Richard A Hudson
Biographic Data
| ID | 732099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Hudson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hudson |
| SIGNATURE | HUDSON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wanna Revisited
This article addresses general questions about the organization of grammar via a detailed discussion of a small, but well-explored, area of English: the contraction of want to to wanna. It distinguishes three general approaches to the analysis of wanna: a phonological rule, lexicalization, or a derivational rule. Each approach has a different set of strengths, but they all have weaknesses as well. The article then offers a new analysis in terms o…
Are determiners heads
The paper focuses on the relation between the determiner (D) and the common noun (N) in a noun phrase (NP). Four facts show that D depends on N: only N is relevant to whether NP can be used as an adjunct; possessive determiners are similar to clearly dependent possessives e.g. in Dutch and German; N decides whether or not D is obligatory; and in English only one D is possible per N. Three other facts show the converse, that N depends on D: in man…
Sociolinguistics
This new edition of Richard Hudson's widely acclaimed textbook Sociolinguistics will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. To reflect changes in the field since publication of the first edition in 1980, the author has added new sections on politeness, accommodation, and prototypes; and he has expanded discussion of sex differences, culture and general theory. There remains coverage of classic topics such as varieties of language, speech as …
Gapping and grammatical relations
This paper will be concerned with the analysis of sentences like those in (1), which I think are all uncontroversial examples of the construction that is generally called ‘gapping’
Zwicky on heads
An interesting development in the last decade or so has been the increasing use that theoretical linguists have made of the notion ‘head’ – or rather, in order not to beg the question, of notions to which they have given the name ‘head’. The term has been around for a long time in linguistics, of course – for example Bloomfield uses it in relation to endocentric constructions (1933: 195), where the head is the daughter constituent which has the s…
Constituency and dependency
I argue that dependency is necessary in syntax, but constituency is not. That is, there is no need to recognise a hierarchical structure with clauses and phrases grouping words together, in addition to the dependency relations which need to be shown between words. Consequently there is no need for 'daughter-dependency' rules in a so-called 'Daughter-dependency grammar', but the position of sister-dependency rules is assured, and in fact identifie…
There Sentences in English: A Relational Study Based on a Corpus of Written Texts
Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar
For the past decade, the dominant transformational theory of syntax has produced the most interesting insights into syntactic properties. Over the same period another systemic grammar, has been developed very quietly as an alternative to the transformational model. In this work Richard A. Hudson outlines theory, which is derived from systemic grammar, and offers empirical reasons for preferring it to any version of transformational The goal of da…
Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-Node Raising
It is argued that Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-node Raising are three separate phenomena in English, each having its own set of constraints and therefore needing a separate rule. Contrary to earlier analyses, these rules do not delete, but just raise. This is true even of Gapping, which is shown to be a special case of a more general rule of Conjunct Postposing, which is also responsible for ‘split coördinations’ like John came, and …
The Meaning of Questions
Polar interrogative sentences ('yes/no questions') are different from the corresponding declarative sentences not only pragmatically-in terms of the illocutionary forces that utterances of them can have-but also semantically, i.e. in terms of the LINGUISTIC analysis of their meaning. Keeping a clear distinction between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analyses, we can isolate a very small number of syntactic categories and an equally small (but…
The Meaning of Questions
Polar interrogative sentences ('yes/no questions') are different from the corresponding declarative sentences not only pragmatically-in terms of the illocutionary forces that utterances of them can have-but also semantically, i.e. in terms of the LINGUISTIC analysis of their meaning. Keeping a clear distinction between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analyses, we can isolate a very small number of syntactic categories and an equally small (but…
Zwicky on heads
An interesting development in the last decade or so has been the increasing use that theoretical linguists have made of the notion ‘head’ – or rather, in order not to beg the question, of notions to which they have given the name ‘head’. The term has been around for a long time in linguistics, of course – for example Bloomfield uses it in relation to endocentric constructions (1933: 195), where the head is the daughter constituent which has the s…
Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-Node Raising
It is argued that Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-node Raising are three separate phenomena in English, each having its own set of constraints and therefore needing a separate rule. Contrary to earlier analyses, these rules do not delete, but just raise. This is true even of Gapping, which is shown to be a special case of a more general rule of Conjunct Postposing, which is also responsible for ‘split coördinations’ like John came, and …
Constituency and dependency
I argue that dependency is necessary in syntax, but constituency is not. That is, there is no need to recognise a hierarchical structure with clauses and phrases grouping words together, in addition to the dependency relations which need to be shown between words. Consequently there is no need for 'daughter-dependency' rules in a so-called 'Daughter-dependency grammar', but the position of sister-dependency rules is assured, and in fact identifie…
Gapping and grammatical relations
This paper will be concerned with the analysis of sentences like those in (1), which I think are all uncontroversial examples of the construction that is generally called ‘gapping’
Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar
For the past decade, the dominant transformational theory of syntax has produced the most interesting insights into syntactic properties. Over the same period another systemic grammar, has been developed very quietly as an alternative to the transformational model. In this work Richard A. Hudson outlines theory, which is derived from systemic grammar, and offers empirical reasons for preferring it to any version of transformational The goal of da…
The Meaning of Questions
Polar interrogative sentences ('yes/no questions') are different from the corresponding declarative sentences not only pragmatically-in terms of the illocutionary forces that utterances of them can have-but also semantically, i.e. in terms of the LINGUISTIC analysis of their meaning. Keeping a clear distinction between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analyses, we can isolate a very small number of syntactic categories and an equally small (but…
Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-Node Raising
It is argued that Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-node Raising are three separate phenomena in English, each having its own set of constraints and therefore needing a separate rule. Contrary to earlier analyses, these rules do not delete, but just raise. This is true even of Gapping, which is shown to be a special case of a more general rule of Conjunct Postposing, which is also responsible for ‘split coördinations’ like John came, and …
There Sentences in English: A Relational Study Based on a Corpus of Written Texts
Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar
For the past decade, the dominant transformational theory of syntax has produced the most interesting insights into syntactic properties. Over the same period another systemic grammar, has been developed very quietly as an alternative to the transformational model. In this work Richard A. Hudson outlines theory, which is derived from systemic grammar, and offers empirical reasons for preferring it to any version of transformational The goal of da…
Constituency and dependency
I argue that dependency is necessary in syntax, but constituency is not. That is, there is no need to recognise a hierarchical structure with clauses and phrases grouping words together, in addition to the dependency relations which need to be shown between words. Consequently there is no need for 'daughter-dependency' rules in a so-called 'Daughter-dependency grammar', but the position of sister-dependency rules is assured, and in fact identifie…
Zwicky on heads
An interesting development in the last decade or so has been the increasing use that theoretical linguists have made of the notion ‘head’ – or rather, in order not to beg the question, of notions to which they have given the name ‘head’. The term has been around for a long time in linguistics, of course – for example Bloomfield uses it in relation to endocentric constructions (1933: 195), where the head is the daughter constituent which has the s…
Gapping and grammatical relations
This paper will be concerned with the analysis of sentences like those in (1), which I think are all uncontroversial examples of the construction that is generally called ‘gapping’
Sociolinguistics
This new edition of Richard Hudson's widely acclaimed textbook Sociolinguistics will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. To reflect changes in the field since publication of the first edition in 1980, the author has added new sections on politeness, accommodation, and prototypes; and he has expanded discussion of sex differences, culture and general theory. There remains coverage of classic topics such as varieties of language, speech as …
Are determiners heads
The paper focuses on the relation between the determiner (D) and the common noun (N) in a noun phrase (NP). Four facts show that D depends on N: only N is relevant to whether NP can be used as an adjunct; possessive determiners are similar to clearly dependent possessives e.g. in Dutch and German; N decides whether or not D is obligatory; and in English only one D is possible per N. Three other facts show the converse, that N depends on D: in man…
Wanna Revisited
This article addresses general questions about the organization of grammar via a detailed discussion of a small, but well-explored, area of English: the contraction of want to to wanna. It distinguishes three general approaches to the analysis of wanna: a phonological rule, lexicalization, or a derivational rule. Each approach has a different set of strengths, but they all have weaknesses as well. The article then offers a new analysis in terms o…
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