[Here is the table of contents, as of 11/30/2008.]

A Foundation of Generative Grammar as an Empirical Science
by Hajime Hoji

Chapter 1: Introduction
1. Introduction 1
2. Chomsky's (1965) challenge 4
3. The goal and the main claims 7
4. Outline of chapters 2-5 12
4.1. Chapter 2 12
4.2. Chapter 3 12
4.3. Chapter 4 13
4.4. Chapter 5 13
5. Answering Chomsky's challenge 14

Chapter 2: Repeatable Phenomena
1. Introduction 1
2. Repeatable Phenomena 2
2.1. *Schemas, *Examples, okSchemas, okExamples and repeatable phenomena 3
2.2. The asymmetry between*Schemas and okSchemas 8
2.3. Across-speaker repeatability and within-speaker repeatability 10
2.4. Repeatable phenomena, hypotheses, and progress in generative grammar 11
2.5. Summary 13
3. Some Illustration 14
3.1. Introduction 14
3.2. Hypotheses not backed up by a repeatable phenomenon in Japanese 16
3.2.1. Zibunzisin 16
3.2.1.1. Experimental design 17
3.2.1.2. Results 20
3.2.2. Otagai 22
3.2.2.1. Experimental design 23
3.2.2.2. Results 27
3.3. Repeatable Phenomena in Japanese 29
3.3.1. Introduction 29
3.3.2. So-NPs vs. A-NPs 29
3.3.2.1. Background: the demonstratives in Japanese 29
3.3.2.2. So-NPs vs. a-NPs 31
3.3.2.3. Experimental design 34
3.3.2.4. Results 36
3.3.3. Weak crossover, reconstruction and the OS Construction in Japanese 36
3.3.3.1. The Initial Observation 36
3.3.3.2. Two types of dependency in Ueyama 1998 38
3.3.3.3. *Schemas and an okSchema 41
3.3.3.4. More okSchemas based on the OS constructions in Japanese 42
3.3.3.5. LF-c-command-based BVA Paradigms 45
3.3.3.6. Results 47
3.3.3.7. Precedence-based BVA 50
3.3.3.8. Results 54
4. Concluding remarks 56

Chapter 4: Theory of Judgment Making and Its Consequences
1. Introduction 1
2. Theory of judgment making 1
2.1. Introduction 1
2.2. The model of judgment making and the CS 3
2.2.1. How the theory of the CS is embedded in the model of judgment making 3
2.2.2. Difficulty 5
2.2.3. The major subject construction 6
2.2.4. The OS (Object Subject) construction 7
2.2.5. Summary 9
2.3. The judgment by the informant 9
2.4. The informant's sensitivity and resourcefulness 10
2.4.1. String/meaning sensitivity 10
2.4.2. Structural/contextual resourcefulness 11
2.5. Summary 12
3. Some consequences 13
3.1. The asymmetry between *Schemas and okSchemas 13
3.2. Focusing on *Examples 14
3.3. Single and multiple-informant research 17
4. Bridging statements and predictions 18
4.1. Making hypotheses testable 18
4.1.1. Bridging statements 19
4.1.2. Bridging statements and the asymmetry between *Schemas and okSchemas 20
4.2. Predictions 22
4.2.1. Two types of predictions 22
4.2.2. Confirmation and disconfirmation of Predictions 24
4.2.3. Single and multiple-informant research 25
4.3. Summary 28
5. Repeatable phenomena and the significance of the informant judgment 29
5.1. The asymmetry between a *Schema and an okSchema 29
5.2. When do we obtain a repeatable phenomenon? 31
5.3. Single-informant and multiple-informant research 32
5.4. Summary 34
6. Predictions, auxiliary hypotheses and heuristics 35
6.1. Introduction 35
6.2. The model of prediction making 35
6.3. When a prediction fails 39
6.3.1. Auxiliary hypotheses 39
6.3.2. When a *Schema-based prediction gets disconfirmed 41
6.3.3. When an okSchema-based prediction fails to be confirmed 43
6.4. Heuristics 45
6.4.1. Progressive problemshift 45
6.4.2. Heuristics for single-informant research and multiple-informant research 46
6.4.3. Summary 48
7. Summary 49

Chapter 4: Empirical Illustration: Anaphoric Relations in Japanese
1. Introduction 1
2. The BVA (Bound variable anaphora) 1
2.1. The linguistic intuition BVA 1
2.2. The bridging statement 6
2.2.1. The Lexical condition 6
2.2.2. The Structural condition 7
2.3. The Model of prediction making 14
2.4. Modification 17
2.5. Further modification 23
2.6. Some methodological clarification 26
3. BVA and "Principle B" Effects 29
3.1. A Problem 29
3.2. Modification regarding pf-LF correspondences 34
3.3. Further modifications 38
3.3.1. A new repeatable phenomenon 38
3.3.2. An account 42
3.3.3. A new prediction 46
3.3.4. Further predictions 51
4. "Principle B" effects for coreference: a further prediction 53
5. The Hypotheses about zibunzisin and otagai, revisited 56
5.1. Eliminating a *Schema-based prediction and adding a new one 56
5.2. Attempts to 'save' the zibunzisin-as-a-local-anaphor hypothesis 58
5.2.1. The initial formulation 58
5.2.2. Modification attempted 60
5.3. Attempts to 'save' the otagai-as-a-local-anaphor hypothesis 64
5.4. Summary 65
6. Summary 66
Appendix: Hoji 1995

Chapter 5: The Essentials of the Proposal
1. The Proposal stated in terms of Lakatos 1970/1978 1
2. The Model of judgment making 4
2.1. Judgments on the acceptability of sentence αwith interpretation γ(a, b) 4
2.2. Judgments on the acceptability of sentence alpha 13
3. The Model of prediction making and Duhem's problem 19
3.1. The model of prediction making 19
3.2. Duhem's problem and reference to γ(a, b) 21
4. The Reinhartian heuristic 23
5. Summary and remaining issues 24