Table of contents
Quotationv
Prefacevii
Publications of James D. McCawleyxi
Table of Contentsxiv
I. The Wienerkreis Papers
1. English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject3 2. A Note On Conjoined Noun Phrases11 3. A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice19 II. Pornolinguistics And Scatolinguistics
A. Scatometalinguistics
4. ‘Up Yours’ And Related Constructions: Studies in the English Drecatives I23 B. English Linguistics
5. Some Unnatural Habits33 6. Copulative Sentences In English: A Germanic Language Spoken In Northern Delaware37 7. A Note On One's Privates45 8. On Abstract Drecative Nouns53 9. On Fucking (Well): A Study of Some Quasi-Performative Expressions61 C. Historical and Exotic
10. K Lučše Ustanovlennomu Govnu (With Etymological Commentaries)75 11. Lexical Problems Raised By Some of the Foutre: Constructions79 12. An Example of Iconicity in Russian87 13. Un Bouquet Français91 14. The Prefixed Forms of Latvian Pist ‘Futuere’95 15. On the Russian Verb Ebat' and some of its Derivatives99 16. A Generative Phonology of Yakyak109 D. Metapornolinguistics
17. Conjunctive Ordering113 III. Whimsy I
18. Language, Journal of the Debating Society of America [cover]117 19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant119 20. A Concise History of Modern Art121 21. Glossary of Linguistic Terminology125 22. A Supplementary Glossary of Linguistic Terminology127 23. The Linguist's Songbook129 IV. Parody and Burlesque I: Inside TG Grammar
24. On Notational Conventions: New Evidence From The Field133 25. Notes On Craft's ‘On Notational Conventions’: Current Trends In Urbanan Studies143 26. Up Against The Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!147 27. On Concrete Syntax151 28. Where Do Proper Names Come From? (In Case There Are Any)157 29. On The Notion ‘Derivational Constraint in Grammar’ or: The Turing Machine Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (If It Ever Will)163 V. Whimsy II
30. A Contribution To The Repertory of Examples171 32. The Linguist's Alphabet Book177 33. Fragments From The Collective Subconscious: A Tentative Reconstruction179 VI. Parody and Burlesque II Wider Horizons185
35. Eigenvalues in Grammar189 36. On The Historical Sources of Sanctian Linguistics191 37. Zwei Bisher Unbekannte as. Randglossen199