The Best of Language: Volume 2 (1956-1985)

Volume 1 (1925–1955) Volume 2 (1956–1985) Volume 3 (1986–2016) Anthology Overview

VOLUME 2

The Best of Language is a three-volume compilation of the best articles published in the Language, the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Language has been published continuously since 1925, and in that long history there are a number of influential, controversial, or otherwise interesting articles. Volume 2 contains a select number of articles published from 1956–1985.

Introduction

Lees, Robert B. 1957. Review of Noam Chomsky, Syntactic structures. Lg. 33:375-407.

Chomsky, Noam. 1959. Review of B.F. Skinner, Verbal behavior. Lg. 35:26-58.

Emeneau, Murray B. 1956. India as a linguistic area. Lg. 32:3-16.

Labov, William. 1969. Contraction, deletion, and inherent variability of the English copula. Lg. 45:715-762.

Hyman, Larry. 1970. How concrete is phonology? Lg. 46:58-76.

McCawley, James. 1970. English as a VSO language. Lg. 46:286-299.

Bolinger, Dwight. 1972. Accent is predictable (if you're a mind-reader). Lg. 48:633-644.

Dorian, Nancy C. 1973. Grammatical change in a dying dialect. Lg. 49:414-438.

Cedergren, Henrietta, and David Sankoff. 1974. Variable rules: performance as a statistical reflection of competence. Lg. 50:333-355.

Curtiss, Susan; Victoria Fromkin; Stephen Krashen; David Rigler; and Marilyn Rigler. 1974. The linguistic development of Genie. Lg. 50:528-554.

Sacks, Harvey; Emanuel A. Schegloff; and Gail Jefferson. 1974. A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Lg. 50:696-735.