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Journal of Linguistics Volume 37 - Issue 01 - March 2001 ISSN 0022-2267 Published three times a year by Cambridge University Press http://journals.cambridge.org Why are categories adjacent? JOHN A. HAWKINS Positional effects in a monostratal grammar of German ANDREAS KATHOL The morphosyntax of WH-extraction in Irish JAMES McCLOSKEY The Prague School and North American functionalist approaches to syntax FREDERICK J. NEWMEYER Review The best of all possible words T. MARK ELLISON, EWAN KLEIN The extraction riddle: just what are we missing? ROBERT D. LEVINE Reviews Barbara Dancygier, Conditionals and prediction: time knowledge and causation in conditional constructions (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 87). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x+214. Bernd Kortmann R. M. W. Dixon, The rise and fall of languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. vi+169. Brian D. Joseph R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), The Amazonian languages (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxviii+446. Edward J. Vajda Alessandra Giorgi & Fabio Pianesi, Tense and aspect: from semantics to morphosyntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xv+319. John Hewson & Vit Bubenik, Tense and aspect in Indo-European languages: theory, typology, diachrony (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. Pp. xii+403. Steve Nicolle Harry van der Hulst (ed.), Word prosodic systems in the languages of Europe (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; Eurotyp 20-4). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. xxix+1050. T. A. Hall Ray Jackendoff, Paul Bloom & Karen Wynn (eds.), Language, logic and concepts: essays in memory of John Macnamara. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xxvii+470. Cliff Goddard Ren� Kager, Harry van der Hulst & Vim Zonneveld (eds.), The prosody-morphology interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix+442. Barbara E. Bullock E. F. K. Koerner, Linguistic historiography: projects and prospects (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 92). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. viii+236. Michael Mackert Emiel Krahmer, Presupposition and anaphora. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1998. Pp. ix+255. Alessandro Capone Jim Miller & Regina Weinert, Spontaneous spoken language: syntax and discourse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. Pp. xiv+457. J. Lachlan Mackenzie Rodney Sampson, Nasal vowel evolution in Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv+413. Matthew Absalom Shorter Notices Zhiming Bao, The structure of tone. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi+252. David Odden Sue Brown, The syntax of negation in Russian: a Minimalist approach (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics). Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999. Pp. xii+154. Paul Rowlett Stephen Crain & Rosalind Thornton, Investigations in Universal Grammar: a guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. ix+342. Dana McDaniel Patrick Saint-Dizier (ed.), Predicative forms in natural language and in lexical knowledge bases (Text, Speech and Language Technology, 6). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. Pp. viii+377. Piklu Gupta Anna Siewierska & Jae Jung Song (eds.), Case, typology and grammar: in honor of Barry J. Blake (Typological Studies in Language, 38). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xx+379. Lindsay J. WhaleyMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue