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* * * Volume 24, No. 2 of California Linguistic Notes is now available. * * * Includes: "DCM vs. CM" [on distant comparison and the comparative method] by Winfred P. Lehmann "On the Amerind Affiliations of Zuni and Tonkawa" by Joseph H. Greenberg "Comments On Ramer" [24/1] by Dell H. Hymes "Another Look at *TIK `Finger, One'" by John D. Bengtson & Merritt Ruhlen "Phonosemic Paradigms in English" by Roger W. Wescott "Lines for Linguists" by Roger W. Wescott "Interlingual Lexical Borrowings: A Case Study" by Zilin Zhao "Hospitality English" by John Ellison Kahn "A Corpus Based Approach to Computer Assisted Grammar Teaching" by Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson "Nagamese: Pidgin, Creole or Creoloid?" by Dwijen Bhattacharjya "The Philology of Non-European Pidgins: The Case of Mobilian Jargon" by Emanuel J. Drechsel Letters on _Language in the Americas_, book reviews, and more. * Back issues still available: Volume 24, No. 1 Includes: "Playing On or Around" by Geoffrey K. Pullum "`One' and `Only' [in Uto-Aztecan]", "Arguing About `Quail'", and "Languages in America" by Alexis Manaster Ramer "...Spinning Wheels, Wordwise" by Shale Dworan "One Aspect of Lexicon: Conversion in Singapore-Malaysian English" by Stacey Marcus "Japanese Compounds" by Mioi Ehara "Derivational Reduplication in Basque" by Sean Brady "The Definite Article in Five Germanic Languages" by Tom Harrison "The Morphological Structure of Proper Names" by Lisa Chow Reprints of articles about Chomsky, Laurence Urdang and dialects of American English; book reviews. Volume 23, No. 2 Includes: "Fieldwork and Field Methods in Linguistics" by Paul Newman "Arabic and Biblical Studies: Chapters from the History of Semitic Studies in England" by M. O'Connor "Sapir's Psychological and Psychiatric Perspectives on Culture" by Michael Silverstein "The Emergence of Sango" by Helma Pasch "Chileno: A Maritime Pidgin Among California Indians" by Guillermo Bartelt "Names for the Quail in Native California" by William Bright "Tubatulabal 'Man' and the Subclassification of Uto-Aztecan" and "On the Nostratic Inclusive/Exclusive" by Alexis Manaster Ramer "All in the Family: A Closer Look at Liquids and Glides" by Lori J. Altmann "A Pragmatic Device in Electronic Communication" [The Smiley] by Andrew Wilson "Actant-marking in the Verbal Complex" by U. J. Lueders "Zellig S. Harris: An Appreciation" by Bruce E. Nevin. Reprints about indigenous and endangered languages; book reviews. Volume 23, No. 1 Includes: "Curiouser and curiouser: Usage of comparative `-er' in American and British English" and "The phonaestheme as a linguistic entity" by Pam Ballinger "Putting the 'socio' back into the sociolinguistic enterprise" by Joshua A. Fishman "A consonant-final pronominal stem in Tubatulabal" and "Tubatulabal takaah 'quail'" by Alexis Manaster Ramer "The Lubbar Fend" by Carleton T. Hodge "An Interview with Joseph Greenberg" by Paul Newman "The you-guysing of America", "Another view of `You Guys'" and "Everybody Likes Pizza, Doesn't He or She?" by George Jochnowitz "Why transcripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls had to be released" by Hershel Shanks * * * California Linguistic Notes (ISSN 0741-1391) publishes essays, squibs, letters, and reviews on any linguistic topic; also student papers, works in progress, abstracts, notices of recent publications, jobs, and more. Manuscripts and other material for publishing should be submitted, preferably on disk or online, to the addresses below. Subscription, $20.00 for USA subscribers; $30.00 overseas (airmail); $10.00 per additional copy sent to the same address. Sample issues available for $2 (to cover printing and postage). Alan S. Kaye, Editor Program in Linguistics Department of English California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92634-9480 USA E-mail: akayeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuefullerton.edu (I shall be in Cairo until the last week of August, 1994, and thus unable to mail requested issues until then. However, I will be reading and replying to e-mail at the above address. -- Alan)
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