Overview

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.

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Author:   Etsuyo Yuasa (Ohio State University) ,  Tista Bagchi (NISTADS & University of Delhi) ,  Katharine Beals (University of Pennsylvania & Drexel University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   176
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9789027255594

ISBN 10:   9027255598
Pages:   339
Publication Date:   29 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction (by Yuasa, Etsuyo); 4. Almost forever (by Horn, Laurence R.); 5. Sadock and the Performadox (by Lycan, William G.); 6. Expressing regret and avowing belief: Sadock's expositive adverbials, Moore's Paradox, and performative and quasi-performative verbs (by Atlas, Jay D.); 7. A story of Jerry and Bob (by Rogers, Andy); 8. Conventionalization in indirect speech acts: Evidence from autism (by Beals, Katharine); 9. Pseudo-apologies in the news (by Gruber, M. Catherine); 10. Towards an intonational-illocutionary interface (by Bagchi, Tista); 11. Atkan Aleut unclitic pronouns and definiteness: A multimodular analysis (by Woodbury, Anthony C.); 12. Nominalization affixes and multi-modularity of word formation (by Sugioka, Yoko); 13. No more phology!: West Greenlandic evidence against a morphological tier of linguistic representation (by Neuvel, Sylvain); 14. Wait'll (you hear) the next one: A case for an enclitic preposition and complementizer (by Smessaert, Hans); 15. Aleut case matters (by Merchant, Jason); 16. English derived nominals in three frameworks (by Newmeyer, Frederick J.); 17. Out of control: The semantics of some infinitival VP complements (by Abbott, Barbara); 18. An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts, and vice versa (by Ross, Haj); 19. Negation as structure building in a home sign system (by Franklin, Amy); 20. Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension: The role of default correspondences (by Francis, Elaine J.); 21. Evidence for grammatical multi-modularity from a corpus of non-native essays (by Higgins, Derrick); 22. Autolexical Grammar and language processing: Mismatch and resolution in the cognitive representation of syntactic and semantic knowledge (by Luka, Barbara); 23. Topic index; 24. Name index

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