Dr. James D. McCawley

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  linguistlist.org/cookbook/index.html - [Cached Version]
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  At the suggestion of linguists around the world, The LINGUIST List has dedicated this cookbook to the memory of James D. McCawley, a great linguist, teacher, and gourmet.Please add your own recipe as a way of remembering Jim.
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  A Feastschrift in Honor of Jim McCawley
  
  Submit your own recipe to the LINGUIST Cookbook

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  A Bi-Polar Theory of Nominal and Clause Structure and... - [Cached Version]
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  The general direction in X-Bar Theory of treating functional elements like I (Inflection), T (Tense), D (Determiner), and C (Complementizer) as the heads of phrases like IP, TP, DP and CP leads McCawley (in Cheng and Sybesma, 1998) to lament " ...treated in real recent MITish stuff is that it's really become hard for MITish people to say ‘modifier' anymore.
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  In earlier linguistic treatments, specifiers and modifiers were typically lumped together as modifiers, adjuncts, or attributes (e.g., Hockett, 1958, Lyons, 1968, and McCawley in the quote above) and the term specifier does not occur.
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  Interview with James McCawley, University of Chicago.Glot International 3:5, May 1998.
  
  Chomsky, N. (1995).The Minimalist Program.

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  As the linguist James McCawley wrote, "If one is given appropriate exposure to French, Flemish, and German, one develops command of all three languages but does not develop three larynxes or three pairs of ears."
  
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  CHINA BOOKS :: Search - [Cached Version]
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  McCawley provides a guide to pronunciation and includes helpful exercises so users can practice ordering. His novel system of arranging the extensive glossary - which ranges from basics such as 'rice' and 'fish' to exotica like 'Buddha Jumps Wall' - enables even the beginner to find characters quickly and surely. He also includes the non-standard forms of characters that often turn up on menus. With this guide in hand, then, English speakers hold the key to a world of tantalising - and otherwise unavailable - Chinese dishes. James D. McCawley (1938-99) was the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Langages at the University of Chicago. (For this item please quote stock ID 23889) ISBN: 9780226555928

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  Educational Guides - [Cached Version]
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  As the linguist James McCawley wrote, "If one is given appropriate exposure to French, Flemish, and German, one develops command of all three languages but does not develop three larynxes or three pairs of ears."

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  I refer you to The Anti-Chomsky Reader (Encounter Books, 2004, Collier and Horowitz, Eds.) wherein NYU's renowned professor of linguistics Paul Postal tells the amazing story of how, after Chomsky had tried to peddle his theory of ‘deep structure' for years and years*, and after having seen it repudiated in a variety of ways by such academic luminaries as his student John Ross, the University of Chicago's James McCawley, as well as by Postal himself, Chomsky finally deep-sixed deep structure without even - in the words of Professor Geoffrey Pullum - "…a belated nod in the direction of the literature he resolutely resisted for twenty-five years…but whose central thesis he now adopts."

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  James D. McCawley, University of Chicago
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  James D. McCawley, University of Chicago

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  LIBERTY Reflections - [Cached Version]
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  James D. McCawley, RIP Professor James D. McCawley, one of the world's leading linguists, died suddenly on the evening of April 10th, while walking home from a cultural event in Hyde Park, Chicago, where he lived.Apparently the cause of death was a heart attack.Jim had celebrated his 61st birthday only eleven days earlier. As well as his academic achievements, Jim was a passionate and active libertarian anarchist, a gourmet and expert on cuisines of many cultures, and a highly knowledgeable music lover who played several instruments.Every 14th July he held a Bastille Day potluck, where guests were obliged to bring something from a country that had been ruled by France. (Almost anything really - I once took bourbon, another time tequila, and another time chicken tandoori - but you had to have your historical story straight.) Jim would always sit down at the piano and everyone would sing all god-knows-how-many verses of the Marseillaise - it seemed like around 500. Among his better-known books are The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters (to be reprinted soon) and Everything Linguists Wanted to Know about Logic (But Were Afraid to Ask).Jim was one of the members of the first class of Ph.D. students under Chomsky at MIT, but he later helped to lead a theoretical revolt against Chomsky (described in The Linguistic Wars, by R.A. Harris).Most unusually for a libertarian, Jim was a strong epistemological relativist and admirer of Paul Feyerabend, whom he also knew personally. Although he came to the U.S. at age six, Jim never lost a noticeable Scots lilt.He was sometimes mistaken for an Ulsterman because, as he pointed out, his combination of speech elements of Glasgow and Chicago sounded very like a Northern Ireland accent. Jim possessed a quick mind, a vast store of erudition, an enterprising disposition, and a highly tolerant and equable manner.

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  LIBERTY Reflections - [Cached Version]
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  James D. McCawley , RIPProfessor James D. McCawley , one of the world's leading linguists , died suddenly on the evening of April 10th , while walking home from a cultural event in Hyde Park , Chicago , where he lived.Apparently the cause of death was a heart attack.Jim had celebrated his 61st birthday only eleven days earlier.As well as his academic achievements , Jim was a passionate and active libertarian anarchist , a gourmet and expert on cuisines of many cultures , and a highly knowledgeable music lover who played several instruments.Every 14th July he held a Bastille Day potluck , where guests were obliged to bring something from a country that had been ruled by France. ( Almost anything really - I once took bourbon , another time tequila , and another time chicken tandoori - but you had to have your historical story straight. ) Jim would always sit down at the piano and everyone would sing all god-knows-how-many verses of the Marseillaise - it seemed like around 500.Among his better-known books are The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters ( to be reprinted soon ) and Everything Linguists Wanted to Know about Logic ( But Were Afraid to Ask ).Jim was one of the members of the first class of Ph.D. students under Chomsky at MIT , but he later helped to lead a theoretical revolt against Chomsky ( described in The Linguistic Wars , by R.A. Harris ).Most unusually for a libertarian , Jim was a strong epistemological relativist and admirer of Paul Feyerabend , whom he also knew personally.Although he came to the U.S. at age six , Jim never lost a noticeable Scots lilt.He was sometimes mistaken for an Ulsterman because , as he pointed out , his combination of speech elements of Glasgow and Chicago sounded very like a Northern Ireland accent.Jim possessed a quick mind , a vast store of erudition , an enterprising disposition , and a highly tolerant and equable manner.The libertarian community , as well as linguistic science , has sustained a major loss. -David Ramsay Steele.
  
  Liberty , June 1999 , © Copyright 1999 , Liberty Foundation

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  LINGUIST List 19.1838: Cookbook on LINGUIST - [Cached Version]
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  memory of Dr. James D. McCawley (University of Chicago Linguistics Department),

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