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 | p. v

Preface | p. vii

Publications of James D. McCawley | p. xi

Table of Contents | p. xiv

I. The Wienerkreis Papers

1. English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject

Quang Phuc Dong | p. 3

2. A Note On Conjoined Noun Phrases

Quang Phuc Dong | p. 11

3. A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice

Yuck Foo | p. 19

4. ‘Up Yours’ And Related Constructions: Studies in the English Drecatives I

V. Anantalingam | p. 23

B. English Linguistics

5. Some Unnatural Habits

U Pani Shad | p. 33

6. Copulative Sentences In English: A Germanic Language Spoken In Northern Delaware

Munç Wang | p. 37

7. A Note On One's Privates

P.R.N. Tic Douloureux | p. 45

8. On Abstract Drecative Nouns

Noah A. Twaddle and Coughlake Sweat | p. 53

9. On Fucking (Well): A Study of Some Quasi-Performative Expressions

Tina Bopp | p. 61

C. Historical and Exotic

10. K Lučše Ustanovlennomu Govnu (With Etymological Commentaries)

Renthgil | p. 75

11. Lexical Problems Raised By Some of the Foutre: Constructions

Michel Gouet | p. 79

12. An Example of Iconicity in Russian

Bill Darden | p. 87

13. Un Bouquet Français

Ann Daingerfield Zwicky | p. 91

14. The Prefixed Forms of Latvian Pist ‘Futuere’

Andrzey Lurba | p. 95

15. On the Russian Verb Ebat' and some of its Derivatives

Richard C. DeArmond | p. 99

16. A Generative Phonology of Yakyak

Wm.K. Riley | p. 109

D. Metapornolinguistics

17. Conjunctive Ordering

E. Clifton Gamahuche | p. 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 | p. 117

19. Maxeme's: The Linguist's Restaurant

Richard Carter, Jeffrey Gruber, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff and John Robert Ross | p. 119

20. A Concise History of Modern Art

Fom Pop | p. 121

21. Glossary of Linguistic Terminology

U Pani Shad et alii | p. 125

22. A Supplementary Glossary of Linguistic Terminology

U Bal Shada Zwel et alii | p. 127

23. The Linguist's Songbook

Richard Carter, George Lakoff, Robin T. Lakoff and John Robert Ross | p. 129

IV. Parody and Burlesque I: Inside TG Grammar

24. On Notational Conventions: New Evidence From The Field

Ebbing Craft | p. 133

25. Notes On Craft's ‘On Notational Conventions’: Current Trends In Urbanan Studies

A.D. Hoke | p. 143

26. Up Against The Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!

Ebbing Craft | p. 147

27. On Concrete Syntax

Čabnomme | p. 151

28. Where Do Proper Names Come From? (In Case There Are Any)

I.M. Cratylus | p. 157

29. On The Notion ‘Derivational Constraint in Grammar’ or: The Turing Machine Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (If It Ever Will)

Robert Wall | p. 163

V. Whimsy II

30. A Contribution To The Repertory of Examples

Charles J. Fillmore | p. 171

31. Polyglossolalia

Members of the Larynx-Horn Kammerchor | p. 173

32. The Linguist's Alphabet Book

Albin Schrimpuwskin | p. 177

33. Fragments From The Collective Subconscious: A Tentative Reconstruction

Fom Pop | p. 179

34. Well Donne

Dr. Forthcoming Larynx-Horn | p. 185

VI. Parody and Burlesque II Wider Horizons

35. Eigenvalues in Grammar

Cora K. Rickulum | p. 189

36. On The Historical Sources of Sanctian Linguistics

W. Keith Percival | p. 191

37. Zwei Bisher Unbekannte as. Randglossen

Joseph B. Voyles | p. 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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Subjects

Linguistics

History of linguistics

Syntax

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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