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9 February 2010

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Studies out in Left Field

Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday. Reprint of the original edition

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Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek

1992. xxiv, 200 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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978 90 272 2111 7 / EUR 24.00
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Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc Dong (English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject), Yuck Foo (A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice), V. Anantalinguam ("Up yours" and Related Constructions), Ebbing Craft (Up Against the Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!) and other lost eminences.


Table of contents

Quotation
v
Preface
vii
Publications of James D. McCawley
xi
Table of Contents
xiv
I. The Wienerkreis Papers
1. English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject
Quang Phuc Dong
3
2. A Note On Conjoined Noun Phrases
Quang Phuc Dong
11
3. A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice
Yuck Foo
19
II. Pornolinguistics And Scatolinguistics
A. Scatometalinguistics
4. ‘Up Yours’ And Related Constructions: Studies in the English Drecatives I
V. Anantalingam
23
B. English Linguistics
5. Some Unnatural Habits
U Pani Shad
33
6. Copulative Sentences In English: A Germanic Language Spoken In Northern Delaware
Munç Wang
37
7. A Note On One's Privates
P.R.N. Tic Douloureux
45
8. On Abstract Drecative Nouns
Noah A. Twaddle and Coughlake Sweat
53
9. On Fucking (Well): A Study of Some Quasi-Performative Expressions
Tina Bopp
61
C. Historical and Exotic
10. K Lučše Ustanovlennomu Govnu (With Etymological Commentaries)
Renthgil
75
11. Lexical Problems Raised By Some of the Foutre: Constructions
Michel Gouet
79
12. An Example of Iconicity in Russian
Bill Darden
87
13. Un Bouquet Français
Ann Daingerfield Zwicky
91
14. The Prefixed Forms of Latvian Pist ‘Futuere’
Andrzey Lurba
95
15. On the Russian Verb Ebat' and some of its Derivatives
Richard C. DeArmond
99
16. A Generative Phonology of Yakyak
Wm.K. Riley
109
D. Metapornolinguistics
17. Conjunctive Ordering
E. Clifton Gamahuche
113
III. Whimsy I
18. Language, Journal of the Debating Society of America [cover]
Carolyn Killean, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff, Michael O'Mailey and Lester Rice
117
19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant
Richard Carter, Jeffrey Gruber, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff and John R. Ross
119
20. A Concise History of Modern Art
Fom Pop
121
21. Glossary of Linguistic Terminology
U Pani Shad et alii
125
22. A Supplementary Glossary of Linguistic Terminology
U Bal Shada Zwel et alii
127
23. The Linguist's Songbook
Richard Carter, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff and John R. Ross
129
IV. Parody and Burlesque I: Inside TG Grammar
24. On Notational Conventions: New Evidence From The Field
Ebbing Craft
133
25. Notes On Craft's ‘On Notational Conventions’: Current Trends In Urbanan Studies
A.D. Hoke
143
26. Up Against The Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!
Ebbing Craft
147
27. On Concrete Syntax
Čabnomme
151
28. Where Do Proper Names Come From? (In Case There Are Any)
I.M. Cratylus
157
29. On The Notion ‘Derivational Constraint in Grammar’ or: The Turing Machine Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (If It Ever Will)
Robert Wall
163
V. Whimsy II
30. A Contribution To The Repertory of Examples
Charles J. Fillmore
171
31. Polyglossolalia
Members of the Larynx-Horn Kammerchor
173
32. The Linguist's Alphabet Book
Albin Schrimpuwskin
177
33. Fragments From The Collective Subconscious: A Tentative Reconstruction
Fom Pop
179
34. Well Donne
Dr. Forthcoming Larynx-Horn
185
VI. Parody and Burlesque II Wider Horizons
185
35. Eigenvalues in Grammar
Cora K. Rickulum
189
36. On The Historical Sources of Sanctian Linguistics
W. Keith Percival
191
37. Zwei Bisher Unbekannte as. Randglossen
Joseph B. Voyles
199


"...offer(s) a narrow mishmash of contributions which are quite unlikely to receive publication else, thanks to their content or form or both."
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