A study of irregularity in syntax in the Generative Semantics formalism of the mid to late 1960s.
Author(s): George Lakoff
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Year: 1970
Language: English
City: New York
Tags: linguistics; syntax; semantics; generative syntax; generative semantics; irregularity
1. Forward
2. Preface
3. Introduction
4. Grammars and the Theory of Grammar
1. Adult Language Learning
2. Child Language Learning
3. Linguistic Theory
4. The Form of a Linguistic Theory
5. Some Assumptions
5. Previous Work
1. Arbitrary Categorization
2. The Chomsky-Halle System
6. Simple Exceptions
1. Items that Do Not Undergo Regular Rules
2. The Direct Generation of Deviant Sentences
3. A Partial Formalism for Simple Exceptions
7. Rule Government
8. Minor Rules
1. Rules that Apply Only to Exceptions
2. A Partial Formalism for Minor Rules
3. Partly Minor Rules
4. A Partial Formalism for Partly Minor Rules
9. Absolute Exceptions
1. Items that Must Not Meet Structural Descriptions
2. Items that Must Meet Structural Descriptions
3. A Partial Formalism for Absolute Exceptions
4. Hypothetical Lexical Items
10. Boolean Exceptions
11. Optionality
1. Optional Exceptions to Obligatory Rules
2. Exceptions to Optional Rules
3. Canonical Form of Irregularity Representations
12. Lexical Representation
1. The Structure of Lexical Items
2. Idiolectal Variations in the Lexicon
3. Lexical Base and Lexical Extension
4. Historical Change in Lexical Extensions
13. Hypothetical Causatives and Inchoatives
1. Causatives
2. Inchoatives
3. Justification
14. Some Speculations on Universal Grammar
15. Appendix 1: Adjectives and Verbs
1. Grammatical Relations
2. Selectional Restrictions
3. Static and Nonstative Verbs and Adjectives
4. The Adjective Shift
5. Nominalizations
6. Subject-Object Interchange
7. Object Deletion
8. Agent Nominals
9. Complements
16. Appendix 2: Possible but Incorrect Analyses
17. Appendix 3: Markedness
1. Markedness in Phonology
2. Markedness in Syntax
18. Appendix 4: Contextual Features
1. Lexical Similarities
2. Regularities Involving Contextual Features
19. Appendix 5: On the Form of Lexical Items
1. Unanalyzable Contextual Features
2. Definition of Multiple Analysis
3. Conjunction of Contextual Features
4. Boolean Functions of Features
5. Suppletion
20. Appendix 6: Passives, Adverbs, and Quantifiers
1. Passives and Manner Adverbials
2. The Source of Some Manner Adverbials
3. Pseudo-Passives
4. Further Remarks on Manner Adverbials
5. Locative Adverbials
6. Reason Adverbials
7. Instrumental Adverbials
8. Frequency Adverbials
9. Quantifiers
10. Multiple Adverbials
21. Remarks
22. Bibliography
