Haj Ross's papers on syntax, poetics, and selected short subjects

Welcome. This is a new index file for Haj's papers; they are listed below in order of the number of hits they've received since they were put on the Web. Many of these are PDFs from scans, and are thus not subject to text copy, paste, or search -- though that may ameliorate in the future, insha'allah. I have marked the papers on poetics; most of the rest are syntax or other linguistics, with some student advice and spiritual development stuff sprinkled in.

The old index file, with more explanation, lists organized by topic only, bibliography, and Squibnet, is still available, but this one includes some papers not linked there yet.

(Paper # 6 below is a term paper by a U of Michigan undergraduate that Haj -- like me -- was very impressed with; it's a well-thought-out proposal for introducing linguistics into the K-12 curriculum, which is where it belongs, and which is where it's normally found -- in the non-Anglophone world, at least.)

Finally, I take a deep satisfaction from the fact that 13,407 people have downloaded Ross 1967 in the last year (it hasn't been up very long).
-jl Last change 2/25/13

   Total: 152,829 hits for Haj's files, as of Dec 31 2012

     Hits    
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 1  23,756    Nouniness
 2  13,407    Constraints on Variables in Syntax (MIT dissertation; aka Ross 1967)
               (Warning: This is the full 24-Megabyte file; to download Ross 1967 by chapters, use this link)
 3  11,275    Squibs 1966
 4    7259    Fuzzy Grammar
 5    5851    Squibs 1974-84 
[6    4836    “Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me This Before?” Language Science in K-12 Education 
               (student term paper; hits excluded from Total above)  
]7    4538    On Declarative Sentences
 8    4439    Squibnet Blue
 9    4335    Squibs 1969-70
10    4291    A Fake NP Squish
11    3689    Squibs 1975-77
12    3672    Auxiliaries as Main Verbs
13    3621    Squibs 1971
14    3270    Languages as Poems (poetics)
15    3262    Squibs 1972
16    3216    Structural Prosody  (Final version; poetics)
17    2838    Bibliography
18    2715    Conjunctive and Disjunctive Wh-Clauses
19    2691    Beauty: How Hopkins Pied It (poetics)
20    2568    Squibnet
21    1921    What doesn’t slide over Wallace Stevens’ western cataract – the shape of meaning (poetics)
22    1740    The Syntax Of Emphasis – a Base Camp
23    1690    Like Syntax 
24    1663    The Frozenness of Pseudoclefts – Towards an Inequality-based Syntax
25    1561    World Order (with William E. Cooper; cognitive semantics)
26    1522    Newest list of English transformations "The top 200+ transformations of 2012!"
27    1453    How to Ph.D. (advice to students)
28    1407    The Universal Language of Poets and the Shape of Meaning; or, Poetese and the Shape of Meaning (poetics)
29    1372    The unmentioning of a noun, and of a verb: Emily Dickinson’s ‘The gleam of an heroic act’ (poetics)
30    1368    The Art of Fusion (poetics)
31    1352    The Curve of Love (poetics)
32    1299    16 thoughts to pin on the refrigerator door
33    1225    An automodular perspective on the frozenness of pseudoclefts
34    1195    Structural Prosody (earlier version)
35    1088    Defective Noun Phrases
36    1081    Explaining an Affinity for Bats – questions raised, answers let go of (poetics)
37    1054    Islands and Syntactic Prototypes
38    1008    As-ing (handout for #53 below)
39     999    Three Batons for Cognitive Psychology
40     974    Haj Agenda
41     965    There, there: strong and weak path-linked proforms
42     946    Art and Science, Listening to and through Language
43     922    Squibnet Sept
44     915    Waking up
45     878    *Farly - the loss of adjectival adverbializing suffixes
46     843    The Category Squish: Endstation Hauptwort 
47     834    Where's English?
48     820    Squibs are ...
49     809    Why to Syntax
50     803    Where to Do Things With Words
51     779    Inverse Reflexives
52     759    Squibnet is ...
53     740    As-ing (BLS 2009)
54     713    The Heart of a Noun
55     702    The millstone of adverbiality
56     702    Excerpts from Ross 1967, #2 above
57     672    Proposal for the construction of Squibnet: a wiki of short linguistic notes
58     630    Inner Islands
59     618    Squibs 1973-74
60     616    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1982
61     603    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 2002
62     591    Network Learning
63     590    Nominal Decay
64     491    A Circle of Friends (poetics)
65     485    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 2001
66     473    Squatitives
67     455    Nominal Decay Original typed version of #63 above
68     438    Some standard notations and abbreviations used in syntax, and in squibs especially
69     424    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1993
70     420    Gapping and the Order of Constituents
71     418    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 2000
72     415    Squibnet 1966
73     401    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1998
74     399    Actional iconicity (poetics)
75     391    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1996
76     383    How fire and ice can be one twice: two corridors and a blend in Frost’s great poem (poetics)
77     381    Squibnet 1975-77
78     371    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1999
79     371    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1997
80     342    Squibnet 1974-84
81     342    Squibnet 1969-70
82     338    Squibnet 1971
83     323    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1995
84     304    Squibnet 1972
85     280    Gleamings (on Emily Dickinson; poetics)
86      59    Final draft of #57 above
87      38    Transformation list (earlier version of #26 above)
88      10    A note on "command"
89       2    Paul Postal's Cool Sentences of 1995
90       2    FogCatFog (poetics)