”. In this sentence, the main clause aux- iliary is fronted in spite of the existence of another aux- iliary that would come first in the corresponding declar- ative sentence. Chomsky argued that this type of data is not accessible in child speech, maintaining that “it is quite ...
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Two system of weights and measures exist in the U. S. today: the U. S. Customary System and the International System of Units (IS, after the initials of International System). IS, commonly referred to as the metric system, is actually a more complete, coherent version of it. Throughout...
(p.96) Butwordsdonotdefine,modify,orqualifyother words. Speakersdefine,qualify,andmodify. Thisconfusionissotemptingthatitisperva- siveineveryfieldthatstudieslanguage,atany level. Itisalmostuniversalinlinguistics. We findit,forexample,inthefollowingfrom HallidayandHasan(1976),whoprobablyknow better: Letus...
When I think of the Waverly Diner on 6th Avenue and Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, I am moved by romantic nostalgia. By that I only mean that when I think of the Waverly I feel, in some way, what it was like to be young and in the rush of the conversation. The conversation ...
(Grice, 1975, p. 47). It is hard to figure out precisely what is Grice’s notion of rationality since he never addressed the subject separately, but always as a mean to explain other concepts. In some places, Grice understands the idea of rationality in terms of purposiveness, assuming ...
language as a separate (but related) “language.” That is, my version of English is different from your English. They are members of the same “species,” but separate. Kind of like how I could have a beagle, and you could have a beagle, but that doesn’t mean we have the same ...
This chapter looks at how the “balance” between lives, livelihoods and other concerns was talked about in four main newspapers in the UK, between March 2020 and March 2021, in assessing the UK government’s performance. Different arguments were made...
listing thousands of players has made it much more difficult to reach the very top, and frequently reset arcade machines means that in-person scores don’t mean what they used to, but it’s worth finding that rare game with a score that seems in reach, and practicing like crazy to beat...