LINGUIST List 13.1326

Sat May 11 2002

TOC: Journal of Linguistics, Vol.38 No.1

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1. Sarah Nichols, TOC: Journal of Linguistics: Volume 38 Issue 01

Journal of Linguistics
Volume 38 - Issue 01 - March 2002
ISSN 0022-2267
Published three times a year by Cambridge University Press
http://journals.cambridge.org/iid_102436

Language against the odds: the learning of British Sign Language by a
polyglot savant
GARY MORGAN, NEIL SMITH, IANTHI TSIMPLI, BENCIE WOLL

Discourse markers and the PA/SN distinction
SCOTT A. SCHWENTER

The dual status of middle-distance reflexives
PING XUE, FRED POPOWICH

Pseudo-subordination: a mismatch between syntax and semantics
ETSUYO YUASA, JERRY M. SADOCK

Notes and Discussion

Myths and the prehistory of grammars
DAVID W. LIGHTFOOT

Reviews

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization
devices. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi+535.
EDWARD J. VAJDA

Lyle Campbell, American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of
Native America (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 4). Oxford &
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 512.
ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD

Noam Chomsky, New horizons in the study of language and mind. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+230.
PHILIP CARR

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen & Bernd Kortmann (eds.), Cause - condition -
concession - contrast: cognitive and discourse perspectives (Topics in
English Linguistics 33). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. Pp vi+475.
RITVA LAURY

R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Changing valency: case
studies in transitivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.
xvi+413.
EDWARD J. VAJDA

Heinz J. Giegerich, Lexical strata in English: morphological causes,
phonological effects (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 89). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix+329.
ANTONIETTA BISETTO

Harry van der Hulst & Nancy A. Ritter (eds.), The syllable: views and facts.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. xvii+777.
ANNA R. K. BOSCH

Shorter Notices
Juri Apresjan, Systematic lexicography. Translated by Kevin Windle. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. v+304.
BRIGID MAHER

Frits Beukema & Marcel den Dikken (eds.), Clitic phenomena in European
languages (Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics Today 30). Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, 2000. Pp. x+320.
LOREN A. BILLINGS

David E. Johnson & Shalom Lappin, Local constraints vs. economy. Stanford:
Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999. Pp. x+150.
ROBERT D. LEVINE

April McMahon, Change, chance, and Optimality. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000. Pp. x+201.
CHRIS MCCULLY

Jouni Maho, A comparative study of Bantu noun classes (Orientalia et
Africana Gothoburgensia 13). G�teborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis,
1999. Pp. xvi+388.
STEVE NICOLLE

Maria Helena Mateus & Ernesto d'Andrade, The phonology of Portuguese (The
Phonology of the World's Languages). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Pp. x+162.
TRAVIS G. BRADLEY

Yael Ravin & Claudia Leacock (eds.), Polysemy: theoretical and computational
approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xi+227.
KEN TURNER

Lori Repetti (ed.), Phonological theory and the dialects of Italy (Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory 212). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. x+301.
NICOLE BOSISIO, S. J. HANNAHS

P�ter Sipt�r & Mikl�s Torkenczy, The phonology of Hungarian (The Phonology
of the World's Languages). New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Pp. xiv+319.
G�BOR TURCS�N