Skeptical Linguistic Essays - Paul M. Postal
KORTE INHOUD
This volume consists of an introduction and two groups of essays by Paul M. Postal, each with a connecting theme. The first, positive group of papers, contains five previously unpublished studies of English syntax. These include a long study of so-called "locative inversion," two investigations related to raising to non-subject status, an argument for the existence of a hitherto ignored nominal grammatical category and a study of vulgar negative polarity items. Each investigation of specific English details is argued to have significant theoretical consequences. The second, negative group of papers, contains seven essays each of which seeks to show that aspects of contemporary linguistic activity are in part contaminated by elements of what is called "junk linguistics." Postal uses the term to denote work which advances proposals, puts forward claims and asserts deep results which, he argues, can only be accepted by ignoring serious standards of inquiry and scholarship. Postal claims that much of this work is...
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2003Uitgever: Oxford University Press, USA424 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 019516671XISBN-13: 9780195166712Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback. 414 pp.; 23.5x15.5 cm. Text in English. Dedication copy, signed 'Paul'. Fine condition, see picture 620 [Auteur: Postal, Paul M.] [Uitgever: University Press] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Skeptical Linguistic Essays.]
