The Joy of Grammar Book

	Preface
	Japanese Modals are Conditionals	1
	The Cairene Arabic Verb Without Form Classes	11
	The Transition from Oral to Written Competence: Evidence from Teaching Freshman Composition	25
	Two Types of 'World-Creating' Predicates	35
	Tojolabal (Mayan) Kinterms and the Theory of Markedness or a Near Triumph of the Feminine Gender	65
	Tone and Accent in Llogoori	73
	Purpose Infinitives and Their Relatives	95
	A Semantic Etymology	129
	Are Conditionals Topics? The Japanese Case	131
	Gender and Sex in Standard Modern Greek Pet Names	161
	Philosophical Speculation and Cognitive Science: Comments of William Lycan's Logical Form in Natural Language	173
	Symmetric Relations	199
	The Korean Precursors of Generative Phonology	213
	Why Grammars are Not Monolithic	225
	On Extracting from Asymmetrical Structures	251
	The Markedness of Plurality	275
	Phantom Successors and the French FAIRE PAR Construction	289
	A Paper on Yiddish for James D. McCawley	323
	Survival of the Positive: History of Japanese Antonyms	329
	Lexical Phonology and Japanese Vowel Devoicing	337
	First He Called Her a Philologist and Then She Insulted Him	351
	Jottings on Adpositions, Case Inflections, Government, and Agreement	369
	Indices	385