Words without grammar: Linguists and the international auxiliary language movement in the United States

This paper offers an analysis of Italian anthroponymic verb–noun compounds. It is argued that the first element of these compounds historically is an imperative (2nd sg) form. Such a view not only accounts adequately for the evolutionary process at work in the original naming process; it also rightly accounts for the actual morphological make-up of these compounds. It is argued as well that anthroponymic compounds involving imperatives provided for a structural model which is still traceable in the morphological make-up of non-anthroponymic compounds, even though a reanalysis process has led to the reinterpretation of the verbal element of V–N compounds as a bare stem. Crucially, such a reanalysis will be said to have been favoured by the morphological unmarkedness of imperatives: as zero inflected stems, imperatives may serve as a base for paradigmatic restructuration. Italian Verb–noun compounds will be shown to offer an illustration of this basicness of the imperative, following a pattern of word formation which is available in other languages.

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The Italian verb-noun anthroponymic compounds at the Syntax / morphology interface

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Determining and numerating adjectives in children’s speech

This dissertation is a historical study of influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, explored from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889–1957). Although no ‘Great Man’ in his own right, Ogden had a personal connection, reflected in his work, to several of the most significant figures of the age. The background to the ideas espoused in Ogden’s book The Meaning of Meaning, coauthored with I.A. Richards (1893–1979), are examined in detail, along with the application of these ideas in his international language project Basic English. A richly interlaced network of connections is revealed between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics, all inevitably shaped by the contemporary cultural and political environment. In particular, significant interaction is shown between Ogden’s ideas, the varying versions of ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and Ludwig Wittgensten (1889–1951), Victoria Lady Welby’s (1837–1912) ‘significs’, and the philosophy and political activism of Otto Neurath (1882–1945) and Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) of the Vienna Circle. Amid these interactions emerges a previously little known mutual exchange between the academic philosophy and linguistics of the period and the practically oriented efforts of the international language movement. In exploring these connections, novel light is shed on the intellectual history of a period crucial in the development of both linguistics and philosophy.

Meaning in the Age of Modernism: C. K. Ogden and his contemporaries

Polysemy, overt marking, and function words

Indication : a study of demonstratives, articles, and other "indicaters"

The expression of the ending-point relation in English, French, and German

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Indication : a study of demonstratives, articles, and other "indicaters"

The expression of the ending-point relation in English, French, and German