ニシガウチ　タイスケ   NISHIGAUCHI Taisuke
  西垣内　泰介
   所属   文学部 英語学科
   文学研究科 言語科学専攻
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2020/03
形態種別 研究論文（大学，研究機関等紀要）
標題 Reason and Cause in the Specificational Sentence
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin
掲載区分国内
巻・号・頁 23,pp.55-70
総ページ数 16
著者・共著者 Taisuke Nishigauchi
概要 The present paper argues that the reflexive _zibun_ bound long distancre, as well as POV-sensitive lexical items such as evaluative adverbs, must be construed within a syntactic domain with specific properties. It is shown that specificational sentences derive from an NP which takes two arguments and denotes a relation between them. The post-copula constituent in a specificational sentence starts out from the inner argument of this NP. This line of consideration makes it possible to view the contrast in sentences involving _reason_ and _cause_ as a matter of lexical selection: _reason_ selects POVP while _cause_ does not.