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COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 3.1 general - introductory 3.2 language evolution and change 3.3 typological studies 3.4 pidgins and creoles 3.5 special topics
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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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John LYONS Natural Language and Universal Grammar Essays in Linguistic Theory, Volume I Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xvi+29Opp. & 35.00/$ 54.50 ISBN O-52 l-24696-2 (hb) Contents: l/Language, speech and writing 2/In defence of (so-called) autonomous linguistics 3/Linguistic theory and theoretical linguistics 41 Natural, non-natural and unnatural languages: English, Urdu and other abstractions S/The origin of language, speech and languages G/Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typological reflections 7lTowards a 8/Deixis as the source of ‘notional’ theory of the ‘parts of speech’ reference S/Deixis and anaphora. Appendix: The scientific study of language (Inaugural Lecture, Edinburgh, 1965). Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of this volume are new pieces that have not been published before. The remaining six chapters are previously published essays that have been either extensively revised or annotated to provide the reader with their historical context and to bring them into line with the author’s current thinking. One of the general aims of these essays is to demonstrate a certain looseness and tendentiousness in the employment of the terms ‘natural language’ and ‘universal grammar’ in present-day linguistics. Geoffrey K PULLUM The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language Chicago, etc: University of Chicago Press, 1991 x+236pp. & 34.95/s 49.50 ISBN 0-226-68533-O (hb) & 11.95/$ 17.25 ISBN O-226-68534-9 (pb) Contents: Foreword (by James D McCawley) l/Prologue: the TOPIC . . . COMMENT column Part I/ Fashions and tendencies Z/Watch out for the current J/The stranger in the bar 4/If it’s Tuesday, it must be glossematics 5/The conduct of Linguistic Inquiry G/Chomsky on the Enterprise 7/Formal linguistics meets the Boojum Part II! Publication and damnation 8/Stalking the perfect journal S/Punctuation and human freedom 19/A guest of the State ll/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 IS/ Footloose and context-free 17/Nobody goes around at LSA meetings offering odds 18/Citation etiquette beyond Thunderdome lS/The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax Part IV/ Linguistic fantasies 20/No trips to Stockholm 21/A memo from the Vice Chancellor 22/Same lists of things about books 23/The incident of the node vortex problem 24/Epilogue: the final curtain.
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This volume reproduces Geoffrey Pullurn’s colums on language and the peoplewho study it from the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, along with new material, including an introduction to each of these essays. Lingvisticae Investigationes. Revue internationale de linguistique francaise et de linguistique generale Amsterdam, etc: John Benjamins 14/2( 1990)225pp. fl 80.00 (2 issues) ISSN 0378-4 169 1.2
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Luis Gonzalez ESCRIBANO LJna Teoria de la Oraci6n Oviedo, Spain: Universidad de Oviedo, 1991 428~~. ?price ISBN 84-7468-49 l-9 (pb) Contents: Prologo Part I! Antecedentes y estado de Ia cuestidn l/La oration en la tradicidn gramatical espatiola 2/La oration en la tradition generativista espanola Part II/ Una teoria de la oraci6n 3/Una teoria lingiistica restrictiva 4/La naturaleza de la oration 5/La estructura de la oracidn. Part One of this monograph provides an extensive overview of generative accounts of Spanish syntax that have appeared until the end of 1990. Part Two provides an explicit formulation and application of an alternative and more restrictive theory of Spanish sentence structure. 1.3
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Toni BOROWSKY Topics in the Lexical Phonology of English (Outstanding Dissertations in linguistics) New York, etc: Garland, 1990 ISBN 0-8153-0156-l (hb) xiv+354pp. $ 61.00 Contents: l/Lexical phonology and the strong domain hypothesis Z/Some segmental phonology 3/Syllabification 4/Resyllabification. This book examines issues in the segmental and syllabic phonology of English within the theory of Lexical Phonology. The author argues that the principle of structure preservation holds only in the first level of the lexical phonology; at level 2, processes are free to apply after being disallowed at level 1. Noam CHOMSKY / Morris HALLE The Sound Pattern of English Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 199 1 ( 19681 ISBN o-262-031 79-5 (hb) xiv+47Opp. $ 47.25 $ 22.95 ISBN 0-262-53097-X (pb) Contents: Preface Part I/ General survey l/Setting 2/A sketch of English phonology and phonological theory Part IV English phonology J/The transformational cycle in English phonology 4/Ward-level phonology 51 Summary of rules Part III/ History G/The evoi-iition of the Modern Eng-
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lish vowel system Part IV/ Phonological theory 7/The phonetic frameS/Epilogue and prologue: the intrinsic work 8/Principles of phonology content of features. While admitting that their solutions to many of the problems raised in this classic work are out of date, the authors justify its present reprint by pointing out that many of the theoretical issues discussed in it are as critical to phonology today as they were in 1968, when the book was published originally. 1.5
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Guglielmo CINQUE Types of Al-Dependencies (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs; 17) Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 1991 xviii+223pp. $ 43.95 ISBN o-262-031 54-X (hb) $ 22.95 ISBN o-262-53089-9 (pb) Contents: Introduction l/Long and successive cycle Wh-movement 2/An apparent Wh-construction: clitic left dislocation in Romance 3/A’-bound pro versus variable. This book offers new empirical evidence, mainly from Romance, for a particular way of delimiting certain fundamental descriptive generalizations concerning the grammar of constituent extraction, the classes of elements that are taken to undergo such extraction, and the nature of the relevant locality conditions. Jan KOSTER / Eric REULAND (eds) Long-Distance Anaphora Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+34Opp. ISBN O-521-391 1 l-3 (hb) & 45.00/$ 64.50 c 17.9518 27.95 ISBN O-52 l-40000-7 (pb) an overview (Eric Remand/Jan KosContents: I/Long-distance anaphora: ter) P/Containment and connectedness anaphors (Lars Hellan) S/Longdistance reflexives and the typology of NPs (Hijskuldur Thrginsson) 41 Contextual determination of the anaphor/pronominal distinction (Martin Everaert) 5/0n the interaction between antecedent-government and binding: the case of long-distance reflexivization (Pierre Pica) G/Binding in Polish (Ewa Reinders-Machowska) 7/Anaphors in binary trees: an analysis of Czech reflexives (Jindrich Toman) 8/Latin long-distance anaphors (Elena Benedicto) S/Prepositions, binding and theta-marking (Alessandra Giorgi) lO/Locality, parameters and some issues in Italian syntax (Rita Manzini) 1l/Long-distance binding in French (Marlies van Steenbergen) 12IThe primacy condition of anaphora and pronominal variable binding (E Kiss Katalin) IJ/The local nature of the long-distance reflexive in Chinese (C-T James Huang/C-C Jane Tang) 14/Anaphors and logophors: an argument structure perspective (Tanya Reinhart/Eric Reuland). The purpose of this collection of original essays is to provide a new impetus to the study of long-distance anaphors, and to try and develop an integrated view of this phenomenon that remains as close as possible to Chomskyan binding theory in its canonical form.
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Renaat DECLERCK Tense in English: Its Structure and Use in Discourse London, etc: Routledge, 1991 x+423pp. & 60.00 ISBN o-415-06151-2 (hb) Contents: l/Introduction Part I/ Tense in discourse Z/General principles 3/Restrictions and possibilities ~/TWO test cases Part II/ The structure of tense S/Previous analyses G/General principles 7/Analysing the tenses B/Conclusion. Faced with a proliferation of divergent and often conflicting theoretical claims made in connection with tense in the linguistic literature, the author of this book attempts to build a theory of tense designed to form a theoretical framework within which the data about tense can be interpreted in a coherent way. Richard MATTHEWS Words and Worlds: On the Linguistic Analysis of Modality (European University Studies - Series XIV; 191) Frankfurt am Main, etc: Peter Lang, 1991 310pp. SFr 76.00 ISBN 3-631-40855-23 (pb) Contents: l/Casting the net: a descriptive framework 2/Knowing and not knowing: epistemic modality 3/The way of the world and other worlds: logical modality 4/Social interaction: deontic modality 5/Dispositions: dynamic modality 7/Questioning: modalized questions and questioned moB/Hauling in the catch: towards a synthesis. Working within an utterance-based descriptive model, the author of this study of modal concepts examines what kind of verbal expression, whether auxiliary or not, can reflect the various modality parameters. The discussion mainly concerns English, with occasional side-glances at German. Terence PARSONS Events in the Semantics of English A Study of Subatomic Semantics (Current Studies in English; 19) Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 1991 xviii+334pp. $ 47.25 ISBN O-262- 16 120-6 (hb) Contents: Preface Part I/ The basic account l/Introduction S/The evi3/Event ontology and logical form dence in favor of underlying events G/Causatives and inchoatives 7/Explicit 4/Modifiers 5/Thematic roles discourse about events Part II/ Reflections and refinements B/Metaphysical issues S/The progressive in English: events, states, and processes lo/States ll/Tenses and ‘temporal’ adverbials 12/The semantics of the 13/Eventlish perfect and the progressive in Modern and Old English a fragment of English. This book develops the hypothesis that simple sentences of English that are generally treated as atomic formulas in most logical accounts of English, contain subatomic quantifications over events or states, and demonstrates how this hypothesis can account for a wide variety of intriguing semantic phenomena.
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V SWEETSER From Etymology to Pragmatics Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Change (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; 54) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+174pp. & 10.95/$ 15.95 ISBN O-52 l-42442-9 (pb) Contents: l/Introduction Z/Semantic structure and semantic change: English perception-verbs in an Indo-European context J/Modality 4/Canjunction, coordination, and subordination ii/Conditionals G/Retrospect and prospect. Adopting a cognitive approach to meaning the type of approach in which the conceptual system emerging from everyday human experience is regarded as the basis for natural-language semantics this study aims to show how this approach makes for a unified account of facts in three areas involving the use of one form for more than one function: polysemy, lexical semantic change, and pragmatic ambiguity. Ilse
ZIMMERMANN (ed.) Syntax und Semantik der Substantivgruppe (Studia Grammatica; 33) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1991 viii+225pp. ?price ISBN 3-05-001774-O (pb) l/Die Syntax der Substantivgruppe: Weiterentwicklungen der Contents: Xbar-Theorie (Ilse Zimmermann) P/The ‘subject’ in noun phrases: its syntax and semantics (Ilse Zimmermann) 3lSachverhaltsbezeichnungen des Russischen mit einem Verbalabstraktum als Kern (Ulrike Bischof) 4/Sachverhaltsbezeichnungen des Deutschen mit einem Verbalabstraktum als Kern (Sigfrid Freytag) S/Group expressions and the semantics of plurals and collective nouns (Johannes Db;lling) G/Type shifts in dynamic logic and the definiteness effect (Reinhard Blutner) 7/Defaults and the meaning of generic sentences (Reinhard Blutner). The essays brought together in this volume provide detailed examinations of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of their contribution to the semantic interpretation of the sentences in which they occur.
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Sidney GREENBAUM An Introduction to English Grammar London, etc: Longman, 1991 xiv+336pp. & 12.50 ISBN o-582-03957-6 (pb) Contents: l/Rules and variation Part I/ The grammar S/The sentence 3/The parts of the simple sentence 4/The structure of phrases s/Word classes G/Sentences and clauses Part 111 The applications 7/Punctuation 8/Usage problems S/Style IO/Literary analysis. Appendix/ Spelling.
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This book introduces British students to basic grammatical concepts and categories that are common to the competing theoretical schools of linguistics. A parallel American/Canadian version, A College Grammar of English, was published in 1989. Micheal 6 SIADHAIL Modern Irish: Grammatical Structure and Dialectal Variation Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 199 1 xviii+369pp. & 15.95/$ 27.95 ISBN 0-521-42519-O (pb) Contents: General introduction Part I/ Phonology l/Introduction to phonology Z/The syllabic system 3/The vowels 4lThe semi-vowel and consonant systems Part II/ Morphology S/Introduction to morphology 6/ General morphological rules 7/The noun 8/The verb Part III/ Syntax Sllntroduction to syntax lo/The copula 1 l/Complementation and modal and auxiliary verbs 12/Nan-complemental subordination and marginal syntactic features. Written both for those whose main field of concern is study of the Irish language and for those whose primary interest is linguistic, this book provides an overview of modern Irish dialects outlining both their shared linguistic structure and their diversity. Jane
SIMPSON Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax: A Lexicalist Approach (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; 23) Dordrecht, etc: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 199 1 ISBN O-7923- 1292-9 (hb) xviii+49lpp. fl 185.00/s 62.00/$ 99.00 Contents: l/Introduction Part I/ Non-configurationality 2/Simple sentences 3/Pronominals 4/Case S/Discontinous expressions Part II/ Grammatical functions in Warlpiri G/Selected functions 7/External participants. This book describes major morphological and syntactic features of Warlpiri in terms of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It offers a detailed analysis of the properties of grammatical functions in the language, including the anaphoric and cross-referencing properties of pronominal clitics. Instead of trying to account for the free word-order in Warlpiri, its discontinuous constituents and its widespread use of null anaphora in terms of a configurationality parameter, the author demonstrates that these phenomena can be accounted for in terms of an approach which takes grammatical functions as primitives. 2.2
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Gregory JAMES Tamil Lexicography (Lexicographica - Series Maior; 40) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1991 xiv+276pp. DM 128.00 ISBN 3-484-30940-7 (pb) P/The earliest lexicographical Contents: l/Preliminary considerations works 3lThe advent and influence of the European missionaries 4lThe introduction of printing and modern developments in Tamil lexicography S/Some lexicographical problems considered 6/A metalexicographic sur-
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App I/Classified additions to Dhamotharan’s (1978) bibliography of dictionaries in Tamil App II/Selected emendations to Dhamotharan’s (1978) bibiliography of dictionaries in Tamil App III/Nikantus in major libraries. In this chronological survey and discussion of the development of Tamil lexicography, the author demonstrates how the evolution of the dictionary format in Tamil has been a reflection of the socio-cultural climate of each period in that evolution.
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Her@ CURAT Morphologie verbale et rgference temporelle en francais moderne Essai de semantique grammaticale (Langue et Cultures; 24) Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1991 ?ISBN 337pp. ?price Contents: Avant-propos I/Presentation S/Les formes et leurs fonctions 3/Les coincidences semiologiques 4lPostulats semantiques 5/Le mode quasi-nominal 6/Le subjonctif 7/L’indicatif present 8/Imp&atif S/lndicatif passe IO/Le future ll/Epoque signifiee et Cpoque referee 12/Le monde hypothetique 13/L’aspect compose 14/Auxiliaires, voix et aspect 15/Conclusions 16/Application: analyses de textes. This detailed analysis of temporal aspects of the verbal system of Modern French is based on a restricted version of Guillaume’s psychomechanical theory of language and discourse. John
ENRICO The Lexical Phonology of Masset Haida (Alaska Native Language Center Research Papers; 8) Fairbanks: University of Alaska, 1991 vi+272pp. $ 15.00 ISBN l-55500-042-8 (pb) Contents: l/Introduction 2/Segments 3lSyllable structure 4lTone and stress S/Morphology G/Processes affecting segmentally adjacent sonorants 7/Final-syllable shortening and associated processes 8/Verb ablaut. This lexical phonological description of the Northern Haida dialects to be found in Masset, British Columbia, Canada, is the result of thirteen years of work in communities in which the number of completely fluent speakers has dwindled to less than half a dozen. Suzanne FLEISCHMAN / Linda R WAUGH (eds) Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb: The Evidence from Romance (Romance Linguistics Series) London, etc: Routledge, 1991 viii+22Opp. & 45.00 ISBN O-41 5-05720-s (hb) Contents: I/Introduction (Suzanne Fleischman/Linda R Waugh) Z/The temporal structure of discourse: setting, change, and perspective (Co Vet) 3/Verb tense and point of view in narrative (Suzanne Fleischman) 4lTense switching in Italian: the alternation between passato prossimo and passato remoto in oral narratives (Giulia Centineo) 5/Multivalency:
the French historical present in journalistic discourse (Monique MonvilleBurston/Linda R Waugh) G/The status of imperatives as discourse signals (Beatrice Lamiroy/Pierre Swiggers) 7/A contextual reconsideration of the Spanish -ra ‘indicative’ (Patricia V Lunn/Thomas D Cravens) 8/ Losing ground: a discourse-pragmatic solution to the history of -ra in Spanish (Flora Klein-Andreu) S/The pragmatics of Spanish mood in complements of knowledge and acquisition-of-knowledge predicates (Jorge M Guitart) lo/Verbs of cognition in spoken Spanish: a discourse profile (Elizabeth G Weber/Paola Bentivoglio). Using data from the major Romance languages, the essays in this collection explore the functions of tense, aspect, mood and voice in structuring information, creating textual cohesion and connectivity, establishing discoursal point of view, and expressing speaker attittudes in discourse. Jose
lgnacio HUALDE Basque Phonology (Theoretical Linguistics Series) London, etc: Routledge, 1991 xiv+2lOpp. & 40.00 ISBN O-4 15-05655- 1 (hb) Contents: l/Introduction 2/The structure of the lexicon 3/Stern alternations 4/Consonantal rule interaction 5lThe structure and behaviour of affricates G/Suprasegmentals. Adopting the framework of Lexical Phonology and morphology, this treatment of the phonological system of Basque focuses on how phonological operations modify underlying structures and how the structures created by one phonological rule can serve as input to other rules.
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Manfred GORLACH Introduction to Early Modern English Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xxx+456pp. & !Xi.OO/$ 79.50 ISBN O-52 l-32529-3 (hb) & 19.50/$ 27.95 ISBN o-521-31046-6 (pb) Contents: Part I/ Grammar l/Introduction 2/Varieties of Early Modern English S/Writing and spelling 4/Phonology 5/Inflexional morphology 61 Syntax 7lVocabulary Part II/ Texts. This textbook is an adapted and updated translation of the author’s Einfuhrung ins Fruhneuenglische (Heidelberg 1978). Based on the idea that a student should be introduced to Early Modern English and learn the grammar section is replete to analyse it from the original text, with references to the 66 texts and excerpts presented in the second half of the book. The grammatical description is cast in terms that combine functional structuralism a la Martinet and the Prague linguists with methods and insights from modern sociolinguistics.
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Change: Progress or Decay? -second, revised and expanded edition(Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+258pp. & 27.50/S 49.50 ISBN O-521-41 101-7 (hb) & 7.95/$ 14.95 ISBN O-52 l-42283-3 (pb) Contents: Part I/ Preliminaries l/The ever-whirling wheel: the inevitability of change Z/Collecting up clues: how linguists piece together the evidence 3/Charting the changes: how linguists study changes in progress Part II/ Transition 4/Spreading the word: how changes spread from person to person S/Conflicting loyalties: opposing social pressures within a change G/Catching on and taking off: how sound changes spread through a language 7lCaught in the web: how syntactic changes work through a language Part III/ Causation 8/The reason why: sociolinguistic causes of change S/Doing what comes naturally: inherent causes of language change lo/Repairing the patterns: therapeutic changes 1 l/The Mad Hatter’s tea party: chain reaction changes Part IV/ Beginnings and endings 12/Development and breakdown: child language and language 13/Language birth: how languages begin 14lLanguage death: disorders how languages end 15lProgress or decay? Assessing the situation. This overview of the phenomenon of human language change has been written with the interested layperson in mind. Its second edition tries to reflect the new and recent insights developed in historical linguistics since the book was first published in 1981.
David LIGHTFOOT How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 1991 xii+214pp. $ 36.95 ISBN 0-262-12153-O (hb) Contents: l/Parameters and triggers 2/SimpIe triggers S/Loss of objectverb order 4/infinitives S/The English case system 6/0bsolescence and lexicalism 7/Chaos, catastrophes, and creoles. Viewing language acquisition as essentially a process of fixing parameters defined in Universal Grammar, this book addresses the question of what it takes to fix a parameter. Its central claim is that parameter setting is triggered by robust, unembedded, structurally simple elements. By thus focusing on the nature of the triggering experience, the book seeks to connect diachronic and acquisitional concerns. Mary
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(ed.) in South American Indian Languages Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 199 1 viii+297pp. $ 29.95 ISBN o-8122-3060-4 (hb) Contents: Foreword (Henry M Hoenigswald/Franklin C Southworth) l/A resume of comparative studies in South American Indian languages (Mary Ritchie Key) Part I/ Classification and typological problems S/How to deal with unclassified languages: an ethnolinguistic view of comparative Language
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linguistics (Aurore Monod-Becquelin) 3/Vowel shift in the Tupi-Guarani language family: a typological approach (Marilia FacB Soares/Yonne de Freitas Leite) 4/A spatial model of lexical relationships among fourteen Cariban varieties (Maria Eugenia Villal6n) Part II/ Comparative linguistics 5/The phonology of Ranquel and phonological comparisons with other Mapuche dialects (Ana Fernsndez Garay) G/Southern Peruvian Quechua consonant lenition (Bruce Mannheim) Part III/ Grammatical matters 7/Variations in tense-aspect markers among Inga (Quechuan) dialects (Stephen H Levinsohn) 8/The minimal finite verbal paradigm in Mapuche or Araucanian at the end of the sixteenth century (Adalberto Salas) Part IV/ Ethnolinguistics S/The Talstur: ceremonial chant of the Atacama people (Gustav0 Rodriguez) Part V/ Distant relationships lO/Amazonian origins and affiliations of the Timucua language (Julian Cranberry) lI/Uto-Aztecan affinities with Panoan of Peru I: correspondences (Lila Wistrand-Robinson). This collection of articles demonstrates how comparative studies of South American Indian languages can contribute to a better understanding of language change that results from people distancing themselves in time and space from each other. Nowele. North-Western European Language Odense: Odense University Press DKr 180.00 (2 issues) 18( 1991)lOOpp.
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Amsterdam, etc: John Benjamins ISSN 0920-9034 fl 74.00/$ 42.00 (2 issues) 6/1(1991)163pp. Contents: l/Determining noun phrases in Tok Pisin (Gillian Sankoff/ Claudia Mazzie) 2/0n the supposed ‘gradualness’ of creole development (Derek Bickerton) 3/0n the argument structure of certain Haitian prediposib ‘possible’ (John S Lumsden) 4/The Creole cates: rete ‘to remain’, of Mon Louis Island, Alabama, and the Louisiana connection (Margaret M Marshall) S/Copula deletion in Spanish foreigner talk: using questionnaires as a research tool (Roger M Thompson) G/Writing the wronged (Philip Baker). 3.5
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Hans Henrich HOCK (ed.) Studies in Sanskrit Syntax A Volume in Honor of the Centennial of Speijer’s Sanskrit Syntax Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1991 ISBN 8 1-208-0837-l (hb) xii+244pp. ?price Contents: l/Syntactic gleanings from Bhartrhari’s Trikandi (Ashok Aklujkar) 2/A note on word order in modern spoken Sanskrit and some positive constraints (R.N Aralikatti) 3/Nominal and pronominal objects in Sanskrit and Prakrit (Vit Bubenik) 4/Paninian syntax and the changing notion of sentence (Madhav M Deshpande) 5/Paninian reflections on
Vedic infinitives: on the meaning of tumartha (Madhav M Deshpande) G/Possessive agents in Sanskrit? (Hans Henrich Hock) 7/Causees, passive agents, or instruments? Instrumental NPs with causatives in early and later Vedic prose (Hans Henrich Hock) 8/The syntax of direct speech in Vedic (Stephanie W Jamison) 9/A diachronic phonological solution to the syntax of Vedic negative particles (Brian D Joseph) lo/Syntactic and discourse correlates of verb-initial sentences in the Rigveda (Jared S Klein) ll/The genitive in Panini and in Epic Sanskrit (K Meenakshi) 121 Single-word topicalization in Vedic prose: A challenge to Government 13/Verb-medial clauses in Vedic: some and Binding? (Steven Schaufele) theoretical implications (Steven Schaufele) 14/0n the syntax of Sanskrit gerund constructions: a functional approach (Bertil Tikkanen) IS/A bibliography of writings on Sanskrit syntax (Madhav M Deshpande/Hans Henrich Hock). This volume contains revised and edited versions of papers read at the first two Symposia on Sanskrit Syntax held at Urbana, Illinois, in May 1986, and at Ithaca and Syracuse, New York, in June 1987. Vladimir IVIR / Damir KALOGJERA (eds) Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs; 54) Berlin, etc: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 xii+502pp. DM 278.00 ISBN 3-1 l-012754-9 (hb) Contents: Fourty-one invited papers on topics in contact linguistics, by Robert Austerlitz, Juris Baldunciks, Andrei Bantas, Rolf Berndt, Henrik Birnbaum, Wayles Brown, Ranko Bugarski, Joseph L Conrad, Andrei Danchev, Carin Davidsson, Laszlo DezsB, Wolfgang Dressier & Lavinia Barbaresi, Eyvindur Eirikson, Stig Eliasson, Joshua A Fishman, Hans Galinsky, Eric P Hamp, Franz Josef Hausmann, Vladimir Ivir, Carl James, Damir Kalogjera, William R Lee, Dora Macek, Thomas F Magner, Josep Mates& Samuel C Monson, Zarko Muljacic, Dietrich Nehls, Peter H Nelde, William Nemser, Midhat Ridjanovic, Karin Sajavaarda, Tatiana Slama-Cazacu, Knud Sorensen, Hans-Peter Stoffel, Owen Thomas, Renzo Titone, Olga M Tomie, Rudolph C Trike, G Richard Tucker, Mirjana Vilke, and Charles A Ward. Contributions to this collection on contact linguistics deal not only with the effects of linguistic borrowing and mutual influence of linguistic systems, but also with the behaviour of the contactee, who is the actual locus of language contact. P Sture URELAND / George BRODERICK (eds) Language Contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe (Linguist&he Arbeiten; 238) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 199 1 xii+717pp. DM 276.00 ISBN 3-484-30238-o (pb) Contents: Introduction (P Sture Ureland) Part I/ Contacts in the Isle of Man l/The decline and death of Manx Gaelic (George Broderick) 2/Fareign elements in the Manx vocabulary (Robert L Thomson) 3/The placenames of the Isle of Man (Margaret Gelling) 4/Prosodic change in Manx
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and lexical diffusion (Diarmuid 0 Se) Part II/ Wales S/The Cambridge Juvencus glosses: evidence of Hiberno-Welsh interaction? (Anthony Harvey) Part Ill/ Cornwall G/The Cornishness of Cornwall’s English (Martyn Wakelin) Part IV/ Pan-Celtic - English 7/The colour systems of the Celtic languages: effects of language contact (Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn) Part V/ Continental contacts 8/The Straubing Heliand-fragment and the Old English dialects (Hans F Nielsen) S/Towards a reassessment of ‘Anglo-Norman influence on English place-names’ (Cecily Clark) Part VI/ Contacts in England IO/Origins of the non-standard relativizers what and as in English (Patricia Poussa) ll/The study of Scandinavian in England: a survey of Swedish contributions including ongoing research in East Anglia (Karl Inge Sandred) 12/Scandinavian influence on the placenames of England (Gillian Fellows-Jensen) 13/Compatibility and incompatibility: three important periods of English-Danish onomastic contact (Torben Kisbye) 14/The incorporation of Old Norse pronouns into Middle English: suppletion by loan (Otmar Werner) lS/Scandinavian English: a creole in context (John Hines) Part VII/ Orkney and Shetland 16/Reflections on the structure and the demise of Orkney and Shetland Norn (Michael P Barnes) 17/Nom-Scats: a complicated language contact situation in Shetland (Gunnel Melchers) Part VIII/ The Western Isles and Skye 18/Norse-Gaelic contact in the west of Lewis: the place-name evidence (Richard A.V Cox) 19/Language-maintenance and viability in contemporary Gaelic communities: Skye and the Western Isles today (Kenneth McKinnon) Part IX/ Scotland (Mainland) 20/Language contact and Scats (John M Kirk) Part X/ Ireland Zl/Code-switching vs borrow22lContact phenomena in the phoing in Modern Irish (Nancy Stenson) nology of Irish and English in Ireland (DBnall P. 6 Baoill) 23/Syntactic variation in Hiberno-English (Terence Odlin) 24/Subordinating and in Hiberno-English syntax: Irish or English origin? (Markku Filppula) 25/Bilingualism and writing in the Irish Gaeltacht and the Grisons (Switzerland) with special reference to Irish and English (P Sture Ureland).
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GENERAL
LINGUISTICS
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INTRODUCTORY
Niels DAVIDSEN-NIELSEN (ed.) LSP - Nine Studies on Language for Special Purposes (Copenhagen Studies in Language; 14) Copenhagen: Handelsh6jskolens Forlag, 199 1 ?price ISBN 87-l 7-03593-7 (pb) 159pp. Contents: Introduction (Niels Davidsen-Nielsen) l/Problems in the use of text corpora in linguistic research (Carl Vikner) P/Semantic features of scientific and technological language (Christian Quist) 3/LSP, science and technology: a sociological approach (Bodil Kragh) 4/Les textes techniques: leurs elements constitutifs et leur ritalisation en danois (Lena Munck) S/In terms of concepts (Bodil Nistrup Madsen) G/Equivalence in translation of LSP texts: theoretical and oractical aspects (Lisbet Pals
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Svendsen) 7/Semantic analysis of complex N-bars (Carl Vikner) 8/Same problems related to the automatic analysis of nominalizations in Danish (S&en Juul Nielsen/Helle Wegener) S/Constitution d’un corpus de textes juridiques (Gunhild Dyrberg/ Joan Tournay). Written by members of the languages department at the Copenhagen Business School, these essays on scientific and technological language, economic language, and legal language report research findings in the area of Language for Special Purposes. 4.2
LANGUAGE
EDUCATION
Costa KRANTZ Learning Vocabulary in a Foreign Language A Study of Reading Strategies (Gothenburg Studies in English; 63) Gothenburg: Gothenburg University, 1991 SKr 170.00 ISBN 91-7346-237-3 (pb) 171pp. Contents: l/Introduction 2lThe format of the experimental data 3lThe experiment 4/Unknown words encountered in the text S/Words looked up G/Words learned 7/Time 8/Differences between users of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries S/Conclusion: reading strategies and learning efficiency. This study of how foreign learners may acquire vocabulary by reading English texts, focuses on three main questions: (1) To what extent does vocabulary learning take place simply by reading words in context? (2) To what extent does vocabulary learning take place by both (3) Which is the reading words and looking them up in a dictionary? more efficient dictionary, the monolingual or the bilingual one? 4.3
CONTRASTIVE
STUDIES
Susan BASSNETT-McGUIRE Translation Studies -second, revised editionLondon, etc: Routledge, 1991 xxii+l68pp. & 7.99 ISBN O-4 15-06528-3 (pb) Contents: Preface to the revised edition l/Introduction P/Central issues 4/Specific problems of literary translaJ/History of translation theory tion 5/Conclusion. This book is an attempt to outline the current scope of Translation Studies, a discipline that concerns itself with the problems raised by the production and description of translations. As well as giving some indication of the kind of work that has been done so far, the book also suggests directions in which further research is needed. 4.4
LANGUAGE
TECHNOLOGY
J zrgen KUNZE Kasusrelationen und semantische Emphase (Studia Grammatica; 32) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1991 225~~. DM 86.00 ISBN 3-05-001771-6
(pb)
l/Einleitung Z/Zielstellung und Aufbau der Arbeit 3/GrundContents: 4/Monotonic 5/Die verwendeten Annahmen und formale Hilfsmittel Funktionen und Pradikate G/Semantische Grundformen und Semenreprasentationen 7/Die Besitzwechselverben 8/&derungsverben mit dem Kernpradikat ‘is-a’ S/Einige weltere Verbfelder IO/Die be- und ent12/0ffene Probleme. Verben 1 l/Instrument und Mittel This study examines a number of fundamental problems that require solving in the production of appropriate lexical databases for automatic language processing. Gerald MASINI et al. Object-Oriented Languages (The APIC Series; 34) London, etc: Academic Press, 1991 ISBN O- 12-477390-7 (pb) xiv+483pp. ?price Contents: l/Objects 2/Glasses 3/Smalltalk-80 4/0bjectlve-C 5/LISP and objects G/The Scandinavian school 7lKnowledge representation 8/Framelo/Actors 1 l/Programming with based languages S/Hybrid languages 12/Add objects to your LISP 13/State of the art and perspecclasses App A/Glossary App B/An implementation of ObjVlisp. tives. This book provides an introduction to fundamental aspects of objectoriented programming through a broad survey of object-oriented programming languages and through a case study comparing programming with a class-based language (Smalltalk) and a more classical language (Ada). George W SMITH Computers and Human Language Oxford, etc: Oxford University Press, 1991 xivt478pp. & 35.00 ISBN o-19-506281-7 (hb) & 15.00 ISBN Om19-506282-5 (pb) l/Components of words Z/The challenge of spoken language Contents: 3lWords and the lexicon 4fStructure and search S/Sublexical and lexical processing in parallel G/Approaches to syntax 7/Augmented parsers and modern grammars 8/Lexical semantics S/Phrase and sentence semantics IO/Integrating syntactic and semantic processing 1 l/Discourse interpretation using world knowledge 12/Knowledge about discourse. An enquiry into the nature of language from the perspective of computing, this textbook synthesizes recent research in linguistics, computer science, and experimental psychology, explores the major computational approaches to language from sublexical and lexical levels to extended and demonstrates how computation has stimulated new ways discourse, of thinking about language and cognition. The early chapters introduce From Chapter 6 onward, the computational structures and processes. emphasis is on general principles rather than on details of particular with processing examples illustrating the hypotheses implementations, and methods under discussion.
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PRAGMALINGUISTICS
SPEECH
ACT
THEORY
Anna WIERZBICKA Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction (Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs; 53) Berlin, etc: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 ISBN 3-l l-012538-2 (hb) xiv+502pp. DM 188.00 Contents: l/introduction: semantics and pragmatics Z/Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts 3/Gross-cultural pragmatics 4/Describing conversational routines 5/ and different cultural values Speech acts and speech act genres across languages and cultures G/The semantics of illocutionary forces 7/Italian reduplication: its meaning and its cultural significance 8/interjections across cultures S/Particles and illocutionary meanings IO/Boys will be boys: even ‘truisms’ are culturespecific ll/Conclusions: semantics as a key to pragmatics. The various chapters of this book deal with the different modes of interaction between speakers and their addressees, with cultural values and norms which shape these different modes of interaction, and with and linguistic routines that more or words, categories, constructions, less directly involve the relationship between the participants in acts of speech. The work is based on data from a wide variety of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language). 5.2
PRAGMATICS
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SEMIOTICS
Joan MULHOLLAND The Language of Negotation A Handbook of Practical Strategies for Improving Communication London, etc: Routledge, 1991 xiv+229pp. & 30.00 ISBN O-4 15-06040-O (hb) & 10.99 ISBN o-415-06041-9 (pb) Contents: Introduction Part I/ Preparation - The power of language I/ Language and culture P/Language and discourse Part II/ The management of spoken interaction 3/Conversation: its nature, structure and ‘rules’ 4/Particular problems 5/Media interviews G/Using the phone Part III/ The management of written communication 7/Written communication Part IV/ Negotiating actions 8fSpecific speech actions Part Vf Wrap-up - Language after the event S/Completing the negotiation. This book is intended to be of assistance to individuals who have to negotiate with others, by heightening their awareness of language. The material is distilled from recent developments in language pragmatics, and in rhetoric and communication studies, and is presented in a form meant to be useful for people in business, industry, commerce, government service and the professions. Its practical application of language research is thought to also be of interest to students of linguistics and communication.
Thomas A SEBEOK / Jean UMIKER-SEBEOK (eds) Recent Developments in Theory and History The Semiotic Webb 1990 (Approaches to Semiotics; 100) Berlin, etc: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 xii+554pp. DM 298.00 ISBN 3-l l-012796-2 (hb) Contents: l/Self-portrait of a Russian semiotician in his younger and later years (Vyacheslav Ivanov) Part I/ Philosophical and philological foundations of semiotics 2/Semiotics and Edward Sapir (Ann E Berthoff) 3/Josiah Royce and communal semiotics (Robert S Corrington) 4/Giambattista Vito and semiotics (Marcel Danesi) S/The semiotics of C.K Ogden (W Terrence Gordon) G/Semiotics and Gottlob Frege (Eugeniusz Grodzitiski) 7/Kant’s semiotics: on his 200-year-old Critique of Judgment (Jsnos Kelemen) 8/The semiotics of J.R Firth (Nigel Love) 91 Merleau-Ponty and the ‘syntax in depth’ (Glen Mazis) lO/Semiotics and hermeneutics (Ursula Niklas) ll/Semiotics and Gilles Deleuze (Dorothea Olkowski) 12/0n Jakobson on translation (John Sturrock) 13/An invitation to the semiotics of Georges Mounin (Catherine Tihanyi) Part II/ Primary and secondary modeling systems 14/Semiotics and geography (Kenneth E Foote) 15/Semiotics and narrative (William 0 Hendricks) 16/As American as apple pie - and sushi and bagels: the semiotics of food and drink (Adrenne Lehrer) 17/Semiotic primitives and symbolic machines (Jean-Guy Meunier) 18/Semiotics and cartography (Bohumil Palek) lS/Law, semiotics, coding, and communication (W.T Scott) 201 Semiotics and sign language research and practice (William C Stokoe) Zl/Semiotic perspectives on Joyce (Lorraine Weir).
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SOClOLINGUISTICS
GENERAL
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INTRODUCTORY
Graham BUTTON (ed.) Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xiv+278pp. & 42.50/s 54.50 ISBN O-52 l-38048-0 (hb) 5 16.95/$ 19.95 ISBN O-521-38952-6 (pb) l/Introduction: ethnomethodology and the foundational reContents: specification of the human sciences (Graham Button) 2/Respecification: evidence for locally produced, naturally accountable phenomena of order, logic, reason, meaning, method, etc. in and as of the essential haecceity of immortal ordinary society (I) - an announcement of studies (Harold Garfinkel) 3/Logic: ethnomethodology and the logic of language (Jeff Coulter) 4/Epistemology: professional skepticism (Bob Anderson/Wes Sharrock) 5/Method: measurement-ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena (Mike Lynch) G/Method: evidence and inference - evidence and inference for ethnomethodology (Douglas Benson/John Hughes) 7/The social actor: social action in real time (Wes Sharrock/Graham Button) 8/Cognition: cognition in an ethnomethodologi-
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cal mode (Jeff Coulter) S/Language and culture: the linguistic analysis of culture (John Lee) lo/Values and moral judgement: communicative praxis as moral order (Lena Jayyusi). Defining ethnomethodology as, in part, the product of Garfinkel’s problem of operationalising Parson’s theory of social action in situated circumstances of action, this collection of essays by sociologists aims to spell out the radical respecification of foundational matters that is proposed by ethnomethodology and the significance this respecification has for the human sciences at large. 6.2
LINGUISTIC
GEOGRAPHY
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DIALECTOLOGY
Heinrich WELDNER Die Mundart von Barchfeld and der Werra (ZDL - Beihefte; 68) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1991 ISBN 3-515-05422-7 (pb) xvi+333pp. DM 98.00 Contents: l/Einleitung Z/Lautlehre S/Formenlehre 4/Wortbildungslehre 5/Satzlehre G/Wart-schatz 7/Die Mundart im Wandel der Zeiten 8/Die Zukunft der Mundart S/Ergebnisse. This research monograph describes the history and present state of the East Franconian dialect of Barchfeld, the author’s native town situated on the river Werra in Thuringia, Germany. 6.4 Michael
LANGUAGE
VARIATION
-
BILINGUALISM
CLYNE
Community Cambridge, x+294pp.
Languages: The etc: Cambridge & 35.00/$ 59.50 ?price
Australian Experience University Press, 1991 ISBN o-521-39330-2 (hb) ISBN O-52 l-39729-4 (pb)
Contents:
l/Australia between monolingualism and multilingualism P/Distribution and maintenance of community languages in Australia 3/The use of community languages in Australia 4/Structural and typological aspects of community languages 5/The formulation and implementation of language policies. Appendix/ More detailed tables from Censuses. In Australia, a continuing tension has existed since the nineteenth century between monolingualism and multilingualism. This book focuses on three main issues: (1) H ow languages other than English (and other than Aboriginal languages) are maintained in a predominantly Englishspeaking society; (2) How the structure of the languages themselves has changed over the years; and (3) How the Australian government has responded to the existing ethnolinguistic diversity, with particular emphasis on the country’s National Language Policy. 6.5
CONVERSATION
Heike HULZER-VOGT Kippfigur Metapher
in Gesp&hen: (Studium
ANALYSIS
- metaphernbedingte Ein Beitrag zur empirischen
Sprachwissenschaft
- Beihefte;
Kommunikationskonflikte Kommunikationsforschung 16)
Minster: Nodus, 199 1 549pp. DM 158.00 ISBN 3-89323-l 16-l (pb) (2 vols) Contents: Einleitung Part I/ Theoretische Fundierung l/Metapher - Bild ~ Analogie: eine funktionale Rekonstruktion ihrer reziproken Beziehungen 2/Phanomendeskription von Kommunikationskonflikten 3/Typologie kommunikativer Zuge und (metalkommunikativer Strategien zur Vermeidung und Bewaltigung von Kommunikationskonflikte Part II/ Empirische Untersuchung 4/Vorbereitende Bemerkungen zu einer empirischen Gesprachsanalyse 5/Empirische Gesprachsanalyse von Fallbeispielen metaphernbedingter Kommunikationskonflikte G/SchluRbetrachtung Part III/ Materialien 7lFragebogen 8lSprecherintentionen S/Deskription und Analyse der experimentellen Daten lO/Gespr&hstranskripte. This book presents the findings of empirical research into communicative conflicts that may arise when metaphors are being understood contrary to the speaker’s communicative intentions.
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
LANGUAGE
PROCESSlNG
GyBrgy GERGELY Free Word Order and Discourse Interpretation Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1991 x+l57pp. $ 23.00 ISBN 963-05-6000-3 (pb) Contents: Introduction l/Mechanisms of clausal processing in typologitally different languages 2/Discourse interpretational aspects of clausal 3/Speech processing in Hungarian 4/The role of focus-bases processing inferences in antecedent matching: topic foregrounding at the clause5/Focus-based predictive inferences in clausal processing 61 boundary The accessibility of meaning versus word order during clausal processing 7/Conclusions. This monograph presents a series of psycholinguistic studies of the speech processing mechanism in Hungarian, a language having free word order, non-configurational encoding of grammatical relations, and strut Focusing on the functional role of the tural marking of topic/focus. clause-boundary in the processing of complex subordinate constructions, these studies demonstrate the central role of focus-based inferences in integrating clausal propositions into a discourse model.
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HISTORY
OF
LINGUISTICS
Marianne BAKRO-NAGY / Miklos KONTRA (eds) A nyelvesszetr81 - Egyes szam, elsb szemelyben Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1991 viii+27Opp. Ft 240.00 ISBN 963-8461-51-9 (pb)
Contents: Thirty autobiographical sketches, in Hungarian, by Ferenc LaszlB Deme, L&z16 Elekfi, Ivan Fonagy, Endre FUlei-Szant6, Bakos, Robert Hetzron, Edit Hexendorf, Samu Peter HajdCI, Jozsef Herman, imre, Bela Kalman, Sandor Karoly, Andras Kerek, Ferenc Kiefer, Lajos Kiss, MiklBs Kovalovszky, GyBrgy Lak6, Eva B LBrinczy, Adam Makkai, Iiona Molnar, Edit Moravcsik, Ferenc Papp, Olga Penavin, Mihaly Peter, And& Rena-Tas, Istvan Janos S PetBfi, Endre Racz, Karoly Redei, Szathmari, and Edit Vertes. lnternationai Journal for the History Historiographia Linguistica. of the Language Sciences Amsterdam, etc: John Benjamins fl YO.OO/$ 52.00 (3 issues) ISSN 0302-5 160 18/1( i991)268pp. Contents: Editor’s foreword (Konrad Koerner) l/The first quarter century of the Linguistic Society of America, 1924-1949 (Stephen 0 Murray) Z/The Linguistic Society of America and North American linguistics, 1950-1968 (Archibald A Hillj 3/165 Broadway: a crucial node in American Structural linguistics (Robert A Hall, Jr) 4/Bloomfield’s revisions of Language (1933) (Sidney R Smith) 5/Problems of Sapir historiography (Michael Silverstein).
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ITEMS
David R OLSON / Nancy TORRANCE (eds) Literacy and Orality Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+288pp. ISBN O-52 l-392 17-9 (hb) & 30.00/$ 54.50 & 14.95/$ 19.95 ISBN O-52 1-39850-g (pb) Contents: Introduction (David R Olson/Nancy Torrance) Part I/ Oral and literate aspects of culture and cognition l/The oral-literate equation: a formula for the modern mind (Eric Havelock) 2/A plea for research on lay literature (Ivan Illich) 3/0ral metalanguage (Carol Fleischer Feldman) 4/Rational thought in oral culture and literate decontextualization (J Peter Denny) S/Cree literacy in the syllabic script (Jo Anne Bennet/ John W Berry) G/Literacy: an instrument of oppression (D.P Pattanayak) Part II/ Oral and literate forms of discourse 7/Lie it as it plays: Chaucer becomes an author (Barry Sanders) B/The invention of self: autobiography and its forms (Jerome Bruner/Susan Weisser) S/Literacy and objectivity: the rise of modern science (David R Olson) lo/Thinking through literacies (Jeffrey Kittay) Part III/ Oral and literate aspects of cognition 1 l/Literacy: its characterization and implications (R Narasimhan) 12/The separation of words and the physiology of reading (Paul Saenger) 13/Linguists, literacy, and the intentionality of Marshall McLuhan’s Western man (Robert J Scholes/Brenda J Willis) 14/A neurological point of view on social alexia (Andre Roth Lecours/Maria Alice Parente) 15/ Literacy as a metalinguistic activity (David R Olson).
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to sections
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of the
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bibliography)
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BakrB-Nagy & Kontral A nyelvestr81 - Egyes szgm, elsfl szemelybenl Bassnett-McCuire/ Translation studies/ 4.3 Borowsky/ Topics in the lexical phonology of English/ 1.3 Button/ Ethnomethodology and the human sciences/ 6.1 Chomsky & HalIe/ The sound pattern of Cinquel Types of At-dependencies/ 1.5 Clyne/ Community languages/ 6.4 Curat/ Morphologie verbale et reference Davidsen-Nielsen/ LSP - Nine studies ’ purposes/ 4.1 Declerck/ Tense in English/ 1.6
English/
1.3
temporelle/
on language
for
Enrico/ The lexical phonology of Masset Haida/ Escribanol Una teoria de la oraci6n/ 1.2 Fleischman
& Waugh/
Discourse
pragmatics
Gergelyl Free word order and discourse Gorlach/ Introduction to Early Modern Greenbauml An introduction to English Historiographia linguistica 18(l)/ Hock/ Studies in Sanskrit syntax/ Hualdel Basque phonology/ 2.3 Hulzer-Vogt/ Kippfigur Metapher/ lvir
& Kalogjeral
Languages
and
the
6.5
in contact
and
contrast/
2.2 languages
6(l)/
3.4
Lightfoot/ How to set parameters/ 3.2 Lyons/ Natural language and universal grammar/
Parsons/ Pullurn/
languages/ 1.6 negotiation/
and 2.1
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3.5
& Reulandl Long-distance anaphoral 1.5 Learning vocabulary in a foreign language/ Kasusrelationen und semantische Emphase/
Literacy Irish/
2.3
8
Koster Krantz/ Kunze/
Olson & Torrance/ d Siadhail/ Modern
verb/
interpretation/ English/ 3.1 grammar/ 2.1
Tamil lexicography/ of pidgin and creole
al./ Object-oriented Words and worlds/ The language of
special
2.3
James/ Journal
Masini et Matthews/ Mulholland/
2.3
oralityl
Events in the semantics of The great Eskimo vocabulary
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American
Indian
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languages/
Sebeok & Umiker-Sebeok/ Recent developments in theory history/ 5.2 Simpson/ Warlpiri morpho-syntax/ 2.1 Smith/ Computers and human language/ 4.4 Sweetserl From etymology to pragmatics/ 1.6 Ureland
& Broderickl
Language
contact
in the British
Weldnerl Die Mundart von Barchfeld an der Werra/ Wierzbickal Cross-cultural pragmatics/ 5.1 Zimmermann/
Syntax
und Semantik
der Substantivgruppel
3.2 and
Isles/
3.5
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North-Holland
SURVEY OF BOOKS A selected and annotated bibliography of recent publications in linguistics Number 46 December 1991
Organizing
Editor Sjef Schoorl Delft University of Technology
1991
OC24-3841/91/$03.50
Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland) Amsterdam
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CLASSIFICATION
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THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS general - introductory 1.1 theory and method 1.2 - phonology 1.3 phonetics morphology - lexis 1.4 1.5 syntax ~ logic 1.6 semantics the sentence 1.7 beyond
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DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS grammars 2.1 2.2 dictionaries 2.3 special topics corpus 2.4 linguistics
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COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 3.1 general - introductory 3.2 language evolution and change 3.3 typological studies 3.4 pidgins and creoles 3.5 special topics
4
APPLIED LINGUISTICS 4.1 general - introductory 4.2 language education 4.3 contrastive studies 4.4 language technology
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PRAGMALINGUISTICS 5.1 speech act theory 5.2 pragmatics ~ semiotics
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS 6.1 general - introductory 6.2 linguistic geography - dialectology 6.3 ethnography of speaking 6.4 language variation - bilingualism 6.5 conversation analysis
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 7.1 general - introductory 7.2 language acquisition 7.3 language processing 7.4 language and cognition 7.5 speech and language pathology
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John LYONS Natural Language and Universal Grammar Essays in Linguistic Theory, Volume I Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xvi+29Opp. & 35.00/$ 54.50 ISBN O-52 l-24696-2 (hb) Contents: l/Language, speech and writing 2/In defence of (so-called) autonomous linguistics 3/Linguistic theory and theoretical linguistics 41 Natural, non-natural and unnatural languages: English, Urdu and other abstractions S/The origin of language, speech and languages G/Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typological reflections 7lTowards a 8/Deixis as the source of ‘notional’ theory of the ‘parts of speech’ reference S/Deixis and anaphora. Appendix: The scientific study of language (Inaugural Lecture, Edinburgh, 1965). Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of this volume are new pieces that have not been published before. The remaining six chapters are previously published essays that have been either extensively revised or annotated to provide the reader with their historical context and to bring them into line with the author’s current thinking. One of the general aims of these essays is to demonstrate a certain looseness and tendentiousness in the employment of the terms ‘natural language’ and ‘universal grammar’ in present-day linguistics. Geoffrey K PULLUM The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language Chicago, etc: University of Chicago Press, 1991 x+236pp. & 34.95/s 49.50 ISBN 0-226-68533-O (hb) & 11.95/$ 17.25 ISBN O-226-68534-9 (pb) Contents: Foreword (by James D McCawley) l/Prologue: the TOPIC . . . COMMENT column Part I/ Fashions and tendencies Z/Watch out for the current J/The stranger in the bar 4/If it’s Tuesday, it must be glossematics 5/The conduct of Linguistic Inquiry G/Chomsky on the Enterprise 7/Formal linguistics meets the Boojum Part II! Publication and damnation 8/Stalking the perfect journal S/Punctuation and human freedom 19/A guest of the State ll/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 IS/ Footloose and context-free 17/Nobody goes around at LSA meetings offering odds 18/Citation etiquette beyond Thunderdome lS/The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax Part IV/ Linguistic fantasies 20/No trips to Stockholm 21/A memo from the Vice Chancellor 22/Same lists of things about books 23/The incident of the node vortex problem 24/Epilogue: the final curtain.
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This volume reproduces Geoffrey Pullurn’s colums on language and the peoplewho study it from the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, along with new material, including an introduction to each of these essays. Lingvisticae Investigationes. Revue internationale de linguistique francaise et de linguistique generale Amsterdam, etc: John Benjamins 14/2( 1990)225pp. fl 80.00 (2 issues) ISSN 0378-4 169 1.2
THEORY
AND
METHOD
Jose
Luis Gonzalez ESCRIBANO LJna Teoria de la Oraci6n Oviedo, Spain: Universidad de Oviedo, 1991 428~~. ?price ISBN 84-7468-49 l-9 (pb) Contents: Prologo Part I! Antecedentes y estado de Ia cuestidn l/La oration en la tradicidn gramatical espatiola 2/La oration en la tradition generativista espanola Part II/ Una teoria de la oraci6n 3/Una teoria lingiistica restrictiva 4/La naturaleza de la oration 5/La estructura de la oracidn. Part One of this monograph provides an extensive overview of generative accounts of Spanish syntax that have appeared until the end of 1990. Part Two provides an explicit formulation and application of an alternative and more restrictive theory of Spanish sentence structure. 1.3
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Toni BOROWSKY Topics in the Lexical Phonology of English (Outstanding Dissertations in linguistics) New York, etc: Garland, 1990 ISBN 0-8153-0156-l (hb) xiv+354pp. $ 61.00 Contents: l/Lexical phonology and the strong domain hypothesis Z/Some segmental phonology 3/Syllabification 4/Resyllabification. This book examines issues in the segmental and syllabic phonology of English within the theory of Lexical Phonology. The author argues that the principle of structure preservation holds only in the first level of the lexical phonology; at level 2, processes are free to apply after being disallowed at level 1. Noam CHOMSKY / Morris HALLE The Sound Pattern of English Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 199 1 ( 19681 ISBN o-262-031 79-5 (hb) xiv+47Opp. $ 47.25 $ 22.95 ISBN 0-262-53097-X (pb) Contents: Preface Part I/ General survey l/Setting 2/A sketch of English phonology and phonological theory Part IV English phonology J/The transformational cycle in English phonology 4/Ward-level phonology 51 Summary of rules Part III/ History G/The evoi-iition of the Modern Eng-
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lish vowel system Part IV/ Phonological theory 7/The phonetic frameS/Epilogue and prologue: the intrinsic work 8/Principles of phonology content of features. While admitting that their solutions to many of the problems raised in this classic work are out of date, the authors justify its present reprint by pointing out that many of the theoretical issues discussed in it are as critical to phonology today as they were in 1968, when the book was published originally. 1.5
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Guglielmo CINQUE Types of Al-Dependencies (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs; 17) Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 1991 xviii+223pp. $ 43.95 ISBN o-262-031 54-X (hb) $ 22.95 ISBN o-262-53089-9 (pb) Contents: Introduction l/Long and successive cycle Wh-movement 2/An apparent Wh-construction: clitic left dislocation in Romance 3/A’-bound pro versus variable. This book offers new empirical evidence, mainly from Romance, for a particular way of delimiting certain fundamental descriptive generalizations concerning the grammar of constituent extraction, the classes of elements that are taken to undergo such extraction, and the nature of the relevant locality conditions. Jan KOSTER / Eric REULAND (eds) Long-Distance Anaphora Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+34Opp. ISBN O-521-391 1 l-3 (hb) & 45.00/$ 64.50 c 17.9518 27.95 ISBN O-52 l-40000-7 (pb) an overview (Eric Remand/Jan KosContents: I/Long-distance anaphora: ter) P/Containment and connectedness anaphors (Lars Hellan) S/Longdistance reflexives and the typology of NPs (Hijskuldur Thrginsson) 41 Contextual determination of the anaphor/pronominal distinction (Martin Everaert) 5/0n the interaction between antecedent-government and binding: the case of long-distance reflexivization (Pierre Pica) G/Binding in Polish (Ewa Reinders-Machowska) 7/Anaphors in binary trees: an analysis of Czech reflexives (Jindrich Toman) 8/Latin long-distance anaphors (Elena Benedicto) S/Prepositions, binding and theta-marking (Alessandra Giorgi) lO/Locality, parameters and some issues in Italian syntax (Rita Manzini) 1l/Long-distance binding in French (Marlies van Steenbergen) 12IThe primacy condition of anaphora and pronominal variable binding (E Kiss Katalin) IJ/The local nature of the long-distance reflexive in Chinese (C-T James Huang/C-C Jane Tang) 14/Anaphors and logophors: an argument structure perspective (Tanya Reinhart/Eric Reuland). The purpose of this collection of original essays is to provide a new impetus to the study of long-distance anaphors, and to try and develop an integrated view of this phenomenon that remains as close as possible to Chomskyan binding theory in its canonical form.
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Renaat DECLERCK Tense in English: Its Structure and Use in Discourse London, etc: Routledge, 1991 x+423pp. & 60.00 ISBN o-415-06151-2 (hb) Contents: l/Introduction Part I/ Tense in discourse Z/General principles 3/Restrictions and possibilities ~/TWO test cases Part II/ The structure of tense S/Previous analyses G/General principles 7/Analysing the tenses B/Conclusion. Faced with a proliferation of divergent and often conflicting theoretical claims made in connection with tense in the linguistic literature, the author of this book attempts to build a theory of tense designed to form a theoretical framework within which the data about tense can be interpreted in a coherent way. Richard MATTHEWS Words and Worlds: On the Linguistic Analysis of Modality (European University Studies - Series XIV; 191) Frankfurt am Main, etc: Peter Lang, 1991 310pp. SFr 76.00 ISBN 3-631-40855-23 (pb) Contents: l/Casting the net: a descriptive framework 2/Knowing and not knowing: epistemic modality 3/The way of the world and other worlds: logical modality 4/Social interaction: deontic modality 5/Dispositions: dynamic modality 7/Questioning: modalized questions and questioned moB/Hauling in the catch: towards a synthesis. Working within an utterance-based descriptive model, the author of this study of modal concepts examines what kind of verbal expression, whether auxiliary or not, can reflect the various modality parameters. The discussion mainly concerns English, with occasional side-glances at German. Terence PARSONS Events in the Semantics of English A Study of Subatomic Semantics (Current Studies in English; 19) Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 1991 xviii+334pp. $ 47.25 ISBN O-262- 16 120-6 (hb) Contents: Preface Part I/ The basic account l/Introduction S/The evi3/Event ontology and logical form dence in favor of underlying events G/Causatives and inchoatives 7/Explicit 4/Modifiers 5/Thematic roles discourse about events Part II/ Reflections and refinements B/Metaphysical issues S/The progressive in English: events, states, and processes lo/States ll/Tenses and ‘temporal’ adverbials 12/The semantics of the 13/Eventlish perfect and the progressive in Modern and Old English a fragment of English. This book develops the hypothesis that simple sentences of English that are generally treated as atomic formulas in most logical accounts of English, contain subatomic quantifications over events or states, and demonstrates how this hypothesis can account for a wide variety of intriguing semantic phenomena.
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V SWEETSER From Etymology to Pragmatics Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Change (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; 54) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+174pp. & 10.95/$ 15.95 ISBN O-52 l-42442-9 (pb) Contents: l/Introduction Z/Semantic structure and semantic change: English perception-verbs in an Indo-European context J/Modality 4/Canjunction, coordination, and subordination ii/Conditionals G/Retrospect and prospect. Adopting a cognitive approach to meaning the type of approach in which the conceptual system emerging from everyday human experience is regarded as the basis for natural-language semantics this study aims to show how this approach makes for a unified account of facts in three areas involving the use of one form for more than one function: polysemy, lexical semantic change, and pragmatic ambiguity. Ilse
ZIMMERMANN (ed.) Syntax und Semantik der Substantivgruppe (Studia Grammatica; 33) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1991 viii+225pp. ?price ISBN 3-05-001774-O (pb) l/Die Syntax der Substantivgruppe: Weiterentwicklungen der Contents: Xbar-Theorie (Ilse Zimmermann) P/The ‘subject’ in noun phrases: its syntax and semantics (Ilse Zimmermann) 3lSachverhaltsbezeichnungen des Russischen mit einem Verbalabstraktum als Kern (Ulrike Bischof) 4/Sachverhaltsbezeichnungen des Deutschen mit einem Verbalabstraktum als Kern (Sigfrid Freytag) S/Group expressions and the semantics of plurals and collective nouns (Johannes Db;lling) G/Type shifts in dynamic logic and the definiteness effect (Reinhard Blutner) 7/Defaults and the meaning of generic sentences (Reinhard Blutner). The essays brought together in this volume provide detailed examinations of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of their contribution to the semantic interpretation of the sentences in which they occur.
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Sidney GREENBAUM An Introduction to English Grammar London, etc: Longman, 1991 xiv+336pp. & 12.50 ISBN o-582-03957-6 (pb) Contents: l/Rules and variation Part I/ The grammar S/The sentence 3/The parts of the simple sentence 4/The structure of phrases s/Word classes G/Sentences and clauses Part 111 The applications 7/Punctuation 8/Usage problems S/Style IO/Literary analysis. Appendix/ Spelling.
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This book introduces British students to basic grammatical concepts and categories that are common to the competing theoretical schools of linguistics. A parallel American/Canadian version, A College Grammar of English, was published in 1989. Micheal 6 SIADHAIL Modern Irish: Grammatical Structure and Dialectal Variation Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 199 1 xviii+369pp. & 15.95/$ 27.95 ISBN 0-521-42519-O (pb) Contents: General introduction Part I/ Phonology l/Introduction to phonology Z/The syllabic system 3/The vowels 4lThe semi-vowel and consonant systems Part II/ Morphology S/Introduction to morphology 6/ General morphological rules 7/The noun 8/The verb Part III/ Syntax Sllntroduction to syntax lo/The copula 1 l/Complementation and modal and auxiliary verbs 12/Nan-complemental subordination and marginal syntactic features. Written both for those whose main field of concern is study of the Irish language and for those whose primary interest is linguistic, this book provides an overview of modern Irish dialects outlining both their shared linguistic structure and their diversity. Jane
SIMPSON Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax: A Lexicalist Approach (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; 23) Dordrecht, etc: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 199 1 ISBN O-7923- 1292-9 (hb) xviii+49lpp. fl 185.00/s 62.00/$ 99.00 Contents: l/Introduction Part I/ Non-configurationality 2/Simple sentences 3/Pronominals 4/Case S/Discontinous expressions Part II/ Grammatical functions in Warlpiri G/Selected functions 7/External participants. This book describes major morphological and syntactic features of Warlpiri in terms of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It offers a detailed analysis of the properties of grammatical functions in the language, including the anaphoric and cross-referencing properties of pronominal clitics. Instead of trying to account for the free word-order in Warlpiri, its discontinuous constituents and its widespread use of null anaphora in terms of a configurationality parameter, the author demonstrates that these phenomena can be accounted for in terms of an approach which takes grammatical functions as primitives. 2.2
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Gregory JAMES Tamil Lexicography (Lexicographica - Series Maior; 40) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1991 xiv+276pp. DM 128.00 ISBN 3-484-30940-7 (pb) P/The earliest lexicographical Contents: l/Preliminary considerations works 3lThe advent and influence of the European missionaries 4lThe introduction of printing and modern developments in Tamil lexicography S/Some lexicographical problems considered 6/A metalexicographic sur-
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App I/Classified additions to Dhamotharan’s (1978) bibliography of dictionaries in Tamil App II/Selected emendations to Dhamotharan’s (1978) bibiliography of dictionaries in Tamil App III/Nikantus in major libraries. In this chronological survey and discussion of the development of Tamil lexicography, the author demonstrates how the evolution of the dictionary format in Tamil has been a reflection of the socio-cultural climate of each period in that evolution.
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Her@ CURAT Morphologie verbale et rgference temporelle en francais moderne Essai de semantique grammaticale (Langue et Cultures; 24) Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1991 ?ISBN 337pp. ?price Contents: Avant-propos I/Presentation S/Les formes et leurs fonctions 3/Les coincidences semiologiques 4lPostulats semantiques 5/Le mode quasi-nominal 6/Le subjonctif 7/L’indicatif present 8/Imp&atif S/lndicatif passe IO/Le future ll/Epoque signifiee et Cpoque referee 12/Le monde hypothetique 13/L’aspect compose 14/Auxiliaires, voix et aspect 15/Conclusions 16/Application: analyses de textes. This detailed analysis of temporal aspects of the verbal system of Modern French is based on a restricted version of Guillaume’s psychomechanical theory of language and discourse. John
ENRICO The Lexical Phonology of Masset Haida (Alaska Native Language Center Research Papers; 8) Fairbanks: University of Alaska, 1991 vi+272pp. $ 15.00 ISBN l-55500-042-8 (pb) Contents: l/Introduction 2/Segments 3lSyllable structure 4lTone and stress S/Morphology G/Processes affecting segmentally adjacent sonorants 7/Final-syllable shortening and associated processes 8/Verb ablaut. This lexical phonological description of the Northern Haida dialects to be found in Masset, British Columbia, Canada, is the result of thirteen years of work in communities in which the number of completely fluent speakers has dwindled to less than half a dozen. Suzanne FLEISCHMAN / Linda R WAUGH (eds) Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb: The Evidence from Romance (Romance Linguistics Series) London, etc: Routledge, 1991 viii+22Opp. & 45.00 ISBN O-41 5-05720-s (hb) Contents: I/Introduction (Suzanne Fleischman/Linda R Waugh) Z/The temporal structure of discourse: setting, change, and perspective (Co Vet) 3/Verb tense and point of view in narrative (Suzanne Fleischman) 4lTense switching in Italian: the alternation between passato prossimo and passato remoto in oral narratives (Giulia Centineo) 5/Multivalency:
the French historical present in journalistic discourse (Monique MonvilleBurston/Linda R Waugh) G/The status of imperatives as discourse signals (Beatrice Lamiroy/Pierre Swiggers) 7/A contextual reconsideration of the Spanish -ra ‘indicative’ (Patricia V Lunn/Thomas D Cravens) 8/ Losing ground: a discourse-pragmatic solution to the history of -ra in Spanish (Flora Klein-Andreu) S/The pragmatics of Spanish mood in complements of knowledge and acquisition-of-knowledge predicates (Jorge M Guitart) lo/Verbs of cognition in spoken Spanish: a discourse profile (Elizabeth G Weber/Paola Bentivoglio). Using data from the major Romance languages, the essays in this collection explore the functions of tense, aspect, mood and voice in structuring information, creating textual cohesion and connectivity, establishing discoursal point of view, and expressing speaker attittudes in discourse. Jose
lgnacio HUALDE Basque Phonology (Theoretical Linguistics Series) London, etc: Routledge, 1991 xiv+2lOpp. & 40.00 ISBN O-4 15-05655- 1 (hb) Contents: l/Introduction 2/The structure of the lexicon 3/Stern alternations 4/Consonantal rule interaction 5lThe structure and behaviour of affricates G/Suprasegmentals. Adopting the framework of Lexical Phonology and morphology, this treatment of the phonological system of Basque focuses on how phonological operations modify underlying structures and how the structures created by one phonological rule can serve as input to other rules.
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Manfred GORLACH Introduction to Early Modern English Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xxx+456pp. & !Xi.OO/$ 79.50 ISBN O-52 l-32529-3 (hb) & 19.50/$ 27.95 ISBN o-521-31046-6 (pb) Contents: Part I/ Grammar l/Introduction 2/Varieties of Early Modern English S/Writing and spelling 4/Phonology 5/Inflexional morphology 61 Syntax 7lVocabulary Part II/ Texts. This textbook is an adapted and updated translation of the author’s Einfuhrung ins Fruhneuenglische (Heidelberg 1978). Based on the idea that a student should be introduced to Early Modern English and learn the grammar section is replete to analyse it from the original text, with references to the 66 texts and excerpts presented in the second half of the book. The grammatical description is cast in terms that combine functional structuralism a la Martinet and the Prague linguists with methods and insights from modern sociolinguistics.
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AITCHISON Language
Change: Progress or Decay? -second, revised and expanded edition(Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+258pp. & 27.50/S 49.50 ISBN O-521-41 101-7 (hb) & 7.95/$ 14.95 ISBN O-52 l-42283-3 (pb) Contents: Part I/ Preliminaries l/The ever-whirling wheel: the inevitability of change Z/Collecting up clues: how linguists piece together the evidence 3/Charting the changes: how linguists study changes in progress Part II/ Transition 4/Spreading the word: how changes spread from person to person S/Conflicting loyalties: opposing social pressures within a change G/Catching on and taking off: how sound changes spread through a language 7lCaught in the web: how syntactic changes work through a language Part III/ Causation 8/The reason why: sociolinguistic causes of change S/Doing what comes naturally: inherent causes of language change lo/Repairing the patterns: therapeutic changes 1 l/The Mad Hatter’s tea party: chain reaction changes Part IV/ Beginnings and endings 12/Development and breakdown: child language and language 13/Language birth: how languages begin 14lLanguage death: disorders how languages end 15lProgress or decay? Assessing the situation. This overview of the phenomenon of human language change has been written with the interested layperson in mind. Its second edition tries to reflect the new and recent insights developed in historical linguistics since the book was first published in 1981.
David LIGHTFOOT How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change Cambridge MA, etc: The MIT Press, 1991 xii+214pp. $ 36.95 ISBN 0-262-12153-O (hb) Contents: l/Parameters and triggers 2/SimpIe triggers S/Loss of objectverb order 4/infinitives S/The English case system 6/0bsolescence and lexicalism 7/Chaos, catastrophes, and creoles. Viewing language acquisition as essentially a process of fixing parameters defined in Universal Grammar, this book addresses the question of what it takes to fix a parameter. Its central claim is that parameter setting is triggered by robust, unembedded, structurally simple elements. By thus focusing on the nature of the triggering experience, the book seeks to connect diachronic and acquisitional concerns. Mary
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(ed.) in South American Indian Languages Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 199 1 viii+297pp. $ 29.95 ISBN o-8122-3060-4 (hb) Contents: Foreword (Henry M Hoenigswald/Franklin C Southworth) l/A resume of comparative studies in South American Indian languages (Mary Ritchie Key) Part I/ Classification and typological problems S/How to deal with unclassified languages: an ethnolinguistic view of comparative Language
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linguistics (Aurore Monod-Becquelin) 3/Vowel shift in the Tupi-Guarani language family: a typological approach (Marilia FacB Soares/Yonne de Freitas Leite) 4/A spatial model of lexical relationships among fourteen Cariban varieties (Maria Eugenia Villal6n) Part II/ Comparative linguistics 5/The phonology of Ranquel and phonological comparisons with other Mapuche dialects (Ana Fernsndez Garay) G/Southern Peruvian Quechua consonant lenition (Bruce Mannheim) Part III/ Grammatical matters 7/Variations in tense-aspect markers among Inga (Quechuan) dialects (Stephen H Levinsohn) 8/The minimal finite verbal paradigm in Mapuche or Araucanian at the end of the sixteenth century (Adalberto Salas) Part IV/ Ethnolinguistics S/The Talstur: ceremonial chant of the Atacama people (Gustav0 Rodriguez) Part V/ Distant relationships lO/Amazonian origins and affiliations of the Timucua language (Julian Cranberry) lI/Uto-Aztecan affinities with Panoan of Peru I: correspondences (Lila Wistrand-Robinson). This collection of articles demonstrates how comparative studies of South American Indian languages can contribute to a better understanding of language change that results from people distancing themselves in time and space from each other. Nowele. North-Western European Language Odense: Odense University Press DKr 180.00 (2 issues) 18( 1991)lOOpp.
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Amsterdam, etc: John Benjamins ISSN 0920-9034 fl 74.00/$ 42.00 (2 issues) 6/1(1991)163pp. Contents: l/Determining noun phrases in Tok Pisin (Gillian Sankoff/ Claudia Mazzie) 2/0n the supposed ‘gradualness’ of creole development (Derek Bickerton) 3/0n the argument structure of certain Haitian prediposib ‘possible’ (John S Lumsden) 4/The Creole cates: rete ‘to remain’, of Mon Louis Island, Alabama, and the Louisiana connection (Margaret M Marshall) S/Copula deletion in Spanish foreigner talk: using questionnaires as a research tool (Roger M Thompson) G/Writing the wronged (Philip Baker). 3.5
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Hans Henrich HOCK (ed.) Studies in Sanskrit Syntax A Volume in Honor of the Centennial of Speijer’s Sanskrit Syntax Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1991 ISBN 8 1-208-0837-l (hb) xii+244pp. ?price Contents: l/Syntactic gleanings from Bhartrhari’s Trikandi (Ashok Aklujkar) 2/A note on word order in modern spoken Sanskrit and some positive constraints (R.N Aralikatti) 3/Nominal and pronominal objects in Sanskrit and Prakrit (Vit Bubenik) 4/Paninian syntax and the changing notion of sentence (Madhav M Deshpande) 5/Paninian reflections on
Vedic infinitives: on the meaning of tumartha (Madhav M Deshpande) G/Possessive agents in Sanskrit? (Hans Henrich Hock) 7/Causees, passive agents, or instruments? Instrumental NPs with causatives in early and later Vedic prose (Hans Henrich Hock) 8/The syntax of direct speech in Vedic (Stephanie W Jamison) 9/A diachronic phonological solution to the syntax of Vedic negative particles (Brian D Joseph) lo/Syntactic and discourse correlates of verb-initial sentences in the Rigveda (Jared S Klein) ll/The genitive in Panini and in Epic Sanskrit (K Meenakshi) 121 Single-word topicalization in Vedic prose: A challenge to Government 13/Verb-medial clauses in Vedic: some and Binding? (Steven Schaufele) theoretical implications (Steven Schaufele) 14/0n the syntax of Sanskrit gerund constructions: a functional approach (Bertil Tikkanen) IS/A bibliography of writings on Sanskrit syntax (Madhav M Deshpande/Hans Henrich Hock). This volume contains revised and edited versions of papers read at the first two Symposia on Sanskrit Syntax held at Urbana, Illinois, in May 1986, and at Ithaca and Syracuse, New York, in June 1987. Vladimir IVIR / Damir KALOGJERA (eds) Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics (Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs; 54) Berlin, etc: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 xii+502pp. DM 278.00 ISBN 3-1 l-012754-9 (hb) Contents: Fourty-one invited papers on topics in contact linguistics, by Robert Austerlitz, Juris Baldunciks, Andrei Bantas, Rolf Berndt, Henrik Birnbaum, Wayles Brown, Ranko Bugarski, Joseph L Conrad, Andrei Danchev, Carin Davidsson, Laszlo DezsB, Wolfgang Dressier & Lavinia Barbaresi, Eyvindur Eirikson, Stig Eliasson, Joshua A Fishman, Hans Galinsky, Eric P Hamp, Franz Josef Hausmann, Vladimir Ivir, Carl James, Damir Kalogjera, William R Lee, Dora Macek, Thomas F Magner, Josep Mates& Samuel C Monson, Zarko Muljacic, Dietrich Nehls, Peter H Nelde, William Nemser, Midhat Ridjanovic, Karin Sajavaarda, Tatiana Slama-Cazacu, Knud Sorensen, Hans-Peter Stoffel, Owen Thomas, Renzo Titone, Olga M Tomie, Rudolph C Trike, G Richard Tucker, Mirjana Vilke, and Charles A Ward. Contributions to this collection on contact linguistics deal not only with the effects of linguistic borrowing and mutual influence of linguistic systems, but also with the behaviour of the contactee, who is the actual locus of language contact. P Sture URELAND / George BRODERICK (eds) Language Contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe (Linguist&he Arbeiten; 238) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 199 1 xii+717pp. DM 276.00 ISBN 3-484-30238-o (pb) Contents: Introduction (P Sture Ureland) Part I/ Contacts in the Isle of Man l/The decline and death of Manx Gaelic (George Broderick) 2/Fareign elements in the Manx vocabulary (Robert L Thomson) 3/The placenames of the Isle of Man (Margaret Gelling) 4/Prosodic change in Manx
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and lexical diffusion (Diarmuid 0 Se) Part II/ Wales S/The Cambridge Juvencus glosses: evidence of Hiberno-Welsh interaction? (Anthony Harvey) Part Ill/ Cornwall G/The Cornishness of Cornwall’s English (Martyn Wakelin) Part IV/ Pan-Celtic - English 7/The colour systems of the Celtic languages: effects of language contact (Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn) Part V/ Continental contacts 8/The Straubing Heliand-fragment and the Old English dialects (Hans F Nielsen) S/Towards a reassessment of ‘Anglo-Norman influence on English place-names’ (Cecily Clark) Part VI/ Contacts in England IO/Origins of the non-standard relativizers what and as in English (Patricia Poussa) ll/The study of Scandinavian in England: a survey of Swedish contributions including ongoing research in East Anglia (Karl Inge Sandred) 12/Scandinavian influence on the placenames of England (Gillian Fellows-Jensen) 13/Compatibility and incompatibility: three important periods of English-Danish onomastic contact (Torben Kisbye) 14/The incorporation of Old Norse pronouns into Middle English: suppletion by loan (Otmar Werner) lS/Scandinavian English: a creole in context (John Hines) Part VII/ Orkney and Shetland 16/Reflections on the structure and the demise of Orkney and Shetland Norn (Michael P Barnes) 17/Nom-Scats: a complicated language contact situation in Shetland (Gunnel Melchers) Part VIII/ The Western Isles and Skye 18/Norse-Gaelic contact in the west of Lewis: the place-name evidence (Richard A.V Cox) 19/Language-maintenance and viability in contemporary Gaelic communities: Skye and the Western Isles today (Kenneth McKinnon) Part IX/ Scotland (Mainland) 20/Language contact and Scats (John M Kirk) Part X/ Ireland Zl/Code-switching vs borrow22lContact phenomena in the phoing in Modern Irish (Nancy Stenson) nology of Irish and English in Ireland (DBnall P. 6 Baoill) 23/Syntactic variation in Hiberno-English (Terence Odlin) 24/Subordinating and in Hiberno-English syntax: Irish or English origin? (Markku Filppula) 25/Bilingualism and writing in the Irish Gaeltacht and the Grisons (Switzerland) with special reference to Irish and English (P Sture Ureland).
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Niels DAVIDSEN-NIELSEN (ed.) LSP - Nine Studies on Language for Special Purposes (Copenhagen Studies in Language; 14) Copenhagen: Handelsh6jskolens Forlag, 199 1 ?price ISBN 87-l 7-03593-7 (pb) 159pp. Contents: Introduction (Niels Davidsen-Nielsen) l/Problems in the use of text corpora in linguistic research (Carl Vikner) P/Semantic features of scientific and technological language (Christian Quist) 3/LSP, science and technology: a sociological approach (Bodil Kragh) 4/Les textes techniques: leurs elements constitutifs et leur ritalisation en danois (Lena Munck) S/In terms of concepts (Bodil Nistrup Madsen) G/Equivalence in translation of LSP texts: theoretical and oractical aspects (Lisbet Pals
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Svendsen) 7/Semantic analysis of complex N-bars (Carl Vikner) 8/Same problems related to the automatic analysis of nominalizations in Danish (S&en Juul Nielsen/Helle Wegener) S/Constitution d’un corpus de textes juridiques (Gunhild Dyrberg/ Joan Tournay). Written by members of the languages department at the Copenhagen Business School, these essays on scientific and technological language, economic language, and legal language report research findings in the area of Language for Special Purposes. 4.2
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Costa KRANTZ Learning Vocabulary in a Foreign Language A Study of Reading Strategies (Gothenburg Studies in English; 63) Gothenburg: Gothenburg University, 1991 SKr 170.00 ISBN 91-7346-237-3 (pb) 171pp. Contents: l/Introduction 2lThe format of the experimental data 3lThe experiment 4/Unknown words encountered in the text S/Words looked up G/Words learned 7/Time 8/Differences between users of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries S/Conclusion: reading strategies and learning efficiency. This study of how foreign learners may acquire vocabulary by reading English texts, focuses on three main questions: (1) To what extent does vocabulary learning take place simply by reading words in context? (2) To what extent does vocabulary learning take place by both (3) Which is the reading words and looking them up in a dictionary? more efficient dictionary, the monolingual or the bilingual one? 4.3
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Susan BASSNETT-McGUIRE Translation Studies -second, revised editionLondon, etc: Routledge, 1991 xxii+l68pp. & 7.99 ISBN O-4 15-06528-3 (pb) Contents: Preface to the revised edition l/Introduction P/Central issues 4/Specific problems of literary translaJ/History of translation theory tion 5/Conclusion. This book is an attempt to outline the current scope of Translation Studies, a discipline that concerns itself with the problems raised by the production and description of translations. As well as giving some indication of the kind of work that has been done so far, the book also suggests directions in which further research is needed. 4.4
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J zrgen KUNZE Kasusrelationen und semantische Emphase (Studia Grammatica; 32) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1991 225~~. DM 86.00 ISBN 3-05-001771-6
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l/Einleitung Z/Zielstellung und Aufbau der Arbeit 3/GrundContents: 4/Monotonic 5/Die verwendeten Annahmen und formale Hilfsmittel Funktionen und Pradikate G/Semantische Grundformen und Semenreprasentationen 7/Die Besitzwechselverben 8/&derungsverben mit dem Kernpradikat ‘is-a’ S/Einige weltere Verbfelder IO/Die be- und ent12/0ffene Probleme. Verben 1 l/Instrument und Mittel This study examines a number of fundamental problems that require solving in the production of appropriate lexical databases for automatic language processing. Gerald MASINI et al. Object-Oriented Languages (The APIC Series; 34) London, etc: Academic Press, 1991 ISBN O- 12-477390-7 (pb) xiv+483pp. ?price Contents: l/Objects 2/Glasses 3/Smalltalk-80 4/0bjectlve-C 5/LISP and objects G/The Scandinavian school 7lKnowledge representation 8/Framelo/Actors 1 l/Programming with based languages S/Hybrid languages 12/Add objects to your LISP 13/State of the art and perspecclasses App A/Glossary App B/An implementation of ObjVlisp. tives. This book provides an introduction to fundamental aspects of objectoriented programming through a broad survey of object-oriented programming languages and through a case study comparing programming with a class-based language (Smalltalk) and a more classical language (Ada). George W SMITH Computers and Human Language Oxford, etc: Oxford University Press, 1991 xivt478pp. & 35.00 ISBN o-19-506281-7 (hb) & 15.00 ISBN Om19-506282-5 (pb) l/Components of words Z/The challenge of spoken language Contents: 3lWords and the lexicon 4fStructure and search S/Sublexical and lexical processing in parallel G/Approaches to syntax 7/Augmented parsers and modern grammars 8/Lexical semantics S/Phrase and sentence semantics IO/Integrating syntactic and semantic processing 1 l/Discourse interpretation using world knowledge 12/Knowledge about discourse. An enquiry into the nature of language from the perspective of computing, this textbook synthesizes recent research in linguistics, computer science, and experimental psychology, explores the major computational approaches to language from sublexical and lexical levels to extended and demonstrates how computation has stimulated new ways discourse, of thinking about language and cognition. The early chapters introduce From Chapter 6 onward, the computational structures and processes. emphasis is on general principles rather than on details of particular with processing examples illustrating the hypotheses implementations, and methods under discussion.
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5.1
PRAGMALINGUISTICS
SPEECH
ACT
THEORY
Anna WIERZBICKA Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction (Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs; 53) Berlin, etc: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 ISBN 3-l l-012538-2 (hb) xiv+502pp. DM 188.00 Contents: l/introduction: semantics and pragmatics Z/Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts 3/Gross-cultural pragmatics 4/Describing conversational routines 5/ and different cultural values Speech acts and speech act genres across languages and cultures G/The semantics of illocutionary forces 7/Italian reduplication: its meaning and its cultural significance 8/interjections across cultures S/Particles and illocutionary meanings IO/Boys will be boys: even ‘truisms’ are culturespecific ll/Conclusions: semantics as a key to pragmatics. The various chapters of this book deal with the different modes of interaction between speakers and their addressees, with cultural values and norms which shape these different modes of interaction, and with and linguistic routines that more or words, categories, constructions, less directly involve the relationship between the participants in acts of speech. The work is based on data from a wide variety of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language). 5.2
PRAGMATICS
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SEMIOTICS
Joan MULHOLLAND The Language of Negotation A Handbook of Practical Strategies for Improving Communication London, etc: Routledge, 1991 xiv+229pp. & 30.00 ISBN O-4 15-06040-O (hb) & 10.99 ISBN o-415-06041-9 (pb) Contents: Introduction Part I/ Preparation - The power of language I/ Language and culture P/Language and discourse Part II/ The management of spoken interaction 3/Conversation: its nature, structure and ‘rules’ 4/Particular problems 5/Media interviews G/Using the phone Part III/ The management of written communication 7/Written communication Part IV/ Negotiating actions 8fSpecific speech actions Part Vf Wrap-up - Language after the event S/Completing the negotiation. This book is intended to be of assistance to individuals who have to negotiate with others, by heightening their awareness of language. The material is distilled from recent developments in language pragmatics, and in rhetoric and communication studies, and is presented in a form meant to be useful for people in business, industry, commerce, government service and the professions. Its practical application of language research is thought to also be of interest to students of linguistics and communication.
Thomas A SEBEOK / Jean UMIKER-SEBEOK (eds) Recent Developments in Theory and History The Semiotic Webb 1990 (Approaches to Semiotics; 100) Berlin, etc: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 xii+554pp. DM 298.00 ISBN 3-l l-012796-2 (hb) Contents: l/Self-portrait of a Russian semiotician in his younger and later years (Vyacheslav Ivanov) Part I/ Philosophical and philological foundations of semiotics 2/Semiotics and Edward Sapir (Ann E Berthoff) 3/Josiah Royce and communal semiotics (Robert S Corrington) 4/Giambattista Vito and semiotics (Marcel Danesi) S/The semiotics of C.K Ogden (W Terrence Gordon) G/Semiotics and Gottlob Frege (Eugeniusz Grodzitiski) 7/Kant’s semiotics: on his 200-year-old Critique of Judgment (Jsnos Kelemen) 8/The semiotics of J.R Firth (Nigel Love) 91 Merleau-Ponty and the ‘syntax in depth’ (Glen Mazis) lO/Semiotics and hermeneutics (Ursula Niklas) ll/Semiotics and Gilles Deleuze (Dorothea Olkowski) 12/0n Jakobson on translation (John Sturrock) 13/An invitation to the semiotics of Georges Mounin (Catherine Tihanyi) Part II/ Primary and secondary modeling systems 14/Semiotics and geography (Kenneth E Foote) 15/Semiotics and narrative (William 0 Hendricks) 16/As American as apple pie - and sushi and bagels: the semiotics of food and drink (Adrenne Lehrer) 17/Semiotic primitives and symbolic machines (Jean-Guy Meunier) 18/Semiotics and cartography (Bohumil Palek) lS/Law, semiotics, coding, and communication (W.T Scott) 201 Semiotics and sign language research and practice (William C Stokoe) Zl/Semiotic perspectives on Joyce (Lorraine Weir).
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SOClOLINGUISTICS
GENERAL
-
INTRODUCTORY
Graham BUTTON (ed.) Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xiv+278pp. & 42.50/s 54.50 ISBN O-52 l-38048-0 (hb) 5 16.95/$ 19.95 ISBN O-521-38952-6 (pb) l/Introduction: ethnomethodology and the foundational reContents: specification of the human sciences (Graham Button) 2/Respecification: evidence for locally produced, naturally accountable phenomena of order, logic, reason, meaning, method, etc. in and as of the essential haecceity of immortal ordinary society (I) - an announcement of studies (Harold Garfinkel) 3/Logic: ethnomethodology and the logic of language (Jeff Coulter) 4/Epistemology: professional skepticism (Bob Anderson/Wes Sharrock) 5/Method: measurement-ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena (Mike Lynch) G/Method: evidence and inference - evidence and inference for ethnomethodology (Douglas Benson/John Hughes) 7/The social actor: social action in real time (Wes Sharrock/Graham Button) 8/Cognition: cognition in an ethnomethodologi-
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cal mode (Jeff Coulter) S/Language and culture: the linguistic analysis of culture (John Lee) lo/Values and moral judgement: communicative praxis as moral order (Lena Jayyusi). Defining ethnomethodology as, in part, the product of Garfinkel’s problem of operationalising Parson’s theory of social action in situated circumstances of action, this collection of essays by sociologists aims to spell out the radical respecification of foundational matters that is proposed by ethnomethodology and the significance this respecification has for the human sciences at large. 6.2
LINGUISTIC
GEOGRAPHY
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DIALECTOLOGY
Heinrich WELDNER Die Mundart von Barchfeld and der Werra (ZDL - Beihefte; 68) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1991 ISBN 3-515-05422-7 (pb) xvi+333pp. DM 98.00 Contents: l/Einleitung Z/Lautlehre S/Formenlehre 4/Wortbildungslehre 5/Satzlehre G/Wart-schatz 7/Die Mundart im Wandel der Zeiten 8/Die Zukunft der Mundart S/Ergebnisse. This research monograph describes the history and present state of the East Franconian dialect of Barchfeld, the author’s native town situated on the river Werra in Thuringia, Germany. 6.4 Michael
LANGUAGE
VARIATION
-
BILINGUALISM
CLYNE
Community Cambridge, x+294pp.
Languages: The etc: Cambridge & 35.00/$ 59.50 ?price
Australian Experience University Press, 1991 ISBN o-521-39330-2 (hb) ISBN O-52 l-39729-4 (pb)
Contents:
l/Australia between monolingualism and multilingualism P/Distribution and maintenance of community languages in Australia 3/The use of community languages in Australia 4/Structural and typological aspects of community languages 5/The formulation and implementation of language policies. Appendix/ More detailed tables from Censuses. In Australia, a continuing tension has existed since the nineteenth century between monolingualism and multilingualism. This book focuses on three main issues: (1) H ow languages other than English (and other than Aboriginal languages) are maintained in a predominantly Englishspeaking society; (2) How the structure of the languages themselves has changed over the years; and (3) How the Australian government has responded to the existing ethnolinguistic diversity, with particular emphasis on the country’s National Language Policy. 6.5
CONVERSATION
Heike HULZER-VOGT Kippfigur Metapher
in Gesp&hen: (Studium
ANALYSIS
- metaphernbedingte Ein Beitrag zur empirischen
Sprachwissenschaft
- Beihefte;
Kommunikationskonflikte Kommunikationsforschung 16)
Minster: Nodus, 199 1 549pp. DM 158.00 ISBN 3-89323-l 16-l (pb) (2 vols) Contents: Einleitung Part I/ Theoretische Fundierung l/Metapher - Bild ~ Analogie: eine funktionale Rekonstruktion ihrer reziproken Beziehungen 2/Phanomendeskription von Kommunikationskonflikten 3/Typologie kommunikativer Zuge und (metalkommunikativer Strategien zur Vermeidung und Bewaltigung von Kommunikationskonflikte Part II/ Empirische Untersuchung 4/Vorbereitende Bemerkungen zu einer empirischen Gesprachsanalyse 5/Empirische Gesprachsanalyse von Fallbeispielen metaphernbedingter Kommunikationskonflikte G/SchluRbetrachtung Part III/ Materialien 7lFragebogen 8lSprecherintentionen S/Deskription und Analyse der experimentellen Daten lO/Gespr&hstranskripte. This book presents the findings of empirical research into communicative conflicts that may arise when metaphors are being understood contrary to the speaker’s communicative intentions.
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
LANGUAGE
PROCESSlNG
GyBrgy GERGELY Free Word Order and Discourse Interpretation Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1991 x+l57pp. $ 23.00 ISBN 963-05-6000-3 (pb) Contents: Introduction l/Mechanisms of clausal processing in typologitally different languages 2/Discourse interpretational aspects of clausal 3/Speech processing in Hungarian 4/The role of focus-bases processing inferences in antecedent matching: topic foregrounding at the clause5/Focus-based predictive inferences in clausal processing 61 boundary The accessibility of meaning versus word order during clausal processing 7/Conclusions. This monograph presents a series of psycholinguistic studies of the speech processing mechanism in Hungarian, a language having free word order, non-configurational encoding of grammatical relations, and strut Focusing on the functional role of the tural marking of topic/focus. clause-boundary in the processing of complex subordinate constructions, these studies demonstrate the central role of focus-based inferences in integrating clausal propositions into a discourse model.
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HISTORY
OF
LINGUISTICS
Marianne BAKRO-NAGY / Miklos KONTRA (eds) A nyelvesszetr81 - Egyes szam, elsb szemelyben Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1991 viii+27Opp. Ft 240.00 ISBN 963-8461-51-9 (pb)
Contents: Thirty autobiographical sketches, in Hungarian, by Ferenc LaszlB Deme, L&z16 Elekfi, Ivan Fonagy, Endre FUlei-Szant6, Bakos, Robert Hetzron, Edit Hexendorf, Samu Peter HajdCI, Jozsef Herman, imre, Bela Kalman, Sandor Karoly, Andras Kerek, Ferenc Kiefer, Lajos Kiss, MiklBs Kovalovszky, GyBrgy Lak6, Eva B LBrinczy, Adam Makkai, Iiona Molnar, Edit Moravcsik, Ferenc Papp, Olga Penavin, Mihaly Peter, And& Rena-Tas, Istvan Janos S PetBfi, Endre Racz, Karoly Redei, Szathmari, and Edit Vertes. lnternationai Journal for the History Historiographia Linguistica. of the Language Sciences Amsterdam, etc: John Benjamins fl YO.OO/$ 52.00 (3 issues) ISSN 0302-5 160 18/1( i991)268pp. Contents: Editor’s foreword (Konrad Koerner) l/The first quarter century of the Linguistic Society of America, 1924-1949 (Stephen 0 Murray) Z/The Linguistic Society of America and North American linguistics, 1950-1968 (Archibald A Hillj 3/165 Broadway: a crucial node in American Structural linguistics (Robert A Hall, Jr) 4/Bloomfield’s revisions of Language (1933) (Sidney R Smith) 5/Problems of Sapir historiography (Michael Silverstein).
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MISCELLANEOUS
ITEMS
David R OLSON / Nancy TORRANCE (eds) Literacy and Orality Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1991 xii+288pp. ISBN O-52 l-392 17-9 (hb) & 30.00/$ 54.50 & 14.95/$ 19.95 ISBN O-52 1-39850-g (pb) Contents: Introduction (David R Olson/Nancy Torrance) Part I/ Oral and literate aspects of culture and cognition l/The oral-literate equation: a formula for the modern mind (Eric Havelock) 2/A plea for research on lay literature (Ivan Illich) 3/0ral metalanguage (Carol Fleischer Feldman) 4/Rational thought in oral culture and literate decontextualization (J Peter Denny) S/Cree literacy in the syllabic script (Jo Anne Bennet/ John W Berry) G/Literacy: an instrument of oppression (D.P Pattanayak) Part II/ Oral and literate forms of discourse 7/Lie it as it plays: Chaucer becomes an author (Barry Sanders) B/The invention of self: autobiography and its forms (Jerome Bruner/Susan Weisser) S/Literacy and objectivity: the rise of modern science (David R Olson) lo/Thinking through literacies (Jeffrey Kittay) Part III/ Oral and literate aspects of cognition 1 l/Literacy: its characterization and implications (R Narasimhan) 12/The separation of words and the physiology of reading (Paul Saenger) 13/Linguists, literacy, and the intentionality of Marshall McLuhan’s Western man (Robert J Scholes/Brenda J Willis) 14/A neurological point of view on social alexia (Andre Roth Lecours/Maria Alice Parente) 15/ Literacy as a metalinguistic activity (David R Olson).
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Aitchisonl
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of books
OF ANNOTATED
to sections
change/
of the
ITEMS
classified
bibliography)
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BakrB-Nagy & Kontral A nyelvestr81 - Egyes szgm, elsfl szemelybenl Bassnett-McCuire/ Translation studies/ 4.3 Borowsky/ Topics in the lexical phonology of English/ 1.3 Button/ Ethnomethodology and the human sciences/ 6.1 Chomsky & HalIe/ The sound pattern of Cinquel Types of At-dependencies/ 1.5 Clyne/ Community languages/ 6.4 Curat/ Morphologie verbale et reference Davidsen-Nielsen/ LSP - Nine studies ’ purposes/ 4.1 Declerck/ Tense in English/ 1.6
English/
1.3
temporelle/
on language
for
Enrico/ The lexical phonology of Masset Haida/ Escribanol Una teoria de la oraci6n/ 1.2 Fleischman
& Waugh/
Discourse
pragmatics
Gergelyl Free word order and discourse Gorlach/ Introduction to Early Modern Greenbauml An introduction to English Historiographia linguistica 18(l)/ Hock/ Studies in Sanskrit syntax/ Hualdel Basque phonology/ 2.3 Hulzer-Vogt/ Kippfigur Metapher/ lvir
& Kalogjeral
Languages
and
the
6.5
in contact
and
contrast/
2.2 languages
6(l)/
3.4
Lightfoot/ How to set parameters/ 3.2 Lyons/ Natural language and universal grammar/
Parsons/ Pullurn/
languages/ 1.6 negotiation/
and 2.1
7.3
3.5
& Reulandl Long-distance anaphoral 1.5 Learning vocabulary in a foreign language/ Kasusrelationen und semantische Emphase/
Literacy Irish/
2.3
8
Koster Krantz/ Kunze/
Olson & Torrance/ d Siadhail/ Modern
verb/
interpretation/ English/ 3.1 grammar/ 2.1
Tamil lexicography/ of pidgin and creole
al./ Object-oriented Words and worlds/ The language of
special
2.3
James/ Journal
Masini et Matthews/ Mulholland/
2.3
oralityl
Events in the semantics of The great Eskimo vocabulary
4.2 4.4 1.1
4.4 5.2 9
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1.6 1.1
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Key/
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change
in South
American
Indian
391
languages/
Sebeok & Umiker-Sebeok/ Recent developments in theory history/ 5.2 Simpson/ Warlpiri morpho-syntax/ 2.1 Smith/ Computers and human language/ 4.4 Sweetserl From etymology to pragmatics/ 1.6 Ureland
& Broderickl
Language
contact
in the British
Weldnerl Die Mundart von Barchfeld an der Werra/ Wierzbickal Cross-cultural pragmatics/ 5.1 Zimmermann/
Syntax
und Semantik
der Substantivgruppel
3.2 and
Isles/
3.5
6.2 1.6