Wallis Reid

List of John Benjamins publications for which Wallis Reid plays a role.

Titles

Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century

Edited by Nancy Stern, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 77] 2019. vii, 311 pp.

Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics

Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 48] 2002. xxii, 413 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Reid, Wallis 2019 The object of explanation for linguistics: Diver’s radical proposal for the foundations of linguistic theory Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century, Stern, Nancy, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler (eds.), pp. 73–104 | Chapter

What is the ultimate object of explanation in linguistics? What are the pre-analytical observations, the observations against which all theoretical constructs are tested? Columbia School (CS) proposes a radical answer: the observations in linguistics, and hence its ultimate object of explanation,… read more

Reid, Wallis 2018 The justification of grammatical categories Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy, Shin, Naomi and Daniel Erker (eds.), pp. 91–132 | Chapter

What is the theoretical justification for positing such constructs as conjugation classes, declension classes, parts of speech, grammatical gender, and agreement rules? This paper argues that no grammatical category or construct should be taken as an a priori given; each must be justified by the… read more

Reid, Wallis 2006 Columbia School and Saussure’s langue Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 17–39 | Article

This paper argues that William Diver’s signal-meaning pair is Saussure’s signe linguistique in all basic respects, and that Diver’s innovation of a grammatical system is the functional equivalent of Saussure’s langue. Thus Columbia School linguistics rests squarely on a Saussurean foundation. In… read more

Reid, Wallis 2004 Monosemy, homonymy and polysemy Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller (eds.), pp. 93–129 | Article