Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar

In honor of Jerry Sadock

Editors

Etsuyo Yuasa

| Ohio State University

Tista Bagchi

| NISTADS & University of Delhi

Katharine Beals

| University of Pennsylvania & Drexel University

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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.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 176] 2011. xxv, 339 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.176

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii–viii
List of contributors	ix–xii
Introduction Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals	xiii–xxvi
Almost forever Laurence R. Horn	3–22
Sadock and the Performadox William G. Lycan	23–34
Expressing regret and avowing belief: Sadock’s expositive adverbials, Moore’s Paradox, and performative and quasi-performative verbs Jay D. Atlas	35–58
A story of Jerry and Bob Andy Rogers	59–74
Conventionalization in indirect speech acts: Evidence from autism Katharine Beals	77–92
Pseudo-apologies in the news M. Catherine Gruber	93–106
Towards an intonational-illocutionary interface Tista Bagchi	107–122
Atkan Aleut “unclitic” pronouns and definiteness: A multimodular analysis Anthony C. Woodbury	125–142
Nominalization affixes and multi-modularity of word formation Yoko Sugioka	143–162
No more phology!: West Greenlandic evidence against a morphological tier of linguistic representation Sylvain Neuvel	163–174
Wait’ll (you hear) the next one: A case for an enclitic preposition and complementizer Hans Smessaert	175–192
Aleut case matters Jason Merchant	193–210
English derived nominals in three frameworks Frederick J. Newmeyer	213–228
Out of control: The semantics of some infinitival VP complements Barbara Abbott	229–242
An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts, and vice versa Háj Ross	243–260
Negation as structure building in a home sign system Amy Franklin, Anastasia Giannakidou and Susan Goldin-Meadow	261–276
Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension: The role of default correspondences Elaine J. Francis	279–298
Evidence for grammatical multi-modularity from a corpus of non-native essays Derrick Higgins	299–314
Autolexical Grammar and language processing: Mismatch and resolution in the cognitive representation of syntactic and semantic knowledge Barbara Luka	315–336
Topic index	337–338
Name index	339–340

Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

Pragmatics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2010053978