Dwight Bolinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 78459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dwight Bolinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dwight |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolinger |
| SIGNATURE | BOLINGER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern California University for Professional Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 139 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 611 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 139 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Double Triangle: Two Kinds of Vowels in English
Research Article| December 01 1998 The Double Triangle: Two Kinds of Vowels in English Dwight Bolinger Dwight Bolinger Palo Alto, California Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1998) 80 (1): 61–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/-80-1-61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dwight Bolinger; The Double Triangle: Two Kinds of Vo…
Essays on Spanish: Words and Grammar
The Role of Accent in Extraposition and Focus
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Essays on Spanish: Words and Grammar
Essays on Spanish: Words and Grammar
First Person, Not Singular
Accent on one: Entity and identity
The Doolittling of English
Trends in the language that ‘come from below’
Intonation: Emotion vs. Grammar
Intonation and Its Uses: Melody in Grammar and Discourse
Flux
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 15-23
Refurbishing Our Foundations
The Opposition of up and down
Extrinsic possibility and intrinsic potentiality: 7 On May and Can + 1
Reiconization
Reiconization refers to the process of reanalysis in which a meaningless or semantically opaque item is replaced by a new item with a transparent meaning. When the replaced ( deiconized ) item combines with other items to form a larger expression, the effect of reiconization is to maintain or restore the original meaning of the larger expression. This process is readily observable in the case of prepositions. For instance, the preposition of lack…
Anticipatory lengthening
The Remarkable Double Is
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Power to the Utterance
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 15-25
Echoes Reechoed
Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English
As Strikes Back
The inherent iconism of intonation
Two views of accent
The debate over determinism and free choice in linguistics is not likely to be settled in this or the next century. All we can do is try to shed some light on the issue from time to time, and perhaps define areas that are best described deterministically, and others where freedom reigns, in majesty if not supreme. Nowhere has the debate been more lively than in descriptions of English stress and accent. The latest – to which this essay is a respo…
Intonational Signals of Subordination
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 401-413
Intonation and Gesture
TO ANALYZE INTONATION, we need to know nature of units. Are they, as some claim, same kind of relatively meaningless articulatory integers that we find in word-based grammars, where a phoneme /n/ in contrast with an /r/ makes a workable distinction between a gnat and a rat even though /n/'s have nothing particular to do with gnats and /r/'s are scarcely symbolic of rats? Or do their meanings in some way reflect their own inner nature, as order of…
A Theory of Pitch Accent in English
Adjectives in English: Attribution and predication
Accent Is Predictable (If You're a Mind-Reader)
The Chomsky-Halle Nuclear Stress Rule and its modification by Bresnan, and to some extent the criticisms that have been leveled at it, have in common an attempt to account for accent in terms of syntax. Instead, accent should be viewed as independent, directly reflecting the speaker's intent and only indirectly the syntax. Accented words are points of information focus
Rime, Assonance, and Morpheme Analysis
Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English
Contrastive Accent and Contrastive Stress
'This whiskey,' said O'Reilly, sampling spirits that claimed to be from his homeland, 'was not exported from Ireland; it was deported.'
The Atomization of Meaning
History repeats itself, with variations. Two decades ago American structuralists were trying, with indifferent success, to apply to morphology the same analytical techniques that had proved successful in the analysis of sound. For a number of reasons—including the lack of a suitable theory of meaning—the attempt made no headway at a time when phonology was still scoring advances with help from both acoustics and information theory. Morphemics sti…
Syntactic Blends and Other Matters
Explanations of transformational grammar are needed at a time when this vigorous new approach to syntax is exciting interest and winning converts. Too little is known about its procedures and terminology for some of its more advanced calculus to be intelligible to the average reader of linguistics; there are no texts designed for the complete uninitiate, and no published lists of terms or symbols. An article such as R. B. Lees's Multiply Ambiguou…
Intonation and Its Parts
The traditional attempts to identify grammatical functions of intonation have recently been supplemented by attempts to identify holistic lexical functions. One such, proposed by Liberman & Sag 1974 and by Sag & Liberman 1975 is a ‘contradiction contour’ having the general shape . with the sentence accent normally at or near the lowest pitch. This contour, as an exemplar of the theory of intonational wholes, is examined in the light of an alterna…
Intonation: Levels Versus Configurations
To Catch a Metaphor: You as Norm
IN HIS ARTICLE Person and Number in the Use of We, You, and They (American Speech 53 [1978]: 18-39), M. Stanley Whitley covers the impersonal uses of these three personal pronouns. His study exposes an obvious problem that should not have remained in the dark so long, and asks most of the pertinent questions. I return to it because I believe that its mostly sound intuitions have been betrayed by its method. As so often happens with attempts at fo…
Judgments of grammaticality
Intonation and Gesture
TO ANALYZE INTONATION, we need to know nature of units. Are they, as some claim, same kind of relatively meaningless articulatory integers that we find in word-based grammars, where a phoneme /n/ in contrast with an /r/ makes a workable distinction between a gnat and a rat even though /n/'s have nothing particular to do with gnats and /r/'s are scarcely symbolic of rats? Or do their meanings in some way reflect their own inner nature, as order of…
Two views of accent
The debate over determinism and free choice in linguistics is not likely to be settled in this or the next century. All we can do is try to shed some light on the issue from time to time, and perhaps define areas that are best described deterministically, and others where freedom reigns, in majesty if not supreme. Nowhere has the debate been more lively than in descriptions of English stress and accent. The latest – to which this essay is a respo…
Interrogative structures of American English: (The Direct Question).
Ambient it is meaningful too
In one of the many insightful passages in his Meaning and the structure of language (Chafe, 1970), Wallace Chafe characterizes sentences like It's hot, It's late , and It's Tuesday as referring to ‘all-encompassing states’. ‘They cover,’ he says, ‘the total environment, not just some object within it’ (101). His treatment, in common with most others – but in his case partly because of the centrality of the verb in his System – denies any value to…
Disjuncture as a Cue to Constructs
It is commonly thought that constructs such as light housekeeper and lighthouse-keeper are distinguished by means of stress differences alone. The significant factor in “stress” is presumed to be intensity, pitch changes (if any) being incidental. Spectrograms reveal another factor: “disjunctures,” or gaps between the syllables, which seem to correspond in width to the closeness of the semantic bond. Tests were therefore devised to oppose stress …
On pre-accentual lengthening
Among the numerous factors known or suspected to affect the length of a syllable in English is the nature of the immediately following syllable. It is widely recognized (P. Fijn van Draat, 1910, p. 14; Jones, 1956, §§ 886–7; Bolinger, 1965, pp. 168–9; Lehiste, 1972, p. 2021) that in a succession of monosyllabic words a word containing a full vowel will be longer when followed by another such word than when followed by a word containing a reduced …
Truth Is a Linguistic Question
Truth is the most fundamental of all questions of appropriateness in language. Communication presupposes non-concealment between interlocutors, which logically excludes all forms of deception, not merely propositional lies. The lie, broadly conceived, is therefore a proper object of study for linguists, and a necessary one at a time when lying is cultivated as an art. As members of society, we have an obligation to contribute our skills in this a…
On Defining the Morpheme
Linguistic Science and Linguistic Engineering
Stress and Information
LEE S. HULTZEN S EXPLANATION of English stress through analogy with information theoryI comes at a time when most American linguists are busy with a different kind of horticulture, cross-pollinating stresses, or stresses and junctures, in quest of hybrids that will give a phonemic shape to syntax. It goes without saying that there are grammatical uses of stress. A simple example is the phrase steel bdr, in which the arrangement of stress is like …
Thoughts on 'Yep' and 'Nope
HAROLD WeNTWORTH1 gives the following information regarding nope: '1930 CENT. PENN. MTS. nope. Still or recently used. Shoemaker.' And this concerning yep: 'tj£pl, lisPtv li^PI are playful. 1892 U.S. |j£p| with an unfinished p is probl. well known all over the country.' The second edition of Webster's New International gives yep as 'Dial. 8c colloq. var. of YeS.' As Wentworth keenly observes, the p in yep (and he would also have to add that of no…
Binomials and pitch accent
Word Affinities
Word Affinities
Trivia
Among the New Words
Among the New Words
Heroes and Hamlets: The Protagonists of Baroja's Novels
Neologisms
Among the New Words
Among the New Words
Among the New Words
Among the New Words
Among the New Words
Among the New Words
The Position of the Adverb in English -- A Convenient Analogy to the Position of the Adjective in Spanish
English grammar offers no foothold, as far as its adjectives are concerned, to the teaching of adjective position in Spanish. Though its adjectives are variously placed-money and enough money, knight errant and arrant rogue, eternal and life eternal-their position in no way resembles the working of logic, and is of practically no help to the Spanish teacher. The English adverb, on the other hand, shows virtually the same peculiarities of position…
Among the New Words
The Case of the Disappearing Grammar
songs and dances. We must do more than just teach the language. We are trying to develop a new type of tourist and those of us who have seen the North American variety in action know that there is room for missionary work in that respect. During each class-hour we manage to insert an entertaining as well as instructive talk on Spanish and Spanish American civilization, history, literature, customs. We emphasize the differences and the similaritie…
Neuter Todo, Substantive
Inhibited and uninhibited stress
Spanish Intonation
The Minimizing Downskip
CERTAIN of the semantic devices of intonation are a good deal more constant and specific than others. One of the most constant and specific is that of the wide downskip used for minimization. It is also one of the easiest to treat because of the fact that it is frequently encountered alone and on short phrases which leave no doubt as to exactly what shade of meaning the intonation contributes. By 'downskip' in contrast to 'downglide' is meant a d…
Spanish parece que Again
The Future and Conditional of Probability
T HIS study was undertaken to discover three things: (1) whether the future (F) and conditional (C) of probability (P) can taught chiefly as a mode of certain verbs, especially the have and be verbs (tener-haber and ser--estar); (2) whether there is any correlation between particular FCP tenses and particular normal tenses, such as CP with imperfect rather than with preterite; (3) whether the dividing line between normal FC and FCP can fixed with…
Que tan, que tanto
Thoughts on 'Yep' and 'Nope
HAROLD WeNTWORTH1 gives the following information regarding nope: '1930 CENT. PENN. MTS. nope. Still or recently used. Shoemaker.' And this concerning yep: 'tj£pl, lisPtv li^PI are playful. 1892 U.S. |j£p| with an unfinished p is probl. well known all over the country.' The second edition of Webster's New International gives yep as 'Dial. 8c colloq. var. of YeS.' As Wentworth keenly observes, the p in yep (and he would also have to add that of no…
Analogical Correlatives of 'Than
s NGLISH than, unlike the analogous connectives in French, Spanish, and German, is not cluttered with varying uses that might keep it an 'empty word,' but is strictly limited to the use, and hence the meaning, of unequal comparison. While it appears a good part of the time as [n,] ('His is better 'n mine'), which is the same as the n of 'His and [V] mine,' the rest of the time it is distinctively [Szn] (as in 'What's it better than?') or [En], an…
Visual Morphemes
The fact that most writing is the graphic representation of vocal-auditory processes tends to obscure the fact that writing can exist as a series of morphemes at its own level, independent of or interacting with the more fundamental (or at least more primitive) vocal-auditory morphemes. Recognition of visual morphemes is also hampered by the controversy, not yet subsided, over the primacy of the spoken versus the written; the victory of those who…
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