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Mon 12 Jul 1993

Books: Syntax, Theory

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SYNTAX

Chung, Sandra A BOOK OF GB SYNTAX PROBLEMS.
 1993. iv, 46 pp. Paper. [no ISBN number]
 $6.75 prepaid (incl shipping) Linguistics Research Center, UCSC
 >internet: lrcling.ucsc.edu Syntax
A collection of 25 GB problem sets: 19 designed for a problem-intensive
introduction to GB, plus 6 designed for an intermediate course in A-bar
dependencies. Suitable for graduate or (advanced) undergraduate courses.

Fielder, Grace E. THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF VERBAL
CATEGORIES IN BULGARIAN.
 1993. 384pp. Cloth. ISBN 0-7734-9313-1.
 $89.95/#49.95 The Edwin Mellen Press.
 Examines the choice of tense, aspect and mood in
subordinate clauses of time and condition as a function of
utterance meaning and the prototypical nature of verbal
categories. Provides real language data and discussion of
the theoretical implications of a RcontextS approach.
Intended for the general linguist, no knowledge of Bulgarian
is assumed.

Grace E. Fielder
University of Arizona

LINGUISTIC THEORY

Hagege, Claude THE LANGUAGE BUILDER. AN ESSAY ON THE HUMAN SIGNATURE
IN LINGUISTIC MORPHOGENESIS General Ling
 John Benjamins 1993 xii, 283 pp. Lings
 Cloth US:1 55619 155 3/EUR:90 272 3594 5 US$75.00/Hfl. 130,--
 Paper US:1 55619 157 X/EUR:90 272 3596 1 US$29.95/Hfl. 60,--
Based on a wide range of languages, this work sheds light on the human
language building activity. It argues that the conscious and unconscious
signature of human nature is written everywhere in language. The study
of these 'signatures' gives insight into basic characteristics of human
beings, tends to re-humanize linguistics, and stresses the importance of
language as a dynamic activity as opposed to a self-contained system.


Eid, Mushira & Gregory Iverson (eds.) PRINCIPLES AND PREDICTION: THE
ANALYSIS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE Ling Theory
 John Benjamins 1993 xix, 379 pp. Langs
 Cloth US:1 55619 550 8/EUR:90 272 3599 6 US$85.00/Hfl.145,--
These papers are dedicated to Gerald Sanders, author of Equational
Grammar and Invariant Ordering. They reflect the influence Prof. Sanders
has had, whether related to questions of rule ordering and
underspecification in phonology, structure and derivation in syntax,
form and function in discourse, or categorization and natural domain in
typology.

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