Contents: Revision of Phonetics; The Phonemic Prionciple; Alternations; Features, Classes & Systems; Problems with the Phonemic Principle; The Organisation of the Grammar; Abstractness & Ordering; Interlude: Post-SPE Phonology: Some Questions About the Standard Model; Naturalness in Generative Phonology; The Role of the Lexicon; Representations Reconsidered: Phonological Structure Above the Level of the Segment; Autosegmental Phonology; Representations & the Role of Rules.
This book combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J.L.Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary analysis. Speech-act theory emphasizes the social reality created when speakers agree that their language is performative - Austin's term for utterances like: "we hereby declare" or "I promise", that produce rather than describe what they name. In contrast to formal linguistics, speech-act theory insists on language's active prominence in the organization of collective life.
This monograph examines complex words -- compounds and those involving derivational and inflectional affixation -- from a syntactic standpoint that encompasses both the structure of words and the system of rules for generating that structure. The author contends that the syntax of words and the more familiar syntax involving relations among words must be defined by two discrete sets of principles in the grammar, but nevertheless that word structure has the same general formal properties as the larger syntactic structure and is generated by the same sort of rule system.
This book explores the relationships among four language families: Uralic, Yuk-agir, Chukchi-Kamachatkan, and Eskimo-Aleut (collectively referred to here as the Uralo-Siberian or US languages). While Fortescue is probably most widely known for his work on Eskimo-Aleut, he has worked with all of these languages to varying degrees, and so brings a deep knowledge of the material to this study.
The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method
For much of the 20th century, it was quite fashionable to believe that philosophical problems were all problems of language, and that if philosophers paid close enough attention to ordinary usage (or, alternately, devised an ideal language free of the muddles and inconsistencies of ordinary language), then philosophical problems would simply disappear. This was the linguistic turn
