Tsukuba English Studies Author Guidelines
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[SAMPLE FORMAT]
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External Argument Licensing:･An Analysis of Linking
Verb Constructions and Its Consequences *Taro Tsukuba, Hanako Tsukuba, and Ayaka Ibaraki
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1.･･Introduction
1.1.･･Raising
Heading・ End heading numerals with a period.
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･････In generative grammar,･the construction known as raising has received a great
deal of attention….･･The most important property of this construction is that it involves
raising of a constituent out of an embedded clause, as illustrated below:
Punctuation
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･････ * ･ This paper has benefitted from the many valuable comments from reviewers of the TES
Editorial Board.

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(1)
(2)

Johni seems [TP ti to be a nice fellow].
(Chomsky (1981:67))
a. Two people seem like they have won the lottery.
b. = Two people are such that they seem like they have won the lottery.
c. ≠ It seems that two people have won the lottery.
(Potsdam and Runner (2001:455, 464))

・ Use tab stops to align examples vertically.
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…The two people in (10a) must be two people that are pragmatically specified. 1,･ 2
Assuming that sentences like (10a) does not involve movement, it is important toaddress the question of why they must involve a binding relation. Concerning thismatter, Landau (2011:780) argues that “the [embedded] CP is interpreted as an λpredicate, abstracted over the trace position.” In other words, ...
In-text citations
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1Raising sentences allow both wide and narrow scope readings.

(i) Someone seems to be happy.

[some > seem, seem > some]In the first reading, someone is specific, while in the second, it is absolutely existential.
2This will be addressed at some length in section 3.
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In the Nigerian language Edo, Pred is realized as yé ‘be’ for adjectives. 3(18) a.

b.

Èmèrí mòsé.
Mary be.beautifulV‘Mary is beautiful.’Èmèrí *(yé) mòsèmòsè.
Mary CPRTA beautifulA‘Mary is beautiful.’[Edo](Baker (2003:40))
Non-English data and glosses・ Glosses and English translation should be added to a non-English example.
・ English translation should be enclosed in single quotation marks.

Figure 1

Present Progressive (Langacker (2001:261))

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The following abbreviation is used in this paper: CPRT = copular particle.
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Reference list formatting・ Prepare the reference list in a 11-point font with Times New Roman.
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REFERENCES

BooksBaker, Mark C. (1988) Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing, University ofChicago Press, Chicago.
Boeckx, Cedric, Norbert Hornstein, and Jairo Nunes (2010) Control as Movement, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
Kageyama, Taro, Tatsuya Isono, Hideki Kishimoto, Michiyo Sakai, Yoko Sugioka, Katsutada Takahashi,
Tohno Takayuki, Miho Mano, Yu Yonezawa, and Yoko Yumoto… (2011) Nitieitaisyoo Meesino
Imito Koobun (A Contrastive Study of Japanese and English: Nominal Semantics and Constructions),
ed. by Taro Kageyama, Taishukan, Tokyo.
Levin, Beth and Malka Rappaport Hovav (1995) Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics
Interface (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 26), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

・ If the book is in a series, the series title is optional. In adding it, put it in parentheses innonitalics.
・ The name of a state, province, and prefecture is optional for any type of a reference,unless forgoing it might cause confusion. For example, Cambridge in the US should beaccompanied by MA to disambiguate it from the city in the U.K.
Chomsky, Noam (1986a) Barriers, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Chomsky, Noam (1986b) Knowledge of Language, Praeger Publishers, Westport.

・ List multiple works by one author chronologically.
・ Suffix the date with a, b, c to distinguish several items published in a single year by thesame author; within this group, arrange works alphabetically by title.
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Journal articles
Adger, David and Gillian Ramchand (2003) “Predication and Equation,” Linguistic Inquiry 34(3), 325359.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Gianina Iordachioiaia, and Mihaela Marchis (2010) “NoObjection to Backward Control,” Movement Theory of Control, ed. by Norbert Hornstein and Maria
Polinsky, 89-117, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
Bert, Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere (2016) “Short-circuited Interpretations of Modal Verb Constructions:
Some Evidence from The Simpsons,” Constructions and Frames 8(1): Modal Meaning inConstruction Grammar, ed. by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou, 7-39, John Benjamins,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

ThesesFukui, Naoki (1986) A Theory of Category Projection and Its Applications, Doctoral
dissertation, MIT.

Oral presentations
Heycock, Caroline and Anthony Kroch (1997) Inversion and Equation in Copular Sentences, Paper
presented at the Workshop on (Pseudo)Clefts, ZAS, Berlin.

Unpublished manuscripts
Cardinaletti, Anna (2000) Different Types of Clitic Clusters, Ms., University of Bologna.

・Corpora, Dictionaries, Novels, and other sources can be listed independently as follows.
CorporaCorpusofContemporary American

English(COCA). Availableat https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/
Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (2004), 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
NovelsJ. K. Rowling (1997) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Bloomsbury, London.

・ Pen names need not be formatted in the order of Last name, First name. However, if
the author’s pen name is the same as his or her real name, it should be formatted in theorder of Last name, First name.

6Signatures
Taro Tsukuba

Hanako Tsukuba

Doctoral Program in Literature and Linguistics

Doctoral Program in Literature and Linguistics

University of Tsukuba

University of Tsukuba

E-mail: teseditor@gmail.com

E-mail: tels502@yahoo.co.jp

Ayaka Ibaraki
Degree Program in Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Tsukuba
E-mail: ayaka.ibaraki@xxx.ac.jp

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Multiple signatures may be aligned horizontally.

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