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The books listed below are in the LINGUIST office and now available for review. If you are interested in reviewing a book (or leading a discussion of the book); please contact our book review editor, Andrew Carnie, at: carnieMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuelinguistlist.org Please include in your request message a brief statement about your research interests, background, affiliation and other information that might be valuable to help us select a suitable reviewer. ACQUISITION/SPANISH Perez-Leroux and Glass (eds)(1997) Contemporary Perspectives on the Acquisition of Spanish. Cascadilla Press. Somerville Ma. Vol 1. Developing Grammars Vol 2. Production, Processing and Comprehension. These volumes contain 19 papers on a variety of issues in the acquisition of Spanish, both L1 and L2, from a wide variety of perspectives. SEMANTICS-Tense and Aspect ter Meulen, Alice G B. (1997) Representing Time in Natural Language. The Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect. MIT press. Cambridge MA. This book integrates current research in natural langauge semantics with analyses of Englsih discourse and logical tools into an information theory that provides a foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time.
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