Working Papers in Linguistics: Volume 16 (December 1973)

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Mostly Syntax and Semantics

Front Matter
pp. i-ii
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Ambiguity Tests and How to Fail Them
Zwicky, Arnold M.; Sadock, Jerrold M. pp. 1-34
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Comparative Simplification
Geis, Michael L. pp. 35-46
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On the Global Nature of the Sentential Subject Constraint
Neeld, Ronald pp. 47-55
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On Suggesting
Lee, Patricia pp. 56-61
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Discord
Silva, Clare M.; Zwicky, Arnold M. pp. 62-75
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On the Semantics of Futurate Sentences
Goodman, Fred pp. 76-89
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Adverbial -ing
Silva, Clare M. pp. 90-94
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A Case of Early Lexical Insertion
Neeld, Ronald pp. 95-97
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Bibliographies on Small Subjects
Zwicky, Arnold M. p. 98
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Bibliography I. Coivs
Zwicky, Arnold M. pp. 99-106
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Bibliography II. Cyclical Segmental Rules
Zwicky, Arnold M. pp. 107-111
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Bibliography III. Forestress and Afterstress, Compounds and Phrases
Zwicky, Arnold M. pp. 112-119
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Front Matter (Number 16, December 1973)
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12)
Ambiguity Tests and How to Fail Them
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Zwicky, Arnold M.; Sadock, Jerrold M.
A number of tests used by linguists to distinguish ambiguity from lack of specification are described and illustrated, with brief critical commentary. The tests appeal to semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic principles. Special attention is given to tests using transformations whose applicability depends upon identity of sense; these tests can help to decide the status of examples for which other tests give no evidence. But there is a class of cases where the identity tests predict ambiguity, even though common sense (and tests not involving identity of sense) says that these cases involve special uses of sentences, not meaning proper, and other tests for ambiguity agree. These cases are characterized, and their anomalous behavior is explained on the grounds that they require suspension of the sincerity principle of conversation (that one means what one says).
Comparative Simplification
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Geis, Michael L.
On the Global Nature of the Sentential Subject Constraint
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Neeld, Ronald
On Suggesting
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Lee, Patricia
Discord
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Silva, Clare M.; Zwicky, Arnold M.
On the Semantics of Futurate Sentences
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Goodman, Fred
Adverbial -ing
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Silva, Clare M.
A Case of Early Lexical Insertion
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Neeld, Ronald
Bibliographies on Small Subjects
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Zwicky, Arnold M.
Bibliography I. Coivs
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Zwicky, Arnold M.
Bibliography II. Cyclical Segmental Rules
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Zwicky, Arnold M.
Bibliography III. Forestress and Afterstress, Compounds and Phrases
(Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics, 1973-12) Zwicky, Arnold M.

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