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Dwight Bolinger

Communications

#832

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#1309

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#432

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Linguistics

#246

World Rank

#330

Historical Rank

#105

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Dwight Bolinger's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
Masters English University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Dwight Le Merton Bolinger was an American linguist and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He began his career as the first editor of the "Among the New Words" feature for American Speech. As an expert in Spanish, he was elected president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in 1960. He was known for the support and encouragement he gave younger scholars and for his hands-on approach to the analysis of human language. His work touched on a wide range of subjects, including semantics, intonation, phonesthesia, and the politics of language.

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Dwight Bolinger's Published Works

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Adjectives in English: Attribution and predication (1967) (530)
A Theory of Pitch Accent in English (1958) (507)
语言要略 = Aspects of Language (1968) (485)
Intonation and Its Uses: Melody in Grammar and Discourse (1989) (467)
Accent Is Predictable (If You're a Mind-Reader) (1972) (446)
Meaning and form (1979) (373)
The phrasal verb in English (1974) (359)
Intonation and its parts : melody in spoken English (1987) (345)
Meaning and Memory (1979) (325)
Intonation and Its Parts (1985) (301)
Contrastive Accent and Contrastive Stress (1961) (270)
Language – The Loaded Weapon (1980) (270)
The Atomization of Meaning (1965) (207)
Forms of English : accent, morpheme, order (1965) (184)
Language - The Loaded Weapon : The Use and Abuse of Language Today (1980) (180)
Intonation and Its Uses (1989) (173)
Yes—No Questions Are Not Alternative Questions (1978) (166)
Syntactic Blends and Other Matters (1961) (136)
Rime, Assonance, and Morpheme Analysis (1950) (133)
INTONATION AND GESTURE (1983) (124)
Asking More Than One Thing at a Time (1978) (113)
Two kinds of vowels, two kinds of rhythm (1981) (99)
On pre-accentual lengthening (1982) (90)
That's that (1972) (85)
Generality, gradience, and the all-or-none (1961) (80)
Interrogative Structures of American English (1959) (78)
Intonation: Levels Versus Configurations (1951) (76)
Around the Edge of Language: Intonation (1964) (76)
To Catch a Metaphor: You as Norm (1979) (76)
Pronouns in Discourse (1979) (74)
Interrogative structures of American English : the direct question (1957) (71)
On Defining the Morpheme (1948) (70)
Postposed main phrases: an English rule for the Romance subjunctive (1968) (68)
The imperative in English (1966) (66)
English Prosodic Stress and Spanish Sentence Order (1954) (66)
The inherent iconism of intonation (1985) (63)
Binomials and pitch accent (1962) (62)
Two views of accent (1985) (60)
Ambient it is meaningful too (1973) (51)
Linear Modification (1952) (49)
INTONATION AND GRAMMAR (1958) (46)
Disjuncture as a Cue to Constructs (1957) (44)
Intonational Signals of Subordination (1984) (43)
Truth Is a Linguistic Question. (1973) (43)
Intonation: selected readings; (1972) (41)
According to (1990) (41)
Adjective Comparison: a Semantic Scale (1967) (40)
LENGTH, VOWEL, JUNCTURE (1963) (39)
Pronouns and repeated nouns (1977) (39)
Stress and Information (1958) (37)
SEMANTIC OVERLOADING: A RESTUDY OF THE VERB REMIND (1971) (36)
Judgments of grammaticality (1968) (36)
The Sign is not Arbitrary (1949) (36)
THE MELODY OF LANGUAGE (1980) (30)
Thoughts on 'Yep' and 'Nope (1946) (25)
Apparent Constituents in Surface Structure (1967) (24)
Extrinsic possibility and intrinsic potentiality: 7 on may and can + 1 (1989) (23)
Another Glance at Main Clause Phenomena (1977) (22)
Linguistic Science and Linguistic Engineering (1960) (22)
Intonation: Emotion vs. Grammar@@@Intonation and Its Uses (1990) (20)
GETTING THE WORDS IN (1970) (19)
One Subjunctive or Two (1974) (18)
Subjunctive -ra and -se: "Free Variation"? (1956) (18)
The Theorist and the Language Teacher (1968) (18)
Essays on Spanish: Words and Grammar (1992) (16)
The uniqueness of the word (1963) (16)
Intonation and Analysis (1949) (16)
Intersections of Stress and Intonation (1955) (14)
Still More on Ser and Estar (1947) (13)
Consonance, dissonance, and grammaticality: The case of Wanna (1981) (11)
Neutrality, norm, and bias (1977) (11)
Where Does Intonation Belong (1983) (10)
More on the Present Tense in English (1947) (10)
The sentence intonation of contemporary standard Russian as a linguistic structure (1962) (10)
Syntactic diffusion and the indefinite article (1980) (10)
The Influence of Linguistics: Plus and Minus. (1972) (9)
Verbs of Emotion (1953) (9)
Addenda to the Comparison of Inequality in Spanish (1953) (9)
'Shivaree' and the Phonestheme (1950) (9)
On intensity as a qualitative improvement of pitch accent (1957) (9)
Verbs of Being (1953) (8)
The Comparison of Inequality in Spanish (1950) (8)
More on “Ser” and “Estar” (1944) (8)
The Role of Accent in Extraposition and Focus (1992) (8)
American English Intonation (1947) (7)
Ambiguities in Pitch Accent (1961) (7)
A Postscript to Poston on the Article (1975) (6)
Reference and Inference: Inceptiveness in the Spanish Preterit (1963) (6)
Intonation, Perception, and Language. PHILIP LIEBERMAN (1968) (6)
Oddments of English (1996) (6)
Fifth Column Marches on (1944) (6)
The intonation of accosting questions (1948) (5)
Again-One or Two Subjunctives? (1976) (5)
SPANISH ON THE AIR IN WISCONSIN (1934) (5)
Evidence on X (1952) (5)
Discontinuity of the Spanish Conjunctive Pronoun (1949) (5)
Meaning and form: Some fallacies of asemantic grammar (1975) (5)
AFFIRMATION AND DEFAULT (1983) (5)
Maneuvering for Stress and Intonation (1957) (4)
The Socially-Minded Linguist* (1979) (4)
As Strikes Back (1986) (3)
Power to the Utterance (1987) (3)
Transformulation: Structural translation (1965) (3)
Accents that Determine Stress (1981) (3)
Gleanings from CLM: Indicative vs. Subjunctive in Exclamations (1959) (3)
The Position of the Adverb in English -- A Convenient Analogy to the Position of the Adjective in Spanish (1943) (3)
The Case of the Disappearing Grammar (1944) (2)
The Relative Importance of Grammatical Items (1955) (2)
The Doolittling of English (1990) (2)
Inhibited and uninhibited stress (1945) (2)
"It's so Fun" (1963) (2)
What's What: A List of Useful Terms for the Teacher of Modern Languages (1963) (2)
Modern Spanish, A Project of the Modern Language Association (1966) (2)
Adverbial nouns in english and spanish (1991) (2)
Are We Playing Fair with Our Students Linguistically (1951) (2)
Stress on Normally Unstressed Elements (1956) (2)
A SEMANTIC VIEW OF SYNTAX: SOME VERBS THAT GOVERN INFINITIVES (1978) (2)
Spanish parece que Again (1946) (2)
THE SYNTAX OF PARECER (1972) (2)
Toward a New Conception of Grammar (1943) (2)
'Next' and 'Last' (1953) (2)
GENERICNESS: A ‘LINGUISTIC’ UNIVERSAL? (1969) (2)
Further Comment on Haber (1954) (2)
Contrast in Depth of Embedding (1971) (2)
Retained Objects in Spanish (1950) (2)
Heroes and Hamlets: The Protagonists of Baroja's Novels (1941) (2)
En Efecto Does Not Mean in Fact (1950) (1)
Lingüística y sociedad (1976) (1)
Verb and Particle Combinations@@@The Phrasal Verb in English (1969) (1)
1464 Identical Cognates in English and Spanish (1948) (1)
Neuter Todo, Substantive (1945) (1)
Prepositions in English and Spanish (1957) (1)
First Person, Not Singular (1991) (1)
Articles in Old Familiar Places (1954) (1)
and Should Thereby Be Judged (1953) (1)
The Minimizing Downskip (1945) (1)
The Double Triangle: Two Kinds of Vowels in English (1998) (1)
Another Indiana University Linguistics Club, twentieth anniversary volume (1987) (1)
9. INTENSIFIERA WITH VERBS (1972) (1)
Do Imperatives (1974) (1)
The Future and Conditional of Probability (1946) (1)
The Deflation of Several (1981) (1)
Who is Intellectually Free (1954) (1)
Let's Change Our Base of Operations. (1971) (1)
15. INTENSIFICATION BY STRETCHING (1972) (0)
The Indivisibility of Tolerance (1949) (0)
WORKS REFERRED TO BY AUTHORS’ NAMES ALONE (1972) (0)
14. FORMALIZED REDUNDANCY AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS (1972) (0)
17. WHY DEGREE NOUNS BEHAVE LIKE PRONOUNS (1972) (0)
11. MUCH WITH VERBS (1972) (0)
Analogical Correlatives of 'Than' (1946) (0)
5. LITOTES AND NEGATION (1972) (0)
7. PROSODIC INTERFERENCE AND THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE (1972) (0)
13. DEGREE VERBS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS (1972) (0)
Progress Report on One of Those Who Is... (1980) (0)
16. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS THAT PREMODIFY (1972) (0)
Famous coincidences of science. (1945) (0)
Universal Military Training: An Answer to Major General Weible (1945) (0)
THE “WHAT” AND THE “WAY” (1949) (0)
4. THE MAKING OF INTENSIFIERS BY GRAMMATICAL SHIFTS (1972) (0)
10. DEGREE VERBS AND ADJECTIVES WITH SO AND HOW (1972) (0)
One Each in English and Spanish (1988) (0)
Modern Spanish@@@Instructor's Manual: Modern Spanish@@@Writing Modern Spanish (1967) (0)
YES-NO QUESTIONS ARE NOT (1978) (0)
Meaning and form / Dwight Bolinger (1983) (0)
1. INTENSIFIERA WITH ADJECTIVES (1972) (0)
Aspects of language / Dwight Bolinger, Donald A. sears (1981) (0)
On Spanish Forms of Address (1980) (0)
Note on the volitional future (1945) (0)
For Hugo Montero (1979) (0)
12. DEGREE VERBS WITH OTHER GRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS (1972) (0)
The Opposition of up and down@@@Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English (1989) (0)
Are You a Sincere H-Dropper? (1975) (0)
Ambrose Bierce and "All of" (1940) (0)
The Intonation of 'Received Pronunciation'@@@English Intomation: Its Form and Function (1959) (0)
Accent on one: Entity and identity (1991) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Two views of accent : a third opinion (0)
Aspects of Language@@@Language and Symbolic Systems (1970) (0)
A New Functional Linguistic Theory@@@Parametric Linguistics (1968) (0)
3. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS (1972) (0)
The philosophy of Pío Baroja with special reference to the influence of Nietzsche (1932) (0)
Spanish Review Grammar (1956) (0)
The teaching of intonation: classroom experiences to theoretical models (1991) (0)
2. SOME RESTRICTIONS ON INTENSIFIERS PRIMARILY WITH ADJECTIVES (1972) (0)
6. INTENSIFIERS WITH THE PREPOSITION OF (1972) (0)
A CASE OF IDENTITY (1967) (0)

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