Date:  Sat, 3 Feb 1996 20:01:19 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: knife & fork



>Although haj Ross may have extended the analysis, the first discussion of such

>matters was Roman Jacobson's concluding remarks to the Indiana Univ conference

>on Linguistics and Literature, the papers to which were edited by Sebeok. I

>think the conference was in 1958; the essay is widely reprinted in

>stylistics collections.



Sorry to be unfamiliar with Jakobson's remarks, but if we're going to get

picky, they couldn't have much predated the detailed study by Yakov Malkiel,

"Studies in Irreversible Binomials", Lingua 8 (1959): 113-60. And I imagine

Panini's analysis anteceded both by a couple thousand years or so.



Larry