今野 弘章

1. Introduction This paper is concerned with a case in which the regular plural mouses is exceptionally used for the plural of mouse. Comparing the functional range of mouses with that of mice, the present paper shows that mice, ...

The if you be construction, exemplified by sentences like if you be quiet, I'll take you to the zoo, has never gone through an in-depth grammatical analysis. The present paper investigates its syntax and semantics closely and argues that it counts as an independent speech act construction which conventionally conveys a request in exchange for a reward. It also explores the relation between the form and function of the construction and reveals that most of its syntactic properties are reducible to its communicative function and that its formal markedness is in proportion to its functional specialization.∗. © 2004, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.

1. Introduction Verbs such as prevent, keep, prohibit and forbid constitute a syntactic class in that they take complements of the form [NP from V-ing] (hereafter "from V-ing complement"): ...

1. Introduction It is one of the hard problems in linguistics how to analyze colloquial and idiomatic expressions in an appropriate way. Being faced with idioms, one might be tempted just to leave them out of consideration because of their deviance from the norm. ...