Skeptical linguistic essays

Skeptical Linguistic Essays......Page 2
INTRODUCTION......Page 4
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. Subject properties of X- PPs......Page 19
3. Nonsubject properties of X- PPs......Page 23
4. The paradox: X- PPs as both subjects and nonsubjects......Page 29
5. Null expletive analyses of NEX clauses......Page 30
7. Further evidence for invisible expletives in NEX clauses......Page 40
8. Foreign tongues......Page 54
9. A novel account of NEX structures......Page 57
1. Background......Page 84
2. The LFG claim about RCP......Page 86
3. The HPSG claim about RCP......Page 89
4. The GB claim about RCP......Page 90
5. The English class: bank/ bet/ count/ depend/ rely +on + infinitive......Page 91
6. The structure of RCP cases......Page 108
7. Conclusion......Page 109
1. Background......Page 110
2. Some puzzling facts......Page 112
3. An initial approach to the paradox......Page 118
4. Expanding the database......Page 119
5. Links to raising to subject structures......Page 120
6. Generalizing over raising to object and raising to subject structures......Page 122
7. Earlier data......Page 127
8. An earlier proposal......Page 133
9. A speculation......Page 136
10. Conclusion......Page 137
1. Basics......Page 139
2. Selections......Page 143
3. Chromatic agreement......Page 147
4. Ellipsis phenomena......Page 153
5. Types of nonchromatic DPs......Page 154
6. Coordination of chromatic and nonchromatic DPs......Page 155
7. A prescriptively disfavored type of agreement......Page 156
8. Limitations of informal statements......Page 158
1. Background......Page 160
2. What type Z vulgar minimizers are not......Page 163
3. What type Z vulgar minimizers are......Page 167
4. McCawley¡¯s puzzle......Page 168
2. Background......Page 174
3. Fixed, finite lexicons......Page 177
4. Direct speech......Page 179
5. Gestural performance......Page 184
6. Beyond gestures......Page 185
7. Metalinguistic structures......Page 188
8. The controversial constituents as real constituents......Page 189
9. The irrelevance of the historical dynamics of lexicons......Page 191
10. Unregimented constituents and the nature of NL sentences......Page 192
11. Conclusions......Page 196
1. Background......Page 206
2. Older objections to Principle C accounts......Page 209
3. New objections to Principle C accounts......Page 214
4. The copy trace version......Page 226
5. Substantive conclusions......Page 232
6. Methodological conclusions......Page 233
1. Background......Page 234
2. The beginning: syntactic structures......Page 235
3. ¡° Applies blindly¡±......Page 239
4. Evolution of ideas......Page 250
5. The cavalier treatment of the by phrase......Page 253
6. Reanalysis......Page 259
7. Arrays......Page 265
8. Complement passivization and nonpassivization......Page 276
9. A remark about coordination......Page 283
10. Conclusion......Page 285
9.Junk Ethics 1 Advances in Linguistic Rhetoric......Page 287
10.Junk Refereeing
 Our Tax Dollars at Work......Page 294
11.Junk Ethics 2 
The Most Irresponsible Passage......Page 297
1. Automatic logical connections......Page 307
2. If it¡¯s just about true, it can¡¯t be false, can it?......Page 318
3. My accounts are natural; don’t you
 wish yours were!......Page 320
4. Virtually self- evident natural conclusions that follow automatically ( surely) from something......Page 322
1. A bit of sarcasm......Page 324
2. An operation called ¡® Copy¡¯......Page 325
3. An operation called ¡® Merge¡¯......Page 326
4. A property called ¡® displacement¡¯......Page 332
5. Conceptual necessity based on ‘ nonexistent’ objects......Page 335
6. Conclusion......Page 336
14.Junk Linguistics 
The Bottom Line......Page 338
NOTES......Page 340
REFERENCES......Page 386
INDEX......Page 406