T
93-110
Shuto Yamamura: A Corpus Study on the Histrical Development of Split Coordinated Subjects
in English
111-135
Takashi Yoshida: A Three-Tier Model Analysis of Self-introduction with a Title in English137-146
Takashi Ishida and Ryohei Naya: A Map Talks to You in English but Not in Japanese: The
Description of Human-Thing Interaction by Public and Private Self
147-169
Naoaki Wada: Be Going To and Aller: A Temporal Structure Approach

171-203

Masao Okazaki: The Metrical Significance of Old English Unstressed Prefixes in AlliterativeVerse
205-229
Masatoshi Honda: On the Syntax and Information Structure of Polarity Inversion in English: AReconsideration from the Viewpoint of Additive Focus
231-252
Masanobu Ueda: On the Prototypicality of the Ditransitive Verb Send: In Comparison with Giveand Other Ditransitive Verbs
253-265
Masaru Kanetani: On the Relation Between Richness of Ideophones andPrivate-Self-Centeredness: A Comparison of Japanese and English

267-287

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Mikinari Matsuoka: On Perfect Auxiliary Selection in Earlier English, Norwegian, and Japanese289-298
Yuichi Ono: How to Measure Implicit Knowledge: Methodological Issues in the SecondLanguage Acquisition Research299-315
Yuko Kobukata: Semantic Functions of Noun Phrases in Possessive Constructions

317-331

Shohei Nagata: The Choice of Q-Particles in Japanese and Their Focal Interpretations: WithSpecial Reference to YesNo Questions
333-356
Kazuyoshi Ishikawa: On the Behavior of Peculiar Passives in English: From the Perspective ofthe Characterization Mode357-375
Yukihiro Kanda: It Seems Like Richard Is in Trouble: Is the Subject It an Expletive?

377-395

Takeshi Kato: A Note on the Acquisition Process of L2 English Definite Article: Toward aFeature Reassembly Account397-420
Takuto Kimura: Notes on Nominalized Phrasal Verbs: A Distributed Morphology Approach tothe Difference in Productivity Between Gerunds and Nongerunds
421-433
Haruka Shimura: The Relation of Situation Types to the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect
Progressive: A Consideration Based on the Temporal Structures
435-464
Naoki Nakamura: Notes on the Elliptic Account of Extraposition from Unergative Subject 465-478
Summaries of the Papers Read at the 41th Annual Meeting ofthe Tsukuba English Linguistic Society
Hirofumi Sakai: A Construction Grammar Account of the Subject of Gerund-Participle
Complements in English

481-493

Yuri Togano: On the Right-Hand Headedness in English Morphology: With Special Reference
to Verbal Prefixation
495-503
Naoki Nakamura: On the (Im)possibility of Adjunct Extraposition from Subject in English: TheQR-and-Late-Merge Approach
505-519
Yuki Okada, Takuto Kimura, Takeshi Kato, and Yukihiro Kanda: A Reconsideration ofConversion under Radical Construction Grammar
521-535

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Shin Tamura, Haruka Shimura, Kazuyoshi Ishikawa, and Shohei Nagata: A Construction
Approach to the Binominal Noun Phrase in English: With Special Reference to a
Semantic Relation Between the Two Nouns
537-552
Appendix
Tsukuba English Studies vols. 1-39 Indexes555-568