First principles in linguistic inquiry

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. First principles in linguistic inquiry 1
4. Categories of grammar and categories of speech 7
5. Letter from Ricardo Otheguy to Shana Poplack 35
6. Variable grammars 45
7. Discovering structure 67
8. The justification of grammatical categories 91
9. Spooky grammatical effects 133
10. Ditransitives and the English System of Degree of Control 157
11. LatinUs* and linguistics 189
12. Reviving the unicorn 209
13. Bilingual acquisition 245
14. An incomplete disquisition against ‘incomplete acquisition’ 269
15. Index 291