Rodney Huddleston
Biographic Data
| ID | 731551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodney Huddleston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodney |
| FAMILY NAME | Huddleston |
| SIGNATURE | HUDDLESTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The distribution and category status of adjectives and adverbs
It has long been argued that the environments in which adjectives and adverbs occur are mutually exclusive. This claim is based on a superficial observation that adjectives modify nouns, while adverbs modify other categories. In this paper, we argue that there are a substantial number of environments in English where complementarity, thus defined, does not hold. One interesting such environment is the function of modifier of nouns, and in one sec…
Fusion of functions
In this paper we present a detailed new analysis of the English expressions once , twice and thrice . These, we claim, are primarily compound determinatives, analogous in many respects to expressions like someone and somewhere . The new analysis exploits the framework of the Cambridge grammar of the English language (2002) in which the morphological nature of the compound determinative category reflects a fusion of functions, typically determiner…
Some remarks about The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries. It represents a major advance over previous grammars by virtue of drawing systematically on the linguistic research carried out on English during the last forty years. It incorporates insights from the theoretical literature but presents them in a w…
Lexical word-formation
This is the second of two chapters dealing with the form of words. The main topic of Ch. 18 was the formation of inflected words from their lexical base, while the present chapter is concerned with the form of lexical bases, i.e. with the lexical side of word-formation.
Adjectives and adverbs
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The Case Against a Future Tense in English
This paper addresses the controversy as to whether English will is appropriately analysed as a future tense auxiliary or a modal auxiliary: it examines the place of will within the verbal system and argues in detail on both formal and semantic grounds that it belongs with the uncontroversial modal auxiliaries can, must, may, etc. A crucial step in the formal argument is the demonstration that would needs to be analysed as the preterite counterpar…
The contrast between interrogatives and questions
This paper explores the relation between interrogative, a category of grammatical form, and question, a category of meaning. Interrogative contrasts with declarative, imperative, etc., in the system of clause type (not sentence type); a question defines a set of answers. Two kinds of interrogative are distinguished, closed and open -though in some languages they may be distinct primary classes. Three kinds of question are distinguished according …
A comprehensive descriptive grammar of English
On exclamatory-inversion sentences in English
English Grammar
Constituency, multi-functionality and grammaticalization in Halliday's Functional Grammar
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A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
Introduction to the Grammar of English
This textbook provides a thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons the author concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation. The book is written for students who may have no previous knowledge of linguistics and little familiarity with 'traditional' grammar. All grammatical terms, whether traditional or more recent, are therefore carefully explained, and in…
Introduction to the Grammar of English
This textbook provides a thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons the author concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation. The book is written for students who may have no previous knowledge of linguistics and little familiarity with 'traditional' grammar. All grammatical terms, whether traditional or more recent, are therefore carefully explained, and in…
On Palmer's defence of the distinction between auxiliaries and main verbs
Would have become
In an earlier paper (Huddleston, 1977) I analysed the would of (I) If he had stayed in the army, he would have become a colonel as the unreal mood form of an epistemic modal verb WILL that figures in the underlying syntactic representation and falls within the semantic scope of a past element realized by HAVE. Palmer (1978) criticizes this analysis, claiming that WILL is 'obviously' semantically empty, a mere 'dummy' inserted to carry the mark of…
A survey of the crossing‐coreference controversy
An Introduction to English Transformational Grammar
On classifying anaphoric relations
In Defence of Parasitic Base Structures
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Past Tense transportation in English
Poutsma (1926: 441–447) says of sentences like: (I) I could have got the money easily enough. that ‘the notion of completed action in this combination [is expressed] not in the finite verb, where it logically belongs, but in the following infinitive’. He speaks of this phenomenon as ‘tense-shifting’; I have preferred ‘past tense transportation’ (PTT) in order to make it clear that it is only the Past Tense that is involved, I and to avoid confusi…
An Introduction to Systemic Linguistics, Volume 1
Some theoretical issues in the description of the english verb
Homonymy in the English verbal paradigm
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
Some theoretical issues in the description of the english verb
The contrast between interrogatives and questions
This paper explores the relation between interrogative, a category of grammatical form, and question, a category of meaning. Interrogative contrasts with declarative, imperative, etc., in the system of clause type (not sentence type); a question defines a set of answers. Two kinds of interrogative are distinguished, closed and open -though in some languages they may be distinct primary classes. Three kinds of question are distinguished according …
The distribution and category status of adjectives and adverbs
It has long been argued that the environments in which adjectives and adverbs occur are mutually exclusive. This claim is based on a superficial observation that adjectives modify nouns, while adverbs modify other categories. In this paper, we argue that there are a substantial number of environments in English where complementarity, thus defined, does not hold. One interesting such environment is the function of modifier of nouns, and in one sec…
The sentence in written English
Outline of stratificational grammar
Constituency, multi-functionality and grammaticalization in Halliday's Functional Grammar
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Rank and Depth
0.1. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relations between the layering in structural trees and the scale of rank. My standpoint will be that of scale-and-category grammatical theory as I understand it
Homonymy in the English verbal paradigm
Two approaches to the analysis of tags
In recent literature on transformational grammar there has been a good deal of discussion of tag sentences (Klima, 1964; Katz and Postal, 1964; Bolinger, 1967; Arbini, 1969). The type of construction under consideration is exemplified in the following (incomplete) paradigm: (1) John has gone, hasn't he? (2) John hasn't gone, has he? (3) John has gone, has he (?) (4) John hasn't gone, hasn't he (?) (5) Come early, won't you (?) (6) Come early, wil…
Predicate complement constructions in English
Some Observations on Tense and Deixis in English
The distinction between ‘full verbs’ and ‘auxiliaries’ is not relevant to tense: criteria of compatibility with temporal adverbs etc. suggest that separate tense selections are associated with the modal and aspectual auxiliaries, which are accordingly analysed as main verbs in deep structure. Deep tense, a ternary system, is contrasted with the binary surface-tense system: deep tense is marked by conjunctions, by temporal specifiers, and by the c…
On exclamatory-inversion sentences in English
Past Tense transportation in English
Poutsma (1926: 441–447) says of sentences like: (I) I could have got the money easily enough. that ‘the notion of completed action in this combination [is expressed] not in the finite verb, where it logically belongs, but in the following infinitive’. He speaks of this phenomenon as ‘tense-shifting’; I have preferred ‘past tense transportation’ (PTT) in order to make it clear that it is only the Past Tense that is involved, I and to avoid confusi…
More on the English comparative
1. In the last few years there have been three papers published devoted wholly or largely to a study of the English comparative construction: Lees (1961); Smith (1961); and Pilch (1965) The focus of attention has been the structure of what, following Pilch, I shall call the comparative expansion (the constituent introduced by than or as ), rather than the morphology of the compared adjective or adverb. It is not surprising that so much interest s…
Fusion of functions
In this paper we present a detailed new analysis of the English expressions once , twice and thrice . These, we claim, are primarily compound determinatives, analogous in many respects to expressions like someone and somewhere . The new analysis exploits the framework of the Cambridge grammar of the English language (2002) in which the morphological nature of the compound determinative category reflects a fusion of functions, typically determiner…
Would have become
In an earlier paper (Huddleston, 1977) I analysed the would of (I) If he had stayed in the army, he would have become a colonel as the unreal mood form of an epistemic modal verb WILL that figures in the underlying syntactic representation and falls within the semantic scope of a past element realized by HAVE. Palmer (1978) criticizes this analysis, claiming that WILL is 'obviously' semantically empty, a mere 'dummy' inserted to carry the mark of…
On classifying anaphoric relations
A comprehensive descriptive grammar of English
An Introduction to Systemic Linguistics, Volume 1
A note on order
1. In a recent historical survey of work in morphology, Matthews claims that in the 1940s and early 1950s the question ‘What are the basic units of morphological structure, and what are the relations which obtain between them?’ received a comparatively simple answer, namely that the units were morphemes and the relation between them one of linear succession (1970: 97–98). This seems to me inaccurate in two respects. Firstly, some linguists (notab…
The development of a non-process model in American structural linguistics
Declarative, interrogative and imperative in French
Rank and Depth
0.1. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relations between the layering in structural trees and the scale of rank. My standpoint will be that of scale-and-category grammatical theory as I understand it
More on the English comparative
1. In the last few years there have been three papers published devoted wholly or largely to a study of the English comparative construction: Lees (1961); Smith (1961); and Pilch (1965) The focus of attention has been the structure of what, following Pilch, I shall call the comparative expansion (the constituent introduced by than or as ), rather than the morphology of the compared adjective or adverb. It is not surprising that so much interest s…
Predicate complement constructions in English
Outline of stratificational grammar
Declarative, interrogative and imperative in French
Some Observations on Tense and Deixis in English
The distinction between ‘full verbs’ and ‘auxiliaries’ is not relevant to tense: criteria of compatibility with temporal adverbs etc. suggest that separate tense selections are associated with the modal and aspectual auxiliaries, which are accordingly analysed as main verbs in deep structure. Deep tense, a ternary system, is contrasted with the binary surface-tense system: deep tense is marked by conjunctions, by temporal specifiers, and by the c…
Two approaches to the analysis of tags
In recent literature on transformational grammar there has been a good deal of discussion of tag sentences (Klima, 1964; Katz and Postal, 1964; Bolinger, 1967; Arbini, 1969). The type of construction under consideration is exemplified in the following (incomplete) paradigm: (1) John has gone, hasn't he? (2) John hasn't gone, has he? (3) John has gone, has he (?) (4) John hasn't gone, hasn't he (?) (5) Come early, won't you (?) (6) Come early, wil…
Les deux aspectifs de la conjugaison anglaise au XXe siècle
The Syntagmeme
The development of a non-process model in American structural linguistics
A note on order
1. In a recent historical survey of work in morphology, Matthews claims that in the 1940s and early 1950s the question ‘What are the basic units of morphological structure, and what are the relations which obtain between them?’ received a comparatively simple answer, namely that the units were morphemes and the relation between them one of linear succession (1970: 97–98). This seems to me inaccurate in two respects. Firstly, some linguists (notab…
Componential analysis
The term ‘componential analysis’ is used here to refer to the theory of semantic structure developed by Goodenough (1956, 1965, etc.), Lounsbury (1956, 1964, etc.) and others. Obviously the notion of a semantic component - or ‘feature,’ or whatever other term is applied - is common to a wide variety of semantic theories, and ‘componential analysis’ is sometimes used (e.g. by Lyons 1968) to cover the whole of this wider field; nevertheless the Goo…
The sentence in written English
Homonymy in the English verbal paradigm
Some theoretical issues in the description of the english verb
In Defence of Parasitic Base Structures
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Past Tense transportation in English
Poutsma (1926: 441–447) says of sentences like: (I) I could have got the money easily enough. that ‘the notion of completed action in this combination [is expressed] not in the finite verb, where it logically belongs, but in the following infinitive’. He speaks of this phenomenon as ‘tense-shifting’; I have preferred ‘past tense transportation’ (PTT) in order to make it clear that it is only the Past Tense that is involved, I and to avoid confusi…
An Introduction to Systemic Linguistics, Volume 1
A survey of the crossing‐coreference controversy
An Introduction to English Transformational Grammar
On classifying anaphoric relations
Would have become
In an earlier paper (Huddleston, 1977) I analysed the would of (I) If he had stayed in the army, he would have become a colonel as the unreal mood form of an epistemic modal verb WILL that figures in the underlying syntactic representation and falls within the semantic scope of a past element realized by HAVE. Palmer (1978) criticizes this analysis, claiming that WILL is 'obviously' semantically empty, a mere 'dummy' inserted to carry the mark of…
On Palmer's defence of the distinction between auxiliaries and main verbs
Introduction to the Grammar of English
This textbook provides a thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons the author concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation. The book is written for students who may have no previous knowledge of linguistics and little familiarity with 'traditional' grammar. All grammatical terms, whether traditional or more recent, are therefore carefully explained, and in…
Introduction to the Grammar of English
This textbook provides a thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons the author concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation. The book is written for students who may have no previous knowledge of linguistics and little familiarity with 'traditional' grammar. All grammatical terms, whether traditional or more recent, are therefore carefully explained, and in…
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