The Duke of York gambit

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ID10139716
AuthorsGeoffrey K Pullum (0000-0002-7748-8847, University College London, corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume12
Issue1
Pages83-102
Publication date1976-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700004813
OpenAlexW1970943944
LanguageEN
Citations received45
References cited13

A Duke who has not been satisfactorily identified with any historical figure is lampooned in a traditional rhyme (believed to have been directed originally at the King of France) as follows: The Grand Old Duke of York He had ten thousand men He marched them up a great high hill And he marched them down again . The implication is that this was incompetent and self-defeating activity on his part. Linguists very frequently seem to give evidence of a tacitly held belief that there is similarly something inept and risible about a linguistic analysis which determines that certain structures are assigned a derivation of the general form A→B→A, that is a derivation in which an underlying representation (or some nonultimate remote representation) is mapped on to an intermediate form distinct from it, and then on to a surface (or other superficial) representation which is identical with the earlier stage

Gambit · Linguistics · Poetry · Political science · Representation (politics · Rhyme · History · Law · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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