General and theoretical linguistics / edited by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword -- Archibald A. Hill: A biographical sketch -- For Arch: Remarks made at Austin, Texas on May 1,1972 -- Archibald A. Hill: A bibliography -- Fifty years of English: From comma to full stop -- Strutture formali e strutture semantiche nella comparazione linguistica -- Psychologismus und Objektivismus in der Sprachwissenschaft -- Who is a structuralist? -- On interrogative movement in English -- Rules and counter-rules in historical phonology -- The use of computers in the study of medieval German: Two suggestions -- The role of metaphor in linguistics

Notes on language reception and variationTesting auditory discrimination of suprasegmental features -- The collect as a form of discourse -- The segmented sentence : Bally's theory reconsidered -- Some fundamental insights of tagmemics revisited -- Eine transformationeile Grammatik mit rekonstituentieller Komponente -- Syntactic reconstruction and the comparative method: A Uto-Aztecan case study -- Rule replication -- On using pruning in arguing for extrinsic order -- Changes of emphasis in modern linguistics -- On learning a new contrast

Semantic relations between nuclear structuresSome aspects of Baudouin de Courtenay as book-reviewer -- A poem on disconnecting form and meaning -- Phonemic overlapping and repulsion revisited -- An excluded generalization -- Linguistic speculations of Edward Brerewood (1566-1613) -- To have have and not to have have -- On deep and surface structures in onomastics -- Utterance imitation by Hebrew-speaking children -- 'Semiotics' and its congeners -- Lest the wheel be too oft re-invented: Towards a reassessment of the intellectual history of linguistics

Embedding and ambiguityDevoicing and elision of some vowels in Japanese and English -- The objectivist position -- On static and dynamic synchrony -- Vowel alternations in English, German and Gothic: Remarks on realism in phonology -- On noumenalization -- In defense of the family tree (with superimposed typology) -- Natural and unnatural rule addition -- G. W. Leibniz: A 17th-century etymologist -- Deciphering in linguistics: A nineteenth-century episode

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