[Here is the table of contents as of 1/9/2009.]

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

Chapter 1: Introduction
1. Introduction1
2. Chomsky's (1965) challenge5
3. The goal and the main claims8
4. Outline of chapters 2-5 13
4.1. Chapter 2 13
4.2. Chapter 3 13
4.3. Chapter 4 13
4.4. Chapter 5 14
5. Answering Chomsky's challenge15

Chapter 2: Repeatable Phenomena
1. Introduction2
2. Repeatable Phenomena3
2.1. *Schemas, *Examples, okSchemas, okExamples and repeatable phenomena3
2.2. The asymmetry between *Schemas and okSchemas7
2.3. Across-speaker repeatability and within-speaker repeatability8
2.4. Repeatable phenomena, hypotheses, and progress in generative grammar8
2.5. Summary10
3. Some Illustration10
3.1. Introduction10
3.2. Hypotheses not backed up by a repeatable phenomenon in Japanese12
3.2.1. Zibunzisin12
3.2.1.1. Experimental design12
3.2.1.2. Results of experiments14
3.2.2. Otagai16
3.2.2.1. Experimental design16
3.2.2.2. Results19
3.3. Repeatable Phenomena in Japanese20
3.3.1. Introduction20
3.3.2. So-NPs vs. A-NPs20
3.3.2.1. Background: the demonstratives in Japanese20
3.3.2.2. So-NPs vs. a-NPs21
3.3.2.3. Experimental design24
3.3.2.4. Results25
3.3.3. Weak crossover, reconstruction, and the OS Construction in Japanese25
3.3.3.1. The Initial observation25
3.3.3.2. Two types of dependency in Ueyama 199827
3.3.3.3. *Schemas and an okSchema28
3.3.3.4. More okSchemas based on the OS constructions in Japanese29
3.3.3.5. LF-c-command-based BVA31
3.3.3.6. Results33
3.3.3.7. Precedence-based BVA35
3.3.3.8. Results37
4. Concluding remarks39
5. Appendix42

Chapter 3: Theory of Judgment Making and Its Consequences
1. Introduction2
2. Theory of judgment making3
2.1. Introduction3
2.2. The model of judgment making and the CS5
2.2.1. How the theory of the CS is embedded in the model of judgment making5
2.2.2. Difficulty9
2.2.3. The major subject construction10
2.2.4. The OS (Object Subject) construction12
2.2.5. Summary14
2.3. The model of quantifying the informant judgment15
2.4. The informant's sensitivity and resourcefulness17
2.4.1. String/meaning sensitivity17
2.4.2. Structural/contextual resourcefulness17
2.5. Summary20
3. Some consequences21
3.1. The asymmetry between *Schemas and okSchemas21
3.2. Focusing on *Examples22
3.3. The advantage of single-informant experiments26
4. Bridging statements and predictions29
4.1. Making hypotheses testable29
4.1.1. Bridging statements29
4.1.2. Bridging statements and the asymmetry between *Schemas and okSchemas31
4.2. Predictions34
4.2.1. Two types of predictions34
4.2.2. Confirmation and disconfirmation of Predictions36
4.2.3. Single and multiple-informant experiments38
4.3. Summary43
5. Repeatable phenomena and the significance of the informant judgment45
5.1. The asymmetry between a *Schema and an okSchema45
5.2. When do we obtain a repeatable phenomenon?47
5.3. Single-informant and multiple-informant experiments49
5.4. Summary52
6. Predictions, auxiliary hypotheses and heuristics53
6.1. Introduction53
6.2. The model of prediction making54
6.3. When a prediction fails60
6.3.1. Auxiliary hypotheses60
6.3.2. When a *Schema-based prediction gets disconfirmed63
6.3.3. When an okSchema-based prediction fails to be confirmed66
6.4. Heuristics69
6.4.1. Progressive and degenerating problemshifts69
6.4.2. Heuristics for single-informant and multiple-informant experiments72
6.4.3. Summary73
7. Summary75

Chapter 4: Anaphoric Relations in Japanese
1. Introduction1
2. The BVA (Bound variable anaphora)2
2.1. The linguistic intuition BVA2
2.2. The bridging statement6
2.2.1. The Lexical condition6
2.2.2. The Structural condition8
2.3. The Model of prediction making16
2.4. Modification18
2.5. Further modification24
2.6. Some methodological clarification27
3. BVA and "Principle B" Effects30
3.1. A Problem30
3.2. Modification regarding pf-LF correspondences35
3.3. Further modifications39
3.3.1. A new repeatable phenomenon39
3.3.2. An account44
3.3.3. A new prediction49
3.3.4. Further predictions53
4. "Principle B" effects for coreference: a further prediction55
5. The Hypotheses about zibunzisin and otagai, revisited59
5.1. Eliminating a *Schema-based prediction and adding a new one59
5.2. Attempts to 'save' the zibunzisin-as-a-local-anaphor hypothesis60
5.2.1. The initial formulation60
5.2.2. Modification attempted62
5.3. Attempts to 'save' the otagai-as-a-local-anaphor hypothesis67
5.4. Summary68
6. Summary68
7. Appendix: Hoji 1995 70

Chapter 5: The Essentials of the Proposal
1. The Proposal stated in terms of Lakatos 1970/19781
2. The Model of judgment making4
2.1. Judgments on the acceptability of sentence α with interpretation γ(a, b)4
2.2. Judgments on the acceptability of sentence α13
3. The Model of prediction making and Duhem's problem20
3.1. The model of prediction making20
3.2. Duhem's problem and reference to γ(a, b)22
4. The Reinhartian heuristic24
5. Summary and remaining issues26

Appendix: Comparison with Schütze's (1996) Model of Judgment Making
1. Introduction1
2. The Models of Judgment Making2
2.1. The Schütze 1996 model and the Ueyama model2
2.2. The main differences5
2.3. More details8
3. Summary11
3.1. Initial concerns11
3.2. The use of the informant judgments11
3.3. Gradient judgments12
3.4. The use of the researcher as the informant14
3.5. Repeatable phenomena15