CONTENTS《Articles》

Word Frequency, Entry Date and Entry Status in Relation to Stress
Shifts in English Noun-Verb Pairs ............................. Chung-Yu Chen
A Comparative Study of the vP Domain in English and Japanese................................................................................ Takashi Kayashima
The Development of Negative-Initial Constructions in the Historyof English ............................................................................ Koji Koike
Embedded Imperatives in Control .................................. Asako Matsuda
Semi-Lexical Categories in Word-Formation: A Case Study inJapanese Mimetic Compounds ....... Ryohei Naya and Keita Ikarashi
On the Nature of English Gerunds .............................. Sho Shimokariya
A Unified Account of Elliptical Constructions in Termsof Labeling Theory .......................................................... Rumi Takaki

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On the Scope of Naze ‘Why’ in Japanese...................... Megumi Hasebe, Hideki Maki and Fumikazu Niinuma

478《Notes and Discussion》

Why Is the Wdydwyd Construction Used in the Way It Is Used?
................................................................................... Shinya Hirasawa

499《Review Articles》

Is the Theory of Politeness Pragmalinguistic or Sociopragmatic?:
A New Look into the Universality/Culture-Specificity Divide...................................................................................... Hiroaki Tanaka

511《Reviews》

Reed, Lisa A. (2014) Strengthening the PRO Hypothesis........................................................................................ Kohsuke Kishi
Gengel, Kirsten (2013) Pseudogapping and Ellipsis................................................................................... Taichi Nakamura
Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.) (2014) Perspectives on
Semantic Roles ............................................................. Junichi Toyota−v−544556567

Petré, Peter (2014) Constructions and Environments: Copular,Passive, and Related Constructions in Old and Middle English.......................................................................................... Yusuke KumeLos, Bettelou, Corrien Blom, Geert Booij, Marion Elenbaas and Ans
van Kemenade (2012) Morphosyntactic Change: A Comparative
Study of Particles and Prefixes ............................. Reijirou Shibasaki
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Graeme Trousdale (2013)
Constructionalization and Constructional Changes...................................................................................... Hiroshi Ohashi
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo and Robert C. Berwick (eds.) (2013)
Rich Languages from Poor Inputs ............................ Keiko Murasugi《Obituary》

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Akira Ota (1917–2015) ......................................................... Shuji Chiba

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Editorial Notes ...........................................................................................
A Short Report on the Ninth International Spring Forum 2016 ............
Index to Volume 33 (2016) ......................................................................
Information for Members ..........................................................................
The English Linguistic Society of Japan: Officers and Committees(July 31, 2016) ......................................................................................
Information for Contributors .....................................................................

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