LINGUIST List 14.587

Sat Mar 1 2003

Books: 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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Berger, Alan (2002) Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric,
MIT Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2792.html

Beyssade, Claire, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola
Monachesi, ed. (2002) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000:
Selected Papers from 'Going Romance' 2000, Utrecht, 30 November -
2 December, John Benjamins, Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and
History of Linguistic Science 232.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2783.html

Long, Daniel and Dennis R. Preston ed. (2002) Handbook of Perceptual
Dialectology, Volume 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-181.html

Mesthrie, Rajend (2002) Language in South Africa, Cambridge University
Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-176.html

Miller, D. Gary, ed. (2002) Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change,
Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3311.html

Nakayama, Mineharu, ed. (2002) Sentence Processing in East Asian \
Languages, CSLI Publications.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1648.html

***The following two books may be reviewed together or separately.***
Nevin, Bruce, ed. (2002) The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and
Information into the 21st Century, Volume 1: Philosophy of Science,
Syntax and Semantics, John Benjamins, Amsterdam Studies in the
Theory and History of Linguistic Science 228.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-52.html

Nevin, Bruce, and Stephen M. Johnson, ed. (2002) The Legacy of Zellig
Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century, Volume 2:
Computability of Language and Computer Applications, John Benjamins,
Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science 229.

Preyer, Gerhard and Georg Peter (2002) Logical Form and Language,
Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3278.html

Schulmeister, Rolf and Heimo Reinitzer, ed. (2003) Progress in Sign
Language Research: In Honor of Siegmund Prillwitz, Signum GmBH,
International Studies on Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf
40.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-54.html

Verhoeven, Ludo, Carsten Elbro, and Pieter Reitsma, ed. (2002)
Precursors of Functional Literacy. John Benjamins, Studies in
Written Language and Literacy 11.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-53.html

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* THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. *
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Aitchison, Jean (2003) Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental
Lexicon, 3rd ed., Blackwell Publishers.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/6/6-849.html (1st ed.)

Baptista, Marlyse (2002) The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole, John
Benjamins, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 54.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-421.html

Barss, Andrew, ed. (200) Anaphora: A Reference Guide, Blackwell
Publishers, Explaining Linguistics 3.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1454.html

Baugh, John (2002) Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial
Prejudice, paperback ed., Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-49.html (hb ed.)

Beal, Joan (2002) English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century:
Thomas Spence's 'Grand Repository of the English Language', Oxford
University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3252.html

Beaton, K. B. (2002) A Practical Dictionary of German Usage, Oxford
University Press (paperback ed.).
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-417.html (hb ed.)

Broeder, Peter and Jaap Murre, ed. (2002) Models of Language
Acquisition: Inductive and Deductive Approaches, Oxford University
Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3267.html

Chambers, J. K. (2002) Sociolinguistic Theory, 2nd ed., Polity (imprint
of Blackwell Publishers).
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/6/6-859.html (1st ed.)

Chandler, Daniel (2002) Semiotics: The Basics, Routledge.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1468.html

Cinque, Guglielmo, ed. (2002) Functional Structure in DP and IP: The
Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 1, Oxford University Press,
Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3344.html

Comrie, Bernard and Greville C. Corbett, ed. (2002) The Slavonic
Languages. Routledge, Routledge Language Family Descriptions.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-471.html

Cook, Vivian, ed. (2002) Portraits of the L2 User, Multilingual
Matters, Second Language Acquisition 1.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1277.html

Coulmas, Florian (2003) Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their
Linguistic Analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Textbooks
in Linguistics.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2400.html

Cutting, Joan (2002) Pragmatics and Discourse: A Resource Book for
Students, Routledge, Routledge English Language Introductions.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1467.html

Dixon, Robert M. W. and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, ed. (2003) Word: A
Cross-Linguistic Typology, Cambridge University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2395.html

Durand, Jacques and Bernard Laks, ed. (2002) Phonetics, Phonology, and
Cognition, Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Theoretical
Linguistics.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3261.html

Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet (2003) Language and Gender,
Cambridge University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-161.html

Enfield, N. J. ed. (2002) Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and
Culture, Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3327.html

Fodor, Jerry A. and Ernest Lepore (2002) The Compositionality Papers,
Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3271.html

Hasselg�rd, Hilde, Stig Johansson, Bergljot Behrens, and Cathrine
Fabricius-Hansen, ed. (2002) Information Structure in a Cross-
Linguistic Perspective. Rodopi, Language and Computers: Studies in
Practical Linguistics 39.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-426.html

Hickmann, Maya (2003) Children's Discourse: Person, Space and Time
across Languages, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in
Linguistics 98.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2379.html

Jackson, Howard (2002) Grammar and Vocabulary: A Resource Book for
Students, Routledge Routledge English Language Introductions.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1466.html

Jackson, Howard (2002) Lexicography: An Introduction, Routledge .
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1472.html

Johnson, Keith (2003) Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics, 2nd. ed.,
Blackwell Publishers.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1449.html

Julien, Marit (2002) Syntactic Heads and Word Formation, Oxford
University Press, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3346.html

Kehrein, Wolfgang (2002) Phonological Representation and Phonetic
Phasing: Affricates and Laryngeals, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Linguistische
Arbeiten 466.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3231.html

K�nig, Ekkehard and Johan van der Auwera, ed. (2002) The Germanic
Languages. Routledge, Routledge Language Family Descriptions.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-472.html

Labeau, Emmanuelle and Pierre Larriv�e, ed. (2002) Les temps du pass�
fran�ais et leur enseignement. Rodopi, Cahiers Chronos 9.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-427.html

Lahiri, Utpal, ed. (2002) Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts.
Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 2.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3316.html

Lightfoot, David W., ed. (2002) Syntactic Effects of Morphological
Change, Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3342.html

Linn, Andrew R. and Nicola McLelland, ed. (2002) Standardization:
Studies from the Germanic Languages, John Benjamins, Current Issues in
Linguistic Theory 235.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-227.html

Loritz, Donald (2002) How the Brain Evolved Language, Oxford University
Press (pb edition)
 hb ed. reviewed at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2043.html
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3265.html

Marten, Lutz J. (2002) At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Verbal
Underspecification and Concept Formation in Dynamic Syntax, Oxford
University Press, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3341.html

Mugglestone, Lynda, ed. (2002) Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in
the Untrodden Forest, Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3256.html

M�ller, Wolfgang G. and Olga Fischer, ed. (2002) From Sign to Signing:
Iconicity in Language and Literature 3, John Benjamins.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-424.html

Myers-Scotton, Carol (2002) Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters
and Grammatical Outcomes, Oxford University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3317.html

Neef, Martin, Anneke Neijt and Richard Sproat, ed. (2002) The Relation
of Writing to Spoken Language, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Linguistische
Arbeiten 460.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3230.html

Price, Glanville (2003) A Comprehensive French Grammar, 5th ed.,
Blackwell Publishers, Blackwell Reference Grammars.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2867.html

Shahin, Kimary N. (2002) Postvelar Harmony, John Benjamins, Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory 225.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-425.html

Silberstein, Sandra (2002) War of Words: Language, Politics and 9/11,
Routledge.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-473.html

Stevenson, Patrick (2002) Language and German Disunity: A
Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000, Oxford
University Press.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3319.html

Stockwell, Peter (2002) Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, Routledge.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1508.html

Svenonius, Peter, ed. (2002) Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP, Oxford
University Press, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-3313-html

Tsujioka, Takae (2002) The Syntax of Possession in Japanese, Routledge,
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-474.html

Vermeulen, Kees and Ann Copestake, ed. (2002) Algebras, Diagrams and
Decisions in Language, Logic and Computation, CSLI Publications.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-556.html

Wardhaugh, Ronald (2003) Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic
Approach, Second Edition, Blackwell Publishers.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2316.html

Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter and Werner Abraham, ed. (2002) Studies in
Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on
Comparative Germanic Syntax, John Benjamins, Linguistik
Aktuell/Linguistics Today 53.
 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-228.html

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* WE ARE HOLDING 25 BOOKS FROM THE FOLLOWING PUBLISHERS *
* PENDING THE POSTING OF THEIR ANNOUNCEMENTS. *
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ARNOLD PUBLISHERS 1
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 8
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1
FINNO-UGRIAN SOCIETY 1
MARIE CURIE-SKLODOWSKA PRESS 1
MIT PRESS 1
MOUTON DE GRUYTER 5
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 5
PRENTICE-HALL 1
RODOPI 1