The joy of grammar [[electronic resource] ] : a festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley / / edited by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: McCawleyJames D BrentariDiane LarsonGary N. <1954-> MacLeodLynn A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: THE JOY OF GRAMMAR; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Japanese Modals are Conditionals; 1. Introduction; 2. WISH, ADVICE and PERMISSION; 3. Obligation and double-negation; 4. Concluding remarks; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form Classes; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Transition from Oral to Written Competence: Evidence from Teaching Freshman Composition; REFERENCES; Two Types of 'World-Creating' Predicates; 0. Introduction; 1. The model; 1.1 Partial worlds; 1.2 Necessity and Possibility; 2. Cognitive Verbs; 2.1 Problems with the standard analysis ; 2.2 Alternative analysis 2.3 Reality and its versions; Getting personal; 2.4 On Moore's problem and related matters; 2.5 Digression on factivity and projection; 2.6 Degrees of commitment; 3. Desideratives; 3.1 Differences between desideratives and cognitives; 3.2 Towards an analysis; 3.3 Highlighted situations; 3.4 Want vs. wish; NOTES; REFERENCES; Tojolabal (Mayan) Kinterms and the Theory of Markedness, or A Near Triumph of the Feminine Gender; NOTES; REFERENCES; Tone and Accent in Llogoori; 1. Introduction; 2. Some Generalizations about Llogoori; 2.1 Some initial facts about the tone system ; 2.2 The structure of the deri 2.3 Some simple morphotonemic assignments; 3. The development of accent; 3.1 Present Continuous; 3.2 Middle Future; 4. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; Purpose Infinitives and Their Relatives; 1. Introduction; 2. Brute facts; 3. Bach's analysis; 4. GPSG analyses; 5. Flies in the ointment; 6. What about genuine relative infinitives?; 7. An HPSG account; 8. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; A Semantic Etymology; Are Conditionals Topics? The Japanese Case; 0. Introduction; 1. Possible and impossible topics in Japanese; 2. Hypothetical and non-hypothetical conditionals ; 3. A constraint on non-hypothetical past-tense conditionals 4. The temporal and discourse character of conditionals; 5. Contrastiveness in conditionals and WA; 6. Summary and conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; Gender and Sex in Standard Modern Greek Pet Names; NOTES; REFERENCES; Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science; The Basic Generative Semantics Argument; Epilogue; REFERENCES; Symmetric Relations; 1. Full symmetry; 2. Placedness; 3. Derived symmetry; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Korean Precursors of Generative Phonology; NOTES; REFERENCES; Why Grammars are Not Monolithic ; 2. Against Monolithic Grammars 2.1 Overlapping Rules in Individual Grammars.; 2.2 Inconsistent Rules in Grammar.; 2.3. Heterogeneous Communal Grammar.; 3. Is English an Isolated Case?; 4. What's New Here?; NOTES; REFERENCES; On Extracting from Asymmetrical Structures; 1. Introduction; 1.1. The Purpose; 1.2. The Coordinate Structure Constraint and Its Exceptions; 2. Analysis of Exceptions in English; 2.1. Typology of Conjunctions and the Domain of Inquiry; 2.2. Scenarios and the Organization of Information; 2.3. Primacy in Idiomatic Nonlogical Conjunctions. ; 2.4. The Condition on Asymmetric Conjunction
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The joy of grammar
• ISBN: 1-280-49739-4; 9786613592620; 90-272-7406-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461661803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II