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SURVEY OF BOOKS A selected and annotated bibliography of recent publications in linguistics Number 48 August 1992

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SOCIOLINGUISTICS 6.1 general - introductory 6.2 linguistic geography - dialectology 6.3 ethnography of speaking 6.4 language variation - bilingualism 6.5 conversation analysis

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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 7.1 general - introductory 7.2 language acquisition 7.3 language processing 7.4 language and cognition 7.5 speech and language pathology

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Dawn BATES (ed.) The Proceedings of the Tenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992 ISBN o-937073-79-2 (pb) ix+543pp. & 19.95/$28.75 Contents: l/The present under past as de re interpretation (Dorit Abusch) Z/Supraglottal deletion in Yoruba glides (Akinbiyi M Akinlabi) 3/Case and the distribution of French affected datives theory, Theta theory, (J-Marc Authier/Lisa Reed) 4/0n the composition of COMP and parameters of V2 (Rakesh Bhatt/James Yoon) 5/A non-unified analysis of agentive verbs (Anne-Marie Brousseau/Elizabeth Ritter) G/Kashaya closedsyllable shortening and prosodic syllabification (Eugene Buckley) 7/Functional WH and weak crossover (Gennaro Chierchia) 8/Partitives and the definiteness effect (Ileana Comorovski) S/WH-movement: adjunction and lO/Munster Irish stress (Cathal Doherty) substitution (Viviane Deprez) ll/Stress and syntax-phonology mismatches: tonal domains in Danyang and Shanghai (San Duanmu) lP/The feature specification of uvulars (Jabier Elorrieta) 13/A case of inflection before derivation (S Lee Fulmer) 15/0n the lV[Atr] and [rtrl are different features (Heather Goad) 16/0n the locative existential status of Spec of IP (Grant Goodall) construction in Chinese (Yang Gu) 17/Clitics, affix order and the ECP (Marco Haverkort) 18/Adjunct extraction without traces (Michael Hegarty) 19/0n infinitival unbounded dependency constructions (Thomas E Hukari/ Robert D Levine) 20/impersonal passives and stage/individual level predicates (Eloise Jelinek) 2l/The ECP, head-government, and barrierhood (Yanghee Shim Joo) 22fAnaphora invariants and language universals (Edward L Keenan) 23/Reciprocity in Turkish: evidence against AGR as a definition of finiteness (Sarah D Kennelly) 24/A uniform analysis of arbitrary null subjects and objects (Boomee Kim) 25/Spec-Head agreement in DP (Anne Lobeck) 26/0n the obligatory character of inversion in Spanish (Rejean Canac Marquis) 27/0n the representation of consonant harmony in Navajo (Joyce M McDonough) 28/Scope interpretation in nonconstituent coordination (Seungho Nam) 29/Scrambling and conditions on A-movement (Naoko Nemoto) 30lSpreading in the acquisition of universal quantifiers (William Philip) Jl/Interpreting gerunds in complement positions (Paul Portner) 32/A misconceived approach to morphology (Geoffrey K Pullum/ArnoId M Zwicky) 33/Binding conditions on chains (Eric Reuland/Tanya Reinhart) 34/0n deriving rule domains: the Athapaskan case (Keren Rice) 35/Verb second in Hebrew (Ur Shlonsky/ Edit Doron) 36/Pair-list answers without movement (Veneeta Srivastav) 37/The quantificational force of static and dynamic predication (Alice G.B ter Meulen/Johan Rooryck) 38/PRO and obviation in Modern Greek subjunctives (Arhonto Terzi) 39/Coindexation and constraints on extraction (Robyne Tiedeman) 40/A Semantics for exception phrases (Kai von Fintel) 41/The place of clitics in the prosodic hierarchy (Draga Zec/

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Linda R WAUGH / Stephen RUDY (eds) New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 49) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991 x+54opp. fl 165.00/$ 85.00 ISBN 90-272-3543-o (hb) Contents: Preface (Stephen Rudy) Introduction (Linda R Waugh) Part I/ The question of invariance l/The concept of structure in contemporary linguistics (Edward Stankiewicz) 2/Grasping the nettle: variation as proof of invariance (Erica Garcia) S/Invariant meaning: alternative yariations on an invariant theme (Yishai Tobin) Part II/ Invariance and grammatical categories 4/Toward a universal calculus of inflectional categories: on Roman Jakobson’s trail (Igor Mel’cuk) 5/Towards a typology of verbal categories (Howard I Aronson) G/Two types of markedness and their implications for the conceptualization of grammatical invariance (Rodney B Sangster) 7/The role of animacy in language change: from dative 8/Invarito genitive in Middle Indo-Aryan (Monique Monville-Burston) ante and mutation in Acatec Mayan (John S Robertson) S/Variation, invariance, hierarchy, and integration as grammatical parameters (Pierre Swiggers) IO/Invariance and markedness as grammatical categories (Madeleine Newfield/Linda R Waugh) Part III/ Grammar and Discourse 1 l/Tense-aspect and hierarchy of meanings: pragmatic, textual, modal, discourse, expressive, referential (Linda R Waugh) 12/0n the concept of time: prolegomena to a theory of aspect and tense in narrative discourse (Nils B Thelin) 13/0n the projection of equivalence relations 14/invariance in grammar, variation into syntagms (Henning Andersen) in discourse: discussion (Flora Klein-Andreu) Part IV/ Grammar and pragmatics 15/Deixis and shifters after Jakobson (Herman Parret) 16/ Praguean structure and autopoiesis: deixis as individuation (Cornelis H van Schooneveld) 17/Shifters and non-verbal categories of Russian (Olga verbs: a historical perspective T Yokoyama) 18/English speech act (Elizabeth Closs Traugott) 19/Grammar and pragmatics: the two axes of language and deixis (Edna Andrews) Part VI Typology and universals PO/Two approaches to language universals (Joseph H Greenberg) 21/Invariance and variation: the dimensional model of language universals (Hansjakob Seiler) 22/ClassicaI and modern universals research: their philosophical background (Elmar Holenstein) 23/Language typology and diachronic linguistics (Thomas V Gamkrelidze) 24/Language universals in relation to acquisition and change: a tribute to Roman Jakobson (John A Hawkins) 25/Pragmatic universals and preconceptual thinking in language (Ivan Fonagy). Contributions to this volume stem from an international conference held on October 10-13, 1985 in tribute to Roman Jakobson. The volume reflects the state of contemporary scholarship on a major topic of Jakobson’s work: the role of invariance and variation in grammar.

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English Linguistics. Journal of the English Linguistic Society Tokyo: Kaitakusha Publishing Co. ISBN 4-7589-025 l-8 Y 6,000 (1 issue) 8( 1991)282pp. 1.2

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(Studies in English Language) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1992 ISBN O-52 l-37308-5 (hb) xv+239pp. & 30.00/$ 54.95 Contents: Preface Part I/ Functional sentence perspective in written communication l/Introduction P/The sentence and the carriers of com-

municative dynamism 3/The contextual factor 4/The semantic factor 5/The theme and the non-theme G/Some special issues of the theory of 7lWord order and functional sentence functional sentence perspective perspective Part II/ Functional sentence perspective in spoken communication g/Non-prosodic distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism and degrees of prosodic prominence S/Some more observations on the relationship between the non-prosodic distribution of communicative dynamism and that of prosodic prominence lo/Analysis of two spoken texts 1 l/Some special issues concerning functional sentence perspective in the spoken language. This monograph provides a synthesis of the author’s publications on functional sentence perspective (FSP) and on communicative dynamism, In the first part of the book, the focus is a central feature of FSP. on non-prosodic FSP factors and on the relation between FSP and word order. The second part considers the role of intonation and its interplay with non-prosodic factors. Eija VENTOLA (ed.) Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and Uses (Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs; 55) Berlin, etc: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 ISBN 3-l l-012740-7 (hb) DM 238.00 xiv+499pp. Contents: Preface Part I/ General Issues l/Discourse strategies and disP/Text production and dynamic text course types (Nils Erik Enkvist) semantics (Jay L Lemke) S/Towards probabilistic interpretations (M.A.K Halliday) 4/A functional model of the system of sentence structures (Frantisek Danes) 5/Constraining the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources during text generation: towards a computational instantiation of register theory (John A Bateman/C&ile L Paris) 6/A treatment of raising and control in systemic grammar (Elke Teich) 7/The concept of rank in systemic linguistics (William McGregor) Part II/ Issues in the analysis of spoken data g/Information flow in English conversation: a new approach to the given-new distinction (Ronald Geluykens) S/Minimal exchanges in English discourse (Eirian Davies) lo/The interpenetration of language as code and language as behaviour: a description of evaluative statements (Amy B.M Tsui) ll/The static and dynamic choices of re-

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sponding: toward the process of building social reality by the developmentally disordered (Jonathan Fine) 12/Firstand second-order registers in education (Frances Christie) Part III/ Issues in the analysis of written texts 13/Functional theory, scientism, and altruism: a critique of functional linguistics and its applications to writing (Barbara Couture) 14/Grammar, technocacry, and the noun: technocratic values and cognitive linguistics (Paul J Thibault) lS/Nominalization in science and humanities: distilling knowledge and scaffolding text (J.R Martin) 16/ From clinical report to clinical story: two ways of writing about a medical case (Gill Francis/Anneliese Kremer Dahl) 17/Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts (Kevin Nwogy/Thomas Bloor) 18/Another perspective on coherence and cohesive harmony (Michael Hoey) 19/Cohesion coherence: scientific texts (Gerald Parsons) ZO/The use of systemic linguistics to describe student summaries at university level (Helen Drury) Sl/Non-native writing and native revising -of scientific articles (Eija Ventola/Anna Mauranen). This collection of papers from the 16th International Systemics Congress (Helsinki, 1989) reflects the purpose of the congress, which was to establish a dialogue between systemic linguists and those working in other functionalist traditions. Klaus WELKE Funktionale Satzperspektive Ansatze und Probleme der funktionalen Grammatik Mtinster: Nodus, 1992 127~~. DM 32.00 ISBN 3-89323-230-3 (pb) Contents: l/Funktionale Grammatik 2/Thema - Rhema 3/Subjekt 4/Subjekt und Thema. This book discusses a number of fundamental issues in approaches to linguistics whose starting point is that syntactic structures cannot be properly explained without recourse to general and universal principles of human communication and cognition. 1.3

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Wolfgang HESS / Walter F SENDLMEIER (eds) Beitrage zur angewandten und experimentellen Phonetik (Zeitschrift fiir Dialektologie und Linguistik - Beihefte; 72) Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992 ISBN 3-5 1 S-06050-2 (pb) ix+244pp. DM 88.00 Contents: Fifteen papers on topics in the areas of speech production, intonation and speech synthesis, and transcription, speech perception, from the Phonetics session of the 1990 annual meeting of the German Society of Applied Linguistics. Ulrich F G KLEIN Fokus und Akzent: Bemerkungen zum Verhaltnis von und grammatischer Hervorhebung (Kolner Linguistische Arbeiten - Germanistik; 19) Hurth-Efferen: Gabel, 1992 ISBN 3-92 1527-24-4 (pb) DM 20.00 viii+lO2pp.

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Contents: l/Zur phonetischen Realisation der Prosodie S/Zum Status von Suprasegmentalia 3fAkzent und Intonation 4fZur Phonologie des Akzents SlSatzakzent und Fokus 6fNachwort. This book investigates linguistic regularities involving the relationship between prosodic accentuation and semantic or pragmatic focusing. John LAVER The Gift of Speech: Papers in the Analysis of Speech and Voice Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992 xviii+4OOpp. & 45.00 ISBN o-7486-03 13- 1 (hb) Contents: Introduction Part I/ Speech production l/The production of speech (1970) S/Slips of the tongue (1968) J/The detection and correction of slips of the tongue (1973) 4lNeurolinguistic aspects of speech production (1977) S/Monitoring systems in the neurolinguistic control of speech production (1979) G/Slips of the tongue as neuromuscular evidence for a model of speech production (1979) 7/Cognitive science and speech. a framework for research (1989) Part II/ The description of voice quality g/Language and non-verbal communication (1976) S/Voice quality and indexical information (1968) lo/The semiotic nature of phoneticdata (1976) ll/Labels for voices (1974) lP/The description of voice quality in general phonetic theory (1979) 13/Describing the normal voice (1981) 14/Phonetic and linguistic markers in speech (1979) 15/A perceptual protocol for the analysis of vocal profiles (1981) 16/Structural pathologies of the vocal folds and phonation (1983) 17/An acoustic system for the detection of laryngeal pathology (1986) 18/Acoustic waveform perturbations and voice disorders (1988) lS/The analysis of vocal quality: from the classical period to the twentieth century (1981) 20/ The concept of articulatory settings: an historical survey (1978). 1.4

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Stephen R ANDERSON A-Morphous Morphology (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; 62) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1992 xiv+434pp & 55.00/S 79.95 ISBN O-52 l-37260-7 (hb) & 17*95/S 24.95 ISBN O-52 l-37866-4 (pb) Contents: Introduction l/The study of word structure P/Why have a morphology at all? ~/IS morphology really about morphemes? 4/The inS/The theory of inflection G/Some teraction of morphology and syntax complex inflectional systems 7/Morphology in the lexicon: derivation 8/Clitics are phrasal affixes S/The relation of morphology to phonology lo/How much structure do words have? ll/Composites: words with internal structure 12lMorphology and the typology of languages 13/Marphological change 14/Morphology as a computational problem. While maintaining significant distinctions between inflection, derivation and compounding in terms of their place in a grammar, the novel theory presented in this book holds word structure to be the product of interacting principles from many parts of the grammar instead of localizing it in a single morphological component.

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Mark ARONOFF (ed.) Morphology Now (SUNY Series in Linguistics) Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992 vi+227pp. $ 17.95 ISBN o-7914-0816-7 (pb) Contents: Introduction (Mark Aronoff) l/Stems in Latin

verbal morphology (Mark Aronoff) 2/Bracketing paradoxes in Manipuri (Shobhana L Chelliah) 3/Derivation in syntax (Frank Drijkoningen) 4/Grammaticization theory and heads in morphology (Martin Haspelmath) S/Categorial morphology and the valency of nouns (Jack Hoeksema) G/Some concepts in Ahtna Athabaskan word formation (James Kari) 7/A nonconfigurational approach to morphology (Renate Raffelsiefen) 8/The role of internal syntax in the historical morphology of Eskimo (Willem J de Reuse). These papers on issues in morphological theory originated in a workshop on morphology organized at the 1989 LSA Summer Institute. They all assume without question that morphology is autonomous and should not be subsumed under other components of the grammar. Andrew

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l/Aims and impetus in morphological research Z/Morphology and the lexicon S/Morphology and Part II/ Other impetuses in morphonology 4lMorphology and syntax phological research S/Typological and diachronic issues G/Meaning-based approaches to morphology 7/Morphosyntactic properties and their realisation 8/Natural morphology and related approaches S/What morphology can contribute to general linguistic theory. Like its companion volumes in the Linguistic Theory Guides series, this introduction to approaches to morphology aims to provide graduate students and practising linguists with a thorough and evaluative description of prominent schools of thought which is non-partisan in tone. 1.5

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Elizabeth A COWPER A Concise Introduction to Syntactic Theory The Government-Binding Approach Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992 xii+205pp. $ 68.95/s 47.95 ISBN O-226-1 1644-1 (hb) $ 18.25/s 12.75 ISBN O-226-1 1646-8 (pb) Contents: l/The theory in context P/Categories and phrase structure 3/ Thematic relations and Theta-roles 4/Predicting phrase structure 5/NPmovement G/Government and case 7/WH-movement B/Move a and the theory of movement S/The empty category principle lo/Interpretation of nominals ll/Clauses and categories 12/A unified approach to locality constraints.

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This short introduction to the theory of Government and Binding is intended both as a course textbook for upper-level graduates and beginning graduate students, aiming to give them a quick start in using the theory to address syntactic questions, and as a basic resource book for linguists from other theoretical persuasions who want to know the essentials of GB theory. Susan D ROTHSTEIN (ed.) Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing (Syntax and Semantics; 25) San Diego, etc: Academic Press, 1991 xvii+264pp. ?price ISBN O-12-613525-8 (hb) ?price ISBN o-12-606106-8 (pb) Contents: Introduction (Susan D Rothstein) Part I/ Heads l/A case for emerging functional categories (Jaklin Kornfilt) P/Two functional catego3/0n the position ries in noun phrases: evidence from Modern Hebrew 4/Phrase structure of ellipsis in English of subjects (Heles Contreras) (Anne Lobeck) 5/The alignment of arguments in adjective phrases (Tim Stowell) Part II/ Licensing G/Syntactic licensing and subcategorization (Susan D Rothstein) 7/Adjunct_predicate licensing and D-structure (T R Rapaport) 8/A phrase structure theory for tertiaries (Thomas Ernst) and the nature of the derivation (David S/Relative clauses, licensing, Lebeaux) lo/Generalized transformations and the D-structure position of adjuncts (Margaret Speas). Most of the papers in this volume originated as talks at a conference held under the auspices of the 1989 LSA Summer Institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson. They focus on licensing mechanisms relating elements in syntactic representations, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licensers of complements and specifiers. 1.6

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Jon BARWISE / John ETCHEMENDY The Language of First-Order Logic Including the Macintosh Program Tarski’s World 3.0 -second edition, revised and expanded(CSLI Lecture Notes; 23) Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, I992 ISBN 0-937073-74-l (pb) xiv+297pp. $ 40.25/s 27.95 Contents: l/Introduction Part I/ Propositional logic P/Atomic sentences 3/Conjunctions, disjunctions, and negations 4lConditionals and biconditionals Part II/ Quantifiers 5/introduction to quantification G/Sentences with more than one quantifier 7/Someaspecific uses of quantifiers Part III/ Applications of first-order logic 8/First-order set theory S/Induction Part IV/ Advanced topics lo/Advanced topics in propositional logic 1 l/ Advanced topics in first-order logic. App/ How to use Tarski’s World. The main change from the first edition of this introductory textbook is the inclusion of a Fitch-style deductive system as a supplement to the treatment of informal methods of proof.

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A S TROELSTRA Lectures on Linear Logic (CSLI Lecture Notes; 29) Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992 ix+2OOpp. $ 52.75/s 36.75 ISBN o-937073-78-4 (hb) $ 21.7515 15.25 ISBN o-937073-77-6 (pb) Contents: l/Introduction S/Sequent calculus for linear logic S/Some elementary syntactic results 4/The calculus of two implications: a digression 5/Embeddings and approximations G/Natural deduction systems for linear logic 7/Hilbert-type systems 8/Algebraic semantics S/Combinatorial linear logic lO/Girard domains 1 l/Coherence in symmetric monoidal categories lZ/The storage operator as a cofree comonoid 13/ Evaluation in typed calculi 14/Computation by lazy evaluation in CCC’s IS/Computation by lazy evaluation in SMC’s and ILC’s lG/The categorical and linear machine 17/Proofnets for the multiplicative fragment 18/The algorithm of cut elimination for proofnets 19/MuItiplicative operators PO/The undecidability of linear logic 21/Gut elimination and strong normalization. This book explores the implications of linear logic, a type of logic introduced in 1987 by the French computer scientist J.-Y Girard. Linear logic is a logic of actions rather than of truth, which keeps track of the number of times data of a given type are used, and in which formulas represent either the data themselves or data types. Dietmar ZAEFFERER (ed.) Semantic Universals and Universal Semantics (Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics; 12) Berlin/New York: Foris, 1991 ISBN 3-11-013391-l (hb) viii+242pp. DM 112.00 Contents: l/Introduction: universals and semantics (Dietmar Zaefferer) Part I/ General questions 2/Linguistic universals in logical semantics (Johan van Benthem) ~/IS semantics universal, or isn’t it? On the relation of language, thought and semantic structure (Manfred Immler) 4/The problem of semantic incomparability (Johannes Bechert) Part II/ Basic issues 5/Predication and sentence constitution in universal perspective (Hans-Jurgen Sasse) G/Aristotle goes to Arizona, and finds a language without ‘and’ (David Gil) Part III/ Special topics 7;IIQuantity and number (Godehard Link) 8/Same remarks on polarity items (Manfred Krifka) S/Concessive relations as the dual of causal relations (Ekkehard Konig) lO/Conditionals and unconditionals: cross-linguistic and logical aspects (Dietmar Zaefferer). Written by linguistically oriented logicians and logically interested linguists, the essays in this collection bring together two major strands in research on human language: theoretical investigations into universal semantics, and empirical studies of semantic universals. 1.7

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(Goteborger Germanistische Forschungen; 33) Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1992 vi+l95pp. SKr 150.00 ISBN 9 l-7346-248-9 (pb) Contents: l/Textinterpretation Z/Sinnsemantische Relationen im System J/Sinnsemantische Relationen im Text 4/Voraussetzungen zur expliziten Darstellung der Kohasion S/Textanalysen im Rahmen eines theoretischen Interpretationsmodells. One of the conclusions of this empirical investigation of the textcohesion, and connectivity, is that, as linguistic concepts of coherence, far as textual comprehension is concerned, the distinction between socalled ‘lexical’ and ‘encyclopedic’ knowledge is a distinction without a difference.

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BRADLEY / Barbara E HOLLENBACH 4 Studies in the Syntax of Mixtecan Languages (SIL/UTA Publications in Linguistics; 111) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992 x+43lpp. $ 33.00 ISBN 0-88312-184-O (pb) Contents: Preface Part I/ A syntactic sketch of Yosondtia Mixtec (by Edwin R Farris) l/Introduction P/Basic sentences S/Verb phrases 4/Noun phrases 5/0ther phrases G/Parts of speech 7/Intersentential relations 81 Text Part II/ A syntactic sketch of Copala Trique (by Barbara E Hollenbath) S/Introduction IO/Basic sentences 1l/Verb phrases lP/Noun phrases 13/0ther phrases 14/Parts of speech lS/Intersentential relations lG/Text. Yosondiia Mixtec and Copala Trique are spoken by about. 7,000 and 15,000 people, respectively, in the western part of the state of Oaxaca, like those in earlier volumes Mexico. These sketches of their syntax, of the series, present the structure of the languages with minimum attention to theory, but with maximum attention to examples. Alice C HARRIS (ed.) The Kartvelian Languages (The Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus; 1) Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1991 ISBN o-88206-068-6 (hb) xiii+556pp. $ 100.00 Contents: l/Overview on the history of the Kartvelian languages (Alice C Harris) P/Georgian paleography (J Neville Birdsall) 3/0ld Georgian (Heinz Fahnich) 4/Modem Georgian (Howard I Aronson) 5/Mingrelian (Alice C Harris) G/Laz (Dee Ann Holisky) 7/Svan (Karl Horst Schmidt). The aim of the series of which this is the first volume is to make available, and enlarge upon, linguistic scholarship on the Caucasian languages that has remained largely unknown to linguists who read neither Russian nor Georgian. The present volume contains synchronic grammatical sketches of the Kartvelian, or South Caucasian, languages.

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Ignacio HUALDE Catalan (Descriptive Grammars) London/New York: Routledge, 1992 xxx+45 lpp. & 50.00 ISBN O-41 5-05498-2 (hb) Contents: l/Syntax (general questions, structural questions, coordination, reflexives, reciprocals, comparison, equatives, posnegation, anaphora, session, emphasis, topic, heavy shift, other movement processes, minor operational definitions for word-classes) Z/Morphology sentence types, 3lPhonoIogy 4lIdeophones and interjections S/Lexicon. Within the Romance family of languages, Catalan constitutes a link between the Ibero-Romance and the Gallo-Romance branches. This reference grammar pays special attention to those areas in which Catalan differs markedly from other Romance languages, especially Spanish.

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Martin J BALL / Nicole MULLER Mutation in Welsh London/New York: Routledge, 1992 ISBN O-4 15-03 165-6 (hb) xiv+32 lpp. & 55.00 Contents: Introduction l/Mutations in Standard Welsh L/Previous accounts 3/Comparative and historical aspects of mutation 4/The of mutation phonetics of mutation S/The phonology of mutation G/The syntax of mutation 7/interfaces a/The semantics of mutation S/The psycholinguislo/The sociolinguistics of mutation ll/The future of tics of mutation App l/The morphology of mutation App Z/Hard mutation mutations. App 3/The pronunciation of Welsh. Like other Celtic languages, Welsh is characterized by mutation, a grammaticalized feature whereby regular phonological changes occur to the initial consonants of words according to the syntactic context in which the words occur. This in-depth study of mutation in Welsh shows to what extent this feature crosses the borders between morphology and syntax and phonology, and provides evidence for the interfaces between these traditional components of linguistic analysis. Donald A BURQUEST / Wyn D LAIDIG Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku (SIL/UTA Publications in Linguistics; 108) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992 ISBN O-883 12-803-g (pb) viii+227pp. $ 17.00 Introduction (Donald A Burquest/Wyn D Laidig) l/Phonology Contents: of Sawai (Ronald Whistler) Z/Kisar phonology (John Christensen/Sylvia Christensen) 3/Segments, syllables, and stress in Larike (Carol J Laidig) 4/A lexical phonology of West Tarangan (Richard Nivens). The papers in this volume deal with phonological aspects of four Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on various Moluccan islands in the Indonesian Archipelago.

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Tracy Alan HALL Syllable Structure and Syllable-Related Processes in German (Linguistische Arbeiten; 276) Ti;bingen: Niemeyer, 1992 ISBN 3-484-30276-3 (pb) viii+246pp. DM 102.00 Contents: Introduction l/Theoretical principles and background on German phonology Z/German syllable structure and syllabification 3/The syllabification of glides and vowels 4/The velar nasal and the representation of schwa 5/The distribution of [cl and [xl. Written within the framework of Lexical Phonology, this book provides a detailed treatment of German syllable structure, syllabification, and phonological processes sensitive to syllable structure in Modern It proposes and applies an explicit cyclic algorithm Standard German. for the assignment of syllable structure in the course of derivations. Cecilia HEDLUND On Participles Stockholm: Stockholm University, 1992 ISBN 9 l-7 153-028-2 (pb) 194pp. ?price Contents: l/Introduction S/The ‘fa’-construction S/The periphrastic passive 4/Participles as adjectives S/The clitic -s G/The supine 7/The present participle 8/Summary. This monograph focuses on the properties of participles in Swedish as seen from a government-and-binding perspective. Its central claim is that the present and past participles are formed in the morphological while the infinitive and the supine, along with the finite component, forms of the verb, are formed in the syntax. Shin Ja J HWANG / William R MERRIFIELD (eds) Language in Context: Essays for Robert E Longacre Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992 ?price ISBN O-88312-183-2 (pb) xxiii+616pp. Contents: Thirty-seven essays on Discourse structures and strategies (by William C Mann & Sandra A Thompson, Eugene Wolfgang U Dressier, Hanna K Ulatowska & Maria Sadowska, and Nicolai Winther A Nida, Nielsen) Topic, focus, and discourse particles (by Randall Buth, Robert A Dooley, Kenneth R Hollingsworth &Charles Peck, Linda K Jones, and Mary Ruth Wise) Expository discourse (by Betty Lou Dubois, Carolyn E Kent, and R.J Reddick) Verbs of speech (by Uche E Aaron, Karl J Franklin, Larry B Jones, and Arthur L Palacas) Pragmatic functions (by Nancy Bishop, Eugene H Casad, Shin Ja J Hwang, Ivan Lowe, Richard and Kerry S Robichaux) Foreground and tense-aspect (by S Pittman, Donald A Burquest, Somsonge Burusphat, Helen Aristar Dry, Stephen H Levinson, William Merrifield, and Dennis Newton) Clause and sentence (by Ruth M Brend, Walter A Cook, Henry M Hoenigswald, and Barbara E Hollenbach) and Phonology. phonological history, and writing systems (by Jerold A Edmondson & Kenneth Gregerson, Benjamin Elson, George L Huttar, and Frank E Robbins). Written to honour Robert Longacre on his seventieth birthday, these essays reflect the varied interests of Longacre’s own linguistic work.

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Elisabeth LEISS Die Verbalkategorien des Deutschen Ein Beitrag zur Theorie der sprachlichen Kategorisierung (Studia Linguistica Germanica; 31) Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 1992 vi+334pp. DM 140.00 ISBN 3-l l-012746-6 (hb) Contents: l/Einleitung 2lAspekt 3iPassiv 4lZwischen Aspekt und Passiv: das Resultativum S/Tempus: zwischen Aspekt und Modus G/Zusammenfassung und Ausblick. This study of the verbal categories of aspect, passive, resultative, tense, and mood in present-day German draws attention to the differing degrees of complexity of these categories, which it looks upon as distinct stages of a uniform cognitive process. Charles F MEYER Apposition in Contemporary English (Studies in English Language) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1992 xiv+152pp. & 25.00/$ 39.95 ISBN O-52 l-39475-9 (hb) Contents: l/Apposition as a grammatical relation P/The syntax of apposition 3/The semantics of apposition 4IThe pragmatics of apposition 5/Apposition in the grammar of English. This book attempts to resolve the many disagreements surrounding the category of apposition in previous studies of this grammatical relation both by defining apposition and its linguistic characteristics and by detailing its usage as recorded in computer corpora of written and spoken British and American English. Matthias MEYER Das Englische Perfekt: Grammatischer Status, Semantik und Zusammenspiel mit dem Progressive (Linguistische Arbeiten; 277) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1992 x+202pp. DM 96.00 ISBN 3-484-302771 (pb) l/Einfuhrung 2/Der streng strukturalistische Zugriff auf das Contents: Perfekt am Beispiel Twaddells S/Das Perfekt bei Palmer 3/Leech und die Londoner Grammatik 5/Das Perfekt in Huddlestons ‘Introduction to the Grammar of English’ G/McCawley und das englische Perfekt 7/ Reichenbach und die Weiterentwicklung seines Modells durch Hornstein 8/Adverbialien und das Perfekt: eine Sammlung von Problemfallen 9/ Geschehenskonzepte und das nicht-erweiterte Perfekt lO/Das Present Perfect Progressive 1 l/Das englische Perfekt im Uberblick. Starting from Twaddell’s account of the present perfect in English in terms of current relevance, this study attempts to provide a link between this fairly abstract monosemic characterization of the perfect and its various context-dependent readings.

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Stefan J SCHIERHOLZ Lexikologische Analysen zur Abstraktheit, Haufigkeit und Polysemie deutscher Substantive Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1992 x+352pp. DM 108.00 ISBN 3-484-30269-o (pb) Contents: l/Die Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit 2/Das Untersuchungsobjekt 3/ Die Bestimmung des Abstraktheitsgrades der Substantive 4/Die H&figkeitsbestimmung der Substantive S/Die Bestimmung der Polysemie der Substantive G/Die Uberprufung der Arbeitshypothesen ‘I/Die Bewertung der Resultate 8/Zusammenfassung und Kritik. This statistical study of nouns in Modern German investigates the plausibility of certain widespread assumptions concerning the relationships between the frequency of occurrence of a noun and its degree of abstractness and polysemy. G&an SCHt)FER Semantische Funktionen des deutschen Dativs: Vorschlag einer Alternative zur Diskussion urn den homogenen/heterogenen Dativ der deutschen Gegenwartssprache MGnster: Nodus, 1992 lllpp. DM 32.00 ISBN 3-89323-236-2 (pb) l/Vorbemerkung Z/Darstellung und Kritik der traditionellen Contents: Klassifizierung von Dativtypen 3/Eine alternative Beschreibung der Funktionen des Dativs 4/Schlu6bemerkungen. This study of the dative in modern German looks upon the various interpretations of this category, not as so many different types of dative, but as inferences from one of three basic functions of the dative. Recherches sur le francais par16 Aix-en-Provence: Universite de Provence ISBN 2-85399-286-l 11(1992)135pp. FF 85.00 2.4

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Miriam VOGHERA Sintassi e intonazione nell’italiano parlato Bologna: 11 Mulino, 1992 ISBN 88-15-03344-o (pb) 335pp. L 38,000 Contents: l/I1 parlato 2/L’italiano parlato 3/L’analisi intonativa 4/L’analisi sintattica 5/I dati G/Vincoli fonici ed enunciativi. This detailed study of the prosody and syntax of spoken Italian is based on a corpus of recorded material comprising different degrees of formality, ranging from a conversation between friends to part of the closing address at a scientific conference.

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Florentia Iliberritana. Revista de Estudios Granada: Universidad de Granada l( 1992)437pp. ?price ?ISSN

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Gabor BEREZCKl Grundzuge der tscheremissischen Sprachgeschichte II (Studia Uralo-Altaica; 34) Szeged, Hungary: Attila Jozsef University, 1992 ?price ISBN 963-481-881-1 (pb) 129pp. Contents: l/Tscheremissische Worter mit finnisch-ugrischen Etymologie Z/Tscheremissische Worter nichtfinnougrischen Ursprungs mit Entsprech3/Die permischen Lehnworter im ungen in den verwandten Sprachen Tscheremissischen. The greater part of this etymological dictionary of Cheremis is devoted to words with Finno-Ugric origins. J adranka GVOZDANOVIC (ed.) Indo-European Numerals (Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs; 57) Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 ISBN 3-l l-01 1322-8 (hb) DM 468.00 x+943pp. Contents: l/Remarks on numeral systems (Jadranka Gvozdanovic) Z/Some numerals (Werner Winther) 3/Anatolian thoughts about Indo-European (Heiner Eichner) 4/Tocharian (Werner Winter) 5/01d Indian (Ronald E Emmerick) G/Middle Indo-Aryan (K.R Norman) 7/Modem Indo-Aryan (Hermann Berger) 8/Iranian (Ronald E Emmerick) S/Armenian (Werner Winther) lO/Thraco-Phrygian (Edgar C Polome.) 1 l/Greek (Frederik M. J Waanders) 12/italic (Robert Coleman) 13/Romance (Glanville Price) 14/ Celtic (David Greene) 15/Germanic (Alan S.C Ross/Jan B Berns) 16/ Balto-Slavic (Bernard Comrie) 17/Albanian (Eric P Hamp). Originally planned by the late Alan S.C Ross to be published in the early 197Os, this volume presents a comorehensive survey of Indo-Eurobased on knowledge available two decades pean evidence on numerals considered this appropriate. ago and updated where the authors George Y SHEVELOV In and Around Kiev Heidelberg: Winter, 1991 ISBN vi+412pp. DM 240.00 ISBN DM 190.00

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Contents: Twenty-two essays (twelve in English, six in Russian, two in German, one in Polish, and one in French) on topics in Ukrainian and Slavic linguistics and philology, written and published in the last twenty years, and reprinted here to reflect the author’s contribution to Slavic linguistics and cultural development seen from a Ukranian viewpoint. Ladislav ZGUSTA History, Languages, and Lexicographers (Lexicographica - Series Maior; 41) Tiibingen: Niemeyer, 1992 v+155pp. DM 66.00 ISBN 3-484-30941-5 (pb) Contents: Introduction: history and its multiple meaning (Ladislav Zgusta) l/The dictionary as ideology: sixteen case studies (Henry Kahane/Renee Kahane) S/The development of Afrikaans and the lexicographical tradition (R.H Gouws/F.A Ponelis) S/Lexicography and the history of the Chinese language (Thomas B.1 Creamer). This volume offers analyses of dictionaries as contributing factors in the history of languages or as sources for our knowledge of their history, along with analyses of the sociological and ideological embedding of dictionaries and their compilers.

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Graeme HIRST Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of Ambiguity (Studies in Natural Language Processing) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1992 xiv+263pp. & 15.95/$ 22.95 ISBN O-52 l-42898-X (pb) Contents: l/Introduction Part I/ Semantic interpretation S/Semantic interpretation 3/The Absity semantic interpreter Part II/ Lexical disambiguation 4/Lexical disambiguation 5/Polaroid words Part III/ Structural disambiguation G/Structural disambiguation 7/The semantic enquiry desk Part IV/ Conclusion 8/Conclusion S/Speculations, partially baked ideas, and exercises for the reader. This is the paperback edition of a book published originally in 1987. Using ideas drawn from computational linguistics, Montague semantics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology, it presents a theoretically motivated framework for the automatic resolution of ambiguities in natural language texts. Ursula KLENK (ed.) Computatio Linguae Aufsatze zur algorithmischen und quantitativen Analyse (ZDL Beihefte; 73) Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992 vii+ 168~~. DM 58.00 ISBN 3-5 15-06049-9 (pb)

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Contents: l/Investigating English phonotactic constraints using a computerized lexicon (Stuart Davis) P/Toward a predictive theory of natural language (Ramon Faulk/Frances Goertzer Gustavson) S/ILEX: a linguistic approach to computational lexica (Dafydd Gibbon) 4/Dendrogramme im dienst der Dialektometrie (Hans Goebl) 5/Segmentierung franzosischer Wortformen in Morphe ohne Verwendung eines Lexikons (Axe1 Jan8en) G/Finite state computational morphology (Harri Jappinen) 7/Verfahren morphologischer Segmentierung und die Wortstruktur des Spanischen (Ursula Klenk) 8/Syntaktische Hierarchic und lineare Abfolge (Hagen Langer/Sven Naumann) S/Uber strukturenund kategorienvielvalt in kombinatorischen kategorialsyntaxen (Wolf Thimmel). These nine papers explore a number of current issues in the computational and quantitative analysis of natural language, focusing on topics in morphology, phonology, lexis, syntax, and dialectology. Richard SPROAT Morphology and Computation (ACL-MIT Press Series in Natural-Language Processing) Cambridge, Mass/London: The MIT Press, 1992 xv+295pp. $ 47.25 ISBN 0-262-19314-O (hb) Contents: Introduction l/Applications of computational morphology 2/The nature of morphology S/Computational morphology 4/Same peripheral issues. Like the tutorial on which it is based, this book is intended to serve both as an overview of the issues in morphology and as a critical review of the literature on computational approaches to morphology and of the techniques and systems used in such approaches. R.P

VAN DE RIET / R.A MEERSMAN (eds) Linguistic Instruments in Knowledge Engineering Amsterdam, etc: North-Holland, 1992 x+298pp. fl 190.00/$ 108.00 ISBN 0-444-88394-O (hb) Contents: Part I/ Linguistic aspects l/Assessing Functional Grammar for knowledge representation (H Weigand) Z/Lexigram: a functional lexicogrammatical tool for knowledge engineering (S.C Dik/W Meijs/P Vossen) 3/Knowledge engineering and knowledge representation for natural language understanding systems (R Studer/D Landes/Th Perlein) 4/Linking linguistic and non-linguistic information (P Gerstl) 5/Knowledge graphs (P James) Part II/ Information systems aspects 6/A comparison of the linguistic theories of Searle and Habermas as a basis for communication supporting systems (J.L.G Dietz/G.A.M Widdershoven) 7/Modelling communication in organizations (J.L.G Dietz) 8/Language and computing in organised behaviour (R Stamper) S/Extending the conceptual graph approach for data conceptual modelling (B Moulin/P Creasy) IO/Concepts, and arbitrary relations: some linguistic and ontological criattributes, teria for structuring knowledge bases (N Guarino) Part III/ Logic aspects II/How the modelling of knowledge can be based on linguistics and founded in logic (F Dignum/R.P van de Riet) lZ/Modal logics for knowl13/Finite Kripke models for knowledge representation (J-J.Ch Meyer) edge representation (E.G.C Thijsse).

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In this volume, specialists from the fields of linguistics, knowledge engineering, and information management systems, address the question of how linguistic theories and tools can be applied to practical problems in knowledge engineering and information systems design. Detlef

P ZAUN Eine Einfiihrung, nicht nur fur Linguisten (Kolner Linguistische Arbeiten - Germanistik; 20) Hiirth-Efferen: Gabel, 1992 ISBN 3-92 1527-20- 1 (pb) vi+l47pp. DM 24.00 Contents: l/Einleitung S/Elementare LISP-Funktionen S/Definition eigener Funktionen 4/Rekursion 5fFunktionale G/Iteration 7lSpezialformen 8/Der Chart-Parser S/Anhang. This introduction to LISP pays special emphasis to the applicability of this programming language for purposes of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. LISP:

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Diane BLAKEMORE Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics; 6) Oxford/Cambridge USA: Blackwell, 1992 xi+l9lpp. & 37.50 ISBN o-631-15866-9 (hb) & 12.95 ISBN o-631-15867-7 (pb) Contents: Part I/ Fundamentals l/Communication and the context 2/ Relevance S/Pragmatics, linguistics and literature Part II/ Explicature 4/Explicating and implicating S/The proposition expressed G/Higher-level explicatures: attitudes and speech acts Part III/ Implicature 7/Types of implicature 8/Constraints on implicatures S/Implicatures and style. This textbook on linguistic pragmatics is grounded in Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory. Rival theories are introduced only indirectly, through discussion of where and how the relevance-theoretic account diverges from other accounts, both in its general approach to communication and on specific issues. Bettina GIESE Untersuchungen zur sprachlichen Tauschung (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik; 129) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1992 viii+ 140~~. DM 64.00 ISBN 3-483-31129-o (pb) Contents: l/Einleitung 2IAllgemeine Bestimmung sprachlicher Tauschung 4/Ergeb3/Entwurf einer Typologie sprachlicher Tauschungshandlungen nisse und Ausblick. Drawing on speech act theory and Grice’s theory of meaning, this book outlines the general principles underlying deception via language and presents a tentative typology of deceptive locutionary acts.

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GRIJNS Jakarta Malay: A Multidimensional Approach to Spatial Variation (Verhandelingen; 149) Leiden: Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, 1991 ISBN 90-6718-034-3 (v.1) ..-035-I (v.2) (pb) xx+534pp. fl 100.00 Contents (VoI.1): Introduction l/The materials for this study: previous studies and survey data Z/Jakarta Malay as an independent vernacular 4/The trial set (HALS I-50) S/Data 3/Theory, methods and techniques sets 2-13 G/The discrete dialects of Jakarta Malay: their identification and geographical position 7/Description and comparison of the dialects 8/The neutral variants and idioiects in the total data S/Conclusion. (Vo1.2): Texts, Tables, List of variables, Indexes, Maps. This study examines spatial variation in Jakarta Malay, a language spoken by some 2 million speakers living mostly in the rural areas surrounding Jakarta. To uncover the pattern of dialect variation found in the language, the author has made use of a technique known as mulwhich has enabled him to simultaneously tiple correspondence analysis, group the dialect speakers and the speech elements they typically use. Using this method, which is claimed to open new perspectives for delimiting sociolects and for comparative historical classifications, the author distinguishes seven discrete dialects of the language. Ernst Herbert SCHMIDT Interdialektale Verstehbarkeit Eine Untersuchung im Rheinund Moselfrankischen (Mainzer Studien zur Sprachund Volksforschung; 18) Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992 ISBN 3-5 15-06056- 1 (pb) xii:253pp. DM 76.00 l/Einleitung Z/Dialektverstehen J/Dialektalitatsund DiffeContents: renzmessungen 4/Arealitat, Dialektalitat und interdialektale Differenz S/Interdialektale Verstehbarkeit im Rheinund Moselfrankischen 6/Zusammenfassung. This book presents the findings of an empirical investigation into the mutual intelligibility of two types of Franconian dialects spoken in the Rhine and Moselle areas. 6.3

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Ulrich AMMON / Marlis HELLINGER (eds) Status Change of Languages (Foundations of Communication and Cognition) Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1991 ISBN 3-1 l-012668-0 (hb) DM 248.00 ix+547pp. Contents: Part I/ National or official languages l/Linguistic 2/The role of pressure and prestige shift (Roland Willemyns)

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the change of the status of French in Quebec since 1960 (Normand Labrie) 3/Changes in the status and function of Quechua (Uttavon Gleich) 4/Status types and status changes in the Arabic language (Dagmar Glass) Wolfgang Reuschel) 5/Status change of languages in sub-Saharan Africa (Catherine Griefenow-Mewis) G/Socioeconomic transitions and language status change: the case of Luxembourg (Kathryn A Davis) 7/Language status shift in the United States: a European perspective (Helga BisterBroosen/Roland Willemyns) 8/Hindi language planning: a case study of status change (Hans R Dua) 9/1n search of status: Bahasa Malaysia for national unification (Rodolfo Jacobson) Part II/ Nonstandard or standardizing languages lo/The status of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea: the colonial predicament (Suzanne Romaine) ll/The changing status of Melanesian Pidgin English (Peter Mihlhausler) 12/Function and status change Part III/ Non-official of pidgin and creole languages (Marlis Hellinger) or minority languages 13/Three dilemmas of organized efforts to reverse language shift (Joshua A Fishman) 14lThe changing status of US Spanish: de facto second language? (Jacob L Ornstein-Galicia) 15/The status of a minority language in India: a case study of Maithili (S Boopathy) 16/Status and function changes of Dutch as immigrant language in Australia (Anne Pauwels) lir/Problems of status and status change of Yiddish (J&pen Biehl) 18/The changing status of English in Switzerland (Urs Dirmiller) 19/Evolution et statut des variantes standard et dialectales de I’Allemand en Alsace (Frederic Hartweg) Part IV/ Varieties of German PO/The status of German as a language of science and the importance of the English language for German-speaking scientists (Sabine Skudlik) Sl/Recent changes in the status of German as a language of chemistry (Stefan Michels) 22/0n the status and changes in the status of German as a language of diplomacy (Ulrich Ammon) 23/Phases of language maintenance and shift: on the status of Michigan Franconian (Renate Born) 24/Diachronic and synchronic aspects of status change: the case of the Old Order Amish and related groups (Joachim Raith) Part V/ Special Topics 25/Assessing language status: some problems (Jean Aitchison) 26/Der Weg von einem Sprachprojekt zu einer lebenden Welthilfsprache: einige Aspekte des Statuswandels, dargestellt am Beispiel des Esperanto (Alicja Sakaguchi) 27/Deference, politeness and the status of language: a study in the variability and changeability of a crucial relationship (Harald Haarmann). Rajend MESTHRIE Language in Indenture A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa London/New York: Routledge, 1991 xvii+325pp. & 40.00 ISBN O-4 15-06404-X (hb) Contents: l/The historical background S/Dialects in contact S/The sociohistoric setting of language shift 4/Language contact and language change 5/Language obsolescence App Al A skeleton grammar of Indian Bhojpuri App B/ Sample texts App C/ Questionnaires. Between 1860 and 1911, thousands of Indian labourers were transplanted to colonial South Africa under indenture. This sociolinguistic case study traces the evolution of Bhojpuri, one of the Indic languages

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that got transplanted with these labourers, generally known as Hindi, focusing on the status language to survive in a predominantly 6.4

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Carol A BLACKSHIRE-BELAY Foreign Workers’ German: A Concise Glossary of Phrases Lanham/New York: University Press of America, 1991 viii+l45pp. $ 38.50 ISBNO-08 19 1-82 17-6 (hb) $ 23.50 ISBN O-8191-8218-4 (pb) Contents: l/The introduction Z/The speech community 3/Grammatical information and form of entry 4/Verb forms and phrases 5/The glossary. This glossary aims to provide a lexical research tool for linguists interested in the untutored second language acquisition of adult foreign workers in Germany. Michael CLYNE (ed.) Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different Nations Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 vi+481pp. DM 198.00 ISBN 3-l 1-012855-l (hb) introduction (Michael Clyne) 2/PortuContents: l/Pluricentric languages: guese as a pluricentric language (Alan N Baxter) J/Spanish as a pluricentric language (R.W Thompson) ~/IS Dutch a pluricentric language? (G Geerts) 5/Multiple centres of language development: the case of Tamil (E Annamalai) G/Swedish as a pluricentric language (Mikael Reuter) 7/ German as a pluricentric language (Michael Clyne) 8/French as a pluricentric language (Georges Ludi) S/English as a pluricentric language (Gerhard Leitner) lo/Korean as a pluricentric language (Chin-W Kim) ll/Is Arabic a pluricentric language? (Hassan R.S Abd-el-Jawad) 12/ Chinese as a pluricentric language (David Bradley) 13/Amen tel hay kay: Armenian as a pluricentric language (S Peter Cowe) 14/SerboCroatian as a pluricentric language (Dalibor Brozovic:) 15/Hindi-Urdu as a pluricentric language (Hans R Dua) lG/Malay as a pluricentric language (Asmah Haji Omar) 17/Pacific Pidgin Englishes (S.A Wurm) 18/Macedonian as an Ausbau language (Olga Miseka Tomic:) 19/Epilogue (Michael Clyne). In this collection of invited papers, the term ‘pluricentric’ is used to describe languages with several interacting centres, each providing a national variety with some of its own norms, like the various national varieties of English spoken in Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa. The papers include a treatment of the linguistic indices of each variety they discuss: syntactic, phonological, lexical, and pragmatic. R.D

GRILL0 Dominant Languages: Language and Hierarchy in Britain and France Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1989 ix+261pp. ISBN O-52 l-36540-6 (hb) & 29.95/S 49.94 Contents: l/Introduction: the politics of communicative practice 2/The view from the centre: France 3/And the view from England 4/A view

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from the periphery: ‘Occitanic’ S/The politics of language in Wales, Ireland and Scotland G/Immigrants and language: the ‘mother tongue’ 7/Immigrants and language: the issue of competence g/Language and social differentiation S/‘Barbarous tongues’: the hierarchical ordering of difference lo/Language, class, power, education 1 l/Authoritative discourse. Guided by the anthropologist’s interest in language as a social phenomenon and in differentation as a central feature of social structure, this book examines the concept of language dominance, and the causes and consequences of linguistic hierarchy, through a detailed and systematic comparison of Britain and France, paying special attention to the politics of language in these countries. MiklBs KONTRA Tanulm&nyok a hatarainkon tCli k&nyelvUsCg& (A Magyarsagkutatas K&iyvtBra; 11) Budapest: Magayarsagkutatd hit&et, 1991 163~~. Ft 95.00 ISBN 963-8 105-10-O (pb) Contents: l/El&z6 (Introduction, by Miklds Kontra) 2/A magyar nyelv helyzete Csehszlovakiaban 19 18-199 1 (On Hungarian language use in Slovakia 19 18-199 1, by Istvan Lanstyak) 3/Magyarul beszel8k a mai Ausztriaban (On speakers of Hungarian in Austria today, by Istvan Szepfalusi) 4/KodvBltas es Bntudat az europai periferian (Codeswitching. and consciousness in the European periphery, by Susan Gal). This volume brings together three Hungarian studies on bilingualism beyond Hungary’s borders. Carla

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Sentence (SIL/UTA

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Bilingualism

Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1991 ISBN O-883 12-667-2 (pb) xvi+l94pp. $ 15.00 l/Introduction P/Use in bilingualism surveys 3/Test developContents: ment methodology 4/Survey of the literature S/Studies in reliability and validity G/The reported proficiency evaluation 7/Conclusion and call for research. App A/ Figures and statistics App B/ Sample score sheet App C/ Elaborated transcriptions App D/ Sample discrimination index and difficulty level. Sentence Repetition Testing (SRT), the subject of this book, is a screening device designed to facilitate testing the large numbers of people required for drawing conclusions about patterns of communitywide bilingualism. High correlations are claimed to have been found between the performance of second-language speakers on SRTs and a descriptive estimation of second-language proficiency known as the Reported Proficiency Evaluation. English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English Amsterdam: John Benjamins 12/2(1991)173pp. fl SO.OO/$ 30.00 (2 issues) ISSN 0 172-8865 Language Problems and Language Planning Amsterdam: John Benjamins 16/1(1992)104pp. fl SO.OO/$ 35.00 (3 issues)

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Malcolm COULTHARD (ed.) Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis London/New York: Routledge, 1992 vi+266pp. & 40.00 ISBN O-4 15-06686-7 (hb) & 14.99 ISBN O-41 5-06687-5 (pb) Contents: l/Towards an analysis of discourse (John Sinclair/Malcolm Coulthard) 2/The significance of intonation in discourse (Malcolm Coulthard) J/Exchange structure (Malcolm Coulthard/David Brazil) 4/Priorities in discourse analysis (John Sinclair) 5/A functional description of questions (Amy Tsui) G/Caught in the act: using the rank scale to address problems of delicacy (Dave Willis) 7/Analysing everyday conversation (Gill Francis/Susan Hunston) 8/inner and outer: spoken discourse in the language classroom (Jane Willis) S/Intonation and feedback in the EFL classroom (Martin Hewings) lo/Interactive lexis: prominence and paradigms (Mike McCarthy) ll/Listening to people reading (David Brazil) 12/Forensic discourse analysis (Malcolm Coulthard). This collection presents current work of the Birmingham school in the analysis of spoken discourse. The first three papers contain republished material outlining the theoretical foundations on which the other nine build. Alessandro DURANTI / Charles GOODWIN (eds) Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language; 11) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1992 viii+363pp. & 50.00/$ 75.00 ISBN O-521-38169-X (hb) & 19.95/$ 27.95 ISBN O-521-42288-4 (pb) Contents: l/Rethinking context: an introduction (Charles Goodwin/Alessandro Duranti) 2/The indexical ground of deictic reference (William F Hanks) S/Language in context and language as context: the Samoan respect vocabulary (Alessandro Duranti) 4/Context contests: debatable truth statements on Tanna (Lamont Lindstrom) S/Contextualization, tradition, and the dialogue of genres. Icelandic legends of the kraftaskiild (Richard Bauman) G/Assessments and the construction of context (Charles & Marjorie Harness Goodwin) 7/In another context (Emanuel A Schegloff) 8/Contextualization and understanding (John J Gumperz) S/Contextualization in Kalapalo narratives (Ellen B Basso) lo/Radio talk-show and the pragmatics of possible worlds (Frank Gaik) ll/The interpenetration of communicative contexts: examples from medical encounters (Aaron V Cicourel) lZ/The routinization of repair in courtroom discourse (Susan U Philips) 13/The negotiation of context in face-to-face interaction (Adam Kendon) 14/indexing gender (Elinor Ochs). In this volume, language and context are analyzed as interactively achieved phenomena, with context functioning both as a constraint on language use and as a product of it. In addition to their general introduction to the volume as a whole, the editors have prefaced each essay with a separate introduction providing relevant theoretical and methodological background and relating the essay to the rest of the volume.

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Richard J WATTS Power in Family Discourse (Contributions to the Sociology of Language; 63) Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 DM 136.00 ISBN 3-l 1-013228-l (hb) xiv+299pp. Contents: l/Introduction P/Towards a dynamic model of discourse 3/ Defining power 4/intervention as interruption in social science research 5/Types of verbal intervention in family discourse G/Latent and emergent networks 7/Status in the emergent network 8/interventions and the negotiation of status and power S/Intervention research in and beyond family discourse. Based on fifteen hours of transcribed discourse from a British and a Swiss-German family, this discourse monograph examines how power is negotiated and distributed in family discourse, focusing on the function of interruptive behaviour, not as a factor indicative of asocial speech behaviour, but as a factor in the distribution of power in ongoing verbal interaction. To this end, it adapts the concept of social network to describe the dynamic nature of interpersonal relationships in families and other small groups.

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Martin ATKINSON Children’s Syntax An Introduction to Principles and Parameters Theory (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics; 5) Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 viii+325pp. & 40.00 ISBN 0-631-17267-X (hb) & 14.95 ISBN o-631-17268-8 (pb) Introduction l/Laying the foundations Z/Standard theory and Contents: language acquisition S/Principles and parameters theory 4/Null subjects in the theory of grammar and language acquisition S/Parameterized binding theory and the subset principle G/The child’s knowledge of principles of grammar 7/Epistemological priority and argument structure 8/ Developmental mechanisms S/Constraining parameters lO/Functional categories and the functional parameterization hypothesis 1 l/Final thoughts. This introduction to the primary literature on first-language acquisition is meant for students following advanced courses in the subject or for graduate students starting their research. In addition to providing a systematic presentation of the theoretical framework which has emerged since the mid-1980s, it seeks to put this framework into perspective, both by contrasting it with what went before and by raising a number of fundamental issues that are still unclear. Included among the latter are the questions of whether language development is a continuous process and whether early structured speech is diagnostic of a truly linguistic system.

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A LUCY Language Diversity and Thought A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language; 12) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1992 xi+328pp. ?price ISBN O-52 l-38797-3 (pb) Contents: Introduction Part I/ Development of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in America l/Boas and Sapir P/Wharf Part II/ Approaches in anthropological linguistics 3/Typical ethnographic case studies 4/Theoretical and methodological advances Part III/ Approaches in comparative psycholinguistics 5/Experimental studies on the lexical coding of colour G/Experimental studies on grammatical categories 7/0verview and assessment of previous empirical research. This book reexamines the proposal that the grammar of a language affects the way the speakers of the language think about reality. It reviews the various lines of empirical enquiry which arose in America in response to the ideas of Sapir and Whorf and then proposes a new and more adequate approach to future empirical research. In a separate volume, the author has illustrated the proposed approach with a case study comparing the grammar of English with that of Yuacatec Maya, an inand identifying distinctive patterns digenous language spoken in Mexico, of thinking related to the differences between the two languages.

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Helmut GIPPER Wilhelm von Humboldts Bedeutung fir Theorie und Praxis moderner Sprachforschung Mfinster: Nodus, 1992 DM 69.00 ISBN 3-89323-2311 (pb) 273~~. Contents: Vorwort Part I/ Humboldts Sprachauffassung l/Wilhelm von Humboldt als Begrinder moderner Sprachforschung Z/Wilhelm von Humboldts Bedeutung fir die moderne Sprachwissenschaft 3/Individuelle und universelle ZGge der Sprachen in der Sicht Wilhelm von Humboldts 4/ Sprache und Denken in der Sicht Wilhelm von Humboldts S/Schwierigkeiten beim Schreiben der Wahrheit in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft G/Selbstentfremdung und Selbstfindung des Menschen aus der Sicht der Humboldtischen Sprachwissenschaft 7/Verstehen als sprachlicher Annaherungsprozel3 Part II/ Humboldts sprachliche Weltansicht: Konstrukt oder nachweisbare Real&at? 8/Muttersprachliches und wissenschaftliches Weltbild S/Die Kluft zwischen muttersprachlichem und physikalischem Weltbild lO/Sprachliches Weltbild, wissenschaftliches Weltbild und ideo1 l/Wechselwirkungen zwischen sprachlichem logische Weltanschauung Weltbild, wissenschaftlichem Weltbild und ideologischer Weltanschauung in Forschungsprozessen 12/Vom Aufbau des sprachlichen Weltbildes im ProzeB der Spracherlernung in den ersten drei Lebensjahren.

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The chapters of this volume are partially revised versions of essays written since 1956 in which the author underlines the importance of Humboldt’s thought on language for modern linguistics. Helmut WEISS Universalgrammatiken aus der ersten Halfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland: Eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung Miinster: Nodus, 1992 DM 44.00 ISBN 3-89323-239-7 (pb) 191pp. Contents: Einleitung l/Systematische Darstellung Z/Grammaticae universales theodiscae. Chapter 2 of this overview of early 18th-century German thought on universal grammar discusses the work of nineteen German philosophical grammarians whose grammatical treatises were written between 1700 and 1750. Chapter 1 offers historical background information on the period under review.

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Le langage et l’homme. Recherches pluridisciplinaires sur le langage Louvain-la-Neuve: Editions De Boeck-Wesmael ISSN 0458-725 1 27/2(1992)12Opp. BF 1,500 (4 issues) J;irgen NENDZA Wort und Fiktion: Eine Untersuchung zum Problem der Fiktionalitat in der Sprachzeichenkommunikation (Aachener Studien zur Semiotik und Kommunikationsforschung; 28) Aachen: Alano/Rader, 1992 ISBN 3-89399- 156-5 (pb) DM 38.00 2oopp.

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INDEX (references

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Ammon & Hellinger/ Anderson/ A-morphous Aronoffi Morphology Atkinson/ Children’s

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Ball & Mbller/ Mutation in Welsh/ 2.3 Barwise & Etchemendy/ The language of first-order logic/ Bates/ The proceedings of the tenth West Coast conference linguistics/ 1.1 Berezcki/ Grundzbge der tscheremissischen Sprachgeschichte Blackshire-Belay/ Foreign workers’ German/ 6.4 Blakemore/ Understanding utterances/ 5.1 Bradley & Hollenbach/ Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages 41 2.1 Burquest & Laidig/ Phonological studies in four languages of Maluku/ 2.3 Carstairs-McCarthy/ Clyne/ Pluricentric Coulthard/ Advances Cowper/ A concise Duranti

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Firbas/ Functional communication/

Current morphology/ 1.4 languages/ 6.4 in spoken discourse analysis/ introduction to syntactic theory/ Rethinking senterice 1.2

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Giese/ Untersuchungen zur sprachlichen T&schung/ 5.1 Gipper/ Wilhelm von Humboldts Bedeutung fiir Theorie und moderner Sprachforschungl 8 Grijns/ Jakarta Malay/ 6.2 Grille/ Dominant languages/ 6.4 Gvozdanovicl Indo-European numerals/ 3.5

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Haglund-Dragic/ Sinnzusammenhange zur Semantik im Text und im Lexikon/ 1.7 Hall/ Syllable structure and syllable-related processes in German/ Harris/ The Kartvelian languages/ 2.1 Hedlund/ On participles/ 2.3 Hess & Sendlmeier/ Beitrage zur angewandten und experimentellen Phonetik/ 1.3 Hirst/ Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity/ Hualde/ Catalan/ 2.1 Hwang & Merrifield/ Language in context/ 2.3 Klein/ Klenk/ Kontra/

Fokus und Akzent/ 1.3 Computatio Linguae/ 4.4 Tanulmanyok a hatarainkon

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Mesthriel Language in indenture/ 6.3 Meyer/ Apposition in contemporary English/ Meyer/ Das englische Perfekt/ 2.3

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Radloff/ Sentence repetition testing for studies of community bilingualism/ 6.4 Rothstein/ Perspectives on phrase structure/ 1.5 Schierholz/ Lexikologische Analysen zur Abstraktheit, Haufigkeit und Polysemie deutscher Substantive/ 2.3 Schmitt/ lnterdialektale Verstehbarkeit/ 6.2 SchGfer/ Semantische Funktionen des deutschen Dativs/ 2.3 Shevelov/ In and around Kiev/ 3.5 Sproatl Morphology and computation/ 4.4 Troelstra/

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Van de Riet & Meersman/ Linguistic instruments in knowledge engineering/ 4.4 Ventola/ Functional and systemic linguistics/ 1.2 Voghera/ Sintassi e intonazione nell’italiano parlato/ 2.4 Watts/ Power in family discourse/ 6.5 Waugh & Rudy/ New vistas in grammar/ 1.1 Weiss/ Universalgrammatiken aus der erste Halfte Jahrhunderts in Deutschland/ 8 Welke/ Funktionale Satzperspektive/ 1.2

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