THE JOY OF GRAMMAR -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Japanese Modals are Conditionals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. WISH, ADVICE and PERMISSION -- 3. Obligation and double-negation -- 4. Concluding remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form Classes -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Transition from Oral to Written Competence: Evidence from Teaching Freshman Composition -- REFERENCES -- Two Types of 'World-Creating' Predicates -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The model -- 1.1 Partial worlds -- 1.2 Necessity and Possibility -- 2. Cognitive Verbs -- 2.1 Problems with the standard analysis -- 2.2 Alternative analysis -- 2.3 Reality and its versions -- Getting personal -- 2.4 On Moore's problem and related matters -- 2.5 Digression on factivity and projection -- 2.6 Degrees of commitment -- 3. Desideratives -- 3.1 Differences between desideratives and cognitives -- 3.2 Towards an analysis -- 3.3 Highlighted situations -- 3.4 Want vs. wish -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Tojolabal (Mayan) Kinterms and the Theory of Markedness, or A Near Triumph of the Feminine Gender -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Tone and Accent in Llogoori -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Generalizations about Llogoori -- 2.1 Some initial facts about the tone system -- 2.2 The structure of the deri -- 2.3 Some simple morphotonemic assignments -- 3. The development of accent -- 3.1 Present Continuous -- 3.2 Middle Future -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Purpose Infinitives and Their Relatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brute facts -- 3. Bach's analysis -- 4. GPSG analyses -- 5. Flies in the ointment -- 6. What about genuine relative infinitives? -- 7. An HPSG account -- 8. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- A Semantic Etymology -- Are Conditionals Topics? The Japanese Case -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Possible and impossible topics in Japanese.

2. Hypothetical and non-hypothetical conditionals -- 3. A constraint on non-hypothetical past-tense conditionals -- 4. The temporal and discourse character of conditionals -- 5. Contrastiveness in conditionals and WA -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Gender and Sex in Standard Modern Greek Pet Names -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science -- The Basic Generative Semantics Argument -- Epilogue -- REFERENCES -- Symmetric Relations -- 1. Full symmetry -- 2. Placedness -- 3. Derived symmetry -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Korean Precursors of Generative Phonology -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Why Grammars are Not Monolithic -- 2. Against Monolithic Grammars -- 2.1 Overlapping Rules in Individual Grammars. -- 2.2 Inconsistent Rules in Grammar. -- 2.3. Heterogeneous Communal Grammar. -- 3. Is English an Isolated Case? -- 4. What's New Here? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- On Extracting from Asymmetrical Structures -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Purpose -- 1.2. The Coordinate Structure Constraint and Its Exceptions -- 2. Analysis of Exceptions in English -- 2.1. Typology of Conjunctions and the Domain of Inquiry -- 2.2. Scenarios and the Organization of Information -- 2.3. Primacy in Idiomatic Nonlogical Conjunctions. -- 2.4. The Condition on Asymmetric Conjunction -- 3. The Representation of Scenarios in Korean -- 3.1. Background -- 3.2. Type A Constructions -- 3.3. Type Β Constructions -- 3.4. Type C Constructions -- 3.5. Constructions Corresponding to Idiomatic Nonlogical Conjunctions in English -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Markedness of Plurality -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. The Semantics of Plurality -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Phantom Successors and the French FAIRE PAR Construction -- A. Background -- B. Arguments For the Passive Analysis of Type Β Complements.

C. Arguments Against a Passive Analysis of Type Β Complements -- D. Dénouement -- E. Extending the Phantom Analysis to Non -CIC Cases -- F. Loose Ends -- G. Other Instances of Phantom Successors -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- A Paper on Yiddish for James D. McCawley -- YIDDISH SOLVED! -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Survival of the Positive: History of Japanese Antonyms -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Development of antonyms. -- 3. Discussion. -- 4. Essence of positiveness. -- Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LexicalPhonology and Japanese Vowel Devoicing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Vowel Devoicing Across Words -- 3. Vowel Devoicing and Morphological Boundaries -- 4. Vowel Devoicing and Pauses -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- First He Called Her a Philologist and Then She Insulted Him -- I. Introduction -- II. Historical view -- III. A survey of contemporary linguistic attitudes -- IV. A Proposed Definition for 'Philology' -- V. Contemporary Attitudes -- VI. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Jottings on Adpositions, Case Inflections, Government, and Agreement -- 1. The functional equivalence principle -- 1.1. But adpositions can be used grammatically -- 1.2. And case inflections can be used locally -- 1.3. And both can be used idiosyncratically -- 2. A feature framework -- 2.1. Local uses -- 4. Verb agreement and case marking -- 4.1. Agreement with arguments flagged by Ps? -- 4.2. [-N]s agreeing with their arguments in case? -- 4.3. A Swahili diversion -- 4.4. Reciprocal agreement and government? -- 5. Problems and prospects -- 5.1. The inventory of grels -- 5.2. Word cases and construction case -- 5.3. Lexical versus grammatical expression of meaning -- 5.4. Other agreement blocked by government -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Index of Languages.