In:Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells
Edited by Adam Makkai and Alan K. Melby
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 42] 1985
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Published online: 1 January 1985
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.42.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Works of Rulon S. Wells
I. On the philosophy of language and general theoretical issues
Innate capacity, know-how and use in language
Language, cognition and linguistics
Kuhnian paradigms as system of markedness conventions
Hierarchy in conceptual space
Imperfect models and their uses
Rask’s lecture on the philosophy of language
Contrast
II. Phonology
Phonological “neutralization” in classical and stratificational theories
III. Syntax and beyond
Grammatical phrases and lexical phrases
On grammars of science
Constituency, dependency and applicative structure
Structure and function in syntactic analysis: Rulon Wells as a paleo-synthesiser of European and American syntax
Come on Up
Why “Junction” theory
Generalization and prediction of syntactic patterns in junction grammar
‘Activity’-‘ Accomplishment’-‘ Achievement’- A language that
can’t say ‘I burned it but didn’t brun’ and one that can
Positional tendencies of engllish ralative clauses as evidence for processing strategies
IV. Historical and typological linguistics
Knowlegde of the past
Lexical reconstruction and the semantic history hypothesis
Hymonymy, heteroclysis, and history in the Japanese verb
V. On diachronic and synchronic derivation
Some characteristics of back-formation
How to become a kwa language
Where do exclamations come from?
