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Journal of Linguistics Volume 37 Issue 03 November 2001 ISSN 0022-2267 Published three times a year by Cambridge University Press http://journals.cambridge.org/journal_journaloflinguistics Romanian nominalizations: case and aspectual structure ALEXANDRA CORNILESCU The puzzle-puddle-pickle problem and the Duke-of-York gambit in acquisition DANIEL A. DINNSEN, KATHLEEN M. O'CONNOR, JUDITH A. GIERUT A mathematical model for the analysis of variation in discourse JES�S ROMERO TRILLO Right-Dislocation as scrambling HIDEKAZU TANAKA Review Article Linguists play catchup with evolution DEREK BICKERTON Reviews Margaret Deuchar & Suzanne Quay, Bilingual acquisition: theoretical implications of a case study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x+163. REGINA K�PPE Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph & Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), The emergence of the modern language sciences: studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E. F. K. Koerner, vol. I: Historiographical perspectives & vol. II: Methodological perspectives and applications. Philadelphia & Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. lv+311 (vol. I); pp. lv+335 (vol. II). MICHAEL MACKERT Martin Haspelmath, Indefinite pronouns (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+364. MICHAEL CYSOUW Roland Hausser, Foundations of computational linguistics: man-machine communication in natural language. Berlin: Springer, 1999. Pp. xii+534. RUTH KEMPSON Daniel Hirst & Albert Di Cristo (eds.), Intonation systems: a survey of twenty languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp xii+487. MARTINE GRICE Shorter Notices Peter Auer (ed.), Code-switching in conversation: language, interaction and identity. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. v+355. JULIET LANGMAN Elabbas Benmamoun, The feature structure of functional categories: a comparative study of Arabic dialects. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xi+180. ILAN HAZOUT David Birdsong (ed.), Second language acquisition and the critical period hypothesis. Mahwah, NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. x+191. BIRGIT HARLEY Marc-Ariel Friedemann & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), The acquisition of syntax: studies in comparative developmental linguistics. London: Longman, 2000. Pp. viii+326. NINA HYAMS Magnus Huber, Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African context: a sociohistorical and structural analysis (Varieties of English around the World G24). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. xviii+321. THOMAS B. KLEIN Tadao Miyamoto, The light verb construction in Japanese: the role of the verbal noun (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 29). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. xiii+233. MASAKO OHARA Cecilia Poletto, The higher functional field: evidence from Northern Italian dialects (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+207. FABIO PIANESI Neil Smith, Chomsky: ideas and ideals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. viii+268. MARTIN ATKINSON Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. & Randy J. LaPolla, Syntax: structure, meaning, and function (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvii+713. DANIEL L. EVERETTMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue