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G l o t I n t e r n a t i o n a l 4 . 1 Editors: Lisa Cheng and Rint Sybesma GlotMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuerullet.leidenuniv.nl www.hagpub.com STATE-OF-THE-ARTICLE Paul Portner on The semantics of mood COLUMN Neil Smith on The velarity of linguists ("Either you begin with a velar or you're not a linguist.") DISSERTATIONS "Knowledge of the syntax of operators in the initial state. The acquisition of relative clauses in French and English" by Claire Foley (Cornell 1996) reviewed by Natascha Mller "Scrambling and subject licensing in Japanese" by Yoshiko Sheard (Australian National U 1994) reviewed by Craig Thiersch BOOK REVIEWS Ur Shlonsky, "Clause structure and word order in Hebrew and Arabic. An essay in comparative Semitic syntax" reviewed by Jamal Ouhalla GOODIES Wiser web wandering by Paul Hagstrom Published by Holland Academic Graphics, The Hague PO Box 53292 2505 AG The Hague The Netherlands fax: +31 70 448 0177 http://www.hagpub.com