Studies out in Left Field

Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday

Reprint of the original edition

Editors

Arnold M. Zwicky

Peter H. Salus

Robert I. Binnick

Anthony L. Vanek

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Transformational Grammar’s Underground Classic!

Back in Print in the Nick of Time!

(Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)

Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc Dong (English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject), Yuck Foo (A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice), V. Anantalinguam ("Up Yours" and Related Constructions), Ebbing Craft (Up Against the Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!) and other lost eminences.

[Not in series, 63] 1992. xxiv, 200 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.63

Table of Contents

Quotation	v
Preface	vii
Publications of James D. McCawley	xi
Table of Contents	xiv
I. The Wienerkreis Papers
1. English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject Quang Phuc Dong	3
2. A Note On Conjoined Noun Phrases Quang Phuc Dong	11
3. A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice Yuck Foo	19
II. Pornolinguistics And Scatolinguistics
A. Scatometalinguistics
4. ‘Up Yours’ And Related Constructions: Studies in the English Drecatives I V. Anantalingam	23
B. English Linguistics
5. Some Unnatural Habits U Pani Shad	33
6. Copulative Sentences In English: A Germanic Language Spoken In Northern Delaware Munç Wang	37
7. A Note On One's Privates P.R.N. Tic Douloureux	45
8. On Abstract Drecative Nouns Noah A. Twaddle and Coughlake Sweat	53
9. On Fucking (Well): A Study of Some Quasi-Performative Expressions Tina Bopp	61
C. Historical and Exotic
10. K Lučše Ustanovlennomu Govnu (With Etymological Commentaries) Renthgil	75
11. Lexical Problems Raised By Some of the Foutre: Constructions Michel Gouet	79
12. An Example of Iconicity in Russian Bill Darden	87
13. Un Bouquet Français Ann Daingerfield Zwicky	91
14. The Prefixed Forms of Latvian Pist ‘Futuere’ Andrzey Lurba	95
15. On the Russian Verb Ebat' and some of its Derivatives Richard C. DeArmond	99
16. A Generative Phonology of Yakyak Wm.K. Riley	109
D. Metapornolinguistics
17. Conjunctive Ordering E. Clifton Gamahuche	113
III. Whimsy I
18. Language, Journal of the Debating Society of America [cover] Carolyn Killean, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff, Michael O'Mailey and Lester Rice	117
19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant Richard Carter, Jeffrey Gruber, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff and John Robert Ross	119
20. A Concise History of Modern Art Fom Pop	121
21. Glossary of Linguistic Terminology U Pani Shad et alii	125
22. A Supplementary Glossary of Linguistic Terminology U Bal Shada Zwel et alii	127
23. The Linguist's Songbook Richard Carter, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff and John Robert Ross	129
IV. Parody and Burlesque I: Inside TG Grammar
24. On Notational Conventions: New Evidence From The Field Ebbing Craft	133
25. Notes On Craft's ‘On Notational Conventions’: Current Trends In Urbanan Studies A.D. Hoke	143
26. Up Against The Wall, Fascist Pig Critics! Ebbing Craft	147
27. On Concrete Syntax Čabnomme	151
28. Where Do Proper Names Come From? (In Case There Are Any) I.M. Cratylus	157
29. On The Notion ‘Derivational Constraint in Grammar’ or: The Turing Machine Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (If It Ever Will) Robert Wall	163
V. Whimsy II
30. A Contribution To The Repertory of Examples Charles J. Fillmore †	171
31. Polyglossolalia Members of the Larynx-Horn Kammerchor	173
32. The Linguist's Alphabet Book Albin Schrimpuwskin	177
33. Fragments From The Collective Subconscious: A Tentative Reconstruction Fom Pop	179
34. Well Donne Dr. Forthcoming Larynx-Horn	185
VI. Parody and Burlesque II Wider Horizons	185
35. Eigenvalues in Grammar Cora K. Rickulum	189
36. On The Historical Sources of Sanctian Linguistics W. Keith Percival	191
37. Zwei Bisher Unbekannte as. Randglossen Joseph B. Voyles	199

“...offer(s) a narrow mishmash of contributions which are quite unlikely to receive publication anywhere else, thanks to their content or form or both.”

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Di Cristofaro, Matteo & Tony McEnery

2017. In Advances in Swearing Research [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282], ► pp. 183 ff.

Koerner, E.F.K. & Kofi K. Saah

1992. Publications Received/Ouvrages Reçus/ Eingegangene Schriften. Historiographia Linguistica 19:2-3 ► pp. 429 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

History of linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 92008095