LINGUIST List 10.688

Thu May 6 1999

TOC: Glot International

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Rint Sybesma, Glot Int'l 3-4. With interview with Steven Pinker

Table of Contents
G l o t I n t e r n a t i o n a l Vol. 4, Issue 3

Editors: Lisa Cheng and Rint Sybesma <http://www.hagpub.com>;

*Interview* with Steven Pinker
"There has to be something innate on anyone's theory, otherwise we wouldn't
be any different from pancakes!"

*State-of-the-Article*
"No lack of determination"
Greg Carlson on Determinerless noun phrases

*Column*
Neil Smith on "Bonobos"

*Dissertations*
"Syntax of possessive phrases and acquisition of whose-questions: a
comparative study of child L1 and L2 grammars"
by Elena V. Gavruseva (Georgetown, 1997)
reviewed by Susan M. Powers

"Comparative studies in word order variation: adverbs, pronouns, and clause
structure in Romance and Germanic"
by Christopher Laenzlinger (Geneva, 1996)
reviewed by Thomas Ernst

*Book reviews*
"Not everything is possible"
by Ton van der Wouden
reviewing Raffaella Zanuttini's "Negation and clausal structure: a
comparative study of Romance languages" (OUP USA, 1997)

*Goodies*
"Counting for linguists"
by Andrew Carnie, Explaining Microsoft Word98's renumbering features

*Book notices*

*Conference reports*
"Workshop on Ellipsis in Conjunction"
(Berlin, October 1998)
"Western Conference on Linguistics 10"
(Tempe, Arizona, October 1998)
by Kleanthes K. Grohmann 

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