The Joy of grammar a Festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley

McCawley, James D. (Added Author). Brentari, Diane. (Added Author). Larson, Gary N., 1954- (Added Author). MacLeod, Lynn A. (Added Author).

Summary: Two threads run through this collection of 22 papers by students and colleagues of James D. McCawley. The first is a commitment to deep reflection on the direction of linguistic study, sometimes resulting in challenges to the writings of major figures or new appreciations, sometimes questioning our assumptions about the organization of linguistic information in the mind. The second thread is a shared sense of the requirements for the rigor of a good linguistic argument, that its presentation be thoroughgoing, straightforward and clearly made. There is a strong emphasis on testing the "party li.

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ISBN: 9789027274069 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027274061 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1556194544 (hb alk. paper)
ISBN: 1556194552 (pbk. alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027220956 (hb alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027220964 (pbk. alk. paper)
ISBN: 9789027220950
ISBN: 9781556194542 (US : hb : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781556194559 (US : pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9789027220967 (Eur. : pb : alk. paper)
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1 online resource (xi, 400 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

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General Note:	CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	THE JOY OF GRAMMAR; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Japanese Modals are Conditionals; 1. Introduction; 2. WISH, ADVICE and PERMISSION; 3. Obligation and double-negation; 4. Concluding remarks; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form Classes; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Transition from Oral to Written Competence: Evidence from Teaching Freshman Composition; REFERENCES; Two Types of 'World-Creating' Predicates; 0. Introduction; 1. The model; 1.1 Partial worlds; 1.2 Necessity and Possibility; 2. Cognitive Verbs; 2.1 Problems with the standard analysis.
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Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.