Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:46:07 -0500 (EST) From: linguistlist reviews <reviewslinguistlist.org> Subject: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW
The following books are available for review on the LINGUIST List.
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* THE FOLLOWING BOOKS WERE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED. *
* WE STILL HAVE A COPY AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW. *
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Ghini, Mirco (2001) Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola.
Mouton de Gruyter, xvi+267pp, hardback ISBN 3-11-017090-6, Studies
in Generative Grammar, 60
Ginzburg, Jonathan, and Ivan A. Sag (2000) Interrogative
Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives.
CSLI Publications, xii+449pp, paperback ISBN 1-57586-278-6, $30.00,
CSLI Lecture Notes, 23
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-2545.html#1
Karan, Mark (2001) The Dynamics of Sango. SIL International, x+151pp,
paperback ISBN 1-55671-122-0
Laakso, Johanna, ed. (2000) Facing Finnic: Some Challenges to
Historical and Contact Linguistics. Finno-Ugrian Society, paperback
ISBN 952-5150-40-2, 234pp, Castrenianumin toimitteita 59.
Seuren, Pieter A. M. (2001) A View of Language. Oxford University
Press, xxiv+517pp, hardback ISBN 0-19-924481-2
Sorjonen, Marja-Leena (2001) Responding in Conversation: A Study of
Response Particles in Finnish. John Benjamins Publishing Company,
x+330pp, hardback ISBN 1-55619-948-1, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series,
70
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-212.html
Verhoeven, Ludo, and Sven Str�mqvist, ed. (2001) Narrative Development
in a Multilingual Context. John Benjamins Publishing Company, vi+430pp,
hardback ISBN 1-58811-098-2, Studies in Bilingualism, 23
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-292.html
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* THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. *
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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., and Robert M. W. Dixon, ed. (2001) Areal
Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics.
Oxford University Press, xvi+453pp, hardback ISBN 0-19-829981-8, $90.00
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-307.html
Bax, Marcel, and Jan-Wouter Zwart, ed. (2001) Reflections on Language
and Language Learning. John Benjamins Publishing Company, xxxiv+366pp,
hardback ISBN 1-58811-118-0, $100.00
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-366.html
Bloom, Paul (2002) How Children Learn the Meanings of Words. MIT Press,
xii+300pp, paperback ISBN 0-262-52329-9, $19.95, Learning, Development
and Conceptual Change series
hardback ed. reviewed at http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1151.html
Booij, Geert (2002) The Morphology of Dutch. Oxford University Press,
xii+253pp, paperback ISBN 0-19-829980-X, $26.00
Bras, Myriam, and Laure Vieu (2001) Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in
Discourse and Dialogue: Experimenting With Current Dynamic Theories.
Elsevier Science Ltd, x+250pp, hardback ISBN 0-08-043943-8
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-2487.html
Davidson, Donald (2001) Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. Oxford
University Press, xviii+237pp, paperback ISBN 0-19-823753-7, $19.95
Gardner, Rod (2001) When Listeners Talk: Response Tokens and Listener
Stance. John Benjamins Publishing Company, xxii+281pp, hardback ISBN 1-
58811-093-1, $89.00, Pragmatics and Beyond NS 92
Hualde, Jos� Ignacio, Antxon Olarrea, and Anna Mar�a Escobar (2001)
Introducci�n a la ling��stica hisp�nica. Cambridge University Press,
xii+371pp, hardback ISBN 0-521-80314-4, $45.00
Kaplan, Robert B., ed. (2002) The Oxford Handbook of Applied
Linguistics. Oxford University Press, xxviii+641pp, hardback ISBN
0-19-513267-X, $74.00
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-303.html
Kenesei, Istvan, ed. (2001) Argument Structure in Hungarian. Akad�miai
Kiad�, Budapest, 247pp, paperback ISBN 963-05-7813-1, $38.00
K�vecses, Zolt�n (2002) Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. Oxford
University Press, xvi+285pp, paperback ISBN 0-19-514511-9, $19.95
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-306.html
Lahiri, Utpal (2002) Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts. Oxford
University Press, x+308pp, hardback ISBN 0-19-824133-X
Lee, David (2001) Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Oxford
University Press, xiv+223pp, paperback ISBN 0-19-551424-6, $24.95
Lindquist, Julie (2001) A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a
Working-Class Bar. Oxford University Press, x+204pp, paperback ISBN
0-19-514038-9, $29.95
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-302.html
Loraux, Nicole (2001) The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in
Ancient Athens. MIT Press, 358pp, hardback ISBN 1-890951-08-0, $30.00
McWhorter, John (2001) The Power of Babel: A Natural History of
Language. Times Books (imprint of Henry Holt and Company), 327pp,
hardback ISBN 0-7167-4473-2, $24.95
Mesthrie, Rajend, ed. (2001) Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics.
Pergamon Press xxviii+1031pp, hardback ISBN 0-08-043726-5
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-94.html
N�meth T., Enik�, and K�roly Bibok (2001) Pragmatics and the
Flexibility of Word Meaning. Elsevier Science Ltd, xii+329pp, hardback
ISBN 0-08-043971-3
Pan, Yuling, Suzanne Wong Scollon, and Ron Scollon (2001) Professional
Communication in International Settings. Blackwell Publishers, x+240pp,
hardback ISBN 0-631-22509-9, $29.95
Paradis, Michel ed. (2001) Manifestations of Aphasia Symptoms in
Different Languages. Pergamon Press, viii+296pp, hardback ISBN
0-08-043662-5
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1570.html
Ravin, Yael, and Claudia Leacock, ed. (2002) Polysemy: Theoretical and
Computational Approaches. Oxford University Press, xii+227pp, paperback
ISBN 0-19-925086-3
hardback ed. reviewed in http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1111.html
and in http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-2315.html
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-300.html
Roach, Peter (2001) Phonetics. Oxford University Press, x+116pp,
hardback ISBN 0-19-437239-1, GBP 7.90, Oxford Introductions to Language
Study
Shi, Yuzhi (2002) The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The
Formation of the Resultative Construction and Its Effects. John
Benjamins Publishing Company, xiv+256pp, hardback ISBN 1-58811-203-9,
$98.00, Studies in Language Companion Series 59
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Richard B. Dasher, Jr. (2002) Regularity
in Semantic Change. Cambridge University Press, xx+341pp, hardback ISBN
0-521-58378-0, $65.00, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 97
Announced in http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1982.html
Vanderveken, Daniel, and Susumu Kubo, ed. (2001) Essays in Speech Act
Theory. John Benjamins Publishing Company, vi+324pp, paperback ISBN
1-55619-836-1, $31.95, Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, Volume 77
Winter, Yoad (2002) Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The
Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural
Language. MIT Press, xii+297pp, hardback ISBN 0-262-23218-9, $45.00
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