There was this paper of mine (“Jottings on Adpositions, Case Inflections, Government, and Agreement”), originally from 1988 but not properly published until 1992 (in The Joy of Grammar: A festschrift in Honor of James D. McCawley), that I wanted to quote from in an on-line discussion a week ago, only to discover that after the great dispersal of almost all my books and files some years back, I had no trace left of the thing, no copy of any kind (this sort of thing keeps happening to me). I couldn’t find a way to get a copy on-line, but in a stroke of luck it turned that Benjamins was selling off its remaining stock of the paperback edition of Joy at a price I could actually afford, so I bought their last copy and had it mailed to me next day delivery. This morning I created jpegs of all 15 pages (369 through 384); the quotation I need is on the first page, but now I can add this posting of all 15 pages to the little set of publications of mine available on-line.
June 28, 2025 at 9:05 am |
This reply is super, super overdue, but I was quite intrigued to see this post and then read your paper. This post came around the time that I introduced selection of particular prepositions in my Spring 2025 syntax class: that topic always makes me think about how this phenomenon should be best treated (not just what works for pedagogical expediency). The idea of treating them somewhat akin to case is very interesting, especially in light of how I have often thought of similar phenomenon in various Austronesian languages (and in the language I have constructed for myself).
Anyway, you might have felt like putting a paper up from 1988 and posting about it was like screaming into a void, but it was meaningful to least one person: me.
June 28, 2025 at 9:44 am |
You have made my day; I’m delighted you found it useful.