CONTENTSSYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
Lloyd B. Anderson•Transformations don't exist?
E. Annamalai•Lexical Insertion in a Mixed Language
Francesco Antinucci and Domenico Parisi• On English Modal Verbs
Robert I. Binnick•Will and Be Going To
Ann Borkin•Polarity Items in Questions
David Gordon and George Lakoff•Conversational Postulates
Georgia M. Green•Some Implications ofan Interaction among Constraints
John T. Grinder•A Reply to Super Equi-NP Deletion as Dative Deletion
Wilbur A. Hass•Truth-functional and Communicational Basesfor
Prescriptive Discourse
Laurence R.Horn•Negative Transportation: Unsafe at any Speed?
Larry G. Hutchinson•Presupposition and Belief-inferences
John P. Kimball•Super Equi-NP Deletion as Dative Deletion
Robin Lakoff•Passive ResistanceJohn M. Lawlefr •any Questions?
Gregory Lee•Notes in Defense of Case Grammar
Thomas H. Peterson•Multi-ordered Base Structures in Generative Grammar
William Pulte•Gapping and Word Order in Quechua
Quang Phuc Dong•The Applicability of Transformations to Idioms
Andy Rogers•Three Kinds ofPhysical Perception Verbs
Jerrold M.Sadock•Queclaratives
Gerald A.Sanders•On the Symmetry of Grammatical Constraints
Susan F. Schmerling•Presupposition and the Notion ofNormal StressTim Shopen•Caught in the Act
James H-Y. Tai•Identity Deletion and Regrouping in Coordinate Structures
E. Vasiliu•Some Formal Properties ofNon-semantic Items

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Frederick J. Newmeyer and Joseph Emonds•The Linguist in American
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OTHER TOPICS
Ronald R. Butters•On the Notion "Rule of Grammar"in Dialectology
Victor B. Cohen•Foleyology
Bill J. Darden•Diachronic Evidence forPhonemics
Alice Davison•A Problem Concerning the Relative Naturalness o
Phonological Rules and Phonological RepresentationWolfgang Dressler•Some Constraints on Phonological Change
Marshall Durbin•Identifying Semantic Foci in Lexical Items

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and Phonological Variable Rules
William M. Fisher•A Study ofSome ofthe Principles of Linguistics:
Catch 23
James Foley•Phonological Change by Rule Repetition
Sara Games•Breaking in Icelandic: The Loss ofa Phonological Rule
Talmy Givon•Historical Syntax and Synchronic Morphology:
An Archaeologist's Field Trip
Alexander Grosu•On Perceptual and Grammatical Constraints
Robert Hammarberg•Onsets & Offsets
Eric P. Hamp•Tocharian 'one'and Paradigmatic ReconstructionPeter A. Homby•The Role of Topic-Comment in the Recall of Cleftand Pseudo-cleft Sentences
J. R.Komfeld•Theoretical Issues in Child Phonology
Julie B. Lovins•Melodic Conspiracies in Lomongo Tonology
Adam Makkai•Degrees ofNonsense, or Transformation, Stratification,and the Contextual Adjustability Principle
Terry Merz•On Morphophonemic Zeroes in Russian
Larry Nessly•Anglicization in English Phonology
John Reighard•Some Observations on Syntactic Change in Verbs
Audrey Reynolds• What Did Otto Jespersen Say?
Peter H. Salus•The Modistae as Proto-Generativists
H.Stephen Straight•On Representing the Encoding/Decoding Dichotomy
in a Theory ofIdealized Linguistic Performance
Karumuri V.Subbarao• Vowel Harmony in Teiugu and Parentheses
and Infinite Rule Schemata Notations
J. Marshall Unger•A Note on Old Japanese Verb Inflection

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