Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Editors' contact information -- Introduction -- 1. Jerry Sadock, pragmatics, and autolexical grammar -- 2. Scope of the current volume -- Publications by Jerrold M. Sadock -- Books -- Edited volumes -- Articles -- Article to appear -- Reviews -- Part I. Pragmatics -- Assertoric inertia, (quasi) performatives, and presupposition accommodation -- Almost forever -- 1. The proximal and the polar -- 2. Proximatives: What has been (almost) learned -- 3. Issues of (a)symmetry -- 4. Inverted readings and the permeable polar membrane -- 5. The implicature line and the set-partition Griceogloss -- 6. On being almost dead vs. almost ready for dinner -- 7. A not so distant cousin: The assertoric asymmetry of only -- 8. Some (literally (almost (virtually))) last words -- References -- Sadock and the Performadox -- 1. Sadock and the Performadox -- 2. Cohen's problem about explicit performatives -- 3. Worse trouble for the Tempting view -- 4. Cresswell's solution -- 5. Extending the problem to the Performative Hypothesis -- 6. Sadock's solution -- 7. Lycan's criticisms of Cresswell rebutted -- 8. Lycan's criticisms of Sadock -- 9. A final issue -- 10. Upshot -- References -- Expressing regret and avowing belief -- 1. Expositive adverbials show that verbs of linguistic communication and mental state verbs are similar -- 2. Distinguishing 'believe' from performative verbs: For the last time adverbial -- 3. Factive verbs with embedded performative verbs: Why believing can be a mental act and 'believe' a performative-like verb -- 4. Non-stative verbs and pseudo-clefts -- 5. Regret' as both a stative and activity verb: quasi-performative verbs -- 6. Moore's Paradox -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix.

On the interpretation of linguistic data -- On a possible interpretation of the data -- A story of Jerry and Bob -- 1. Young professors -- 2. Presupposition and common ground -- 3. Presupposition accommodation -- 4. Utterance incrementation -- 5. Locutionary hitches -- 5.1 Self-correction -- 5.2 Comprehension -- 5.3 Addressee-correction -- 6. The operative utterance -- 7. Joint action -- 8. So? -- References -- Speech acts, cognition, and language use -- Conventionalization in indirect speech acts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mindblindness -- 3. Other relevant autistic features? -- 4. The effects of Mindblindness on pragmatic inferencing -- 4.1 Which sorts of pragmatic inferences require mental inferencing? -- 4.2 Empirical studies addressing autism and pragmatics -- 4.2.1 Pragmatic deficits -- 4.2.2 Intact pragmatic skills -- 4.3 What accounts for the pragmatic weaknesses and intact pragmatic skills? -- 5. Mindblindness and indirect speech acts -- 5.1 A preliminary test -- 5.2 Corroborating data -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Pseudo-apologies in the news -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two pseudo-apologies -- 3. Features of successful apologies -- 4. Features of pseudo-apologies in the news -- 5. The use of apology IFIDs in non-remorseful pseudo-apologies -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Towards an intonational-illocutionary interface -- 1. Introduction: Intonation and its place in linguistic theory -- 2. Interfaces between modules (or, How Sadock won and Chomsky …, well, kinda got close, but …) -- 3. The illocutionary module -- 3.1 Evidence from language acquisition -- 3.2 Evidence from language variation -- 3.3 Evidence from language deficit -- 3.4 Evidence from spoken East Norwegian: Fretheim (1993) -- 4. Mismatches between intonation and illocutionary form -- 5. Conclusion: A possible intonational-illocutionary interface? -- References.

Part II. Autolexical grammar -- Interface between morphology and other grammatical levels -- Atkan Aleut "unclitic" pronouns and definiteness -- 1. Atkan Aleut -- 2. Pronominal attraction toward the verb -- 3. Multimodular "unclitic" analysis -- 4. A definiteness puzzle -- 5. A definite-subject/indefinite-predicate nominal analysis -- 6. Word order and definiteness -- 7. A pragmatic-syntax interface rule of definiteness linking? -- 8. Extending the pragmatics-syntax interface rule -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- Nominalization affixes and multi-modularity of word formation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of restrictions imposed by derivational affixes -- 3. Different selectional properties of the affixes in Japanese -- 3.1 Nominalization of adjectives: -sa vs. -mi -- 3.2 Nominalization of verbs: -kata vs. -buri -- 4. Interaction of semantic and syntactic selections -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- No more phology! -- 1. Introduction -- 2. West Greenlandic -- 3. Representations -- 3.1 Evidence in favor of a syntactic representation at the word level -- 3.2 Evidence in favor of one or many semantic representations at the word level -- 3.2.1 Function/Argument structure -- 3.2.2 Role structure -- 4. Morphological representations in WG -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Wait'll (you hear) the next one -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some exploratory corpus data -- 2.1 The left hand context -- 2.2 The right hand context -- 3. A multimodular analysis -- 3.1 Phonology and the lexicon -- 3.2 Semantics and pragmatics -- 3.3 Morphology, syntax and the interface constraints -- 4. The analogy with enclitic auxiliary verbs -- 4.1 Phonology, lexicon and semantics -- 4.2 Morphology, syntax and the interface constraints -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Aleut case matters -- 1. The phenomenon -- 2. A movement approach -- 2.1 Tracking dependencies.

2.2 Back to Aleut -- 2.3 Remote gaps -- 3. Conclusion -- 4. Appendix: A grammar fragment -- References -- Syntax-semantics interface -- English derived nominals in three frameworks -- 1. Introduction and historical sketch -- 2. Derived and gerundive nominals -- 3. Minimalism and derived nominals -- 4. Classical TG and derived nominals -- 5. Automodular Grammar and derived nominals -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Why 'passive nominals' do not result from DP-internal movement -- Out of control -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The syntactic analysis of infinitival VP complements -- 3. The semantic analysis of infinitival VPs -- 3.1 The proposition view -- 3.2 The property view -- 3.3 Another argument for the property view -- 3.3.1 De se attitudes -- 3.3.2 The de se nature of infinitival VP complements -- 3.3.3 The analysis of Roberts 2009 -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts, and vice versa -- Appendix: Playground - lotsa ways to be emphatic. Can your theory get them all? -- References -- Negation as structure building in a home sign system -- 1. Introduction: The significance of home signs and negation -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participant -- 2.2 Procedure and Coding -- 3. The types of negative meanings David expresses -- 3.1 Rejections -- 3.2 Denials -- 3.3 Nonoccurrence/ nonexistence -- 3.4 A developmental look at negation in home sign -- 4. The syntax and function of negation in David's home sign -- 4.1 A gestural marker for negation -- 4.2 The position of the side-to-side headshake in David's multi-gesture sentences -- 4.3 Left periphery of the sentence and the position of negation -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Autolexical Grammar in interdisciplinary research -- Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension -- 1. Introduction.

2. Canonical sentence templates in sentence processing -- 3. Canonical templates and two types of NP mismatch -- 3.1 Possessive free relatives -- 3.2 Quantificational nouns -- 4. Experiments -- 4.1 Experiment 1: Possessive free relatives -- 4.1.1 Methods -- 4.1.2 Results and discussion -- 4.1.2.1 Accuracy -- 4.1.2.2 Response time -- 4.1.2.3 Discussion -- 4.2 Experiment 2: Quantificational nouns -- 4.2.1 Methods -- 4.2.1.1 Materials -- 4.2.1.2 Procedure -- 4.2.1.3 Participants -- 4.2.2 Results and discussion -- 4.2.2.1 Accuracy -- 4.2.2.2 Response time -- 4.2.2.3 Discussion -- 5. General discussion and conclusions -- References -- Evidence for grammatical multi-modularity from a corpus of non-native essays -- 1. Overview -- 2. Modularity from the perspectives of language acquisition and processing -- 3. Data -- 4. E-rater -- 5. Performance differences by task -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Autolexical Grammar and language processing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic and syntactic mismatches in Autolexical Grammar: A component-interface approach to linguistic description -- 3. New directions in the study of conceptual knowledge -- 4. Linguistic meaning is grounded in perception, memory, and action -- 5. Recent findings regarding the cognitive representation of syntactic structure -- 6. Electrophysiology of language processing and functional modularity in language comprehension -- 7. Autolexical Grammar in the context of cognitive processing -- 8. Autolexical Grammar reflects properties of cognition -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Topic index -- Name index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.