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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824181703321

Autore

Postal Paul Martin <1936->

Titolo

Skeptical linguistic essays  / / Paul M. Postal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-029041-2

0-19-772240-7

1-280-53403-6

0-19-518076-3

9786610534036

1-282-36692-0

9786612366925

0-19-534366-2

1-60256-938-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 pages)

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

English language - Syntax

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A Paradox in English Syntax -- A Putatively Banned Type of Raising -- A New Raising Mystery -- Chromaticity: An Overlooked English Grammatical Category Distinction -- The Structure of One Type of American English Vulgar Minimizer -- The Openness of Natural Languages -- Junk Syntax 1: A Supposed Account of Strong Crossover Effects -- Junk Syntax 2: "There Remain a Few As Yet Unexplained Exceptions" -- Junk Ethics 1: Advances in Linguistic Rhetoric -- Junk Refereeing: Our Tax Dollars at Work -- Junk Ethics 2: The Most Irresponsible Passage.

Sommario/riassunto

Consists of an introduction and two groups of essays, each with a connecting theme. The first, positive group, contains five studies of English syntax. The second, negative group of papers, contains seven essays each of which seeks to show that aspects of contemporary



linguistic activity are in part contaminated by elements of 'junk linguistics'.