Substance-Based Grammar - the (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson.

Intro -- Substance-based Grammar -The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- References -- Part I. Foundations and historiography -- Investigating substance-based grammar -- References -- Appendix: The consistency of Basque -- Additional references -- Anderson's case grammar and the history of localism -- Introduction -- 1. The context of Anderson's theory -- 1.1 Fillmore on case grammar -- 1.2 Fillmore and the wider scientific context -- 1.3 Prelexical analysis -- 1.4 Gruber and Jackendoff on thematic relations -- 1.5 Anderson's case grammar: The first steps -- 1.6 Anderson's basic case 'relations' -- 1.7 Complex case 'relations' -- 1.8 Extension of local CRs to non-spatial domains -- 1.9 CRs and grammatical relations -- 2. On the history of localism -- 2.1 On the origins of localism: Planudes? -- 2.2 The first localist analysis: Aristotle? -- 2.3 On physicalism -- 2.4 Some conditions favouring localism -- 2.5 On post-medieval semantic accounts of cases and prepositions -- 2.6 Empiricism and localism: Leibniz on particles -- 2.7 On prepositions and cases in Grammaire Générale -- 2.8 The heyday of case localism in Germany -- 2.9 Half-hearted localists -- 2.10 Localistophobics -- 2.11 Hjelmslev -- 2.12 Localist morphosyntactic structuring in cognitive linguistics -- 2.13 Localism in lexical semantics -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Lexicon, meaning and syntax -- The substance of the lexicon in a Generative Lexicon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A classic Generative Lexicon: Its substance as defined in Pustejovsky (1995) -- 2.1 The Argument Structure -- 2.2 The Event Structure -- 2.3 The Qualia Structure -- 3. Middle verbs -- 3.1 Definition and properties -- 3.2 An explanatory account: the relevance of the Event Structure.

3.2.1 Event Structure and lexical distribution -- 3.2.2 The Event Structure and projection to syntax -- 4. Derived complex event nominals -- 4.1 Outline of previous studies -- 4.2 The classic GL analysis -- 4.2.1 GL: Dynamic operations -- 4.2.2 Dotted types in a classic GL -- 4.2.3 Problems: Copredication and formalization -- 4.3 A solution: A GL enriched with functions associated with each lexical entry -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Entitatives and Indo-European n-stems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On notional content of morphophonological classes - The attraction of n-stems -- 3. Conversions to 'n'-stems -- 4. Lexical derivation: conversion to non-functional categories -- 5. Lexical derivation: entitatives and conversion to functional categories -- 6. On the notional substance of conversion to n-stems -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Just for the record -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dependency vs. constituency in the nutshell of received wisdom -- 2.1 Dependency and constituency - the conceptual essence -- 2.2 Dependency and constituency - the graph-theoretical essence -- 3. Dependency and constituency stipulatively/persuasively redefined -- 3.1 The one-to-one(-or-more) ratio of words to nodes -- 3.2 On stipulative/persuasive (re)definitions and their argumentative nature -- 3.3 Dependency ≠ 1:1 ratio of words to nodes -- 3.4 Dependency ≠ 1:1 ratio of words to phrases -- 3.5 Conclusion: dependency ≠ 1:1 ratio of words to nodes or phrases -- 4. How-(not)-to-read Tesnière's 'Éléments de syntaxe structurale' -- 4.1 An introductory note on the 'Éléments' -- 4.2 Word classes in the 'Éléments' -- 4.3 The nucleus -- 4.4 Transposing categories: transference and the mixed nucleus -- 4.5 The 'Éléments' through the dull lens of the 'one-to-one ratio of words to nodes': a dependency~constituency hybrid -- 4.6 Rectifying the 'Éléments' as a dependency syntax.

4.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Figurativeness in English grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Figurativeness and grammar -- 2.1 Figurativeness and grammar in language change -- 2.2 Beyond lexical figures -- 3. Metonymy -- 3.1 Some introductory remarks on metonymy -- 3.2 Metonymy, word-formation and entry into the lexicon -- 3.3 Beyond conversion -- 4. Repetition and reduplication -- 4.1 Partial reduplications -- 4.2 Total reduplications -- 4.2.1 Epizeuxis reduplications -- 4.2.2 Ploce reduplications -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Phonology -- Rhotics and the derhoticization of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What are rhotics? -- 3. Do rhotics constitute a natural class? -- 4. Phonological representation of rhotics -- 5. Dependency phonology approach -- 6. Dependency phonology modelling of the derhoticization of English -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- On grounding, internalism, modularity and grammaticalization in phonology -- 1. Knowledge without grounds -- 2. Andersonian grounding and modularity -- 3. Phonological knowledge as knowledge of social conventions -- 3.1 Itkonen, autonomism and normativity -- 3.2 Fodor on the LoT and Tomasello on socialisation -- 4. Emergent modularity -- 5. On the acquisition of grounded phonological knowledge -- 6. Concluding remarks: placing Andersonian grounding in a broader context -- References -- Degrees of complexity in phonological segments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relative complexity and markedness -- 3. Five theses concerning phonological primes -- 3.1 Are features based on perception or articulation? -- 3.2 Are features innate? -- 3.3 Are features, or is phonology in general, substance-free? -- 3.4 Are phonological representations fully specified? -- 3.5 Is there such a thing as a segment inventory? -- 4. The RCVP framework.

4.1 The formal representation of segmental structure and its phonetic interpretation -- 4.2 Syllable structure in RcvP -- 4.3 RcvP representations for 'features' -- 5. The representation of complex segments -- 5.1 Complex consonants -- 5.1.1 Affricates -- 5.1.2 Consonants with secondary manners -- 5.1.3 Consonants with secondary place -- 5.1.4 Segments with two major places -- 5.2 Complex vowels -- 5.2.1 (Short) diphthongs -- 5.2.2 Vowels with contour tones -- 5.2.3 Vowels with 'special' phonation -- 5.2.4 Vowels with special manner -- 6. Branching syllabic constituents and 'two-root structures' -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.

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