Studies out in left field : defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on the occasion of his 33rd or 34th birthday / edited by Arnold M. Zwicky ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCawley, James D.

Zwicky, Arnold M.

Darnell, Regna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Humor.

Linguistics.

Obscene words.

Physical Description:

xvi, 200 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transformational Grammar's Underground Classic!Back in Print in the Nick of Time!(Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)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.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Quotation

Preface

Publications of James D. McCawley

Table of Contents

I. THE WIENERKREIS PAPERS

1. ENGLISH SENTENCES WITHOUT OVERT GRAMMATICAL SUBJECT

2. A NOTE ON CONJOINED NOUN PHRASES

3 A SELECTIONAL RESTRICTION INVOLVING PRONOUN CHOICE

II. PORNOLINGUISTICS AND SCATOLINGUISTICS

A. Scatonetalinguistics

4. 'UP YOURS' AND RELATED CONSTRUCTIONS: STUDIES IN THE ENGLISH DRECATIVES I

B. English Linguistics

5. SOME UNNATURAL HABITS

6. COPULATIVE SENTENCES IN ENGLISH: A GERMANIC LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN NORTHERN DELAWARE

7. A NOTE ON ONE'S PRIVATES

8. ON ABSTRACT DRECATIVE NOUNS

9. ON FUCKING (HELL) A STUDY OF SOME QUASI-PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS

C. Historical and Exotic

10. K LUCSE USTANOVLENNOMU GOVNU (WITH ETYMOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES)

11. LEXICAL PROBLEMS RAISED BY SOME OF THE FOUTRE - CONSTRUCTIONS

12. AN EXAMPLE OF ICONICITY IN RUSSIAN

13. UN BOUQUET FRANÇAIS

14. THE PREFIXED FORMS OF LATVIAN PIST 'FUTUERE'

15. ON THE RUSSIAN VERB EBAT AND SOME OF ITS DERIVATIVES

16. A GENERATIVE PHONOLOGY OF YAKYAK

D. Metapornonolinguistics

17. CONJUNCTIVE ORDERING

III. WHIMSY I

18. LANGUAGE, JOURNAL OF THE DEBATING SOCIETY OF AMERICA [cover]

19. MAXEME'S: THE LINGUIST'S RESTAURANT

20. A CONCISE HISTORY OF MODERN ART

21. GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY

22. A SUPPLEMENTARY GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY

23. THE LINGUIST'S SONGBOOK

IV. PARODY AND BURLESQUE I: INSIDE TO GRAMMAR

24. ON NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE FIELD

25. NOTES ON CRAFT'S 'ON NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS': CURRENT TRENDS IN URBANAN STUDIES

26. UP AGAINST THE WALL, FASCIST PIG CRITICS!

27. ON CONCRETE SYNTAX

28. WHERE DO PROPER NAMES COME FROM? (IN CASE THERE ARE ANY).

29. ON THE NOTION 'DERIVATIONAL CONSTRAINT IN GRAMMAR' OR: THE TURING MACHINE DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE (IF IT EVER WILL)

V. WHIMSY II

30. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE REPERTORY OF EXAMPLES

31. POLYGLOSSOLALIA

32. THE LINGUIST'S ALPHABET BOOK

33. FRAGMENTS FROM THE COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS: A TENTATIVE RECONSTRUCTION

34. WELL DONNE

VI. PARODY AND BURLESQUE II: WIDER HORIZONS

35. EIGENVALUES IN GRAMMAR

36. ON THE HISTORICAL SOURCES OF SANCTIAN LINGUISTICS

37. ZWEI BISHER UNBEKANNTE AS. RANDGLOSSEN.

Notes:

"Reprint of the original 1971 edition with a new introduction by Regna Darnell."

Originally published: Edmonton, Alta. ; Champaign, Ill. : Linguistic Research, c1971.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Publications of James D. McCawley": p. xi-xiii.

ISBN:

1-283-12197-2

9786613121974

90-272-8588-8

OCLC:

721195470