LINGUIST List 11.1238

Fri Jun 2 2000

TOC: English Language and Linguistics

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

Directory

1. Jillian Davies, English Language and Linguistics, Volume 4, Issue 1

Volume 4, number 1 of English Language and Linguistics has now been 
published by Cambridge University Press.

In this issue:
Articles
R. Carroll
The 'Total Transformation Alternation' in the light of some Middle
English data

G-Y. Goh
Relative obliqueness and the contribution of nonheads in the
subcatagorization of Old English compound verbs

M. Getty
Differences in the metrical behavior of Old English finite verbs:
evidence for grammaticalization

R. M. Bhatt
Optimal expressions in Indian English

I. Depraetere and S. Reed
The present perfect progressive: constraints on its use with numerical
object NPs

Review article
A. Pennycook
Disinventing standard English. On Bex and Watts (eds.), Standard
English: the widening debate

Reviews
J. Beal: English pronunciation in the eighteenth century. Thomas
Spence's 'Grand repository of the English language' (Gorlach)

E. Finegan: Language: its structure and use, third edition (Plag)

C. W. Kreidler: Introducing English semantics (Gisborne)

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