Progress in Language: With special reference to English. New edition
Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)
[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 17] 1993. xviii, 382 pp. (printed 2-up)
James D. McCawley
List of John Benjamins publications for which James D. McCawley plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics
2022 Generative semantics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 657–666 | Chapter
2009 Generative semantics Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 117–128 | Article
1999 Some interactions between tense and negation in English The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston, Collins, Peter and David Lee (eds.), pp. 177–186 | Article
1999 Syntactic concepts and terminology in mid-20th century American Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 26:3, pp. 407–420 | Article
This paper deals with the notions and terminology that figure in the syntactic works of Bloomfield, Fries, Hockett, Gleason, and early Chomsky. Notwithstanding Bloomfield’s commitment to constituent structure and his profound influence on syntactic research in the United States, constituency had… read more
1996 The focus and scope of only Discourse and Meaning: Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, Partee, Barbara H. and Petr Sgall (eds.), pp. 171–194 | Article
1995 Generative semantics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 311–319 | Article
1992 Linguistic aspects of musical and mathematical notation The Linguistics of Literacy, Downing, Pamela A., Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Article
1992 The biological side of Otto Jespersen’s linguistic thought Historiographia Linguistica 19:1, pp. 97–110 | Article
Central ideas of Darwin’s theory of natural selection figure prominently in the work of Otto Jespersen (1860–1943). As early as 1886, Jespersen treated linguistic change in Darwinian terms: variation in the pronunciation and meaning of the various units, and factors that raise or lower a… read more
1987 A case of syntactic mimicry Functionalism in Linguistics, Dirven, René † and Vilém Fried (eds.), pp. 459–470 | Article
1985 Kuhnian paradigms as system of markedness conventions Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells, Makkai, Adam and Alan K. Melby (eds.), pp. 23–43 | Article
1984 Sapir's Phonologic Representation (1967) Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 153–158 | Chapter
1975 4 Review of The Sound Pattern of English Essays on the Sound Pattern of English, Goyvaerts, Didier L. and Geoffrey K. Pullum (eds.), pp. 145–197 | Review