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Polymorphous linguistics : Jim McCawley's legacy
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Polymorphous linguistics : Jim McCawley's legacy

Author: Salikoko S Mufwene; Elaine Francis; Rebecca S Wheeler
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
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Named Person: James D McCawley; James D McCawley; James D McCawley
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Salikoko S Mufwene; Elaine Francis; Rebecca S Wheeler
ISBN: 0262062453 9780262062459 026256209X 9780262562096
OCLC Number: 56617352
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: xxx, 550 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Sequential voicing and Lyman's law in old Japanese / Timothy J. Vance -- NP gaps in Tamil : syntactic versus pragmatic / E. Annamalai -- Vācya, prayoga, and Hindi sentences without grammatical subjects / Michael C. Shapiro -- The grammaticalization of aspect in Tamil and its semantic sources / Harold F. Schiffman -- Causation and tense in subordinate clauses : conjunctive participles and conditionals in Bangla and Hindi / Tista Bagchi -- Independence in subordinate clauses : analysis of nonrestrictive relative clauses in English and Japanese / Etsuyo Yuasa -- Syntactic mimicry as evidence for prototypes in grammar / Elaine J. Grancis -- Gerundive modifiers in English and Korean / Geoffrey J. Huck -- Multiple mechanisms underlying morphological productivity / Yoko Sugioka -- How many 'be's are there in English? / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- On McCawley on tense / Robert I. Binnick -- On the fuzzy boundary between tense and aspect in Japanese / Wesley M. Jacobsen -- Counterfactuality in Burmese / Lynn Nichols -- Retrospective mood in Korean : a constraint-based approach / Suk-Jin Chang -- An 'un-' paper for the unsyntactician / Laurence R. Horn -- Semantic noun phrase typology / Donka F. Farkas -- The paradox of mass plurals / Almerindo E. Ojeda -- Everything that linguists have always wanted to know about ironic presuppositions and implicatures but were ashamed to ask / Katharine Beals -- Deficits in pronoun interpretation : clues to a theory of competence and acquisition / William O'Grady -- Why verb agreement is not the poster child for any general formal principle / Jerry L. Morgan and Georgia M. Green -- A cognitively plausible model of linguistic intuition / Barbara J. Luka -- Language and languages in the eleventh Britannica / Peter T. Daniels.
Responsibility: edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, Elaine J. Francis, and Rebecca S. Wheeler.

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