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New light on the origins of Papiamentu: An eighteenth-century letter
1. Papiamentu demonstrates, over a period of 200 years, a stability and unity noteworthy not only among creole languages, but in absolute terms, fully...
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On Linguistic Competence
Competence is one of the central conccpts in the theorizing of the transformational school. The term has been introduced by Chomsky, who uses it...
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A Generative Account of the ’Category Of State’ in Russian
In this paper I wish to examine those phenomena in Russian which have led Soviet linguists (with very few exceptions) to set up a new part of speech,...
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The Upper Bound of the Aspects
In the preceding chapter I tried to support my statement that Aspects cannot be taken as semantic primitives assigned to Verbs by showing that the...
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Proclus the Successor on the First Alcibiades of Plato
The most valid and surest starting-point for the dialogues of Plato, and, practically for the whole of philosophical consideration, is, in our...
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Distributional Structure
For the purposes of the present discussion, the term structure will be used in the following non-rigorous sense: A set of phonemes or a set of data...
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Co-Occurrence and Transformation in Linguistic Structure
This paper defines a formal relation among sentences, by virtue of which one sentence structure may be called a transform of another sentence...
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Generative Grammar and European Linguistics
The development of the theory of generative grammar during the past fifteen years has led not only to considerable improvements in successive stages,...
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Remarks on Selectional Restrictions and Presuppositions
McCawley disputes the syntactic treatment of selectional restrictions Chomsky expounded in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (cf. McCawley (1968a) and...
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On Presuppositions
The question of presuppositions has become a widely discussed topic in linguistic literature (cf. Katz-Postal, 1964; Fillmore, 1970; McCawley, 1968;...
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Time and Text: Towards an Adequate Heuristics
The title I have (finally) chosen for this paper may make some readers feel a little suspicious about its purpose and content, or may even make them...
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Language and Race Problems in South Africa
My purpose in visiting South Africa was to hear Afrikaans spoken on the spot, and to meet the scholars who are devoting themselves to the study of...
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Første Handling. Act First.
There are several of these correspondences, some, as Ellis Roberts remarks (p. X) mere parallelisms, some with a deeper meaning: “These hints as it...
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Segmentation. Forms of Expression. Oppositions and Distinctions. Paradigmatic Structures
It has already been pointed out that the sound-wave emanating from the mouth of a speaker is physically a continuum. Both the wave form as such — in...