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Publisher: Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org Journal Title: Journal of Linguistics Volume Number: 39 Issue Number: 1 Issue Date: March 2003 Main text: Mechanisms of change in areal diffusion: new morphology and language contact Alexandra Aikhenvald Grammaticalization and modality: the emergence of a case-marked pronoun in Israeli Sign Language Irit Meir Co-occurrence restrictions on identical consonants in the Hebrew lexicon: are they due to similarity? Joseph Shimron, Iris Berent Gradient auxiliary selection and impersonal passivization in German: an experimental investigation Antonella Sorace, Frank Keller REVIEW ARTICLES Tone, accent and stress in Chinese Bao Zhiming REVIEWS Joan Bybee and Paul Hopper (eds.), Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure (Typological Studies in Language 45). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. Pp. vii+492. Holger Diessel J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.), The handbook of language variation and change. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Pp. xii+807. Jennifer Smith Hilary Chappell (ed.), Sinitic grammar: synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxv+397. Chaofen Sun Greville G. Corbett, Number (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xx+358. Alan Timberlake Klaus von Heusinger and Urs Egli (eds.), Reference and anaphoric relations. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xi+347. Eric Mathieu Carlo Cecchetto, Gennaro Chierchia and Maria Teresa Guasti (eds.), Semantic interfaces: reference, anaphora and aspect. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2001. Pp. xvii+361. Eric Mathieu SHORTER NOTICES Artemis Alexiadou, Functional structure in nominals: nominalization and ergativity (Linguistics Today 42). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. Pp. ix+231. Stella Markantonatou Guy Deutscher, Syntactic change in Akkadian: the evolution of sentential complementation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+204. Ur Shlonsky Mara Frascarelli, The syntax-phonology interface in focus and topic constructions in Italian (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 50). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. ix+224. Hubert Truckenbrodt John E. Joseph, Nigel Love and Talbot J. Taylor, Landmarks in linguistic thought II: the Western tradition in the twentieth century (Routledge History of Linguistic Thought Series). London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xiii+265. Philip Carr David Pesetsky, Phrasal movement and its kin (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 37). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xi+132. Cedric Boeckx Aafke Hulk and Jean-Yves Pollock (eds.), Subject inversion in Romance and the theory of Universal Grammar (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 215. Margarita SuYer Colin J. Ewen and Harry van der Hulst, The phonological structure of words: an introduction (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+274. T. Hall Michael C. Corballis, From hand to mouth: the origins of language. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+257. James Hurford NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS On South American Indian languages: reply to Aikhenvald Lyle Campbell Response to Campbell Alexandra Aikhenvald Lingfield(s): General LinguisticsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue