LINGUIST List 12.1449

Wed May 30 2001

TOC: English Language and Linguistics, Vol.5, Issue1

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. Sarah Nichols, English Language and Linguistics Volume 5 Issue 01 May 2001

English Language and Linguistics
Volume 5 - Issue 01 - May 2001
ISSN 1360-6743
Published twice a year by Cambridge University Press
http://journals.cambridge.org

- Actually, there's more to it than meets the eye
Josef Taglicht

- John Wild of Littleleek, an early eighteenth-century spelling reformer,
and the evolution of a new alphabet
Charles Jones

-Quantitative meter in English: the lesson of Sir Philip Sidney
Kristin Hanson

-On the history of if- and though-links with declarative complement clauses
Mar�a Jos� L�pez-Couso, Bel�n M�ndez-Naya

-Functional shift as category underspecification
Patrick Farrell

-Jespersen's formalism: problems and extensions
Sigfrido Di Giorgi

Short Communication

- Modals, subjunctives, and (non-)finiteness
John M. Anderson

Book Review

Marianne Hundt, New Zealand English grammar: fact or fiction? A
corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation (Varieties of English Round
the World. General Series 23). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1998. Pp. xv +
212. Hfl. 118, ISBN 90 272 4881 8; US$59, ISBN 1 55619 721 7
Robert Sigley

Kathryn Riley and Frank Parker, English grammar: prescriptive, descriptive,
generative, performance. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1998. Textbook pp. x +
324. US$50, ISBN 0 205 20025 7. Instructor's guide ISBN 0 205 28647 X
Frank Bramlett

Peter Siemund, Intensifiers in English and German: a comparison. London and
New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. ix + 283. �60, ISBN 0 415 21713 X
Anne Zribi-Hertz

Carl Bache and Niels Davidsen-Nielsen, Mastering English: an advanced
grammar for non-native and native speakers. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1997.
538pp. Hardback �58.95, ISBN 3 11 015535 4; paperback �12.60, ISBN 3 11
015536 2. Alex Klinge, Mastering English: a student's workbook and guide.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1998. 173pp. �6.30, ISBN 3 11 015818 3
Keith Brown


Carita Paradis, Degree modifiers of adjectives in spoken British English
(Lund Studies in English 92). Lund: Lund University Press. 1997. Pp. 192.
�14.95, ISBN 91 7966 427 X
D. J. Allerton


Gunter R. Lorenz, Adjective intensification - learners versus native
speakers: a corpus study of argumentative writing. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA:
Rodopi, 1999. Pp. vi + 321. Hardback �45, Hfl. 150, US$83, ISBN 90 420
05289; paperback �15, Hfl. 50, US$27.50, ISBN 90 420 05181
Manfred Krug