Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Japanese Modals are Conditionals 1
5. The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form Classes 11
6. The Transition from Oral to Written Competence 25
7. Two Types of “World-Greating” Predicates 35
8. Tojolabal (Mayan) Kinterms and the Theory of Markedness or a Near Triumph of the Feminie Gender 65
9. Tone and Accent in Llogoori 73
10. Purpose Infinitives and Their Relatives 95
11. A Semantic Etymology 129
12. Are Conditionals Topics? The Japanese Case 131
13. Gender and Sex in Standard Modern greek Pet Names 161
14. Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science Comments of William Lycan’s Logical Form in Natural Language 173
15. Symmetric Relations 199
16. The Korean Precursors of Generative Phonology 213
17. Why Grammars are Not Monolithic 225
18. On Extracting from Asymmetrical Structures 251
19. The Markedness of Plurality 275
20. Phantom Succesors and the French FAIRE PAR Connstruction 289
21. A Paper on Yiddish for James D. McCawley 323
22. Survival of the Positive 329
23. Lexical Phonology and Japanese Vowel Devoicing 337
24. First He Called Her a Philologist and Then She Insulted Him 351
25. Jottings on Adpositions, Case Inflections, Government, and Agreement 369
26. Index of Subjects 385
27. Index of Names 391
28. Index of Languages 399