The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword, by James D. McCawley
1. Prologue: The TOPIC... COMMENT column
Part I - Fashions and Tendencies
2. Watch out for the current
3. The stranger in the bar
4. If it’s Tuesday, this must be glossematics
5. The conduct of Linguistic Inquiry
6. Chomsky on the Enterprise
7. Formal linguistics meets the Boojum
Part II - Publication and Damnation
8. Stalking the perfect journal
9. Punctuation and human freedom
10. A guest of the State
11. Seven deadly sins in journal publishing
12. The linguistics of defamation
13. Trench-mouth comes to Trumpington Street
14. Here come the linguistic fascists
Part III - Unscientific Behavior
15. The revenge of the methodological moaners
16. Footloose and context-free
17. Nobody goes around at LSA meetings offering odds
18. Citation etiquette beyond Thunderdome
19. The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax
Part IV - Linguistic Fantasies
20. No trips to Stockholm
21. A memo from the Vice Chancellor
22. Some lists of things about books
23. The incident of the node vortex problem
24. Epilogue: The final curtain
Appendix: Original publication details
and acknowledgments
Index
1. Prologue: The TOPIC... COMMENT column
Part I - Fashions and Tendencies
2. Watch out for the current
3. The stranger in the bar
4. If it’s Tuesday, this must be glossematics
5. The conduct of Linguistic Inquiry
6. Chomsky on the Enterprise
7. Formal linguistics meets the Boojum
Part II - Publication and Damnation
8. Stalking the perfect journal
9. Punctuation and human freedom
10. A guest of the State
11. Seven deadly sins in journal publishing
12. The linguistics of defamation
13. Trench-mouth comes to Trumpington Street
14. Here come the linguistic fascists
Part III - Unscientific Behavior
15. The revenge of the methodological moaners
16. Footloose and context-free
17. Nobody goes around at LSA meetings offering odds
18. Citation etiquette beyond Thunderdome
19. The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax
Part IV - Linguistic Fantasies
20. No trips to Stockholm
21. A memo from the Vice Chancellor
22. Some lists of things about books
23. The incident of the node vortex problem
24. Epilogue: The final curtain
Appendix: Original publication details
and acknowledgments
Index
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