Richard D Janda
Biographic Data
| ID | 209995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard D Janda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard D |
| FAMILY NAME | Janda |
| SIGNATURE | JANDA R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Morris and the Matrix – Halle Rules: On Morris Halle, “Phonology in Generative Grammar”, Word 18.1-2 (1962): 54-72
Halle’s “Phonology in Generative Grammar” (1962) expounds, concisely yet explicitly, a theoretical approach progressing on seemingly all fronts: it already points the way to Chomsky and Halle’s 1968 Sound Pattern of English and later developments inspired by it. Simplicity criteria lie at the heart of all Halle’s points: segments as feature complexes in matrices, lexical underspecification, rules expressed in features, and rule ordering, especial…
Is Technology for the Anthropocene an Impossibility? A Conversation about the Myko Project
We, the two interlocutors in this discussion, Mark Antaki and Richard Janda, have for the past number of years had periodic exchanges about the theoretical underpinnings and possible critique of a project that Janda has been leading, which seeks to signal to individuals the impacts of their choices upon collective environmental, health and social goods and to orient these individuals to make better choices. Antaki has sought to probe a number of …
On a Certain Construction of English’s
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 324-336
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
“Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization — Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization
Introduction: Conceptions of Grammaticalization and Their Problems
Beyond "pathways" and "unidirectionality: On the Discontinuity of Language Transmission and the Counterability of Grammaticalization
When Silence Is no Longer Acquiescence: Gays and Lesbians under Canadian Law
This paper shows the role of the courts in the advancement of gay and lesbian rights to be restricted to intervening when three conditions are present: after legislation has been felt by minority groups to be deficient; where stating principles rather than implementing them is involved, and when legislative modification is difficult to achieve because amendment of a rigid constitution is out of question, or in parts of the country where political…
Québec's Conceptions of Aboriginal Rights
This study of the meaning given to aboriginal rights from within both judicial and parliamentary sources in Québec reveals, contrary to expectations, a general pattern according to which a more liberal attitude toward rights was taken by the political class than by the judiciary, except perhaps for nuances on criminal law matters. But on the whole, both groups were more insistent, and had a more open position, on legal and political autonomy, alt…
Virtual Citizenship
This paper examines the importance of metaphor and media to the ideas of citizenship, nation, and place. In particular, the authors explore the relationship between citizenship and the double metaphor of the “nation-state”. If this double metaphor were to lose its hold on the collective imagination, what metaphor could take its place and be represented through modern media of communication? The authors use the example of deterritorialization, dis…
To Ward a History of the English Language
Quantitative evidence, qualitative hypercorrection, sociolinguistic variables—And French speakers' 'eadhaches with english h/Ø
Advances in Romance Linguistics
Einführung in die Linguistik: Entwicklung, Probleme, Methoden
Historical Labial-Velar Changes in Germanic: A Study of the Counter-Directional Sound Changes in English and Netherlandic
Note‐taking English as a simplified register
Empirical investigation of the variety of English used in note‐taking reveals this form of language to be a simplified register characterized by many of the same simplifying processes that are found in baby talk (BT) and foreigner talk (FT). The English note‐taking register (NT) is, however, distinguished from BT and FT both by having a number of reduction processes unique to it and by lacking entirely the clarifying, upgrading, and expressive pr…
Why Morphological Metathesis Rules Are Rare: On the Possibility of Historical Explanation in Linguistics
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 87-103
Crimean Gothic: Analysis and Etymology of the Corpus
Double-Cross in Phonology: Why Word-Boundary (Often) Acts Like a Consonant
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 397-412
Beyond "pathways" and "unidirectionality: On the Discontinuity of Language Transmission and the Counterability of Grammaticalization
Note‐taking English as a simplified register
Empirical investigation of the variety of English used in note‐taking reveals this form of language to be a simplified register characterized by many of the same simplifying processes that are found in baby talk (BT) and foreigner talk (FT). The English note‐taking register (NT) is, however, distinguished from BT and FT both by having a number of reduction processes unique to it and by lacking entirely the clarifying, upgrading, and expressive pr…
Introduction: Conceptions of Grammaticalization and Their Problems
Quantitative evidence, qualitative hypercorrection, sociolinguistic variables—And French speakers' 'eadhaches with english h/Ø
Virtual Citizenship
This paper examines the importance of metaphor and media to the ideas of citizenship, nation, and place. In particular, the authors explore the relationship between citizenship and the double metaphor of the “nation-state”. If this double metaphor were to lose its hold on the collective imagination, what metaphor could take its place and be represented through modern media of communication? The authors use the example of deterritorialization, dis…
To Ward a History of the English Language
Double-Cross in Phonology: Why Word-Boundary (Often) Acts Like a Consonant
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 397-412
Crimean Gothic: Analysis and Etymology of the Corpus
Why Morphological Metathesis Rules Are Rare: On the Possibility of Historical Explanation in Linguistics
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 87-103
Note‐taking English as a simplified register
Empirical investigation of the variety of English used in note‐taking reveals this form of language to be a simplified register characterized by many of the same simplifying processes that are found in baby talk (BT) and foreigner talk (FT). The English note‐taking register (NT) is, however, distinguished from BT and FT both by having a number of reduction processes unique to it and by lacking entirely the clarifying, upgrading, and expressive pr…
Einführung in die Linguistik: Entwicklung, Probleme, Methoden
Historical Labial-Velar Changes in Germanic: A Study of the Counter-Directional Sound Changes in English and Netherlandic
Advances in Romance Linguistics
Quantitative evidence, qualitative hypercorrection, sociolinguistic variables—And French speakers' 'eadhaches with english h/Ø
To Ward a History of the English Language
Québec's Conceptions of Aboriginal Rights
This study of the meaning given to aboriginal rights from within both judicial and parliamentary sources in Québec reveals, contrary to expectations, a general pattern according to which a more liberal attitude toward rights was taken by the political class than by the judiciary, except perhaps for nuances on criminal law matters. But on the whole, both groups were more insistent, and had a more open position, on legal and political autonomy, alt…
Virtual Citizenship
This paper examines the importance of metaphor and media to the ideas of citizenship, nation, and place. In particular, the authors explore the relationship between citizenship and the double metaphor of the “nation-state”. If this double metaphor were to lose its hold on the collective imagination, what metaphor could take its place and be represented through modern media of communication? The authors use the example of deterritorialization, dis…
When Silence Is no Longer Acquiescence: Gays and Lesbians under Canadian Law
This paper shows the role of the courts in the advancement of gay and lesbian rights to be restricted to intervening when three conditions are present: after legislation has been felt by minority groups to be deficient; where stating principles rather than implementing them is involved, and when legislative modification is difficult to achieve because amendment of a rigid constitution is out of question, or in parts of the country where political…
Introduction: Conceptions of Grammaticalization and Their Problems
Beyond "pathways" and "unidirectionality: On the Discontinuity of Language Transmission and the Counterability of Grammaticalization
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
“Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization — Or, On Sound Change and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and Morphologization
On a Certain Construction of English’s
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 324-336
Is Technology for the Anthropocene an Impossibility? A Conversation about the Myko Project
We, the two interlocutors in this discussion, Mark Antaki and Richard Janda, have for the past number of years had periodic exchanges about the theoretical underpinnings and possible critique of a project that Janda has been leading, which seeks to signal to individuals the impacts of their choices upon collective environmental, health and social goods and to orient these individuals to make better choices. Antaki has sought to probe a number of …
Morris and the Matrix – Halle Rules: On Morris Halle, “Phonology in Generative Grammar”, Word 18.1-2 (1962): 54-72
Halle’s “Phonology in Generative Grammar” (1962) expounds, concisely yet explicitly, a theoretical approach progressing on seemingly all fronts: it already points the way to Chomsky and Halle’s 1968 Sound Pattern of English and later developments inspired by it. Simplicity criteria lie at the heart of all Halle’s points: segments as feature complexes in matrices, lexical underspecification, rules expressed in features, and rule ordering, especial…
Philosophy (15 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works)