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The Joy of Grammar
A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley
Two threads run through this collection of 22 papers by students and colleagues of James D. McCawley. The first is a commitment to deep reflection on the direction of linguistic study, sometimes resulting in challenges to the writings of major figures or new appreciations, sometimes questioning our assumptions about the organization of linguistic information in the mind. The second thread is a shared sense of the requirements for the rigor of a good linguistic argument, that its presentation be thoroughgoing, straightforward and clearly made. There is a strong emphasis on testing the “party line” with the widest possible range of languages and the strongest possible set of linguistic tests. Demonstrating bugs and strategizing over the choice between competing analyses is not enough. The completion of an argument lies in constructing a better alternative.
[Not in series, 55] 1992. xii, 400 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 February 2012
Published online on 13 February 2012
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Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. ix–xii
- Japanese Modals are ConditionalsNoriko Akatsuka | p. 1
- The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form ClassesBill Darden | p. 11
- The Transition from Oral to Written Competence: Evidence from Teaching Freshman CompositionPaul D. Deane | p. 25
- Two Types of “World-Greating” PredicatesDonka F. Farkas | p. 35
- Tojolabal (Mayan) Kinterms and the Theory of Markedness or a Near Triumph of the Feminie GenderN. Louanna Furbee | p. 65
- Tone and Accent in LlogooriJohn A. Goldsmith | p. 73
- Purpose Infinitives and Their RelativesGeorgia M. Green | p. 95
- A Semantic Etymology | pp. 129–130
- Are Conditionals Topics? The Japanese CaseWesley M. Jacobsen | p. 131
- Gender and Sex in Standard Modern greek Pet NamesKostas Kazazis | p. 161
- Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science Comments of William Lycan’s Logical Form in Natural LanguageGeorge Lakoff | p. 173
- Symmetric RelationsD. Terence Langendoen | p. 199
- The Korean Precursors of Generative PhonologyAlexis Manaster-Ramer | p. 213
- Why Grammars are Not MonolithicSalikoko S. Mufwene | p. 225
- On Extracting from Asymmetrical StructuresYounghee Na and Geoffrey J. Huck | p. 251
- The Markedness of PluralityAlmerindo E. Ojeda | p. 275
- Phantom Succesors and the French FAIRE PAR ConnstructionPaul M. Postal | p. 289
- A Paper on Yiddish for James D. McCawleyJerrold M. Sadock | p. 323
- Survival of the Positive: History of Japanese AntonymsY. Tagashira | p. 329
- Lexical Phonology and Japanese Vowel DevoicingTimothy J. Vance | p. 337
- First He Called Her a Philologist and Then She Insulted HimMargaret E. Winters and Geoffrey S. Nathan | p. 351
- Jottings on Adpositions, Case Inflections, Government, and AgreementArnold M. Zwicky | p. 369
- Indices | pp. 385–400
Cited by (4)
Cited by four other publications
Kagan, Evgeny, Alexander Novoselsky, Daria Ramon & Alexander Rybalov
Chaves, Rui P.
Goldsmith, John & Jerrold Sadock
Koerner, Konrad & Kofi K. Saah
1992. Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften. Historiographia Linguistica 19:1 ► pp. 199 ff.
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