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My request for bibliographical support with a project on apposition prompted several replies, for which I am very grateful. Thanks to Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, George Fowler, Rudi Gebruers, Martin Haase and Joe Salmons. The following basic bibliography of apposition may be useful to LINGUIST readers: Burton-Roberts, N. Nominal apposition Foundations of Language 13, 391-420 Bussche, Henri van den Les 'appositions' en francais moderne: inventaire en description Catholic University of Louvain 1987 Hockett, C.F. Attribution and apposition American Speech 39, 99-102. 1955 Lange, K.-P. Appositive NP-Konstruktionen im Deutschen Deutsche Sprache 2, 97-119. 1974 Leirbukt, O. Ueber dativische Appositionen bei akkusativischem Bezugswort im Deutschen Linguistische Berichte 55/78, 1-17. 1978 Matthews, P. Syntax. Cambridge: CUP. pp. 224-236. 1981 Motsch, W. Untersuchungen zur Apposition im Deutschen Studia grammatica 5, 87-132. 1965 Norwood, J.E. The loose appositives in present-day English American Speech 29, 267-271. 1954 Raabe, H. Apposition Tuebingen: Narr. 1979 Schindler, W. Untersuchungen zur Grammatik appositionsverdaechtiger Einheiten im Deutschen Tuebingen: Niemeyer. 1990 Sopher, H. Apposition English Studies 52, 401-412. 1971 Winter, W. Vom Genitiv im heutigen Deutsch. Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Sprache 22, 21-35. 1966 Ziv, Y. Why can't appositives be extraposed? Papers in Linguistics 6/2, 243-254. With thanks to the LINGUIST community and to Evelien Keizer, who will be carrying out the research project. Lachlan MackenzieMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue