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THE CLAUSE IN ENGLISH STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS) The SLCS series has been established as a companion series to STUDIES IN LANGUAGE, International Journal, sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of language”. Series Editors Werner Abraham Michael Noonan University of Groningen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Netherlands USA Editorial Board Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico) Ulrike Claudi (University of Cologne) Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) William Croft (University of Manchester) Östen Dahl (University of Stockholm) Gerrit Dimmendaal (University of Leiden) Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) Ekkehard König (Free University of Berlin) Christian Lehmann (University of Bielefeld) Robert Longacre (University of Texas, Arlington) Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie-Mellon University) Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara) Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Masayoshi Shibatani (Kobe University) Russell Tomlin (University of Oregon) John Verhaar (The Hague) Volume 45 Peter Collins and David Lee (eds) The Clause in English THE CLAUSE IN ENGLISH In honour of Rodney Huddleston Edited by PETER COLLINS University of NSW DAVID LEE University of Queensland JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements 8 of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The clause in English : in honour of Rodney Huddleston / edited by Peter Collins, David Lee. p. cm. -- (Studies in language companion series, ISSN 0165-7763 ; v. 45) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English language--Clauses, I. Huddleston, Rodney O. II. Collins, Peter, 1950- . III. Lee, David (David A.) IV. Series. PE1385.C57 1998 425--dc21 98-39788 ISBN 90 272 3048 X (Eur.) / 1 55619 931 7 (US) (alk. paper) CIP © 1999 – 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. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 75577 • 1070 AN Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA Table of Contents Contributors vii Introduction ix PeterCollins andDavidLee Curriculum Vitae of Rodney Desmond Huddleston xvii The semantics of English quantifiers 1 KeithAllan Language, linear precedence and parentheticals 33 NoelBurton-Roberts The English modifier well 53 RayCattell The deictic-presentation construction in English 67 PeterCollins Relative clauses: Structure and typology on the periphery of standard English 81 BernardComrie Post nominal modifiers in the English noun phrase 93 PeterH.Fries Elliptical clauses in spoken and written English 111 SidneyGreenbaumandGeraldNelson On the nature of ?IbelieveJacktoarrivetomorrow 127 HisashiHiguchi Intransitive prepositions: are they viable? 133 DavidLee vi TABLEOFCONTENTS Sentences, clauses, statements and propositions 149 JohnLyons Some interactions between tense and negation in English 177 JamesMcCawley The English accusative-and-infinitive construction: A categorial analysis 187 JohnPayne On the boundaries of syntax: Non-syntagmatic relations 229 PeterPeterson Gerund participles and head-complement inflection conditions 251 GeoVreyPullumandArnoldZwicky Isolated if-clauses in Australian English 273 LesleyStirling Functional and structural: the practicalities of clause knowledge in language education 295 LynnWales Subject Index 323 Contributors KEITH ALLAN BERNARD COMRIE Department of Linguistics Max-planck-institut für Monash University evolutionäre Anthropologie Clayton VIC 3168 Inselstaße 22 Australia D-04103 Leipzig [email protected] Germany [email protected] NOEL BURTON-ROBERTS PETER FRIES Department of English Literary Box 310 and Linguistic Studies Mount Pleasant University of Newcastle upon Michigan MI 48804 Tyne NE1 7RU USA U.K. [email protected] [email protected] RAY CATTELL HISACHI HIGUCHI 48 Roy Ave 206 Sun-Green Arimochi Bolton Point NSW 2283 2–29–7 Yagumo-Kita Australia Moriguchi, Osaka 570-0008 [email protected] Japan PETER COLLINS DAVID LEE Linguistics Department Department of English University of NSW University of Queensland Sydney 2052 QLD 4072 Australia Australia [email protected] [email protected] viii CONTRIBUTORS JOHN LYONS GEOFFREY PULLUM The Master’s Lodge Stevenson College Trinity Hall University of California at Santa Cambridge University Cruz Cambridge CB2 1TJ 1156 High Street U.K. Santa Cruz, CA 95064 [email protected] JAMES McCAWLEY LESLEY STIRLING Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics and University of Chicago Language Studies 5801 Sth Ellis Ave University of Melbourne Chicago, Illinois 60637 Parkville VIC 3052 USA Australia [email protected] [email protected] GERALD NELSON LYNN WALES Survey of English Usage, Centre for Language Teaching and University College London, Research Gower St, University of Queensland London WC1E 6BT, UK QLD 4072 [email protected] Australia [email protected] JOHN PAYNE ARNOLD ZWICKY Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics University of Manchester Stanford University Manchester M13 9PL Stanford CA 94305 U.K. [email protected] [email protected] PETER PETERSON Department of Linguistics University of Newcastle NSW 2308 Australia [email protected] Introduction* Peter Collins David Lee Rodney’s name first came to the attention of one of us (David Lee) in 1956 at the Manchester Grammar School, since he had just won a Major Scholarship to CorpusChristiCollege,Cambridge.InthosedaystheModernSixthatMGSwas presided over by a legendary schoolmaster by the name of Albert Hyslop, universally known as “Alf”. It is appropriate to begin by saying a few words about Alf, since he was undoubtedly one of the major influences on Rodney’s early life and indeed on his subsequent career. ThesuccessachievedbyAlf’spupilsintheOxbridgeentranceexaminations over many years was based on some unusual pedagogic practices. One of these involved handing out detailed notes on the French seventeenth century classic tragedies and comedies, particularly the plays of Corneille, Racine and Molière. These notes flowed constantly from Alf’s pen and were passed to his favourite pupilsinanalmostconspiratorialmannerattheendofmanyaschoolday.They were written in minute, spidery handwriting, yet it was nothing to receive three or four pages of exegesis on just a few lines of text. Most of these were obviously written on the bus from Manchester to Wilmslow (where Alf lived), since they turned up on scraps of paper of all sizes and conditions. Alf’s notes were the fruit of years of musings on the qualities and flaws of the heroes and heroinesoftheclassicaldramasandonthesignificancewithinthecontextofthe playasawholeofaparticularspeechorword.Anystudentwhoworkedthrough them ended up by being able to recite large sections of the plays by heart and discuss crucial passages in some depth. This clearly went down very well with the Oxbridge examiners. But it also inculcated in Alf’s students the habit of paying attention to detail that was to stay with them in many cases for the rest of their lives.