Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar
In honor of Jerry Sadock
Editors
This book presents papers in honor of Jerry Sadock’s rich legacy in pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. Highlights of the pragmatics section include Larry Horn on almost, barely, and assertoric inertia; William Lycan on Sadock’s resolution of the Performadox with truth1 and truth2; and Jay Atlas on Moore’s Paradox and the truth value of propositions of belief. Highlights of the Autolexical Grammar section include Fritz Newmeyer’s comparison of the minimalist, autolexical, and transformational treatments of English nominals; Barbara Abott’s extension of Sadock’s PRO-less syntax to a PRO-less semantics of the infinitival complements of know how; and Haj Ross’s syntactic connections between semantically related English pseudoclefts. Encompassing a range of languages (Aleut, Bangla, Greenlandic, Japanese, and a home-based sign language) and extending into psycholinguistics (language acquisition, sentence processing, and autism) this volume will interest a range of readers, from theoretical linguists and philosophers of language to applied linguists and exotic language specialists.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 176] 2011. xxv, 339 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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List of contributors | pp. ix–xii
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IntroductionEtsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals | pp. xiii–xxvi
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Almost foreverLaurence R. Horn | pp. 3–22
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Sadock and the PerformadoxWilliam G. Lycan | pp. 23–34
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Expressing regret and avowing belief: Sadock’s expositive adverbials, Moore’s Paradox, and performative and quasi-performative verbsJay D. Atlas | pp. 35–58
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A story of Jerry and BobAndy Rogers | pp. 59–74
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Conventionalization in indirect speech acts: Evidence from autismKatharine Beals | pp. 77–92
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Pseudo-apologies in the newsM. Catherine Gruber | pp. 93–106
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Towards an intonational-illocutionary interfaceTista Bagchi | pp. 107–122
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Atkan Aleut “unclitic” pronouns and definiteness: A multimodular analysisAnthony C. Woodbury | pp. 125–142
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Nominalization affixes and multi-modularity of word formationYoko Sugioka | pp. 143–162
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No more phology! West Greenlandic evidence against a morphological tier of linguistic representationSylvain Neuvel | pp. 163–174
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Wait’ll (you hear) the next one: A case for an enclitic preposition and complementizerHans Smessaert | pp. 175–192
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Aleut case mattersJason Merchant | pp. 193–210
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English derived nominals in three frameworksFrederick J. Newmeyer | pp. 213–228
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Out of control: The semantics of some infinitival VP complementsBarbara Abbott | pp. 229–242
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An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts, and vice versaHáj Ross | pp. 243–260
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Negation as structure building in a home sign systemAmy Franklin, Anastasia Giannakidou and Susan Goldin-Meadow | pp. 261–276
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Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension: The role of default correspondencesElaine J. Francis | pp. 279–298
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Evidence for grammatical multi-modularity from a corpus of non-native essaysDerrick Higgins | pp. 299–314
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Autolexical Grammar and language processing: Mismatch and resolution in the cognitive representation of syntactic and semantic knowledgeBarbara Luka | pp. 315–336
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Topic index | pp. 337–338
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Name index | pp. 339–340
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General