LINGUIST List 8.815

Tue Jun 3 1997

Books: Germanic Ling

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

We would like to bring to your attention this new book from
John Benjamins Publishing in the field of Germanic Linguistics:


GERMANIC LINGUISTICS. SYNTACTIC AND DIACHRONIC
Rosina Lippi-Green & Joseph Salmons (eds.)
1996 viii, 192 pp. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 137
US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 592 3 Price: US$47.00
Rest of the world: Cloth: 90 272 3641 0 Price: Hfl. 110,--
John Benjamins Publishing web site: http://www.benjamins.com
For further information via e-mail: servicebenjamins.com

This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the
dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics
Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah
Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical
linguistics (by Garry Davis and Gregory Iverson, Mary Niepokuj, Neil
Jacobs, Edgar Polome, and David Fertig).
The authors start from current theoretical discussions in syntactic and
diachronic research, using theory to address longstanding but still current
problems in Germanic linguistics, from clitic placement and verb-second
phenomena through the 'Verschurfung' to the Twaddellian view of umlaut.
Each contribution relies on careful sifting of data situated in the
relevant comparative context, Germanic, Indo-European and cross-linguistic.

For further information please e-mail
Bernadette Keck: servicebenjamins.com

• Blackwells
• Cascadilla Press
• Cornell University Linguistics Dept.
• CSLI Publications
• John Benjamins
• Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Lawrence Erlbaum
• MIT Working papers in Linguistics
• U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association
• Pacific Linguistics Publications
• Summer Institute of Linguistics