LINGUIST List 12.1783: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

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The following books are available for review. If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, please contact Simin Karimi at: simin

linguistlist.org. When asking to review a book, include the following in your message. Please do this even if you have given us this information before! (1) The author(s) and title of the book you wish to review. If you are interested in more than one book, list them in rank order of preference. (2) Your full name and highest academic degree received. (3) Your current affiliation if any. (4) A short description of your research interests. (5) A postal address to which the book should be sent. Do NOT include an electronic CV or a URL for your personal web page. If you are selected to review a book, we will mail you a copy along with further instructions. Reviews must be completed within six weeks of receipt of the book or the book must be returned. *********************************************************** * THE FOLLOWING BOOKS WERE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED. * * WE STILL HAVE A COPY AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW. * *********************************************************** Anderson, Ronald James (2000) Ash�ninka Stories of Change. Summer Institute of Linguistics, paperback ISBN: 1-55671- 102-6, xi+245pp (Publications in Sociolinguistics 4). Benua, Laura (2000) Phonological Relations Between Words. Garland Publishing, hardback ISBN: 0-8153-3810-4, x+271pp (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics). Bresnan, Joan (2000) Lexical-Functional Syntax. Blackwell Publishers, paperback ISBN: 0-631-20974-3, x+446pp, $34.95 (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) Ellis, Roger (2001) Translation and Nation: Towards a Cultural Politics of Englishness. Multilingual Matters, paperback ISBN: 1-85359-517-9, vi+225pp, GBP19.95 (Topics in Translation series). Floyd, Rick (1999) The Structure of Evidential Categories in Wanka Quechua. Summer Institute of Linguistics, paperback ISBN: 1-55671-066-6, 206pp, $29.00 (SIL Publications in Linguistics 131). Gregory, Eve, and Ann Williams (2000) City Literacies: Learning to Read Across Generations and Cultures. Routledge, paperback ISBN: 0-415-19116-5, xix+232pp (Literacies series). Han, Hye-Chung (2000) The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar. Garland Publishing, hardback ISBN: 0-815-33787-6, xiii+263pp, $60.00 (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics). Kadmon, Nirit (2001) Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus. Blackwell Publishers, paperback ISBN: 0-631-20121-1, xi+430pp, $39.95. Kempson, Ruth, Meyer-Viol, Wilfried, and Gabbay, Dov (2000) Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Language Understanding. Blackwell Publishers, paperback ISBN: 0-631-17613-6, xii+348pp., $34.95. King, Jeffrey C. (2001) Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account. MIT Press, paperback ISBN: 0-262- 61169-4, xiii+207pp, $18.00 (Contemporary Philosophical Monographs, A Bradford Book). Maffi, Luisa, ed. (2001) On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment. Smithsonian Institution Press, hardback ISBN: 1-56098-905-X, xxi+578pp. Pintzuk, Susan, George Tsoulas, and Anthony Warner, ed. (2000) Diachronic Syntax: Models and Mechanisms. Oxford University Press, paperback ISBN: 0-19-825027-4, GBP24.99, xii+380pp. Roca, Iggy, and Wyn Johnson (1999) A Workbook in Phonology. Blackwell Publishers, paperback ISBN: 0-631-21394-5, xii+144pp. Schmid, Carol L. (2001) The Politics of Language: Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press, paperback ISBN: 0-19- 513776-0, x+218pp, $19.95. Spadaro, Katherine M., and Katie Graham (2001) Colloquial Scottish Gaelic: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge, paperback ISBN: 0-415-20675-8, viii+292pp, $20.95 (The Colloquial Series, with cassette ISBN: 0-415-20677-4, $45.95). Toohey, Kelleen (2000) Learning English at School: Identity, Social Relations and Classroom Practice. Multilingual Matters, paperback ISBN: 1-85359-481-4, viii+152pp. Urbanczyk, Suzanne (2001) Patterns of Reduplication in Lushootseed. Garland Publishing, hardback ISBN: 0-815- 34042-7, xi+254pp, $65.00 (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics). Van Valin, Robert D. (2001) An Introduction to Syntax. Cambridge University Press, hardback ISBN: 0-521-63199-8, xvi+239pp, $59.95 (paperback ISBN 0-521-63566-7, $22.95). Xu, De Bao (2001) Chinese Phonology in Generative Grammar. Academic Press, hardback ISBN: 0-12-767670-8, ix+244pp. *********************************************************** * THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. * *********************************************************** Boskovic, Zeljko (2001) On the Nature of the Syntax- Phonology Interface: Cliticization and Related Phenomena. North-Holland, hardback ISBN: 0-08-043935-7, ix+328pp (North-Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations 60). Cook, Vivian (2001) Second Language Learning and Language Teaching, 3rd ed. Arnold Publishers, paperback ISBN: 0-340-76192-X, ix+262pp, $21.95. Honselaar, Zep (2001) Govor derevni Ostrovcy Pskovskoj oblasti (The Dialect of Ostrovcy in the Pskov Oblast). Rodopi, hardback ISBN: 90-420-1444-X, xxvi+440pp, $90.00 (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 29; in Russian, with an English summary). Leezenberg, Michiel (2001) Contexts of Metaphor. Elsevier Science Ltd, hardback ISBN: 0-08-043881-4 ???pp, $93.50 (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 7). Motapanyane, Virginia, ed. (2000) Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax. North-Holland (imprint of Elsevier Science Ltd), hardback ISBN: 0-08-043871-7, 348pp, $97.00 (North-Holland Linguistic Series 58). O'Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie Rees-Miller (2001) Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction, 4th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, paperback ISBN: 0-312-24738-9, xiii+751pp (Instructor's Resource Manual ISBN 0-312-25891-7, 88pp; Transparency Masters ISBN 0-312-25892-5, 61pp). Trotta, Joe (2000) Wh-Clauses in English: Aspects of Theory and Description. Rodopi, hardback ISBN: 90-420-1284-6, xiii+237pp, $53.00 (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 34). Wolf, Hans-Georg (2001) English in Cameroon. Mouton de Gruyter (imprint of Walter de Gruyter), hardback ISBN: 3-11-017053-1, xi+359pp, DM168.00. *******

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