CONTENTS《Invited Articles》

Studying Language as a Complex Adaptive System ....... William Croft《Articles》

Two Types of Main Verb Inversion ................................. Akihiko Arano
The Syntax of Japanese Reciprocal V-V Compounds: A View fromSplit Antecedents ........................................................ Tomoya Kosuge
On the Development of The Point Is and Related Issues inthe History of American English ........................... Reijirou Shibasaki

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Against Feature “Copying”................................................................................... Chihiro Fujimori
Embedded Topicalization in Irish................................................... Hideki Maki and Dónall P. Ó Baoill114130《Notes and Discussion》

Where the Nominative/Genitive Alternation Genuinely Takes Placein Modern Japanese........................ Megumi Hasebe, Hideki Maki and Toshiro Umezawa
The It Is That-Construction and Abductive Inference........................................................................................ Keita Ikarashi

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Radical Argument Drop Viewed through Parametric Variation....................................................................................... Tomohiro Fujii
On Symmetric Aspects of Grammar ....................................... Toru Ishii
Aspect and Force Dynamics: Which Is More Essential toResultatives? ....................................................................... Seizi Iwata

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Labrune, Laurence (2012) The Phonology of Japanese............................................................................ Masahiko Mutsukawa
Booij, Geert (2010) Construction Morphology ..................... Kimi Akita
Williams, Edwin (2011) Regimes of Derivation in Syntax andMorphology ................................................................... Yoshiki Ogawa−iii−

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Sadock, Jerrold M. (2012) The Modular Architecture of Grammar......................................................................................... Ichiro Yuhara
Benczes, Réka (2006) Creative Compounding in English:
The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun
Combinations ................................................................. Akiko Nagano
Shiobara, Kayono (2010) Derivational Linearization at the
Syntax-Prosody Interface .................................................. Yosuke Sato
Merchant, Jason and Andrew Simpson (eds.) (2012) Sluicing: CrossLinguistic Perspectives ....................................................... Koji Hoshi
Meurman-Solin, Anneli, María José López-Couso and Bettelou Los(eds.) (2012) Information Structure and Syntactic Change inthe History of English .............................................. Hiroyuki Nawata
Recanati, François (2010) Truth-Conditional Pragmatics...................................................................................... Tomohiro Sakai
Bastiaanse, Roelien and Cynthia K. Thompson (eds.) (2012)
Perspectives on Agrammatism ........................................ Hiroko Ihara
Editorial Notes ...........................................................................................
A Short Report on the 31st Conference of the ELSJ  ............................
A Short Report from the ELSJ Award Committee 2013 ........................
The English Linguistic Society of Japan: Officers and Committees(January 31, 2014) ................................................................................
Information for Contributors .....................................................................

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