___________________________________________________________________ PostScript: queue postscrp.ini ahead of it 274K PostScript initialization file 12K Flat ASCII, loses all formatting (subscript, etc.) 128K Bruce Nevin, 49 Sumner Street, Gloucester MA 01930-1546, bn@bbn.com Harris the Revolutionary: Phonemic Theory (Revision of "Representations of Contrast: Features and phonemes"), to be presented at ICHoLS VI 8/14/93 at Georgetown. Revision added 8/4/93. The Chomsky-Halle attack on taxonomic phonemics fails when applied to the phonemic theory of Zellig Harris. Other linguists sought to define contrast by analysis of phonetic data. For Harris, contrasts are observational primitives, given by the pair test, and associated with phonetic data. Distinctive features are an alternative representation. ___________________________________________________________________ added 6/29/93 372K Postscript generated by MS Word for DOS (see 00README.ps for printing) added 7/20/93 161K Plain ASCII version. No formatting. Bruce Nevin 49 Sumner St. Gloucester MA 01930-1546 bn@bbn.com A minimalist program for linguistics: a perspective on the work of Zellig Harris; to appear in Historiographia Linguistica 1993 The standard view identifies Harris with taxonomic discovery procedures avoiding questions of meaning. This view is not only factually wrong, it misses entirely what Harris was after and why he went after it as he did. His methods and results follow from fundamental characteristics of language, such as the lack of a separate metalanguage antecedent to language. ___________________________________________________________________ added 8/25/93 685K PostScript generated by MS-Word for Mac (see 00README.ps for printing) Picus Sizhi Ding, Dept. of Linguistics, Simon Fraser U The BA Resultative Construction: A Comprehensive study on Mandarin BA Sentences This study identifies three types of BA sentences as the BA Resultative Construction (BRC). BA is argued to be the main verb of the periphrastic construction, with an abstract resultative meaning. The complexity of the BA problem is elucidated with a complex structure in semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic studies of BRC. ___________________________________________________________________ ASCII 34K A collection of 13 linguistic parodies under the pen-name "Metalleus"; some were posted to sci.lang in the past, and some circulated via other media. All were written, and provided to linguistics.archive, by Ken Miner Department of Linguistics 427 Blake Hall University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045 USA