Time and again : theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics : in honor of D. Terence Langendoen / edited by William D. Lewis ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langendoen, D. Terence.

Lewis, William D., 1963-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 135.

Linguistik aktuell = linguistics today ; v. 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 265 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this chapter Sherwin Cody's well-known correspondence course is analyzed within a historical context and according to the norms of the early part of the 20th century. Details of the course are summarized, and several notable examples are given concerning the prescriptive rules for pronunciation, practical grammar, and grammatical correctness. The course itself and aspects of the successful marketing campaign are discussed. Cody's prescriptivist and descriptivist approaches are evaluated according to early 20th-century society; it is argued that Cody's course was influenced by several, sometimes opposing, factors. The views of language experts of the day, including educators and linguists, are taken into account.

Contents:

Time and Again

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Syntax and semantics

1. Inverse reflexives

1. Introduction

2. Non-English facts

2.1 Remark

2.2 French

2.3 Albanian

2.4 Greek

3. English

3.1 A and only B

3.2 Salvageability

4. Conclusions

4.1 Correlations

4.1 A possibly inviolable antecedence constraint on subject reflexives

4.2 Constraints on inverse reflexives

4.3 Generalizing the results

References

2. On the nature of the approximative expression num-odd

2. A corpus study of NUM-odd expressions

2.1. Semantics of -odd

2.2 Collocations

2.3 Spoken versus written language variants

2.4 Summary

3. Analysis: What is the structural status of -odd?

3.1 -odd: clitic, suffix, or free morpheme?

3.2 NUM-odd expressions: derived numerals

4. Origin and typology of -odd

4.1. Etymology of -odd

4.2 Typology of approximatives

5. Conclusions

3. Skating along the syntactic verge: Experimental pragmatics and understood elements of content

2. Understood elements of content

3. Implicature and impliciture: pure pragmatics

4. Experimental pragmatics: studies of impliciture phenomena

5. Some Conclusions

4. Current challenges to the Lexicalist Hypothesis: An overview and a critique

2. Chomsky's lexicalist hypothesis

3. Recent updates of the generative semantic analysis

3.1 Borer (2003)

3.2 Alexiadou (2001)

3.3 Roeper (2005)

3.4 Harley (in press)

4. A critique of current non-lexicalist accounts of nominalizations

4.1 The Idiosyncrasy Argument

4.2. The Internal-Structure Argument

4.3 The Frozen-Structure Argument and the problem of passive nominals.

4.3.1. On the minimalist approach to frozen structure in nominals

4.3.2. On Harley and Noyer on particle shift in mixed nominals

4.3.3. Passive nominals do not involve movement

5. Conclusion

Part 2. Psycholinguistics

5. On the homogeneity of syntax: How similar do coordinates and subordinates look to the comprehension system?

1. Kinds of recursion

2. The Homogeneity Thesis

2.1. Research strategy

3. Processing agreement: Are coordinates handled like subordinates?

3.1. Findings: subordinate cases

3.2. Findings: coordinate cases

3.3. Overview

4. Alternatives to the Homogeneity Thesis

6. The effect of case marking on subject-verb agreement errors in English

2. Error induction in the laboratory

3. Morphophonological effects on agreement

4. Experiment

4.1. Method

4.2. Results

5. Discussion

7. First language acquisition of coordination: The mud-puddle study and beyond

2. Early issues in study of the first language acquisition of coordination

3. Early discoveries

4. Cross-linguistic studies

5. Returning to coordination: A lingering problem

6. The Mud-Puddle study

6.1. Experimental Design

6.2. Results: Quantitative analyses of correct imitations

6.3. Results: Qualitative analysis of reformulations

6.3.1. Type III: Mud-Puddle predicates

6.3.2. Type II: Reciprocals

7. Discussion

8. Frequency effects in children's syntactic and morphological development

1. Relative clauses

2. Indefinite articles

3. Conclusions

9. Abstract linguistic representations and innateness: The development of determiners

1. Nativism and syntactic categories

2. Determiners

3. Two-year-olds' knowledge of determiners

4. Infants' perception of determiners.

5. Conclusion

Part 3. Language as a formal system

10. One-level finite-state phonology

2. Phonology

3. General finite state machinery

4. How it works

4.1. Inventories

4.2. Distributional regularities

4.3. Natural classes

4.4. Alternations and flapping

5. Desiderata

6. Comparison

7. Remaining questions

8. Conclusion

11. Biolinguistics today and Platonism yesterday

Part 4. Standards

12. Linguistics as a community activity: The paradox of freedom through standards

1. Linguistics in the twenty-first century

2. Life without standards

3. Examples from linguistics

4. Metaphors to live by

5. Linguistics as community

6. Development as freedom

7. Conclusion

13. Sherwin Cody's school of English

2. Sherwin Cody

3. An advertisement that never changed

4. The Cody Course

5. Prescriptive or descriptive?

6. Nothing lasts forever

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613469458

9781283469456

1283469456

9789027289629

902728962X

OCLC:

646788013