Title: Adverbs, vowels, and other objects of wonder /
Authors: McCawley, James D.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Linguistics.
Contents: Sapir's Phonologic Representation -- The Phonological Theory behind Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar -- The Role of a Phonological Feature System in a Theory of Language -- Length and Voicing in Tubatulabal -- Some Tonal Systems That Come Close to Being Pitch-Accent Systems but Don't Quite Make It -- A Note on Tone in Tiv Conjugation -- Some Tonga Tone Rules -- Two Notes on Comparatives -- Fodor on Where the Action Is -- On Identifying the Remains of Deceased Clauses -- The Category Status of English Modals -- Remarks on What Can Cause What -- Morphological Indeterminacy in Underlying Syntactic Structure -- Evolutionary Parallels between Montague Grammar and Transformational Grammar -- Verbs of Bitching -- Remarks on the Lexicography of Performative Verbs -- Lexicography and the Count-Mass Distinction -- Review of R. Lakoff, Language and Woman's Place -- Lexicographic Notes on English Quantifiers -- Statement versus Rule in Linguistic Description -- On the Role of Notation in Generative Phonology -- On Interpreting the Theme of This Conference -- Madison Avenue, Si, Pennsylvania Avenue, No! -- Some Ideas Not to Live By.