Syntax and Semantics. Volume 2

✍ Scribed by John P. (Ed) Kimball

• Publisher: Seminar Press
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

SYNTAX and SEMANTICS VOLUME 2
CONTENTS
List of Contributors
Preface
Contents of Volume 1
Explanation in Syntax
The Semantics and Syntax of Number and Numbers
The Semantics and Syntax of Numbers and Number in Natural Generative Grammar
The Syntax and Semantics of Numbers and Number in a Montague Grammar
Summary and Conclusion
References
Opacity and Reference in Language: An Inquiry into the Role of Modalities
Introduction
Opaque Environments
References
Focus and Relativization: The Case of Kihung' an
Introduction
Tone-Focus in Kihung'an
Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft in Kihung'an
The Derivation of Focusing Constructions
The Complex-Sentence and Neg-Raising Argument
The Anaphoric Deletion Argument
Wh-Questions
Discussion
Appendix 1: Object Pronoun Infixation in Kihung'an
Appendix 2: Is Igbo an Exception to the "Relative Clause and Predicate" Analysis?
References
On J. Emonds's Analysis of Extraposition
Introduction
Subject Replacement as a Root Transformation
That-Clauses and Infinitive Phrases as Noun Phrases
A Rule of Extraposition
The Status of the Rule of Extraposition
Summary
Appendix
References
Language Lateralization and Grammars
Get
The Problem
Get
's Got
Synonymy and Compositional Theories of Meaning
References
Sentence and Predicate Modifiers in English
The Thomason-Stalnaker Analysis
Lakoff' s Explanations
Problems in Lakoff's Explanation
Explaining Semantic Facts
References
Deriving S from S + Is
Be To
Not That Clauses
Pseudo-Cleft Sentences
Presuppositions and Negation
Interrogatives
Factive Complements
Sentences with Modals
That Is for You to Say
Is Deletion
Where Else to Look
References
Nonsources of Unpassives
Index