Studies out in Left Field
Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday
Reprint of the original edition
Transformational Grammar’s Underground Classic!
Back in Print in the Nick of Time!
(Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)
[Not in series, 63]
1992.
xxiv, 200 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Quotation
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v
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Preface
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vii
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Publications of James D. McCawley
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xi
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Table of Contents
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xiv
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I. The Wienerkreis Papers
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1. English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject
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3
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2. A Note On Conjoined Noun Phrases
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11
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3. A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice
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19
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II. Pornolinguistics And Scatolinguistics
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A. Scatometalinguistics
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4. ‘Up Yours’ And Related Constructions: Studies in the English Drecatives I
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23
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B. English Linguistics
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5. Some Unnatural Habits
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33
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6. Copulative Sentences In English: A Germanic Language Spoken In Northern Delaware
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37
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7. A Note On One's Privates
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45
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8. On Abstract Drecative Nouns
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53
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9. On Fucking (Well): A Study of Some Quasi-Performative Expressions
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61
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C. Historical and Exotic
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10. K Lučše Ustanovlennomu Govnu (With Etymological Commentaries)
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75
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11. Lexical Problems Raised By Some of the Foutre: Constructions
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79
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12. An Example of Iconicity in Russian
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87
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13. Un Bouquet Français
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91
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14. The Prefixed Forms of Latvian Pist ‘Futuere’
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95
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15. On the Russian Verb Ebat' and some of its Derivatives
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99
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16. A Generative Phonology of Yakyak
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109
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D. Metapornolinguistics
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17. Conjunctive Ordering
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113
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III. Whimsy I
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18. Language, Journal of the Debating Society of America [cover]
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117
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19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant
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119
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20. A Concise History of Modern Art
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121
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21. Glossary of Linguistic Terminology
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125
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22. A Supplementary Glossary of Linguistic Terminology
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127
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23. The Linguist's Songbook
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129
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IV. Parody and Burlesque I: Inside TG Grammar
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24. On Notational Conventions: New Evidence From The Field
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133
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25. Notes On Craft's ‘On Notational Conventions’: Current Trends In Urbanan Studies
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143
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26. Up Against The Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!
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147
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27. On Concrete Syntax
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151
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28. Where Do Proper Names Come From? (In Case There Are Any)
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157
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29. On The Notion ‘Derivational Constraint in Grammar’ or: The Turing Machine Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (If It Ever Will)
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163
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V. Whimsy II
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30. A Contribution To The Repertory of Examples
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171
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31. Polyglossolalia
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173
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32. The Linguist's Alphabet Book
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177
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33. Fragments From The Collective Subconscious: A Tentative Reconstruction
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179
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34. Well Donne
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185
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VI. Parody and Burlesque II Wider Horizons
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185
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35. Eigenvalues in Grammar
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189
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36. On The Historical Sources of Sanctian Linguistics
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191
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37. Zwei Bisher Unbekannte as. Randglossen
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199
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Quotes
“...offer(s) a narrow mishmash of contributions which are quite unlikely to receive publication anywhere else, thanks to their content or form or both.”
The Editors
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
Linguistics
BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics