John Robert Ross †
List of John Benjamins publications in which John Robert Ross † is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0378-4169 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9927
2013 The Bashō code: Metaphor and diagram in two haiku about silence Iconic Investigations, Elleström, Lars, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 25–42 | Article
“Haiku shows us what we knew all the time, but did not know we knew;
it shows us that we are poets in so far as we live at all.
”
R. H. Blyth in Haiku (1952)This paper looks at the rhetorical structure of the two haiku texts by Bashō, which display formal and semantic similarities. After giving a… read more
2011 An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts, and vice versa Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 243–260 | Article
This paper is a try at building a bridge between a vexing topic – the architecture of emphatic sentences in English (and by induction, of all languages) – and the automodular theory of our old pal Jerry Sadock, a theory which I understand way too little of. I beg forbearance at the outset for my… read more
2009 1. Inverse reflexives Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics, Lewis, William D., Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar (eds.), pp. 3–36 | Article
This chapter discusses the principles that determine legitimate minimal domains for antecedents of reflexive forms. It offers novel critiques of the idea that these principles reduce to some elementary statement involving c‑command or analogs thereof, and proposes a relational account for certain… read more
2004 The Syntax of Emphasis — A Base Camp Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 547–559 | Article
This paper attempts a survey of the major emphatic constructions in English, and of the processes which derive them from a proposed bisentential source. The source for a garden-variety pseudocleft sentence like What Jeb hankers for is a smooth transition is argued to be What Jeb hankers for is he… read more
1995 A first crosslinguistic look at paths: The difference between end-legs and medial ones The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 273–286 | Article
1992 23. The Linguist's Songbook Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday, Zwicky, Arnold M., Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek (eds.), pp. 129–130 | Chapter
1992 19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday, Zwicky, Arnold M., Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek (eds.), pp. 119–120 | Chapter
1985 Hierarchy in conceptual space Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells, Makkai, Adam and Alan K. Melby (eds.), pp. 45–53 | Article
1981 Untitled No.14 Studies in Language 5:2, pp. 269–271 | Miscellaneous
1981 Idioms(?) and Contrastive Stress Studies in Language 5:2, pp. 273–277 | Miscellaneous
1980 No Negatives in Than-Clauses, More Often Than Not Studies in Language 4:1, pp. 119–123 | Miscellaneous
1980 Here Now! Studies in Language 4:2, pp. 287–292 | Miscellaneous
1977 Remnants Studies in Language 1:1, pp. 127–135 | Miscellaneous