Notes from the Linguistic Underground
Syntax and Semantics
- 1st Edition - February 17, 2016
- Editor: James D. McCawley
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 0 6 6 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 0 0 4 - 8
Syntax and Semantics, Volume 7: Notes from the Linguistic Underground is a collection of articles that were written in the 1960s, which has never before appeared in a regular,… Read more
Syntax and Semantics, Volume 7: Notes from the Linguistic Underground is a collection of articles that were written in the 1960s, which has never before appeared in a regular, English language publication. The papers contained in this compendium provide the history and information on the development of transformational grammar and generative semantics. The book presents articles that discuss topics on reflexivization, transformations, past tense replacement and the modal system, and pro-sentential forms and their implications for English sentence structure. Papers that tackle syntactic orientation, some constraints on pronominalization, discourse referents, and the verb-object agreement rule and the wh-movement rule in Hungarian are likewise included. Linguists and linguistic historians will find the book invaluable.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Contents of Previous Volumes
Introduction
1. Optical Illusions and Grammar Blindness
2. What Are Transformations?
3. Toward Generative Semantics
I. A Critique of Some Present Notions about Meaning
II. The Generative Approach
4. Reflexivization 63
Reflexivization I
Reflexivization II
5. Past Tense Replacement and the Modal System
6. Why You Can't Do So Into the Sink
A. Background
B. A Test
7. Concerning the Notion "Base Component of a Transformational Grammar"
8. Mind and Body
i. Physical and Mental Predicates
ii. Selectional Restrictions
iii. Statements about Perception
iv. Identification of Particulars
v. Ownership
vi. Mind-Body Influence
vii. Body-Mind Influence
1974 Comments
9. Is Deep Structure Necessary?
10. Pro-Sentential Forms and Their Implications for English Sentence Structure
11. Linguistic Anarchy Notes
Introduction
Series A: Horrors of Identity
Series F: That Much-Beloved Semantics-Free Syntax
12. Linguistic Harmony Notes
Series A: Charms of Identity
13. On the Historical Source of Immediate Constituent Analysis
14. More Evidence for a Cycle of Transformations?
15. Camelot, 1968
I. Introduction
II. Current Status of the Base Component
III. Selectional Anomaly
IV. The Implications of Semantax: Lexical Insertion, the Notion "Possible Lexical Item," the Well-Formedness of Underlying Structures
16. Pronouns and Reference
1. Some Constraints on Pronominalization
2. Types of Linguistic Identity
17. Cryptic Note II and WAGS III
Cryptic Note II: Again, and then Again...WAGS III
18. Syntactic Orientation as a Semantic Property
19. Discourse Referents
0. Introduction
1. Case Studies
2. Specificity
3. Summary
20. Some Notes on English Modals
Will
Can
Must
21. The 23 Verbs pretend
22. On a Surface Structure Constraint in Hungarian
Glossary
References
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 17, 2016
- Language: English