Háj Ross

List of John Benjamins publications for which Háj Ross plays a role.

Hiraga, Masako K. and Háj Ross 2013 The Bashō code: Metaphor and diagram in two haiku about silenceIconic Investigations, Elleström, Lars, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 25–42 | Article
“Haiku shows us what we knew all the time, but did not know we knew; 
it shows us that we are poets in so far as we live at all.
”
R. H. Blyth in Haiku (1952)This paper looks at the rhetorical structure of the two haiku texts by Bashō, which display formal and semantic similarities. After giving a… read more
Ross, Háj 2011 An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts, and vice versaPragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 243–260 | Article
This paper is a try at building a bridge between a vexing topic – the architecture of emphatic sentences in English (and by induction, of all languages) – and the automodular theory of our old pal Jerry Sadock, a theory which I understand way too little of. I beg forbearance at the outset for my… read more
Ross, Háj 2004 The Syntax of Emphasis — A Base CampLexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 547–559 | Article
This paper attempts a survey of the major emphatic constructions in English, and of the processes which derive them from a proposed bisentential source. The source for a garden-variety pseudocleft sentence like What Jeb hankers for is a smooth transition is argued to be What Jeb hankers for is he… read more
Ross, Háj 1995 A first crosslinguistic look at paths: The difference between end-legs and medial onesThe Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 273 ff. | Article