James D. McCawley/publications

Publications by James D. McCawley


 * 1963a. Finnish noun morphology. Quarterly Progress Report 68, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, 180-86.
 * 1963b. Consonant mutation in Finnish. QPR 70 of RLE, MIT, 268-73.
 * 1963c. Stress and pitch in the Serbo-Croatian verb. QPR 70, RLE, MIT, 282-90.
 * 1964. Review of Robert T. Harms, Estonian Grammar. Word 19.114-26.
 * 1965. (with E. Wayles Browne III) Srpskohrvatski akcenat. Zbornik za Filologiju i Lingvistiku 8.147-51. English original in E. Fudge (ed.), Phonology (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973)
 * 1966a. Review of J. Yamagiwa (ed.), Papers of the CIC Far Eastern Language Institute. Lg. 42.170-75.
 * 1966b. Review of W. Cooper, Set theory and syntactic description. Foundations of Language 2.408-10.
 * 1967a. Edward Sapir's 'phonologic representation'. IJAL 33.106-11. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:3-9 and in K. Koerner (ed.) Edward Sapir: Appraisals of his Life and Work (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1984), 153-8.
 * 1967b. Meaning and the description of language. Kotoba no Uchu 2.9.10-18, 2.10.38-48, and 2.11.51-57. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:99-120 and in J. Rosenberg and C. Travis (eds.), Readings in the Philosophy of Language (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1970), 514-33. German translation appears in F. Kiefer (ed.), Semantic und generative Grammatik (Frankfurt, Athenäum, 1972),
 * 1967c. The phonological theory behind Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar. In Languages and Areas, studies presented to George V. Bobrinskoy (University of Chicago Humanities Division), 76-44. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:10-19.
 * 1967d. The role of a system of phonological features in a theory of language. Appears in French translation in Langages 8.112-123. English original in V. Makkai (ed.), Phonological Theory (New York: Holt, Rinehart and WInston, 1972), 322-8; reprinted in McCawley 1979b:20-29. German translation in F. Kiefer (ed.), Phonologie und generative Grammatik 2 (Frankfurt: Athenäum, 1975), 73-91.
 * 1967e. (letter concerning misconceptions about transformational grammar). Chicago Daily News, Oct. 13.
 * 1968a. Can you count pluses and minuses before you can count? Chicago Journal of Linguistics 2.51-56. Reprinted with afterword in The Best of CLS, Chicago Linguistic Society, 257-261a.
 * 1968b. The accentuation of Japanese noun compounds. Journal-newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, May 1968, 1-11.
 * 1968c. Lexical insertion in a transformational grammar without deep structure. CLS 4.71-80. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:155-66. German translation in S. Stelzer (ed.), Probleme des 'Lexikons' (Frankfurt, Athenäum, 1983), 42-56. Spanish translation in V. Sánchez de Zavala (ed.), Semántica y sintaxis en la lingüística transformatoria (Madrid:259-75)
 * 1968d. A note on Faroese vowels. Glossa 2.11-16.
 * 1968e. Review of Nguyen,English syntax: a combined tagmemic-transformational approach. American Anthropologist 70.427-8.
 * 1968f. Concerning the base component of a transformational grammar. Foundations of Language 4.243-69. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:35-58.
 * 1968g. The phonological component of a grammar of Japanese. The Hague: Mouton.
 * 1968h. The role of semantics in a grammar. In E. Bach and R. Harms (eds.), Universals in linguistic theory (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston), 124-69. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:59-98. Russian translation by I. A. Mel'cuk in Novoe v zarybezhnoy Lingvistike 10 (Moscow: Progress, 1981), 235-301.
 * 1968i. Review of Sebeok (ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics 3. Lg. 44.556-93. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:167-205.
 * 1968j. The genitive plural in Finnish. Ural-altaische Jahrbücher 40.10-17.
 * 1969. Length and voicing in Tübatulabal. CLS 5.397-405. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:30-40.
 * 1970a. On the applicability of vice-versa. Linguistic Inquiry 1.278-80. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:237-9.
 * 1970b. English as a VSO language. Lg. 46.286-99. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:211-28, in P. Seuren (ed.), Semantic Syntax (Oxford: Clarendon, 1974), 74-95, and in D. Davidson and G. Harman (eds.), The logic of grammar (Encino: Dickenson, 1975), 100-113. German translation in P. Seuren (ed.), Generative Semantik (Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1973), 150-74.
 * 1970c. Review of O. Jespersen, Analytic Syntax. Lg. 46.442-49. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:229-36.
 * 1970d. Some tonal systems that come close to being pitch accent systems but don't quite make it. Papers from the 6th Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, 526-32. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:41-47.
 * 1970e. Phonology. Times Literary Supplement, July 23, 817-19.
 * 1970f. A note on reflexives. Journal of Philosophical Linguistics 1.2.6-8.
 * 1970g. A note on tone in Tiv conjugation. Studies in African Linguistics 1.123-30. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:48-52
 * 1970h. Where do noun phrases come from. In Jacobs and Rosenbaum, Readings in English Transformational Grammar (Boston: Ginn), 166-83. Revised version in D. Steinberg and L. Jakobovits (eds.), Semantics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 217-31; reprinted in McCawley 1973e:133-54. Spanish translation in V. Sanchez de Zavala, Semántica en la lingüística transformatoria (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1974), 232-58. German translation in F. Kiefer and D. Perlmutter (eds.), Syntax und generative Grammatik (Frankfurt: Athenaion, 1974), vol. 2, 129-60.
 * 1970l. Semantic representation. In P. Garvin, Cognition: a multiple view (New York: Spartan), 227-47. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:240-56. Czech translation in E. Hajicová (ed.), Studie z transformacní gramatiky (Praha: Státní Pedagogické Nakladatelství, 1975), vol. 1, 75-89. Korean translation in C. Lee et al. (eds.) y_n_ kwahak ilan mu_s inga (Seoul, 1977), 87-111.
 * 1971a. Tense and time reference in English. In C. Fillmore and T. Langendoen (eds.), Studies in Linguistic Semantics (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston), 96-113. Also in McCawley 1973e:257-82. Czech translation in E. Hajicová (ed.), Studie z transformacní gramatiky (Praha: Státní Pedagogické Nakladatelství, 1975), vol. 2, 151-65.
 * 1971b. Interpretative semantics meets Frankenstein. Foundations of Language 7.285-96. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:333-42.
 * 1971c. Prelexical syntax. Georgetown Roundtable Meeting, 19-33. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:343-56 and in P. Seuren (ed.), Semantic Syntax (Oxford: Clarendon), 29-42. German translation in P. Seuren, Generative Semantik (Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1975), 98-114.
 * 1972a. A program for logic. D. Davidson and G. Harman (eds.), Semantics of natural language (Dordrecht: Reidel), 498-544. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:285-319. German translation in W. Abraham and R. Binnick (eds.), Generative Semantik (Frankfurn/M: Athenäum, 1973), 157-212.
 * 1972b. Notes on Japanese potential clauses. Studies in descriptive and applied linguistics (Tokyo: International Christian University), 5.18-40. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:357-68.
 * 1972d. An argument for a cycle in Japanese syntax. Papers in Japanese Linguistics 1.69-73.
 * 1972e. On interpreting the theme of this conference. D. Cohen (ed.), Limiting the domain of linguistics (Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin), vi-xi. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:217-22.
 * 1972f. McCawley-hakase o kakonde. (transcript of question-answer session, translated into Japanese and edited by S. Saito & R. Kobayashi). Eigo Kyoiku 21.8.33-41 and 21.9.24-29.
 * 1972g. Kac and Shibatani on the grammar of killing. J. Kimball (ed.), Syntax and Semantics 1 (New York: Academic Press), 139-39.
 * 1972h. Translation of M. Tokugawa, 'Towards a family tree for accent in Japanese dialects'. Papers in Japanese Linguistics 1.301-320.
 * 1973a. External NP's vs. annotated deep structures. Linguistic Inquiry 4.221-240.
 * 1973b. William Dwight Whitney as a syntactician. In B. Kachru et al. (eds.), Issues in Linguistics: Studies presented to Henry and Renee Kahane (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press), 554-68. Reprinted in McCawley 1973e:320-332.
 * 1973c. Comments on papers by G. Lakoff and R. Lakoff. Proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences 211.165-71.
 * 1973d. (letter concerning Japanese verb morphology and pedagogical glossaries). Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 8.2.64-5.
 * 1973e. Grammar and Meaning. Tokyo: Taishukan. Consists of annotated versions of 1967b, 1968cfhi, 1970abchikl, 1971abc, 1972ab, 1973b, and four previously unpublished papers: 'Quantitative and qualitative comparison in English' (1965,1-14), review of Owen Thomas, Transformational Grammar and the Teaching of English (1966, 15-34), 'The annotated respective ' (1968, 121-32), and 'A note on multiple negations' (1970, 206-10).
 * 1973f. The role of notation in generative phonology. M. Gross, M. Halle, and M.-P. Schutzenberger (eds.), The formal analysis of natural languages (The Hague: Mouton), 51-62. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:204-16.
 * 1973g. Tone in Tonga. S. Anderson and P. Kiparsky (eds.), A Festschrift for Morris Halle (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston), 140-52. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:53-67.
 * 1973h. Fodor on where the action is. The Monist 57.396-407. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:76-83.
 * 1973i. Syntactic and logical arguments for semantic structures. In O. Fujimura (ed.), Three dimensions of linguistic Research (Tokyo: TEC), 259-376.
 * 1973j. Global rules and Bangubangu tone. In M. Kenstowicz & C. Kisseberth (eds.), Issues in Phonological Theory (The Hague: Mouton), 160-168.
 * 1974a. On identifying the remains of deceased clauses. Language Research (Seoul, Korea), 9.2.73-85. Reprinted in A. Makkai and L. Hellman (eds.), Linguistics at the Crossroads (Lake Bluff: Jupiter, 1977), 131-142, in D. Bornstein (ed.), Readings in the theory of grammar (Cambridge: WInthrop, 1976), 288-198, and in McCawley 1979b:84-95.
 * 1974b. Review of Chomsky and Halle, The Sound Pattern of English. International Journal of American Linguistics 40.50-88. Reprinted in D. Goyvaerts and G. Pullum (eds.), Essays on 'The Sound Pattern of English' (Ghent: Story-Scientia, 1976), 145-97.
 * 1974c. (interview conducted by Herman Parret). H. Parret (ed.), Discussing Linguistics (The Hague: Mouton), 249-77.
 * 1974d. Review of B. Derwing, Transformational grammar as a theory of language acquisition. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 19.177-88.
 * 1974e. (letter concerning sexism and English pronouns). New York Times Magazine Nov. 10, 103.
 * 1974f. If and only if . Linguistic Inquiry 5.632-35.
 * 1975a. On what is deep about deep structures. W. Weimer and D. Palermo (eds.), Cognition and the symbolic processes (New York: Halsted Press), 125-28.
 * 1975b. Review of Chomsky, Studies on semantics in generative grammar. Studies in English Linguistics (Tokyo) 3.209-311. Reprinted in McCawley 1982d:10-127.
 * 1975c. (letter concerning vocabulary and attitudes towards sex). Playboy, June, p. 52.
 * 1975d. Truth-functionality and natural deduction. G. Epstein (ed.), Proceedings of the international symposium on multi-valued logic (Long Beach CA: IEEE Computer Society), 412-18.
 * 1975e. On the category status of modal auxiliary verbs. Foundations of Language 12.597-601. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:96-100.
 * 1975f. Comments on R. Dougherty, 'Generative semantic methodology: a Bloomfieldian counterrevolution'. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 4.151-58.
 * 1975g. Lexicography and the count-mass distinction. Proceedings of the First Berkeley Linguistic Society Conference, 314-321. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:165-73.
 * 1975h. Verbs of bitching. D. Hockney et al. (eds.), Contemporary research in philosophical logic and linguistic semantics (Dordrecht: Reidel), 313-32. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b: 135-50. French translation entitled 'Le Telescopage' in Communications 20.1-38 (1973).
 * 1975i. Review of T. Y. Pak, 'McCawley and logic'. Mathematical reviews 50.846.
 * 1976a. Review of David C. Bennett, Spatial and temporal uses of English prepositions: an essay in stratificational semantics. The Times Literary Supplement, Jan. 30, 121.
 * 1976b. ¡Madison Avenue, si, Pennsylvania Avenue, no! P. Reich (ed.), The Second LACUS Forum (Columbia SC: Hornbeam), 17-28. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:223-33.
 * 1976c. Morphological indeterminacy in underlying syntactic structure. F. Ingemann (ed.), Proceedings of the 1975 Mid-America Linguistics Conference (Lawrence: University of Kansas), 317-26. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:113-21.
 * 1976d. Some ideas not to live by. Die neueren Sprachen 75.151-165. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:234-46.
 * 1976e. Notes on Jackendoff's theory of anaphora. Linguistic Inquiry 7.319-341. Reprinted under the title 'How to get an intepretive theory of anaphora to work' in McCawley 1982d:128-58.
 * 1976g. Review of R. Lakoff, Language and woman's place. Reason, Aug., 40-42. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:174-8.
 * 1976h. Remarks on what can cause what. In Shibatani (ed.), The grammar of causative constructions (Syntax and Semantics 6, New York: Academic Press), 117-29. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:101-12.
 * 1976i (editor). Notes from the linguistic underground (Syntax and Semantics 7). New York: Academic Press.
 * 1977a. Evolutionary parallels between Montague grammar and transformational grammar. NELS 7.219-232. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:122-32.
 * 1977b. (letter concerning verbs relating to orgasm). Psychology Today 10.11.128.
 * 1977c. Accent in Japanese. L. Hyman, Studies in stress and accent (USC Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4, Los Angeles: USC), 251-302.
 * 1977d. Remarks on the lexicography of performative verbs. A. Rogers, R. Wall, and J. Murphy (eds.), Performatives, presuppositions, and implicatures (Arlington VA: Center for Applied Linguistics), 13-25. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:151-64.
 * 1977e. Lexicographic notes on English quantifiers. Papers from the 13th Regional meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, 372-383. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:179-90.
 * 1977f. A use-mention fallacy fallacy. CLS Book of Squibs, 71.
 * 1977g. A propos de "Questions de sémantique" de N. Chomsky. (French translation by M. Galmiche of excerpts from 1975b). Langages 48.50-59.
 * 1977h. Acquisition models as models of acquisition. R. Fasold and R. Shuy (eds.), Studies in Language Variation (Washington : Georgetown University Press), 51-64.
 * 1977i. The nonexistence of syntactic categories. Second Annual Metatheory Conference Proceedings (East Lansing: Michigan State University), 212-232. Substantially revised version appears in McCawley 1982d:176-203.
 * 1977j. (interview conducted by F. G. A. M. Aerts). Forum der Letteren 18.213-252.
 * 1977k. Review of George Dillon, Introduction to Comtemporary Linguistic Semantics. American Journal of Computational Linguistics 14.22-32.
 * 1978a. Restrictive relatives and surface constituent structure. NELS 8.154-66.
 * 1978b. Conversational implicature and the lexicon. P. Cole (ed.), Pragmatics (Syntax and Semantics 9; New York: Academic Press), 245-59.
 * 1978c. Relative and relative-like clauses. P. Seuren (ed.), Symposium on semantic theory (Grammarij 9), Nijmegen, 149-88.
 * 1978d. Jakobsonian ideas in generative grammar. D. Armstrong and C. H. van Schooneveld (eds.), Roman Jakobson: echoes of his scholarship (Lisse: de Ridder), 269-83.
 * 1978e. Notes on Japanese clothing verbs. I. Howard and J. Hinds (eds.), Problems in Japanese Syntax and Semantics (Tokyo: Kaitakusha), 68-78.
 * 1978f. Logic and the lexicon. Papers from the Paraseeession on the Lexicon (Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society), 261-77.
 * 1978g. What is a tone language? V. Fromkin (ed.), Tone: a linguistic survey (New York: Academic Press), 113-131.
 * 1978h. Foreword to J. Levi, The Syntax and Semantics of Complex Nominals (New York: Academic Press), xi-xiii.
 * 1978i. Where you can shove infixes. A. Bell and J. Hooper (eds.), Syllables and Segments (Amsterdam and New York ; North Holland), 213-21.
 * 1978j. Notes on the history of accent in Japanese. J. Fisiak (ed.), Recent developments in historical phonology (The Hague: Mouton), 287-307.
 * 1978k. World-creating predicates. Versus 19/10.79-93.
 * 1978l. Review of A. Akmajian and F. Heny, Introduction to the Principles of Transformational Grammar. Studies in Language 2.385-95.
 * 1979a. Two notes on comparatives. E Polome et al. (eds.), Linguistic and Literary Studies Presented to Archibald A. Hill, vol. 2 (Lisse: de Ridder), 67-72. Reprinted in McCawley 1979b:71-75.
 * 1979b. Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Contains 1967acd, 1969, 1970g, 1972e, 1973fgi, 1974a, 1975egh, 1976bdfgi, 1977ade, 1979b, and (previously unpublished) 'Statement vs. rule in linguistic description'; with introduction and notes.
 * 1979c. Comments. D. Dinnsen (ed.), Current approaches to Phonological Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 294-302.
 * 1979d. Concerning a methodological pseudo-exorcism. Linguistics 17.3-20.
 * 1979e. Presupposition and discourse structure. C.-K. Oh and D. Dinneen (eds.), Presupposition (Syntax and Semantics 11, New York: Academic Press), 371-88.
 * 1979f. (letter concerning Black English and elementary education). Chicago Tribune, Aug. 9.
 * 1979g. Creativity and personal freedom. (review of G. Sampson, Liberty and Language). Inquiry, Sept. 10, 22-24.
 * 1979h. Remarks on Cena's vowel shift experiment. The Elements (Papers from Chicago Linguistic Society parasession), 110-18.
 * 1979i. Language universals in linguistic argumentation. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 8.2.205-219. Also in 1982d:159-75.
 * 1979j. Helpful hints to the ordinary working Montague grammarian. S. Davis and M. Mithun (eds.), Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar (Austin: University of Texas Press), 103-25.
 * 1980a. ¡Tabula si, rasa no! The behavioral and brain sciences 3.26-7.
 * 1980b. Speaker- and addressee-based sincerity conditions. In Alvar: a linguistically varied assortment of readings (studies presented to Alvar Ellegård on the occasion of his 60th birthday). Stockholm papers in English language and Literature 1.130-37.
 * 1980c. Review of G. Sampson, Liberty and Language. Language 56.639-47. Reprinted in Otero (ed.), Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments (Routledge, 1995), vol. 3.
 * 1980d. A rejoinder to Larry Horn's comments. In M. Kac (ed.), Current syntactic theories: discussion papers from the 1979 Milwaukee syntax conference . Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 135-40.
 * 1981a. Everything that linguists have always wanted to know about logic (but were ashamed to ask). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, and Oxford: Blackwell.
 * 1981b. An un-syntax. E. Moravcsik and J. Wirth (eds.), Current Approaches to Syntax (Syntax and Semantics 13), New York: Academic Press, 167-93.
 * 1981c. Fuzzy logic and restricted quantifiers. S. Kanger and S. Öhman (eds.), Philosophy and grammar (Dordrecht: Reidel), 101-18.
 * 1981d. The syntax and semantics of English relative clauses. Lingua 53.99-149.
 * 1981e. Review of F. Newmeyer, Linguistic Theory in America. Linguistics 18.911-30.
 * 1981f. Notes on the English present perfect. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1.81-90.
 * 1981g. Newmeyer on what happened to generative semantics. Linguistics 18.1099-1104.
 * 1982a. Parentheticals and discontinuous constituent structure. Linguistic Inquiry 13.91-106.
 * 1982b. letters on miscellaneous topics. William Safire, What's the goood word? (New York: Times Books), 141-2, 148-9, 228.
 * 1982c. How far can you trust a linguist? T. Simon and R. Scholes (eds.), Language, mind, and brain (Hillsdale NJ: Ablex), 75-87.
 * 1982d. Thirty million theories of grammar. London: Croom Helm, and Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Contains 1975b, 1976e, 1979i, and an expanded version of 1977i, with introduction and added notes).
 * 1982e. Review of A. Gupta, The logic of common nouns. Journal of Philosophy 79.512-17.
 * 1982f. Comments on Bowerman's paper. Quaderni di Semantica 3.71-75.
 * 1983a. Towards plausibility in theories of language acquisition. Communication and Cognition 16.169-83.
 * 1983b. What's with with ? Language 59.271-87.
 * 1983c. Review of Marciszewski, Dictionary of Logic. Semiotica 42.279-83.
 * 1983d. Accent. Encyclopedia of Japan 1.6-8.
 * 1983e. The syntax of some English adverbs. CLS 19.263-82.
 * 1983f. Review of Wierzbicka, Lingua Mentalis. Language 59.654-59.
 * 1983g. Execute criminals, not rules of grammar. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6.410-11.
 * 1984a. The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 * 1984b. (letters on miscellaneous topics). In William Safire, I Stand Corrected (New York: Times Books), 16, 109-11, 135-6, 204-5.
 * 1984c. Review of White, Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition. Language 60. 431-6.
 * 1984d. Exploitation of the cyclic principle as a research strategy in syntax. In W. de Geest and Y. Putseys (eds.), Sentential Complementation (Dordrecht: Foris), 165-83.
 * 1984e. Introduction to reprint of Otto Jespersen, Analytic Syntax, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xi-xix.
 * 1984f. Anaphora and notions of command. Papers from the 10th Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society, 220-32.
 * 1984g. Review of Seward, Japanese in Action, 2nd ed. Language 60.994-5.
 * 1985a. Speech acts and Goffman's participant roles. In ESCOL '84 (Columbus: Ohio State University Linguistics Dept.), 260-74.
 * 1985b. Review of P. Jacobson and G. Pullum (eds.) The Nature of Syntactic Representation. Australian Journal of Linguistics 5.85-109.
 * 1985c. Review of F. Newmeyer, Grammatical Theory. Language 61.668-79.
 * 1985d. What price the performative analysis? University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 1.43-64.
 * 1985e. Review of F. Heny and B. Richards (eds.), Linguistic Categories. Language 61.849-62.
 * 1985f. Kuhnian paradigms as systems of markedness conventions. In A. Makkai and A. Melby (eds.), Linguistics and Philosophy: Studies in Honor of Rulon S. Wells, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 23-43.
 * 1986a. (with Katsuhiko Momoi) The constituent structure of -te complements in Japanese. Working Papers from the First SDF Workshop on Japanese Syntax, 97-116. Expanded version in Papers in Japanese Linguistics 11.1-60.
 * 1986b. Actions and events despite Bertrand Russell. in E. Lepore (ed.), A Companion to Davidson's 'Essays on Actions and Events'. Oxford: Blackwells, 177-92.
 * 1986c. Today the world, tomorrow phonology. Phonology Yearbook 3. 27-43. Earlier version in G. Nathan and M. Winters (eds.), The Uses of Phonology (SIU Occasional Papers in Linguistics 12, 1984), 88-102.
 * 1986d. What linguists might contribute to dictionary-making if they could get their act together. V. Raskin and P. Bjarkman (eds.), The Real-world Linguist, Norwood NJ: Ablex, 1-18.
 * 1986e. (transcript of question-answer session held in Trivandrum, India, freely translated into Indian English). Newsletter, International School of Dravidian Linguistics.
 * 1986f. Review of T. Paikeday, The Native Speaker is Dead! Linguistics 24.1137-9.
 * 1986g. Competence vs. performance. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Berlin: de Gruyter, 141-2.
 * 1986h. Syntax. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1061-71.
 * 1987a. (garbled version of letter). Psychology Today, March, p. 6.
 * 1987b. Review of D. T. Langendoen and P. M. Postal, The Vastness of Natural Languages . IJAL53.236-39. Also in University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 3.177-81.
 * 1987c. Some further evidence for discontinuity. In G. Huck and A. Ojeda (eds.), Discontinuous Constituency (Syntax and Semantics 20, New York: Academic Press), 185-200.
 * 1987d. A case of syntactic mimicry. R. Dirven and V. Frid (eds.), Functionalism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 459-70.
 * 1987e. The syntax of English echoes. CLS 23.246-58.
 * 1987f. Review of Roy A. Miller, Nihongo: in defence of Japanese. Lg. 63.904-6.
 * 1987g. Review of P. A. M. Seuren, Discourse Semantics. Journal of Semantics 5.261-7.
 * 1988a. Comments on Chomsky, 'Language and problems of knowledge'. University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 4.148-56.
 * 1988b. Introduction to 'syntax and semantics' section. The Best of CLS, Chicago Linguistic Society, 2-4.
 * 1988c. Review of Chomsky, Knowledge of Language. Lg. 64.355-65. Reprinted in Otero (ed.), Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments (Routledge, 1995), vol. 1.
 * 1988d. The multi-dimensionality of pragmatics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10.723-4.
 * 1988e. Adverbial NP's: bare or clad in see-through garb? Language 64. 583-90. Preliminary version appears in Metropolitan Linguistics (Tokyo) 6.1-13 (1986).
 * 1988f. The Syntactic Phenomena of English. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 * 1988g. (letters on miscellaneous topics). William Safire, You could look it up (New York: Times Books), 234, 296-98, 325-26.
 * 1988h. The comparative conditional construction in English, German, and Mandarin Chinese. BLS 14.176-87.
 * 1989a. 1978 TINLAP comments. University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 5.83-89.
 * 1989b The bleen years. University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 5.90-91.
 * 1989c. Infl', Spec, and other fabulous beasts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11.350-52. Expanded version in University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 5.92-95.
 * 1989d. Review of Abraham, Terminologie zur neuren Linguistik. Language 65.872-3.
 * 1989e. Notes on Li and Thompson's Mandarin Chinese. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association 24.19-42.
 * 1989f. On making life easier for users of Chinese-English dictionaries. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association 24.105-9.
 * 1989g. Individuation in and of syntactic structures. M. Baltin and A. Kroch (eds.), Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure (Chicago: University of Chicago Pres), 117-38. Preliminary version in University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics 3.151-76.
 * 1990a. (letter concerning Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). Liberty 3.5.8.
 * 1990b. In, into, and enter. In J. Edmondson, C. Feagin, and P. Mühlhäusler (eds.), Development and diversity: linguistic variation across space and time . Arlington TX: Summer Institute of Lingustics, 225-37.
 * 1990c. (letters on miscellaneous topics). William Safire, Language maven strikes again (New York: Doubleday), 87-91, 141-2, 234-5.
 * 1990d. The dark side of reason (review of Paul Feyerabend, Farewell to Reason ). Critical Review 4.277-85.
 * 1990e. Iwakura on discontinuity. English Linguistics 7.188-97.
 * 1991a. Remarks on adverbial constituent structure. In C. Georgopolous and R. Ishihara (eds.), Interdisciplinary approaches to language: essays in honor of S.-Y. Kuroda (Dordrecht: Reidel), 415-33.
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 * To appear d. 2nd edition of The Syntactic Phenomena of English (= 1988f). University of Chicago Press.
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