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Papers by Jerry Sadock
Syntax and Semantics: Pragmatics, 1978
Typological Studies in Language, 2009
The unusual inflectional system of Aleut can be understood holistically, as deploying forms, mean... more The unusual inflectional system of Aleut can be understood holistically, as deploying forms, meanings, and forces so as to make efficient use of the contrasts that its limited space of expression types makes available. Indeed, in every natural language, the features of its grammar work together to allow the communication of what needs to be communicated. Every language, I believe, accomplishes a great deal of this work by using the ability of native users of the language to know what else might have been said and how the alternatives would contrast with what is said. All that is unusual about Aleut is that a preconceived idea about how the direct relation between form and meaning works fails more obviously in Aleut than it does in more familiar languages. We expect that definite reference to third persons will always be directly encoded, either in inflection or by means of clitics or independent pronouns. Knut Bergsland, who devoted more time to the study of Aleut than anyone else has, provided convincing evidence that definite reference is not directly coded in Aleut. What is coded is only that there is an additional reference that is “left out as known from context or the situation”. The rest is Saussurean–Gricean holism.
... mind. There I found myself in the company of Ewan Klein and Ivan Sag, whose course on GPSG I ... more ... mind. There I found myself in the company of Ewan Klein and Ivan Sag, whose course on GPSG I audited, and with whom I shared a swel-tering sorority house. ... work. The Stanford lin-guists, especially Ivan Sag, Tom Wasow. ...
Computational Linguistics, 2003
This article describes a corpus-based investigation of quantifier scope preferences. Following re... more This article describes a corpus-based investigation of quantifier scope preferences. Following recent work on multimodular grammar frameworks in theoretical linguistics and a long history of combining multiple information sources in natural language processing, scope is treated as a distinct module of grammar from syntax. This module incorporates multiple sources of evidence regarding the most likely scope reading for a sentence and is entirely data-driven. The experiments discussed in this article evaluate the performance of our models in predicting the most likely scope reading for a particular sentence, using Penn Treebank data both with and without syntactic annotation. We wish to focus attention on the issue of determining scope preferences, which has largely been ignored in theoretical linguistics, and to explore different models of the interaction between syntax and quantifier scope.
Language, 1986
... The internal nominal is an inanimate object, an argument type that is obligatorily incor-pora... more ... The internal nominal is an inanimate object, an argument type that is obligatorily incor-porated (cf. AGF and Sadock 1985b). ... (22) Wayah hdk-k'uht-'i'-sa'. a.lot PROG-grass-be/ grow-PROG 'There is a lot of grass.' (23) Wisi ibi-musa-tuwi-ban. ...
Language Typology and Syntactic …, 2007
Page 1. Timothy Shopen (ed.) Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge: Cambridge Un... more Page 1. Timothy Shopen (ed.) Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar Ekkehard König & Peter Siemund 1 Speech acts and sentence types1 ...
Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985
American Anthropologist, 1970
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1994
Abstract Sadock discusses speech acts in the framework of a modified version of generative semant... more Abstract Sadock discusses speech acts in the framework of a modified version of generative semantics. He includes discussion of the range of illocutionary forces encoded by questions and imperatives, performatives, indirect speech acts, adverbs, transderivational ...
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Jul 21, 2011
As George Lakoff (1972) argued, the goodness of such sentences with respect to a certain state of... more As George Lakoff (1972) argued, the goodness of such sentences with respect to a certain state of affairs is a smoothly vary-ing commodity. Example (1) is a better description of the fact that Sam is 5'11" than it is of the fact that Sam is 5'10". there does not seem to be any sharp dividing line between those states of affairs to which (1) is applicable and those to which it is not.
Language, 1980
In Greenlandic Eskimo, a polysynthetic language, the word-building apparatus performs much of the... more In Greenlandic Eskimo, a polysynthetic language, the word-building apparatus performs much of the work that is accomplished by the syntax of more familiar languages. In particular, numerous processes in this language create verbs from nouns. Evidence of a ...
Historiographia Linguistica, 1999
Historiographia Linguistica, 1999
Formal, Functional, and Interactional Perspectives, 2012
Historiographia Linguistica, 1999
Syntax and Semantics: Pragmatics, 1978
Typological Studies in Language, 2009
The unusual inflectional system of Aleut can be understood holistically, as deploying forms, mean... more The unusual inflectional system of Aleut can be understood holistically, as deploying forms, meanings, and forces so as to make efficient use of the contrasts that its limited space of expression types makes available. Indeed, in every natural language, the features of its grammar work together to allow the communication of what needs to be communicated. Every language, I believe, accomplishes a great deal of this work by using the ability of native users of the language to know what else might have been said and how the alternatives would contrast with what is said. All that is unusual about Aleut is that a preconceived idea about how the direct relation between form and meaning works fails more obviously in Aleut than it does in more familiar languages. We expect that definite reference to third persons will always be directly encoded, either in inflection or by means of clitics or independent pronouns. Knut Bergsland, who devoted more time to the study of Aleut than anyone else has, provided convincing evidence that definite reference is not directly coded in Aleut. What is coded is only that there is an additional reference that is “left out as known from context or the situation”. The rest is Saussurean–Gricean holism.
... mind. There I found myself in the company of Ewan Klein and Ivan Sag, whose course on GPSG I ... more ... mind. There I found myself in the company of Ewan Klein and Ivan Sag, whose course on GPSG I audited, and with whom I shared a swel-tering sorority house. ... work. The Stanford lin-guists, especially Ivan Sag, Tom Wasow. ...
Computational Linguistics, 2003
This article describes a corpus-based investigation of quantifier scope preferences. Following re... more This article describes a corpus-based investigation of quantifier scope preferences. Following recent work on multimodular grammar frameworks in theoretical linguistics and a long history of combining multiple information sources in natural language processing, scope is treated as a distinct module of grammar from syntax. This module incorporates multiple sources of evidence regarding the most likely scope reading for a sentence and is entirely data-driven. The experiments discussed in this article evaluate the performance of our models in predicting the most likely scope reading for a particular sentence, using Penn Treebank data both with and without syntactic annotation. We wish to focus attention on the issue of determining scope preferences, which has largely been ignored in theoretical linguistics, and to explore different models of the interaction between syntax and quantifier scope.
Language, 1986
... The internal nominal is an inanimate object, an argument type that is obligatorily incor-pora... more ... The internal nominal is an inanimate object, an argument type that is obligatorily incor-porated (cf. AGF and Sadock 1985b). ... (22) Wayah hdk-k'uht-'i'-sa'. a.lot PROG-grass-be/ grow-PROG 'There is a lot of grass.' (23) Wisi ibi-musa-tuwi-ban. ...
Language Typology and Syntactic …, 2007
Page 1. Timothy Shopen (ed.) Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge: Cambridge Un... more Page 1. Timothy Shopen (ed.) Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar Ekkehard König & Peter Siemund 1 Speech acts and sentence types1 ...
Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985
American Anthropologist, 1970
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1994
Abstract Sadock discusses speech acts in the framework of a modified version of generative semant... more Abstract Sadock discusses speech acts in the framework of a modified version of generative semantics. He includes discussion of the range of illocutionary forces encoded by questions and imperatives, performatives, indirect speech acts, adverbs, transderivational ...
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Jul 21, 2011
As George Lakoff (1972) argued, the goodness of such sentences with respect to a certain state of... more As George Lakoff (1972) argued, the goodness of such sentences with respect to a certain state of affairs is a smoothly vary-ing commodity. Example (1) is a better description of the fact that Sam is 5'11" than it is of the fact that Sam is 5'10". there does not seem to be any sharp dividing line between those states of affairs to which (1) is applicable and those to which it is not.
Language, 1980
In Greenlandic Eskimo, a polysynthetic language, the word-building apparatus performs much of the... more In Greenlandic Eskimo, a polysynthetic language, the word-building apparatus performs much of the work that is accomplished by the syntax of more familiar languages. In particular, numerous processes in this language create verbs from nouns. Evidence of a ...
Historiographia Linguistica, 1999
Historiographia Linguistica, 1999
Formal, Functional, and Interactional Perspectives, 2012
Historiographia Linguistica, 1999