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The Harvard Liuistics Department has just started a new series of working papers - Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 1 contains the following papers: Erich Groat: Turkish Verbal Morphology: The Basic Cases Geoffrey Poole: The Case Filter and Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic Naomi Bolotin: Arabic Agreement and Functional Projections Hisatsugu Kitahara: Checking Theory and Scope Interpretation Without Quantifier Raising Hoskuldur Thrainsson: A Note on Underspecification and Binding Andrea Calabrese: Some Remarks on Focus and Logical Structures in Italian K. Scott Ferguson: Particles, Derived Verbs, and the Abstract Clitic Hypothesis John O'Neil: Relativized Minimality and the A/A' Distinction Ken-ichi Takami & Susumu Kuno: Extraposition from NP and VP-Internal Subjects Dianne Jonas: Checking Theory and Nominative Case in Icelandic This volume is available for $14.- (including surface postage, book rate) from Linguistics Department Grays Hall Basement Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 USA We accept only prepaid orders (checks drawn on a US bank). - The plan is to publish two volumes annually, one (loosely) connected to our practicum in Syntax and Phonology, the other to the practicum in Historical Linguistics. Those who wish to set up an exchange program (exchanging similar publications for this series), please send an e-mail message to: thrainssMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuehusc.harvard.edu (Hoskuldur Thrainsson)
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