On language : rhetorica, phonologica, syntactica : a festschrift for Robert P. Stockwell from his friends and colleagues
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On language : rhetorica, phonologica, syntactica : a festschrift for Robert P. Stockwell from his friends and colleagues
Routledge, 1988
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Bibliography of Robert P. Stockwell: p. xxi-xxiv
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Robert P. Stockwell was Chairman of the Linguistics Department UCLA from 1966-73 and 1980-84. This Festschrift in his honour reflects the breadth of his linguistic achievements.
Table of Contents
- Robert Stockwell: the student and teacher, Archibald A. Hill
- Robert Stockwell: the scholar as teacher, Robert Ochsner
- Robert Stockwell and the building of the UCLA Linguistics Department, Paul Schachter. Part 1 Rhetorica
- correctness of norms of language, Renate Bartsch
- written and spoken language in South Asia, William Bright
- Chaucer, Livy and Bersuire: the Roman materials in 'The Physician's Tale', William H Brown Jr
- how relevant is 'External Evidence' for a theory of grammar?, Victoria A. Fromkin
- Chaucer and the pun-hunters: some points of caution, Archibald A. Hill
- two cheers for prescriptivism, Michael B. Kac
- Middle English, Sherman M. Kuhn
- creoles, triggers, and universal grammar, David Lightfoot
- the rise and fall of the vernacular, Ronald K.S. Macaulay
- hypercorrection and the Creole Continuum:-s and -d in Liberian English, John Victor Singler
- is internal semantic-pragmatic reconstruction possible?, Elizabeth Closs Traugott
- notes on Black and Red American English, Wolfgang Viereck. Part 2 Phonologica
- Old English Ablaut again: the essentially concrete character of dependency phonology, John M. Anderson
- the late Old English type leinten 'Lent', Klaus Dietz
- prophetic Alif and canonical form in Egyptian, Carelton T. Hodge
- pro-Burmese as a test of reconstruction, Robert B. Jones
- redefining the scope of phonology, Peter Ladefoged
- the 'Akzentumsprung' of Old English, Roger Lass
- from Latin to romance: the vowel system, Carlos Otero
- the rule dependence of syllable structure, Theo Vennemann
- Part 3 Syntactica
- objects (direct and not-so direct) in English and elsewhere, Stephen R. Anderson
- a note on the definition and description of true anacolutha, Nils Erik Enkvist
- on the principle of 'Weight' in English, Peter Erdmann
- tale of two passives: internal reconstruction in Ute, Talmy Givon
- the unity English/German contrasts: inferring a typological parameter, John A. Hawkins
- the group genitive and type 24 languages, Fred W. Householder
- transitivity: intransitivisation vs. causativisation - some typological considerations concerning verbs of action, Yoshihiko Ikegami
- minor movement rules, Frederick J. Newmeyer
- on the basicness of certain types of passives: some evidence from child acquisition, Suzanne Romaine
- non-restrictive relative clauses, James Peter Thorne
- on the subject of bare imperatives in English, Arnold M. Zwicky.
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