| Acknowledgments | ix |
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| Jim McCawley: Scholar, Teacher, Inspiration
Salikoko S. Mufwene
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| Publications by Jim McCawley | xvii |
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| Introduction
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| Part I | Phonology | 25 |
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| 1. | Sequential Voicing and Lyman's Law in Old Japanese
Timothy J. Vance | 27 |
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| Part II | Syntax | 45 |
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| 2. | NP Gaps in Tamil: Syntactic versus Pragmatic
E. Annamalai | 47 |
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| 3. | Vācya, Prayoga, and Hindu Sentences without Grammatical Subjects
Michael C. Shapiro | 69 |
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| 4. | The Grammaticalization of Aspect in Tamil and Its Semantic Sources
Harold F. Schiffman | 83 |
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| 5. | Causation and Tense in Subordinate Clauses: Conjunctive Participles and Conditionals in Bangla and Hindi
Tista Bagchi | 109 |
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| 6. | Independence in Subordinate Clauses: Analysis of Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses in English and Japanese
Etsuyo Yuasa | 135 |
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| 7. | Syntactic Mimicry as Evidence for Prototypes in Grammar
Elaine J. Francis | 161 |
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| 8. | Gerundive Modifiers in English and Korean
Geoffrey J. Huck | 183 |
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| 9. | Multiple Mechanisms Underlying Morphological Productivity
Yoko Sugioka | 203 |
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| 10. | How Many Bes Are There in English?
Salikoko S. Mufwene | 225 |
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| Part III | Tense, Aspect, and Mood | 247 |
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| 11. | On McCawley on Tense
Robert I. Binnick | 249 |
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| 12. | On the Fuzzy Boundary between Tense and Aspect in Japanese
Wesley M. Jacobsen | 261 |
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| 13. | Counterfactuality in Burmese
Lynn Nichols | 283 |
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| 14. | Retrospective Mood in Korean: A Constraint-based Approach
Suk-Jin Chang | 295 |
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| Part IV | Semantics and Pragmatics | 327 |
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| 15. | An Un- paper for the Unsyntactician
Laurence R. Horn | 329 |
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| 16. | Semantic Noun Phrase Typology
Donka F. Farkas | 367 |
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| 17. | The Paradox of Mass Plurals
Almerindo E. Ojeda | 389 |
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| 18. | Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know about Ironic Presuppositions and Implicatures but Were Ashamed to Ask
Katharine Beals | 411 |
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| Part V | Knowledge of Language | 431 |
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| 19. | Deficits in Pronoun Interpretation: Clues to a Theory of Competence and Acquisition
William O'Grady | 433 |
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| 20. | Why Verb Agreement Is Not the Poster Child for Any General Form Principle
Jerry L. Morgan and Georgia M. Green | 455 |
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| 21. | A Cognitively Plausible Model of Linguistic Intuition
Barbara J. Luka | 479 |
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| Part VI | Encyclopedia and Language | 503 |
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| 22. | Language and Languages in the Eleventh Britannica
Peter T. Daniels | 505 |
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| Abbreviations | 531 |
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| Contributors | 537 |
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| Index
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