Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:40:37 -0500 (EST) From: linguistlist reviews <reviewslinguistlist.org> Subject: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW
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* THE FOLLOWING BOOKS WERE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED. *
* WE STILL HAVE A COPY AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW. *
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Duranti, Alessandro, ed. (2001) Linguistic Anthropology:
A Reader, Blackwell Publishers, ix+493pp, paperback ISBN
0-631-22111-5, $34.95, Blackwell Anthologies in Social and
Cultural Anthropology.
Kessler, Brett (2001) The Significance of Word Lists. CSLI
Publications, x+277pp, paperback ISBN 1-57586-299-9,
Dissertations in Linguistics
Laakso, Johanna, ed. (2000) Facing Finnic: Some Challenges to
Historical and Contact Linguistics. Finno-Ugrian Society, 234pp,
paperback ISBN 952-5150-40-2, Castrenianumin toimitteita 59.
M�ller, Gereon, and Wolfgang Sternefeld, ed. (2001) Competition
in Syntax. Mouton de Gruyter, v+410pp, hardback ISBN
3-11-016945-2, DM158.00, Studies in Generative Grammar 49.
Scott, Mike, and Geoff Thompson, ed. (2001) Patterns of Text:
In Honour of Michael Hoey. John Benjamins Publishing Company,
vii+316pp, hardback ISBN 1-55619-792-6 (US), 90-272-2572-9 (Eur)
$99.00.
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* THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. *
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Bayraktaroglu, Arin, and Maria Sifianou (2001) Linguistic
Politeness Across Boundaries. John Benjamins Publishing Company,
xiv+435pp, hardback ISBN 1-58811-040-0 (US), 90-272-5107 (Eur),
$114.00, Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, Volume 88
Cook, Guy, ed. (2001) The Discourse of Advertising, 2nd ed.
Routledge, xii+256pp, paperback ISBN 0-415-23455-7, $25.95, The
Interface Series (1st ed. 1992)
Dalby, David, ed. (2000) The Linguasphere Register of the World's
Languages and Speech Communities, Volumes 1 and 2. Linguasphere
Press, 300pp and 743pp, paperback ISBN 0-9532919-1-X and
0-9532919-2-8 (numbered copies)
Foster-Cohen, Susan, and Anna Nizegorodcew, ed. (2001) EUROSLA
Yearbook, Volume 1. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 288pp,
paperback ISBN 1-58811-114-8 (US), 90-272-5451-6 (Eur), $41.00
Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry, and Robert L. Roseberry (2001)
Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and Practice. John Benjamins
Publishing Company, xxiii+419pp, hardback ISBN 1-58811-035-4 (US)
90-272-2275-4 (Eur), $114.00, Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Series 5
Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier, and Luis Silva-Villar, ed. (2001)
Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics. Mouton de
Gruyter, vi+254pp, hardback ISBN 3-11-016929-0, DM176, Studies in
Generative Grammar 53
Hellinger, Marlis, and Hadumod Bussmann, ed. (2001) Gender Across
Languages, Volume 1. John Benjamins Publishing Company,
xii+328pp, paperback ISBN 1-58811-083-4 (US), 90-272-1841-2
(Eur), $29.95, Impact: Studies in Language and Society 9
Lanehart, Sonja L., ed. (2001) Sociocultural and Historical
Contexts of African American English. John Benjamins Publishing
Company, xvii+371pp, paperback ISBN 1-58811-046-X (US),
90-272-4886-9 (Eur), $39.95, Varieties of English Around the
World General Series 27
Lunt, Horace G. (2001) Old Church Slavonic Grammar, 7th Revised
ed. Mouton de Gruyter, xvi+264pp, hardback ISBN 3-11-016284-9,
$69.90
Mel'cuk, Igor (2001) Communicative Organization in Natural
Language: The Semantic-Communicative Structure of Sentences. John
Benjamins Publishing Company, xii+393pp, hardback ISBN
1-58811-101-6 (US), 90-272-3060-9 (Eur), $86.00, Studies in
Language Companion Series 57
Mushin, Ilana (2001) Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance:
Narrative Retelling. John Benjamins Publishing Company,
xiv+240pp, hardback ISBN 1-58811-033-8 (US), 90-272-5106-1 (Eur),
$82.00, Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 87
Silva, Gl�ucia V. (2001) Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese.
Mouton de Gruyter, vi+209, hardback ISBN 3-11-017193-7, DM156,
Studies in Generative Grammar 57
Tomasello, Michael, and Elizabeth Bates, ed. (2001) Language
Development: The Essential Readings. Blackwell Publishers,
viii+375pp, paperback ISBN 0-631-21744-4, $16.99
Toolan, Michael (2001) Narrative: A Critical Linguistic
Introduction, 2nd ed. Routledge, xii+260, paperback ISBN
0-415-23175-2, $27.95, The Interface Series (1st ed. 1988)
Wurmbrand, Susanne (2001) Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause
Structure. Mouton de Gruyter, x+371, hardback ISBN 3-11-016686-0,
DM176, Studies in Generative Grammar 55
Zeller, Jochen (2001) Particle Verbs and Local Domains. John
Benjamins Publishing Company, xi+323, hardback ISBN 1-58811-036-2
(US), 90-272-2762-4 (Eur), $99.00, Linguistics Today 41
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