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North American Contributions to the History of Linguistics
Jan 1990
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This volume unites papers given by members of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) at meetings held in Washington D.C. in March and December 1989 respectively. They represent the scope and breadth of interest of North American scholars in this growing field ranging from linguistic concepts ideas and theories in the Classical Greek and Roman period to developments in grammatical theory and sociolinguistics in the second half of the 20th century and from the study of American Indian languages in the 17th through the present century and the philosophy of language from Aristotle to John Locke to F.B. Skinner and Chomsky. A detailed Index of Authors including life-dates rounds off the volume.
The text of this volume has also been published in Historiographia Linguistica XVII:1/2.
The text of this volume has also been published in Historiographia Linguistica XVII:1/2.
Nonsentential Constituents : A theory of grammatical structure and pragmatic interpretation
Jan 1990
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Linguists traditionally have assumed that full sentence sources truncated by ellipsis rules account for the grammatical structure as well as the semantic interpretation of fragments like B below: A: What happened in 1974? B: A scandal in the White House. A sentential structure dominated by the initial node of S is reduced to a fragment by the operation of ellipsis and it is the full sentential source that provides the semantic interpretation for the remaining fragment.Barton argues against both of these assumptions. She claims that independent major lexical categories like the example above are generated within a grammar as syntactic structures dominated by the initial node of NP VP and so on rather than S. Her second claim is that the major part of the interpretation of these independent constituent utterances takes place within a pragmatic context rather than in the semantic component of a grammar. A theory of nonsentential constituents is presented consisting of two interacting models: an autonomous competence model of the grammar of nonsentential constituent structures and a modular pragmatic model of the interpretation of independent constituent utterances in context.
New Studies in Latin Linguistics : Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Cambridge, April 1987
Jan 1990
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The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and external syntax of the noun phrase; and the pragmatics of textual cohesion. The papers are descriptive rather than historical in approach and most of the contributors are Latinists by training. For this reason the volume will be of interest not only for philologists and general linguists but also for those working with the Latin language.
Normale und gestörte Kindersprache
Jan 1988
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Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende Spracherwerbsuntersuchungen durchgefuhrt. Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen ist der Grammatikerwerb des Deutschen unter verschiedenartigen Bedingungen. In Teil I werden die wichtigsten Phasen des normalen Erstspracherwerbs rekonstruiert in Teil II wird dieser mit den Ausfallen beim gestorten Spracherwerb konfrontiert und in einem abschliessenden Exkurs werden die Besonderheiten des naturlichen Zweitspracherwerbs von Erwachsenen dargestellt und dem kindlichen Erstspracherwerb gegenubergestellt.
The Nature of the Right : Feminist analysis of order patterns
Jan 1988
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This volume challenges and extends the definition of right and right-wing discourse as traditionally conceived in male scholarship. The eleven papers share a common perspective: a critique of the ideology of 'natural difference' as the basis for oppression of the dominated group. In a radical feminist analysis the relation of domination between the sexes is seen as central to the projects of the right in which the constructions of 'nations' 'races' and 'gender' present variations in time and space. In its linking of oppressions this books makes an important and timely contribution to feminist theory and puts the case for a radical and altogether coherent rethinking of right-wing political space.
News Interviews : A pragmalinguistic analysis
Jan 1986
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Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice’s principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data. This application leads to suggestions for various modifications in the available pragmatic methodology. While pursuing this theoretical goal he makes a significant contribution to descriptive pragmatics by offering a detailed picture of linguistically relevant aspects of news interviews which show communicative behavior in ‘laboratory conditions’ where as many influencing factors as possible are kept stable while the influence of one specific factor at a time can be tested.
Noun Classes and Categorization : Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983
Jan 1986
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This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this conception has been challenged in different fields. By now prototype theory has established itself as one of the main approaches in linguistics. This volume brings classifier systems to the attention of cognitive psychologists dealing with the phenomenon of human categorization. For the general linguist it shows what can be learned from classifier systems into any theory on the nature of language organization it will challenge some of the most entrenched notions in the field of linguistics notions of what language is made of and how it functions.
New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality : Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984)
Jan 1986
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) a conference was held in the Victoria Memorial Museum Ottawa Canada where Sapir had his office for most of his time as Chief of the Anthropological Division of the Geographical Survey of Canada (1910-1925). This volume presents papers from that conference.
Noam Chomsky : A personal bibliography, 1951–1986
Jan 1986
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The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic theory and possibly other subjects such as philosophy and political science by a man who has dominated linguistics for more than a generation at least in North America. This bibliography lists his writings in linguistics and related fields his writings on political issues and other non-linguistic subjects and interview and discussions with Noam Chomsky.
New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics
Jan 1984
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This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982 to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past the current status and directions to be explored in the immediate future.
Non-declarative Sentences
Jan 1983
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Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of declaration and presupposition. These definitions are applicable to all types of sentence both declarative and non-declarative. A defining characteristic of non-declarative sentences is that only strongly intensional operators can apply to them to form complex sentences. It is shown that this property of non-declaratives implies that such sentences do not have declarations. A particular case of the relation between questions and conditionals is studied in more detail.
The Narrative Works of Günter Grass : A Critical Interpretation
Jan 1982
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This study provides a critical analysis of the narrative works of Günter Grass under which Die Blechtrommel Katz und Mann Hundejahre und Der Butt. It is of interest to everyone who wants to get a better understanding of the novels of this famous German writer.