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LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F. KONRAD KOERNER (University of Ottawa) Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Henning Andersen (Copenhagen); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles) Thomas V.Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin) J.Peter Maher (Chicago); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.) E.Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo) Volume 42 Adam Makkai and Alan K. Melby (eds.) Linguistics and Philosophy Essays in honor of Rulon S. Wells LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RULON S.WELLS Edited by ADAM MAKKAI University of Illinois at Chicago and ALAN K. MELBY Brigham Young University JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 1985 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Linguistics and Philosophy. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763; v. 42) Bibliography: p. 1. Linguistics -- Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Wells, Rulon. I. Makkai, Adam. II. Melby, Alan K. III. Wells, Rulon. IV. Series. P26.W45E8 1985 410 85-20099 ISBN 90-272-3536-8 (alk. paper) © Copyright 1985 - John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. Professor Rulon S. Wells CONTENTS PREFACE iii WORKS OF RULON S. WELLS vii 1. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND GENERAL THEORETICAL ISSUES Innate Capacity, Know-How and Use in Language Robert A. Hall, Jr 3 Language, Cognition and Linguistics Raimo Anttila 11 Kuhnian Paradigms as Systems of Markedness Conventions James D. McCawley 23 Hierarchy in Conceptual Space John Robert Ross 45 Imperfect Models and Their Uses Fred J. Damerau 55 Rask's Lecture on the Philosophy of Language William M. Christie, Jr 77 Contrast John Fought 85 II. PHONOLOGY Phonolgoical "Neutralization" in Classical and Stratificational Theories David G. Lockwood 99 III. SYNTAX AND BEYOND Grammatical Phrases and Lexical Phrases André Martinet 127 On Grammars of Science Zeitig Harris 139 Constituency, Dependency and Applicative Structure Sebastian Shaumyan 149 Structure and Function in Syntactic Analysis: Rulon Wells As a Paleo-Synthesizer of European and American Syntax William J. Sullivan 205 Come on Up Eldon G. Lytie 223 Why "Junction" Theory Jill E. Peterson-Boogaard 241 Generalization and Prediction of Syntactic Patterns In Junction Grammar Alan K. Melby 253 'Activity-'Accomplishment'-'Achievement'-A Language That Can't Say 'I Burned It But It Didn't Burn' and One Than Can Yoshihiko Ikegami 265 Positional Tendencies of English Relative Clauses As Evidence for Processing Strategies Gary D. Prideaux 305 IV. HISTORICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS Knowledge of the Past C. F. Hockett 317 Lexical Reconstruction and the Semantic History Hypothesis Isidore Dyen 343 Hymonymy, Heteroclysis, and History in the Japanese Verb Roy Andrew Miller . 393 V. ON DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC DERIVATION Some Characteristics of Back-Formation Henry M. Hoenigswald 421 How to Become a Kwa Language Kay Williamson 427 Where Do Exclamations Come From? Adam Makkai 445 ii PREFACE BY THE EDITORS Rulon S(eymour) Wells III was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 30, 1919, the son of a Mormon family of pioneer stock. He was graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. degree in philosophy in 1939. After moving to the East Coast, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1942. His dissertation director was Willard van Orman Quine. His topic was "The Correspondence of Language to Fact". In 1945 Rulon mar­ ried the former Miss Virginia Halcomb Bennett; they have two sons, Seymour and David. From 1942 to 1945 Rulon was employed at the University of Pennsylvania, first teaching Bengali for the Army Spe­ cialized Training Program (ASTP) and then Japanese for the Office of Strategic Services. In the summer of 1945 he accepted an invitation from Bernard Bloch, Chairman of Linguistics and editor of Language, to assist him in teaching Japanese for the ASTP at Yale, but this engagement termi­ nated not long after the end of the war with Japan. He had studied Sanskrit under W. Norman Brown at Pennsylva­ nia and continued at Yale under Franklin Edgerton; and the good offices of Professor Edgerton put him in touch with F. S. C Northrop and the Philosophy Department. He was appointed instructor in Philosophy in 1946, becoming assis­ tant professor in 1948. In 1955-56, when he was made tenured associate pro­ fessor, Philosophy also decided to share him with the Lin­ guistics department. In 1962, due to his already formidable international reputation, he was made full professor in both departments. He won the Bechtel Prize at Harvard University in 1940-41 and in 1941-42. In 1944-46 he was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1951-52 he was a Guggenheim & Morse Fellow. He held the prestigious Mahlon Powell lecturership at Indiana University in 1967. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Lin­ guistic Society of America (President in 1976), and the Lin­ guistic Association of Canada and the United States. We will not go into his publications here as a separate section is

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