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The Joy of Grammar

A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1992

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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.

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    Prelim pages

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    Table of contents

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    Preface

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    Japanese Modals are Conditionals

    1
    Noriko Akatsuka
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    The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form Classes

    11
    Bill Darden
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    The Transition from Oral to Written Competence

    25
    Paul D. Deane
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    Two Types of “World-Greating” Predicates

    35
    Donka F. Farkas
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    Tojolabal (Mayan) Kinterms and the Theory of Markedness or a Near Triumph of the Feminie Gender

    65
    N. Louanna Furbee
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    Tone and Accent in Llogoori

    73
    John A. Goldsmith
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    Purpose Infinitives and Their Relatives

    95
    Georgia M. Green
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    A Semantic Etymology

    129
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    Are Conditionals Topics? The Japanese Case

    131
    Wesley M. Jacobsen
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    Gender and Sex in Standard Modern greek Pet Names

    161
    Kostas Kazazis
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    Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science Comments of William Lycan’s Logical Form in Natural Language

    173
    George Lakoff
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    Symmetric Relations

    199
    D. Terence Langendoen
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    The Korean Precursors of Generative Phonology

    213
    Alexis Manaster-Ramer
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    Why Grammars are Not Monolithic

    225
    Salikoko S. Mufwene
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    On Extracting from Asymmetrical Structures

    251
    Younghee Na and Geoffrey J. Huck
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    The Markedness of Plurality

    275
    Almerindo E. Ojeda
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    Phantom Succesors and the French FAIRE PAR Connstruction

    289
    Paul M. Postal
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    A Paper on Yiddish for James D. McCawley

    323
    Jerrold M. Sadock
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    Survival of the Positive

    329
    Y. Tagashira
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    Lexical Phonology and Japanese Vowel Devoicing

    337
    Timothy J. Vance
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    First He Called Her a Philologist and Then She Insulted Him

    351
    Margaret E. Winters and Geoffrey S. Nathan
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    Jottings on Adpositions, Case Inflections, Government, and Agreement

    369
    Arnold M. Zwicky
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    Index of Subjects

    385
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    Index of Names

    391
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    Index of Languages

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Theoretical linguistics
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