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general works 1.1. biography - bibliography glossaries - dictionaries 1.2. 1.3. periodicals 1.4. miscellaneous - literary studies

2.0. philosophy of language 2.1. general - introductory 2.2. information and communication theory 2.3. semiotics 2.4. mathematical foundations of linguistics 2.5. logic 3.0.

theoretical and descriptive linguistics 3.1. general - introductory 3.1.1. phonology - morphology 3.1.2. syntax 3.1.3. semantics 3.2. theory and method 3.2.1. generative grammar 3.2.1.1. phonology - morphology 3.2.1.2. syntax 3.2.2. structuralist grammar 3.2.3. other schools of thought 3.3. descriptions of single languages 3.3.1. grammars 3.3.2. dictionaries 3.4. phonetics 3.5. lexicography - etymology 3.6. text grammar 3.7. other subjects

4.0. psycholinguistics 4.1. general - introductory 4.2. language acquisition 4.3. language processing 4.4. speech and language pathology 4.5. second language learning and teaching 5.0. sociolinguistics 5.1. general - introductory 5.2. linguistic geography - dialectology 5.3. pragmatics 5.4. languages in contact 5.5. e$thnolinguistics 6.0.

comparative and historical linguistics 6.1. Indo-European languages 6.2. non-Indo-European languages

7.0. history of linguistics

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BIBLIOGRAPhY 1.4. miscellaneous - literary studies Allerton, D.J., Edward Carney and David Holdcraft (eds.) ic Analysis: A Festschrift Cambridge/New York, 1979 ISBN 0 521 22429 2 Contents: C.E. Baxell, 'Some Cases of Metanalysis'; D. Bolinger, 'The Jingle Th ory of Double wing'; M.A.K. Halliday, 'Modes of Meaning and MO es of Expression'; S. Korner, 'On the Logic of Relations'; C. Lejewski, 'Idealization of Ordinary Language for f Logic'; J. Lyons, 'Knowledge and Truth': A. Martical Function'; P.H. Matthews, 'Deep Structure': 'The English Appearance of Aspect'; F.R. Palmer, T.F. Mitch 'Nonassertion'and Modality'; R.H. Robins, 'Functional Syntax in Mediaeval Europe'; J. Vachek, 'Some Remarks on the Stylistics of Written Langauge'. E9.75

Bennet, Tony Formalism and Marxism New Accents Methuen & Co., Ltd., London 1979 xii + 200 pp. f2.50 (paper) ISBN 0 416 70880 3 E5.00 (cloth/ ISBN 0 416 70870 6 Contents: I. Formalism Revisit.ed:1. Criticism and Literature; 2. Formalism and Marxism; 3. flussianFormalism: Clearing the Ground: 4. Formalism and beyond; II. Marxist Criticism: From Aesthetics to Politics: 5. Marxism versus Aesthetics; 6. Science, Literature and Ideology; 7. The Legacy of Aesthetics; 8. Work in Progress; 9. Conclusion. nship between the work of the RusThis book examines the rela ch contemporary Marxist critics sian Formalists and that of as Mackery, Eagleton and Renee Balibar. Given, Talmy On Understanding Grammar Perspectives in Neurolinguiatics and Psycholinguistics Academic Press, New York/London, 1979 xvi + 379 pp* US$24.00 ISBN 0 12 285450 0 Contents: 1. Methodology: On the Crypto-Structuralist Nature of Transformational Grammar; 2. Grammar and Function: Toward a discourse Definition of Syntax; 3. Logic versus Langauge: Negation in Language: Pragmatics, Function, Ontology; 4. Semantic Case and Pragmatic Function: Promotion, Accessibility, and the Typology of Case Marking: 5. Syntacticization: From Discourse to Syntax: Grammar as a Processing Strategy; 6. Language Change: Where Does Crazy Syntax Come from: Diachronic Constraints on Synchronic Grammars; 7. Language and Phylogeny: The SOV Mystery and the Evolution of Discourse; 8! Language and Ontology: On Construing a Universe.

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Kelly, L.G. The True Interpreter: A History of Translation Theory and Practice in the West Basil Blackwell, Publisher, Oxford, 1979 ISBN 0 631 19640 4 xii + 282 pp. E15.00 Introduction; 1. Translation and Language Theory; 2. CC?iitEdltS: Godels and Definitions; 3. Translations and Their Functions; 4. Approaching the Text; 5. Linguistics and Lexicon; 6. Linguistics and Translation Structure: 7. Message, Style and Form; 8. Rights and Duties: 'Fidus Interpres'?; 9. Theory of Translation? Examining the development of translation from Roman times to now, the author postulates that translation techniques are the same regardless of genre, but that their use is determined by the purpose for which one translates, and that a historical period will have its own culturally peculiar way of using the standard techniques to transmit its own version of the same original text. Romrnetveit,R. and R.M. Blakar teds.) Studies of Language, Thought, and Verbal Communication , Academic Press, London/New York, 1979 xxi + 466 pp. E22.80 ISBN 0 12 594660 0 Contents: I. Theoretical Perspectives: 7 papers by R. Rommetveit, 1 by R.M. Blakar; II. Empirical Research: 27 papers by R. Rommetveit, S. Kvale, F. Strfimnes,V. Hundeide, J. Brdgger, H. Tech, D. Svendsen, M. Berkley, J. Kleiven, E.A. Turner, A.H. Wold, H.A. Selvberg, S.J. Stokstad, T. Lagerl@v. Among the issues covered in the conceptual framework outlined in this volume are: word processing and construction of social realities, associative networks and contractual aspects of communication, social stereotypes in language, language and social power, verbai communication and social influence, anxiety and language. 2.1.

+ilosophy

of language

Mairgaiit,Avishai ted.) Meaning and Use: Papers Presented at the 2nd Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter, April 1976 Synthese Language Library: Linguistics and Philosophy 3 D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht (Neth.)/Boston/London, and the Magnes Press, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1979 xii + 307 pp. Dfl 85,00 ISBN 90 277 0888 6 Contents: W.V. Quine, 'Use and Its Place in Meaning'; D. Davidson, 'Mcods and Performances'; E.M. Zemach, 'Awareness of Objects'; A. Kasher, 'What is a Theory of Use?'; J. Hintikka & L. Carlson, 'Conditionals, Generic Quantifiers, and Other Applications of Subgames'; H. Schnelle, 'Circumstance Sentences'; M. Dummett, 'What Does the Appeal to Use Do for the Theory of Meaning?'; A . Margalit, 'Open Texture'; M. Dascal, 'Conversational Relevance'; J.R. Searle, 'Intentionality and the Use of Language'; H. Putnam, 'Reference and Understanding': P.F. Strawson, 'May Bes and Might Have Beens'; S. Kripke, 'A Puzzle about Belief'. 2.2. information and communication theory

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Sedelow, Walter A. and Sally Yeates Sedelow (eds.) Computers in Language Research: Formal Methods Trends in Linguistics 3 Mouton Publishers, The Hague/Paris/New York, 1979 distr.: Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1979 viii + 223 pp. DM 68,00 ISBN 90 279 7846 8 Contents: W.A. Sedelow & S. Yeates Sedelow, 'Graph Theory, Logic and Formal Languages in Relation to Language Research'; S.E. Goodman & S.T. Hedetniemi, 'A Descriptive Introduction to Graph Theory and Some of Its Applications'; D.B, Benson, 'Formal Languages vis-&-vis "Natural" Languages'; H.C. Bohnert & P.O. Backer, 'Automatic English-to-Logic Translation in a Simplified Model: A Study in the Logic of Grammar'. 2.3. semiotics EC0

Umberto The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts Advances in Semiotics Series Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind. (USA), 1979 distr.: American University Publishers Group, London viii + 273 pp. US$17.50 ISBN 0 253 11139 0 )

Contents: Introduction: The Role of the Reader; I. Open: 1. The Poetics of the Open Work: 2. The Semantics of Metaphor; 3. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages in an Edenic Language; II. Closed: 4. The Myth of Superman: 5. Rhetoric and Idealogy in Sue's Les Mystbres de Paris; 6. Narrative Structures in Fleming; III. Open/Closed: 7. Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs; 8. Lector in Fabula: Pragmatic Strategy in a Metanarrative Text. The author focuses on the reader's role in interpreting open texts (when he/she is actively involved in the production of the text) and closed texts (when he/she is an addressee from whom the text seeks to provoke a predictable response). Pesot, Jurgen Silence, on parle: Introduction Zila semiotique Collection Langue et Soci&z$ Guerin Editeur Limitee, Montr&l, 1979 156 pp. C$4.96 ISBN 2 7601 0084 7 Contents: 1. Domaine de la semiotique; 2. Autour de la communication; 3. Fondements de la semiotique g&n&ale. I Sebeok, Thomas A. The Sign and Its Masters University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1979 distr.: American University Publishers Group, London xvi + 339 pp. E14.00 ISBN 0 292 77547 4

Contents: I. The Sign: 1. Semiosis in Nature and Culture; 2. Semiotics and Ethology; 3. Zoosemiotic Components of Human Communication; 4. Fcumenicalism in Semiotics; 5. Looking in the Destination for What Should Have Been Sought in the Source; 6. Iconicity; 7. Aboriginal Sign 'Languages' from a Semiotic Point of view (with D.J. Umiker Sebeok); 8. The Two Sons of Croesus:

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A Myth about Communication in Herodotus (with E. Brady): II. rhe 10. Neglected Figures Masters: 9. The French Swiss Connection; in the History of Semiotic Inquiry: Jakob von Uexhiill; 11. Gyula Perspective: 12. ROLaziczius; 12. 'Dialect' from a Zoosemiotic 14. John Lotz: A Personal man Jakobson's Teaching in America; and Kindred Semiotic Sets: Memoir; 15. Parasitic Formations Notes on the Legacy of John Lotz; 16. Marginalia to Greenberg Conception of Semiotics and Zoosemiotics. 3.1. theoretical and descriptive general - introductory

linguistics:

Akmajian, Adrian, Richard A. Demers and Robert M. Harnish to Language and Communication Linguistics: An Introduction Mass. (USA), 1979 M.I.T. Press, London/Cambridge, E12.25 x + 357 pp. ISBN 0 262 05058 5 I. Animal Communication SysContents: 1. What is Linguistics?: 3. Bird Communication; 4. Primate tems: 2. Bee Communication; Communication; 5. Comparing Animal Communication Systems; II. iiuman Language and Communication: 6. Phonology: The Structure (Zn11ndp.7. Morphology: of *2vuIIu3, The Structure of Words; 8. Syntax: The Study (If Sentence Structure; 9. Language Variation; 10. Language Change: 11. Semantics: The Study of Meaning and Reference: 12. Pragmatics: The Study of Language Use ;lnd Linguistic Communication; III. The Capacity for Language: Two Perspectives: 13. Language and the Brain; 14. Can Chimpanzees Lec^.rnLanguage? Waugh, Linda and Frans van Coetsem teds.) Contributions to Grammatical Studies: Semantics Cornell Linguistic Contributions 2 E.J. Brill (Publishers), Leiden (Neth.), 1979 ix + 238 pp. Dfl 68,00 ISBN 90 04 05931 8

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: L.H. Babby, 'The Syntax of Gerunds in Russian'; J.S. Rcwers-,- ’ On Negative Transportation'; M.S. Howden, 'Structure in the Lexicon: The French Adjectives neuf and nouveau'; D.R. Ladd, Jr., 'Light and Shadow: A Study of the Syntax and Semantics of Sentence Accent in English'; S. McConnell-Ginet, 'On the Deep (and Surface) Adjective good; S. Wallace, 'Voice, Mode or Aspect? The Semantics of the Verk)al Inflection in Jakarta Malay!; L.R. Waugh, 'The Context-Sensitive Meaning of the French Subjunctive'.

3.1.1. phonology

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Dinnsen, Daniel A. (ed.) Current Approaches to Phonological Theory: Proceedings of the Conference on the Differentiation of Current Phonological Theories, Indiana University, September 1977 Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind. (USA), 1979 tiistr,: L American University Publishers Group, London xi:Li + 335 pp. Us$22.50 ISBN 0 253 31596 4 Contents: I. Theoretical Approaches: articles by S.R. Anderson, D.A. Dinnsen, K. Houlihan & G.K. Iverson, G.A. Sanders, J.B. HOOper, I?.J. Donegan & D. Stampe, W.R. Leben, J. Goldsmith, S.D. Joshi & P. Kiparski; II. Review Article by F.W. Householder: III. Remarks and Replies: articles by F.R. Eckman, J.D. Kaye, J.W. Harris.

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semantics

Bouton, Charles P. La signification: Contribution a une linguistiquc de la parole Etudes Linguistiques 22 Editions Klincksieck, Paris, 1979 332 pp. 130 NF ISBN 2 252 01963 8 II. La signifiContents: I. La formation de la notion de sic'r)e; cation en langue; III. La signification en discours; IV. La significaiton en parole. After a historical overview, this work tries to clarify the problem of signification in its diachronic and synchronic aspects, within the theoretical framework of Saussure and Guillaume. 3.2.1.1.

generative grammar: phonology - morphology

Peer, Angelo Dietmar Studien zur Wortbildung in einer 'Klassischen' Transformacionsgrammatik: Die Relativsatznominalisierung im Deutschen Innsbrucker Beitrsge zur Sprachwissenschaft 22 Institut fiirSprachwissenschaft, Universitgt Innsbruck, 1978 xii + 482 pp. AS 480.00 ISBN 3 85 124 539 3 Contents: Einleitung; I. Die Stellung des Wortes in der Grammatik, seine Abgranzung und Klassifizierung; II. Die Beschreibung der Struktur von Wartern: Die deverbalen Nomina Agentis des Deutschen. The firs: part of this study deals with the phenomenon 'word' in general, and discusses the theoretical methods and bases of the traditiorlaland structural models of grammar. The second part analyzes the nominalization of relative, sentences. 3.2.1.2.

generative grammar: syntax

Van Voorst, Jan Index to Noam Chomsky's 'The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory' Institute for General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 210, Amsterdam, 1979 49 PP. Contents: Introduction; How to use the index; Index of subjects; Index of symbols; Index of morphemes, word classes, and words; Index of names. 3.2.2. structuralist grammar Qvarnstrcm, Bengt-Olof Formalisations of Trubetzkoy's Phonology Abo Akademi, Abo (Finland), 1979 xvii + 191 pp. ISBN 951 648 469 7 Contents: Introduction; 1. Fundamental Concepts and Assumptions of Phonology: 2. The Aims of Phonology According to the First Sections of Grundziige der Phonologie; 3. Trubetzkoy's Basic Theory and its 'Practical' Rules of Application: 4. Formalisations of the Abstract Version of Trubetzkoy's Basic Theory; 5. Fcrmalisations of Trubetzkoy's Theory Concerning the Concepts of

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'Relevant Feature', 'Phonemic 'Distinctive Oppositions'.

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This study aims to present and study formalizations of Trubetskey's theory of phonology as it is presented in his Grundziige. 3.2.3, theory

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Chandola, Anoop Method Situation to Sentence: An Evolutionary Linguistics AMS PRess, New York, 1979 ISBN 0 404 16038 7 xiii + 126 pp. US$BO.95

for Descriptive

Theory; 2. Situational View; 3. GramContents: 1. Naturalistic mat_.cal Productivity; 4. Linear Phase; 5. Synchronic Method; 6. Diachronic Evidence; 7. Final Statement. The author is concerned with dealing with the role of a grammatical system in externalizing a situation that has been internalized by a speaker, HZ thus argues that pragmatic aspects must be considered and criticizes transformational grammar for not doing so. He proposes a linguistic method for describing through rclles the formation of linguistic units, e.g. concepts, words, sentences, in a way that will mirror their actual evolutionary track in E synchronic or diachronic sense. Cook, Walter A., S.J. CEiS2 Grammar: Development of the Matrix Model (4970-1978) Georgetown University Press, Washixrgton, D.C., 1979 vi + lG5 pp. US$5.95 ISBN 0 87840 174 1 Contents: 1. Case Grammar: From Roles to Rules; 2. Improvements in Case Grammar 1970; 3. Case Grammar as a Deep Structure in Taymemic Analysis; 4. A Set of Postulates for Case Grammar Analysis; 5. A Case Grammar Matrix; 6. Covert Case Roles: 7. The Tagmemic-Case Grammar Model; 8. Role Structures in Content Analysis; A Case Grammar Approach to Literature; 9. Verb Classification in Case Grammar; 10. Case Grammar and Generative Semantics; 11. Stylistics: Measuring Style Complexity; 12. Durative Aspect: The Process of No Change; 13. A Case Grammar Matrix Model. 3.3.1. descriptions

of single

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grammars

Elhert, Samuel H. and Mary Kawena Pukui Hawaiian Grammar University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1979 xviii + 193 pp. us$12.00 ISBN 0 8248 0494 5 Contents: 1. Previous Studies of Hawaiian Grammar: 2. The Sound System; 3. From Sentence to Affix; 4. Classification of Verbs, Verblike Idioms: 5. Verb Markers; 6. Verb Affixes and Thematic Consonants; 7. Postposed Phrasal Elements; 8. Nouns and Substitutes, Locative Nouns, Compounds, Qualifiers; 9. Prepositions; 10. Determiners. Numerals, and Plurals; 11. Conjunctions and Complex Sentences; 12. Interjections. Freidhof, Gerd Kasusgrammatik

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Specimina Philologicae Slavicae 15 Verlag Otto Sagner, Miinchen, 1978 373 pp. DM 50,OO ISBN 3 87690 152 9 Contents: 1. Darstellung und Diskussion der bisherigen Kasustheorie und Kasusgrammatik; 2. Theoretische Voraussetzungen und Grundlagen zur Kasusgrammatik; 3. Theoretische Voraussetzungen zur Beschreibung de lokalen Ausdrucks; 4. Satztypen mit lokaler Beziehung aufgrund der Wertigkeit des Verbs; 5. Beschreibung der lokalen Prspositionen und Adverbien; 6. Wortverbindungen und Wortbildung; 7. Weiterfihrende Probleme und PrZzisierungen. This volume is the first of a series o-rcase grammar in Slavic languages. It describes the --researchproject, analyses 'local expressions' in Russian, and offers an extensive bibliography. Kilby, David A. Deep and Superficial Cases in Russian Specimina Philologicae Slavicae 14 distr.: Kubon & Sagnerp Miinchen, 1977 187 pp. DM 20,OO Contents: 1. Choosing a Model; 2. Locative: 3. Instrumental and Ablative; 4. Other Cases; 5. Residual Problems. This study searches for a theoretically satisfying way of describing the case system of Russian, in a generative framework. Moskey, Stephen T. Semantic Structures and Relations in Dutch: An Introduction to Case Grammar Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 1979 x + 165 pp. US$5.95 ISBN 0 87840 176'8 Contents: Introduction; 1. Theoretical Backgrounds to the Description of Semantic Structures and Relations in Dutch: 2. The Basic Verb; 3. The Experiential Verb; 4. The Benefactive Verb: 5. The.Locative Verb; 6. The Modal Verb: 7. In Retrospect. Within a case grammar model, this work attempts a typology of semantic structures in Dutch, based on a large corpus of verbs. Wheeler, Max Phonology of Catalan Publications of the Philological Society 28 Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1979 xxii + 330 pp. E17.50 ISBN 0 631 11621 4 Contents: Introduction; 1. Non-Verbal Morphology and Vowel Epenthesis: 2. Stress Assignment; 3. Verb Morphology; 4. Unstressed Pronouns; 5. Problems in Underlying Representations; 6. Between Underlying Representations and the Input to the Phonological Rules; 7. Further Phonological Rules. In this work a part of the phonological system of modern standard Catalan is analyzed in terms of generative phonology. 3.4. phonetics De Rooij, J.J. Speech Punctuation: An Acoustic and Perceptual Study of Some

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of Speech Prosody in Dutch Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven (Neth.). lYr/Y 172 pp. Contents: 1, Prologue; 2. A Search for Linguistic Boundaries that Are Prosodically Marked; 3. The Acoustic Structure of Prosodic Boundaries: 4. Location and Perceptual Relevance of Prosodic Boundaries: 5. Epilogue. Aspects

This study investigates the contribution iif s.peechprosody to the perceptior of words and word groups. 3.6. text grammar Agricola, Erhard Textstruktur, Textanalyse, Informationskern Verlag Enzyclopgdie Leipzig, Leipzig, 1979 109 pp* DDR 15,00 M Contents: 1. EinfGhrung; 2. Paraphrasicrung; 3. Text und Textstruktur; 4. Text und Thema; 5. Textanalysebeispiel; 6. Textsynthesebeispiel; 7. Profil der Thematischen Zentralitgt eines Beispieitextes. In this book the unit 'telrt'is understood as product and as tool of the concrete communication process. Three problems are studied: the theme of the text, the relation between theme and text and the relations between two or more different texts with the same topic (paraphrases, variants). 4‘2. language acquisition McDowell, John Holmes Children's Riddling Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind. (USA)/London, 197 xii + 272 pp. US$17.50/E12.25 ISBN 0 253 15020 5 Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Interrogative Ludic Routines; 3. -_ Texture; 4. Structure; 5. Content; 6. Negotiation: 7. Sessions: 8. Class and Ethnic Variables; 9. Acquisition: 10. Enculturation The author investigates the form and content of riddles, riddling as a social process, the development of riddling skills, cultural and socializing functions of children% riddling and the reflexivity of riddling - the ways in which it both is and explores culture. He bases his findings on 1000 riddling and riddle-like acts, collected from working-class Chicano and middleclass Anglo children, ages 4-11, in Austin, Texas. 4.4. speech and language pathology Clezy , Gillian

Modification of the Mother-Child Interchange in Language, Speech, and Hearing Edward Arnold (Publishers), Ltd., London. 1979 xiv + 162 pp. E7.50 ISBN-0 713i 6226 0. Contents: I. Theoretical Basic and Clinical Practicum for Modifying the Mother-Child Interchange: Introduction: An Argument for the Reappraisal of Traditional Therapeutic procedures; 1.

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The Model: 2. Modification of Anxiety Levels Through Analysis and Adaptation of Reinforcement Schedules; 3. M.J. Cevette, IAnalysis of Mother-Child Interchange'; 4. The Mother-Child Linguistic Interchange; 5. The Language Program; 6. The Phonetic/ Phonologic Program; II. Application of the Clinical Practice to Particular Hearing-, Language-, and Speech-Disordered Populations: Introduction: 7. Application to the Partially Hearing Child; 8. R.J. Balthazor, 'Application to Hearing Assessment, Hearing-Aid Evaluation, and Hearing-Aid Orientation'; 9. Application to the Behaviorally Disordered Child; 10. Application to the Mentally Retarded; 11. Application to Student Training. Written for practicing speech/hearing clinicians and their students, this book discusses recent research findings on the involvement of the mother as an integral part of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Crystal, David Working with LARSP Studies in Language Disability and Remediation 1.a. Edward Arnold (Publishers), Ltd., London, 1979 viii k 359 pp. EP7.50 (cloth) ISBN 0 7131 6117 5 E 8.95 (paper) ISBN 0 7131 6118 3 Contents: P. The LARSP Procedure; 2. LARSP in Clinical Settings; 3. LARSP in Research and Teaching: 4. Workbook: Exercises and Solutions. This book amplifies theoretical and practical points of LARSP (the Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure) and offers examples of its detailed application to children. Klatt, Heinz-Joachim Psycholinguistik der Aphasie: Eine experimentelle Analyse der Bedeutung syntaktischer Aspekte fiirdas Lesen von Aphasikern Peter Lang Verlag, Bern/Frankfurt/Las Vegas, 1978 229 pp. sFr 29.00 Contents: A. Problemstellung und Plan der Arbeit; B. TheoretiC. Kritik experimenteller und quasiexperimenGheOberlegungen; teller Untersuchungen der psychologischen Realit% linguisti scher Segmente bei Aphasikern; D. Theoretische Grunglegung der experimentellen Untersuchung; E. Experimentelle Untersuchung; F. Zusammenfassende Diskussion. In this book a theory of aphasia is developed which tries to unite generative grammar, Fillmore's case grammar, and the differ ent French and Russian dependency grammars, while paying attention to aspects of language acquisition and processing. 5.3. pragmatics GivQn, Talmy (ea.) Discourse and Syntax Syntax and Semantics 12 Academic Press, New York/London, 1979 xx + 533 pp. us$39.50 ISBN 0 12 613512 6 Contents: I. Between Discourse and Syntax: articles by C.A. Creiden, E.C. Garcfa, E. Ochs, T. Given, II. The Organization

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cf Discourse: articles by R.E. Longacre, J. Hinds, W.L. Chafe, D.M. Levy; III. The Flow of Discourse: articles by P.J. Hopper, IV. Pronouns and Topic RecoverabilA.L. Becker, E.A. Schegloff; ity: articles by D. Bolinger, C.N. Li & S.S. Thompson, C. Linde, R.S. Kirsner, A. Duranti & E. Ochs; V. Discourse Control of Syntactic Processes: articles by S. Laberge & G. Sankoff, N. Erteschik-Shir, D.A, Zubin, B. Wald. Haverkate, Henk +ositive Sentences in Spanish: Theory and Description Linguistic Pragmatics North-Holland Linguistic Series 42 North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam/New York, 1979 ISBN 0 444 85317 0 55,00 vi i + 194 pp. US$26.75/Dfl

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2. The Structure of Communication Contents: 1. Introduction; Acts; 3. Impositive Speech Acts; 3.1. Linguistic Analysis; 3.2. Pragmatic Analysis; 3.2.1. The Socio-Psychological Component; Component: 4. Concluding Remarks. 3.2.2. The Illocutionary The author analyzes the category of impositive sentences in (mainly oral) modern Peninsular Spanish, within the framework of a theory of speech acts. He applies a revised and expanded version of Searle's 1969 theory and of his taxonomy of illocutionary acts. Certain subacts are distinguished: referring, predicating, illocution, and allocution. The last of these subacts functions to determine the strategy of verbal interaction. Meyers, Terry ted.1 The Development of Conversation and Discourse Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1979 128 pp* E4.50 ISBN 0 85224 360 X Contents: I. Introduction: T. Meyers, 'Verbal and Non-Verbal Interactivity'; II. Symposium: M. Bulowa, 'Infants as Conversational Partners'; H. Widdowson, 'Rules and Procedures in Discourse Analysis'; M. Halliday, 'Development of Texture in Child Language'; J. Lyons, 'Deixis and Anaphora'; III. Comment: K. . Reeder, 'Reflexions on the Symposium'. Psathas, George (ed.) Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology Irvington Publishers, Inc., New York, 1979 distr.: Halsted Press/John Wiley & Sons, Chichester/New vi + 300 pp. El1.30 ISBN 0 470 26670 8

York

Contents: H. Sacks, 'Hotrodder: A Revolutionary Category'; H. Sacks & E.A. Schegloff, 'Two Preferences in the Organization of Reference to Persons in Conversation and Their Interaction'; E.A. schegloff, 'Identification and Recognition in Telephone Conversation Openings': G. Jefferson, 'A Technique for Inviting Laughter and Its Subsequent Acceptance Declination': C. Goodwin, 'The Interactive Construction of a Sentence in Natural Conversation': J.C. Heritage & D.R. Watson, 'Formulations as Conversational Objects'; J. Coulter, 'Beliefs and Practical Understanding'; J. Schenkein, 'The Radio Raiders Story'; G. Psathas, 'Organizational Features of Direction Maps'; M. Pollner, 'Explicative Transactions: Making and Managing Meaning in Tri-rfficCourt'; J. Atkinson, 'Sequencing,and Shared Attentiveness to Court Proceedings'.

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5.4. languages in contact Gilbert, Glenn G. and Jacob Ornstein (eds.) Problems in Applied Educational Sociolinguistics: Readings on Language and Culture Problems of United States Ethnic Groups (Proceedings of the Workshop on Southwest Area1 Linguistics, University of Texas at El Paso, April 1972) Janua Linguarum, Series Minor 162 Mouton Publishers, The Hague/New York, 1978 distr.: Walter de Gruyter 81Co., Berlin/New York x + 144 pp. DM 32,00 ISBN 90 279 7726 7 Contents: 10 papers on sociolinguistic issues involving Spanish speakers in the southwestern United States: 4 papers on sociolinguistic issues involving: American students, black students, Arabic/English bilingual children in Detriot, German speakers in Texas; 1 position paper on minority languages. Mackey, William F. and Jacob Ornstein (eds.) Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact: Methods and Cases Trends in Linguistics 6 Mouton Publishers, The Hague/New York, 1979 distr.: Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin/New York xii + 460 pp. DM 105,OO ISBN 90 279 7E66 2 Contents: I. Methods: 6 articles on guidelines, demography, models; II. Cases: 17 case studies applying research methods to language and ethnicity, language maintenance, language behavior, diglossia, language competence, language and education, language and community; the studies deal with linguistic communities in Greenland, British Honduras, Toronto, the Philippines, Wales, the American Southwest, British West Indies, Norfolk Island, Belgium, Japan, Nigeria, Switzerland; Conclusion: W.F. Mackey, 'Toward an Ecology of Language Contact'. 6.0. comparative and historical linguistics

Jeffers, Robert J. and Ilse Lehiste Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics M.I.T. Press, London/Cambridge, Mass.-(USA), ?379 viii + 209 pp. E8.40. ISBN 0 262 10020 7 Contents: 1. Phonetic Change; 2. Comparative Reconstruction; 3. Internal Reconstruction; 4. Morphological Systems and Linguistic Change; 5. Phonological Change; 6. Explanation in Linguistic Change: The Case of Sound Change; 7. syntactic Change; 8. Lexical Change; 9. Language Contact and Linguistic Change; 10. The Evidence. This introductory book gives basic information about analyzing linguistic change and aims to provide an even treatment of the different ways in which representatives of different schools of linguistics have looked at the same historical facts. Some previous exposure to general linguistics is assumed. 6.1. comparative and historical linguistics: Indo-European languages Engstram-Persson, Gunhild

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Zum Konjunktiv im Deutschen urn 1800 Studia Germanistica Upsaliensia 22 Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, ISBN 91 554 0861 3 166 pp.

1979

2. Der Modus der indirekten Rede; 3. Contents: 1. Einleitung; Konj.11 in hypothetischen Sgtzen und in Sstzen modesten Inhalts; 5. Konj.1 in Konzessivsgtaen und als 4. KonjI in Heischesstzen; Ausdruck exzeptiv-konditionaler Bedeutung; 6. Der Modus der Final 8. Schlusswort. sstze; 7. Der Modus der irrealen Vergleichssstz; The use of the subjunctive is discussed both synchronically and diachronically in this study, which is based on a corpus from literary and newspaper sources. L'einovich, Michael P. Old English Noun Morphology: A Diachronic Study North-Holland Linguistic Series 41 North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam/New York, 1979 viii f 243 pp. US$26.75/DFL 55,00 ISBN 0 444 85 287 5 in Generative Grammar; 2. Inflectional Contents: 1. Morphology Rules cf Old English; 3. Old English Phonology and Morphology; 4. Affix Modification in Old English; 5. Earliest Morphological Changes in Middle English. This study attempts to acccunt in generative terms for several major changes which took place in the inflectional system of English nouns between 1050 and 1300: the disappearance of most of the earlier case distinctions, loss of grammatical gender, simplification of plural endings. It is claimed that such changes take place in the inflectional rules of a language and that such rules lie at the intersection of the syntactic and phonological components of the grammar. Stearns, MacDonald, Jr. Crimean Gothic: Analysis and Etymology of the Corpus Studia Linguistica et Philologica 6 Anma Libri, Saratoga, California, 1978 xii + 172 pp. ISBN 0 915838 45 1 Contents: I. Analysis: Introduction; 1. Reports of the Language of the Crimean Goths; 2. A Chronological Survey of Crimean Gothic Studies; 3. Problems and Procedures: 4. Textual Criticism: 5. Busbecq's Informant; 6. Busbecq: the 'Fieldworker'; 7. Crimean Gothic Phonology: Its Development from Proto-Germanic; 8. Crimean Gothic Morphology and Syntax; 9. The Position of Crimean Gothic in the Family of Germanic Languages; 10. The Cantilena; II. Etymology. Part I examines the circumstances surrounding Busbecq's 15600 1562 recording of the vocabulary of Crimean Gothic, a Germanic language once spoken in Crimea but extinct since the late 18th centruy, and analyzes the data. Part II provides a phonological interpretation and etymological discussion of the individual Crimean Gothic forms. Wilmet, Marc ted.) Semantique lexicale francais

et semantique

grammaticale'en _*

Moyen

Lingua su. “uey_of books

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Colloque organis par le Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Litt6raires de la Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, September 1978 V.U.B. Centrum voor Taal- en Literatuur wetenschap, Brussel, 1979 338 pp. BF 300 Contents: M. Wilmet, 'Avant-propos'; G. Roques, 'A propos d'editions r6centes de textes de moyen francais'; C. Thiry, 'Rhetorique et genres litteraires au XVe siscle'; G. Bianciotto, 'Lanque conditionn6e de traduction et modsles stylistiques au XVe siecles'; J. Cerquiglini, 'Espace du texte, espace du sens: Bilan des recherches s6miotiques en moyen francais'; G. Levis, 'L'Btude de la synonymie verbale dans l'ancienne langue francaise: L'exemple de savoir et conoistre en moyen francais'; L. Melis, 'Les notions de but et de cause sont-elles pertinentes dan une grammaire du moyen francais?'; H. Bonnard, 'Sur une ragle d'effacement de l'article en moyen francais'; P. Wunderli, "'Ce neutre" en moyen francais'; A. Lorian, 'Journeaux et Chroniques 145001525: Quelques aspects de la subordination'; A. Dees, 'Variations temporelles et spatiales de l'odre des mots en ancien et en moyen frangais'; R. Martin, 'L'ordre des mots dans le Jehan de Saintre'. 7.0. history of linguistics Hoenigswald, Henry M. (ea.) The European Background of American Linguistics: Papers of the 3rd Golden Anniversary Symposium of ihe Linguistic Society of America, December 1974 Foris Publications, Dordrecht (Neth.), 1979 iv + 180 pp. Dfl 29,50 ISBN 90 70176 03 3 Contents: E. Haugen, 'Introduction'; R. Rocher, 'The Past up to the Introduction of Neogrammarian Thought: Whitney and Europe'; R. Wells, 'Linguistics as a Science: The Case of the Comparative Method'; H. Aarsleff, 'Brgal vs. Schleicher: Linguistics and Philology during the Latter Half of the 19th Century': Y. Malkiel, 'Aspirations, Organization, Achievement'; E.M. Uhlenbeck, 'Linguistics in America 1924-1974: A Detached View'; D.T. Langendoen, 'Discussion of the Papers by Y. Malkiel and by E.M. Uhlenbeck'; R. Jakobson, 'The 20th Century in European and American Linguistics: Movements and Continuity'.

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REGISTER Erhard,

Agricola,

Akmajian, Adrian, Linguistics 3.1.

Texts,truktur, Textanalyse, Informationskern --._ Richard A. Demers and Robert M. Harnish,

Allerton, D.J., Edward Barney and David Coiltext in Linguistic Analysis 1.4. Formalism

Bennet,

Tony,

Bouton,

Charles

Chandola,

and Marxism

Situation

Function

3.1.3. 3.2.3.

to Sentence

Clezy, Gillian, Modificat.ion of the Mcther-Child Language, Speech, and Bearing 4.4. Cook, Walter Crystal,

A.; S.J,, Case

Dinnsen, Daniel Theory 3.1.1.

(ed,), Current

H. and Mary

Samuel

Engstrsm-Persson,

Gunhild,

Kawena

in

4.4. Approaches

to Phonological

2.3.

The Role of the Reader-

Eco, Umberto, Elhert,

A.

LARSP

Interchange

3-2.3.

Grammar

'Working wi-h -

David,

and

1.4.

P., La signification

Anoop,

Holdcraft,

3.6.

Pukui,

Hawaiian

Zum Konjunktiv

Grammar

3.3.1.

urn 1800

im Deutschen

5.1.

Friedhof, Gerd, 3.3.1. Gilbert, Glenn Educational Given, Talmy

und lokaler

G. and Jacob Ornstein Sociolinguistics 5.4.

ted.), Discourse

Givbn, Talmy, Haverkate,

Kasusgrammatik

Impositive

Hoenigswald, Henry M. Linguistics 7.0.

Sentences

The True

Kilby, David

A., Deep and Superficial

Interpreter

Avishai

McDowell,

John

Holmes,

Children's Pm

Cases

3.3.1.

Stephen

T., Semantic

and Methods

for

(eds.),

4.4.

Sociolinguistic

2.1.

Riddling

4.2.

of Conversation

Structures

3.3.1.

in Russian

der Aphasie

and Use

Meyers, Terry ted.), The Development course 5.3. Moskey,

of American

1.4.

Psycholinguistik

(ed.) , Meaning

5.3.

Background

Principles

Mackey, William F. and Jacob Ornstein Studies in Language Contact 5.4. Margalit,

in Applied

5.3.

in Spanish

(ed.), The European

Kelly, L.G.,

Problems

1.4.

Grammar

Jeffers, Robert IJ. and Ilse Lehiste, Historical Linguistics 6.0.

Klatt, Heinz-Joachim,

teds.),

and Semantics

On Understanding

Henk,

Ausdruck .__ im Russischen

and Relations

and Disin Dutch -_

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Peer, Angelo Dietmar, Studien zur Wortbildung in einer 'klassischen' Transformationsgrammatik 3.2.1.1. Peinovich, Michael P., Old English Noun Morphology 6.1. Pesot, Jurgen, Silence, on parle 2.3. Psathas, George (ea.), Everyday Language 5.3. Qvarnstrcm, Bengt-Olof, Formalisations of Trubetzkoy"s Phonolo-.-z 3.2.2. Rommetveit, R. and R.M. Blakar (eds.), Studies of Language, Thought and Verbal Communication 1.4. De Rooij, J.J., Speech Punctuation 3.4. Sebeok, Thomas A., --I____The Sign and Its Masters 2.3. Sedelow, Walter A, and Sally Yeates Sedelow (eds.), Computers in Language Research 2.2. 6.1. Stearns, MacDonald, Jr., Crimean Gothic -Van Voorst, Jan, Index to Noam Chomsky's 'The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory' Waugh, Linda R., and Frans van Coetsem teds.), Contributions -II _I- to Grammatical Studies 3.1. Wheeler, Max, Phonology of Catalan 3.3.1. grammaticale en Wilmet, Marc, Semantique lexicale et sgmantique ---_--maven francais 6.1.

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PUBLICATIONS

RECEIVED

(other than those mentioned above) 1.1. bibliography

Nabrings, Kirsten and Peter Schmitter Spracherwerbforschung: Eine Bibliographie zur Psdolinguistik Studium Sprachwissenschaft 3 Institut fiirAllgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Westfzlischen Wilhelms Universitzt, Mznster, 1979 78 PP* DM 4,5Q Plants, Julian G. Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Project: Progress Report VII, The Austrian Phase, 1964-1973 Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minn. (USA), 1974 39 PP. Yasui, Minoru Current Bibliography on Linguistics and English Linguistics 1960-1978 Kaitakusha, Tokyo, 1979 xx + 269 pp. 1.3. periodicals

Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen XLIII/l-3 (1979) Liz.phil. Tapani Lehtinen, Castrenianum, Helsinki Glory of India -II/2 (June 1978) Shri Jainendra Presc,, Naraina, New Delhi Le langage et l'homme Mai 1979 Institut Libre Marie Haps, Bruxelles Linguistica XVIII Centre National de Recherches de Slovenie, Ljubljana, 1978 Minzu Yuwen 2.3. (1979) Research Institute of Nationalities, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking Studia Phonologica XII (1978) Institution for Phonetic Sciences, University of Kyoto Views on Language and Language Teaching V/l (March 1979) Cultural Association of Teachers of English, Athens Zpravodaj Mxstopisng Komise Csav XX/l-2 (1979)

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Topographic Board, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 1.4. miscellaneous - literary studies Konopacki, Steven A. The Descent into Words: Jakob B?jhme's Transcendental Linguistics Linguistics Extranea Studia 7 Karoma Publishers, Ann Arbor, Mich. (USA), 1979 xiv + 201 pp. ISBN 0 89720 019 5 Kuiper, F.B.J. Varuna and Vidusaka: On the origin of the Sanskrit drama North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1979 252 pp. ISBN 0 7204 8452 9 Nieuwnhuijsen, P.M. Spectator Cahiers 1 Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1978 187 pp* ISBN 90 01 62780 3 2.2. information and communication theory Garfield, Eugene Citation Indexinq: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities Information Sciences Series John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1979 0 471 02559 3 xxii + 274 pp. E9.50 ISB,",' Grotjahn, Riidiger Linguistische und statistische Methoden in Metrik und Textwissenschaft Quantitative Linguistics 2 Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum, 1979 vi + 296 pp. DM 34,80 ISBN 3 88339 062 3 3.1. theoretical and descriptive linguistics: general - introductory Bhat, D.N.S. The Referents of Noun Phrases Deccan College, Pune (India), 1979 166 pp. Rs 25.00 Canepari, Luciano Introduzione alla fonetica Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, vii + 318 pp. L 6500

Torino, 1979

Elgin, Suzette Haden What is Linguistics? Foundations of Modern Linguistics Series Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (USA), 1979 (second ed.) viii + 231 pp. ISBN 0 13 952333 2 Smith, Neil and Deirdre Wilson

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The Results of Chomsky's Modern Linguistics: and Linguistics Pelican Language Penguin Books, 1979 334 pp. El.95 ISBN 0 14 02 2069 0 3.2.1.1.

generative

grammar:

phonology

Revolution

- morphology

Van den Berg, B. Foniek van het Nederlands Van Goor & Zonen, Amsterdam, 1978 (eighth ed.) ISBN 90 00 02595 ;3 Dfl 24,90 124 pp. Trommelen, Mieke and Wim Zonneveld Inleiding in de generatieve fonologie Dick Coutinhc, Publisher, Muiderberg (Neth.), Dfl 19,50 ISBN 90 6283 532 5 165 pp. 3.3.1. descriptions

of single

languages:

19?9

grammars

'ilich-Svitych, V.M. 2 Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic Mass. (USA), 1979 M.I.T. Press, London/Cambridge, E17.50 ISBN 0 262 09018 X xi + 189 pp. hagen, Gunnar La concurrence entre 1"infinitif et la subordonnee completive introduite par 'que' en francais: I. Introduction Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Romanica Upsaliensia 26 Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, 1979 183 pp. SwKr 66.50 ISBN 91 554 0927 X 3.3.2. descriptions

of single

languages:

dictionaries

Fuchs, J.W., Olga Weijers and Marijke Gumbert Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi / Woordenboek van het Middeleeuws Latijns van de Noordelijke Nederlanden: Fast. 11 (coamantissimun - communicantia) E.J. Brill Publishing Co., Leiden (Neth.), 1979 ISBK 90 04 05995 4 PP. 779 - 858 Dfl 40,OO Norman, Jerry A Concise Manchu-English Lexicon Publications on Asia of the School of International Studies 'University of Washington Press, Seattle (USA)/London, 1978 xii + 320 pp. US$25.00 ISBN 0 295 95574 0 3.4.

32

phonetics

Brokx, J.P.L. Waargenomen continuiteit in spraak: het belang van toonhoogte: Perceived Continuity in Speech: The role of pitch Instituut voor Perceptie Onderzoek, Eindhoven (Neth,) I 1979 124 pp.