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Volume 176
Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. In honor of Jerry Sadock
Edited by Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals
Pragmatics
and Autolexical Grammar
In honor of Jerry Sadock
Edited by
Etsuyo Yuasa
Ohio State University
Tista Bagchi
NISTADS & University of Delhi
Katharine Beals
University of Pennsylvania & Drexel University
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p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 176)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Pragmatics. 2. Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax. 3. Autolexical theory (Lin-
guistics) 4. Hierarchy (Linguistics) I. Yuasa, Etsuyo, 1966- II. Bagchi, Tista. III.
Beals, Katharine. IV. Sadock, Jerrold M.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of contributors ix
Introduction xiii
Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi & Katharine Beals
Publications by Jerrold M. Sadock xix
part i. pragmatics
Assertoric inertia, (quasi) performatives, and presupposition accommodation
Almost forever 3
Laurence R. Horn
Sadock and the Performadox 23
William G. Lycan
Expressing regret and avowing belief: Sadock’s expositive adverbials,
Moore’s Paradox, and performative and quasi-performative verbs 35
Jay David Atlas
A story of Jerry and Bob 59
Andy Rogers
Speech acts, cognition, and language use
Conventionalization in indirect speech acts: Evidence from autism 77
Katharine Beals
Pseudo-apologies in the news 93
M. Catherine Gruber
Towards an intonational-illocutionary interface 107
Tista Bagchi
part ii. autolexical grammar
Interface between morphology and other grammatical levels
Atkan Aleut “unclitic” pronouns and definiteness: A multimodular analysis 125
Anthony C. Woodbury
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Nominalization affixes and multi-modularity of word formation 143
Yoko Sugioka
No more phology!: West Greenlandic evidence against a morphological
tier of linguistic representation 163
Sylvain Neuvel
Wait’ll (you hear) the next one: A case for an enclitic preposition
and complementizer 175
Hans Smessaert
Aleut case matters 193
Jason Merchant
Syntax-semantics interface
English derived nominals in three frameworks 213
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Out of control: The semantics of some infinitival VP complements 229
Barbara Abbott
An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts, and vice versa 243
Haj Ross
Negation as structure building in a home sign system 261
Amy Franklin, Anastasia Giannakidou & Susan Goldin-Meadow
Autolexical Grammar in interdisciplinary research
Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension:
The role of default correspondences 279
Elaine J. Francis
Evidence for grammatical multi-modularity from a corpus of non-native essays 299
Derrick Higgins
Autolexical Grammar and language processing: Mismatch and resolution
in the cognitive representation of syntactic and semantic knowledge 315
Barbara Luka
Topic index 337
Name index 339
Acknowledgements
The list of people who helped us to bring this volume would quickly become unman-
ageably long were everyone to be mentioned individually, but there are a few individu-
als and institutions who stand out in particular. First and foremost is Jerry Sadock,
the inspiration behind this volume and the conference that originally gave rise to it.
At the “Pragmatics, Grammatical Interfaces, and Jerry Sadock” Conference held in his
honor in May 2008 at the University of Chicago, affectionately dubbed “Jerry Fest” by
his numerous friends, Jerry made it a point to sit through all the conference sessions
and make probing comments on each and every one of the papers presented there.
At receptions hosted by Jerry and Gail Sadock and by the Division of the Humanities in
Classics 110, he continued to raise issues relating to themes from the conference – no
mean feat for a scholar who was about to retire from several decades of active service.
What was also particularly notable was his unfailing modesty in his attitude to the lin-
guistic phenomena and issues that were being addressed – a modesty that is typically
to be found only in a linguist with legitimate confidence and a genuine groundedness
in his scholarship. This volume is therefore, in a sense, both about Jerry’s work and
an offspring of his work; most of all, it is our way of trying to say, “Thank you, Jerry”.
We are particularly indebted to Kees Vaes, Editor at John Benjamins, and Series
Editors Professor Werner Abraham and Professor Elly van Gelderen, for their active
interest in the publication of this volume, and for their promptness in responding to
our requests and queries.
We are greatly indebted to the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of
Chicago, for providing us with the base funds for the Jerry Fest Conference, and to the
Division of the Humanities and Dean Martha Roth for generous supplementary fund-
ing and for their permission to use the Center for Resources in Language Studies, Cobb
Hall, as the conference venue, and Classics 110 for the final reception and banquet in
Jerry’s honor. The Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago provided
financial assistance towards the event as well. We also thank Chris Kennedy, the then
newly-appointed Department Chair in Linguistics, for logistic support. We express
our deep gratitude to Sali Mufwene, Jerry’s former student and later colleague, whose
brainchild the Jerry Fest was to begin with, and who was a key organizer in the execu-
tion of the conference itself (as well as the post-conference banquet featuring, in the
gastronomic tradition of past and present Chicago linguists, excellent cuisine from the
Caribbean). While Sali had to excuse himself from being on the team of editors for this
volume largely owing to other pressing academic commitments worldwide, his inputs
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into the planning of the volume have been invaluable. For their insightful and helpful
comments during the conference, we also thank members of the Jerry Fest audience.
We are grateful to all the reviewers who took pains to read and assess the papers
that were submitted for the volume amid their own pressing professional commit-
ments: Barbara Abbott, Mark Aronoff, Jay David Atlas, Kent Bach, Rusty Barrett,
Anna Berge, Betty J. Birner, Sue Blackwell, Daniel Bonevac, Anna Bosch, Greg
Carlson, Brady Z. Clark, Malcolm Coulthard, Elizabeth Crawford, Peter Culicover,
Alister Cumming, Alice Davison, Donka F. Farkas, Eileen Fitzpatrick, Elaine J. Francis,
John Goldsmith, Laurence R. Horn, Ray S. Jackendoff, Barbara Johnstone, Julie Anne
Legate, Al P. Martinich, Jason Merchant, Andrew Nevins, Frederick Newmeyer,
Kunio Nishiyama, Carol Padden, Dianne Patterson, Nick Pendar, Maria Piñango,
Christopher Potts, Josep Quer, Willem de Reuse, Craige Roberts, Scott Schwenter,
Peter Sells, Rajendra Singh, Alice Taff, Jessica de Villiers, Ann Wennerstrom, and
Anthony Woodbury. It has been an honor to work with them, and we could not have
done without their help.
Etsuyo Yuasa
Tista Bagchi
Katharine Beals
List of contributors
Laurence Horn M. Catherine Gruber
Department of Linguistics 5460 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Apt. 2E
Yale University Chicago, IL 60615
P.O. Box 208366 USA
New Haven, CT 06520-8366 E-mail: [email protected]
USA
Tista Bagchi
E-mail: [email protected]
National Institute of Science,
William G. Lycan Technology, and Development Studies
Philosophy (NISTADS) & University of Delhi
University of North Carolina Pusa Gate, K. S. Krishnan Marg
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125 New Delhi 110 012
USA INDIA
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Jay David Atlas Anthony C. Woodbury
Pomona College Dept. of Linguistics
Dept of Linguistics University of Texas
185 East Sixth Street 1 University Station, B5100
Claremont, CA 91711 Austin, TX 78712
USA USA
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Andy Rogers Yoko Sugioka
Armadillo Research Institute Keio University
4110 Honeycomb Rock Circle 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku
Austin, Texas 78731 Yokohama, 223-8521
USA JAPAN
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Katharine Beals Sylvain Neuvel
516 Woodland Terrace 369, rue Sainte-Madeleine
Philadelphia, PA, 19104 Montréal (Québec)
USA H3K 2K8
E-mail: CANADA
[email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
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Hans Smessaert Anastasia Giannakidou
K.U. Leuven Department of Linguistics Dept. of Linguistics
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 bus 3308 University of Chicago
B-3000 Leuven 1010 E. 59th St.
BELGIUM Chicago, IL 60637
E-mail: [email protected] USA
E-mail: [email protected]
Jason Merchant
Department of Linguistics Susan Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago University of Chicago
1115 E. 58th St. 5730 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago IL 60637 Chicago, IL 60637
USA USA
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Frederick J. Newmeyer Elaine J. Francis
1068 Seymour St. Department of English
Vancouver, BC V6B 3M6 Purdue University
CANADA 500 Oval Drive
E-mail: [email protected] West Lafayette, IN 47907
USA
Barbara Abbott E-mail: [email protected]
6339 E. Horn Rd.
Lake Leelanau, MI 49653 Derrick Higgins
USA Educational Testing Service
E-mail: [email protected] Mail Stop 13-R
Rosedale Road
Haj Ross Princeton, NJ 08451
1919 Mistywood Lane USA
Denton, Texas 76209-2267 E-mail: [email protected]
USA
E-mail: [email protected] Barbara Luka
Psychology Program
Amy Franklin Bard College
1941 East Road, Suite 4320 30 Campus Road
Houston, TX 77054 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
USA USA
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
