Style articles from March 2006

Style archives from March 2006

Introduction.
March 22, 2006... The essays, notes, and poetry in this volume were originally assembled as a birthday Festschrift for John Robert (Haj) Ross, Professor of English at the University of North Texas. We missed that birthday deadline, however, finally bringing it...

Congratulations, Haj!
March 22, 2006... A. L. Becker Aaron Anderson Aaron Leis Amy Barth Andy Rogers Ashley Bender Austin and Ramona Laird Bob and Sylvia Stevens Bruce Bond Bruce Fraser Carlota Smith Catherine Chvany Chad...

Remarks on English long-distance anaphora.
March 22, 2006... The phenomenon of long distance reflexives/long distance anaphora (LDA) has been extensively discussed in recent years, with for example at least two full volumes of papers devoted specifically to this topic (Koster and Reuland; Cole, Hermon,...

Why no(t)?(language research)
March 22, 2006... This note presents a simple, novel diagnostic for determining the phrase structural status of negative markers cross-linguistically, a topic of enduring interest (for recent approaches anal references see Haegeman; Zanuttini; Giannakidou,...

On the conceptual-procedural distinction.(linguistics)
March 22, 2006... 1. Introduction The distinction between two types of semantic meaning--that which encodes representational (or conceptual) information and that which encodes a specification of how to "take" or "manipulate" a structure--is not a new topic...

Used to and habitual aspect in English.
March 22, 2006... Habituality has been much discussed in connection with the semantics of genericity and of quantification. As pointed out by Sali Tagliamonte and Helen Lawrence and by Bengt Altenberg, however, there has been little investigation of such...

Disjunctive numerals of estimation.(english language learning and analysis)
March 22, 2006... 1. Introduction English contains a number of expressions of the form m or n, where m and n are numerals, with the meaning 'from m to n.' I call such expressions disjunctive numerals of estimation, or DNEs. Examples 1-4 illustrate the use...

Vulgar Latin: comparative castration.(and comparative theories of syntax)
March 22, 2006... This article makes sense only with some contextualization. One context involves the historical circumstances in which I originally conceived of the paper and the theory behind it; the second, the historical circumstances under which the data to...

Wild language.(linguistics)
March 22, 2006... The linguistic discourse has been blessed, if that is the right word, with many stripes and shades of linguistic theories: structural, generative, stratificational, computational, commands and controls, governments and bindings, powers and...

Lectures on Bubblemint and Grinding.(linguistic relativity)
March 22, 2006... 1. Introduction I would like to sketch here the core conceptual vocabulary of an approach to grammatical theory that has been developed in a number of unpublished papers and lectures over the past few years and that is rather promising, in...

Getting squishy.(linguistics and grammaticality)
March 22, 2006... More than thirty years ago, Haj gave a paper at the Chicago Linguistic Society meeting with the bilingual title "The Category Squish: Endstation Hauptwort," in which he presented the entirely novel idea that there were no absolute categories...

For Haj.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... For Haj I knew you first as a name in print: John Robert Ross, your big red self trapped in small black letters pushed by the print beyond reach. I knew you next as a mythic hero. You became Haj in...

"m" and "m+1" and "m+2" and m.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... (for PN and MMP and (now) Haj, to be played with, at least, spoons) Butterflies Butterflies Butterflies I love em Butterflies love em love em love em Flutterbys: Golden ones, jetblack, sheeny-shiny...

The smaller half of the L for Haj Ross.
March 22, 2006... Having learned the eroticism of font, fleshy inner curves of y and u, still it loved a life of quiet recumbency, recompense for such a stealthy pensive, a prostrate liquifier. Litotes, Lowell (Robert), Lake Wobegon. Lake Wobegon began to tempt...

Fragments from an Oft-postponed Visit (September 4, 1992).(Poem)
March 22, 2006... Fragments from an Oft-postponed Visit (September 4, 1992) 1. You wanna have some tea? Coffee? milk? soda? juice? You name it, I got it, It's all in the fridge over there. She brings it to me, that woman, ...

A Palindrome for Haj Ross.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... A Palindrome for Haj Ross Bard, sit. I fist. I help pink nude, Sir Pun? "Oh," promises a crab. "I sat." Sure, rot semi-Daniel a spot; a keeper: it is not put. Salt-sud waste mania? He tied a mist. It had I, bate dune--yes, no?...

My Best Reader.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... My Best Reader Denominator Help me upkeep beauty. Dying irises, for instance. Elide the failing finery, make the failure finer, cut for the future. Make a meal of bone, and turn it in. The less you...

On the razor's edge: a familiar essay.(languaging)
March 22, 2006... Love your data--Haj Ross I have learned of many, many things from Haj Ross: of islands and inner islands, paths, world order and chance, squishing, gapping, tree-pruning and remnants; of poems as holograms and where the tygers dwell. At...

Art, science, and Ste. Emilie's sunsets: a Haj-inspired cognitive approach to translating an Emily Dickinson poem into Japanese.
March 22, 2006... In the spring semester of 1983, each Wednesday would see Haj taking a late morning flight from Logan to La Guardia, where I would meet him to drive out to the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, where I was teaching at the...

Burning gold: for John Robert Ross.(Biography)
March 22, 2006... I have known Haj Ross since the summer of 1967, when he popped his head around the door of my MIT office (actually a graduate-student bullpen I shared with people, many of whom were to become leading figures in linguistics) the first day of my...

Kanji: the visual metaphor.
March 22, 2006... 1. Introduction American Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) argues in The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (as edited by Ezra Pound): the Chinese written language has not only absorbed the poetic ...

Rimbaud's first blood: le lai du lait de Cabaner.(Arthur Rimbaud)
March 22, 2006... In this brief expose, I attempt to right a wrong of recent literary history, demonstrating that a scandalous episode from the youth of the immortal poete maudit Arthur Rimbaud involving a certain glass of milk, a certain bodily fluid, and the...

The data fetishist's guide to rime coherence.
March 22, 2006... 1. Introduction This article is another installment in an ongoing linguistic detective serial. Its roots, like those of Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night, lie in academic England in the first third of the last century; and like that estimable...

Books received.
March 22, 2006... Baker, Nancy L., and Nancy Huling. A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students.. English and American Literature. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2006. 2006. viii + 96. $12.00 paper. Bal, Mieke. A Mieke Bal Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago...