LINGUIST List 8.877

Sun Jun 15 1997

TOC: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics

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

MIT Working Papers in Linguistics has recently begun distribution of
several new dissertations and collections of papers. New since
December 1996 are the following collections of papers in linguistics:

MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 28:

PAPERS ON LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND THE MAINTENANCE OF LINGUISTIC
	DIVERSITY (December 1996)

	Jonathan Bobaljik, Rob Pensalfini, and Luciana Storto, eds. 
	238 pp

	CONTENTS

	Mercurio, Antonio and Rob Amery - CAN SENIOR SECONDARY STUDIES
	HELP TO MAINTAIN AND STRENGTHEN AUSTRALIA'S INDIGENOUS
	LANGUAGES?
	Green, Thomas - THE ULWA LANGUAGE WAKES UP
	Storto, Luciana - A REPORT ON LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT IN BRAZIL
	Carnie, Andrew - MODERN IRISH: A CASE STUDY IN LANGUAGE REVIVAL
		FAILURE
	Slomanson, Peter - EXPLAINING AND REVERSING THE FAILURE OF THE
		IRISH LANGUAGE REVIVAL
	Hale, Ken - UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR AND THE ROOTS OF LINGUISTIC
		DIVERSITY
	Verma, Mahendra K. - LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND THE
		NON-INDIGENOUS MINORITY LANGUAGES IN THE UK
	Linguistic Society of America - POLICY STATEMENT: THE NEED FOR
		THE DOCUMENTATION OF LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY
	Bobaljik, Jonathan, Rob Pensalfini, and Luciana Storto - A
		PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND
		PRESERVATION
	


MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 29:

FORMAL APPROACHES TO JAPANESE LINGUISTICS: PROCEEDINGS OF FAJL 2
	(December 1996) 

	Masatoshi Koizumi, Masayuki Oishi, and Uli Sauerland, eds.
	388 pp

	CONTENTS

	Endo, Yoshio - RIGHT DISLOCATION
	Hoshi, Koji - MULTIPLE CASE-CHECKING IN THE HEAD-INTERNAL 
		RELATIVIZATION IN JAPANESE
	Kishimoto, Hideki - AGR AND AGREEMENT IN JAPANESE
	Kitahara, Mafuyu - CONSONANT GEMINATION AND ACCENT IN JAPANESE
		LOANWORDS
	Kurafuji, Takeo - UNAMBIGUOUS CHECKING
	Kuwabara, Kazuki - MULTIPLE WH-PHRASES IN ELLIPTICAL CLAUSES
		AND SOME ASPECTS OF CLEFTS WITH MULTIPLE FOCI
	Miyagawa, Shigeru - WORD ORDER RESTRICTIONS AND
		NONCONFIGURATIONALITY
	Nakayama, Mineharu - EMPTY CATEGORIES AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURES
	Nishiyama, Kunio - HISTORICAL CHANGE OF JAPANESE VERBS AND ITS 
		IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMALITY THEORY
	Ogawa, Yoshiki - THE DEFINITENESS OF TENSE AND SPECIFIER-HEAD
		AGREEMENT IN JAPANESE
	Sakai, Hiromu - CLAUSE REDUCTION IN JAPANESE
	Sauerland, Uli - THE INTERPRETABILITY OF SCRAMBLING
	Suguhara, Mariko - SHURI OKINAWAN KAKARI-MUSUBI AND MOVEMENT
	Takahashi, Daiko - MOVE-F AND PRO
	Tsujimura, Natsuko and Takako Aikawa - INTRINSIC REFLEXIVITY
		AND INALIENABLE POSSESSION IN JAPANESE
	Yanagida, Yuko - DERIVING SURFACE WORD ORDER IN DISCOURSE
		CONFIGURATIONAL LANGUAGES
	Yatabe, Shuichi - LONG-DISTANCE SCRAMBLING VIA PARTIAL
		COMPACTION
	Yatsushiro, Kazuko - CASE, SCOPE AND FEATURE MOVEMENT
	Zushi, Mihoko - COMPLEX PREDICATES, WORD ORDER AND FEATURE
		CHECKING
	Oka, Toshifusa - SCRAMBLING IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH


MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics Volume 12:

THE INTERPRETATION OF ROOT INFINITIVES AND BARE NOUNS IN CHILD
LANGUAGE
	(May 1997)
	
	Jeannette Schaeffer ed., 1997

	CONTENTS:

	Wijnen, Frank - TEMPORAL REFERENCE AND EVENTIVITY IN ROOT
		INFINITIVES
	Lasser, Ingeborg - THE INTERPRETATION OF ROOT INFINITIVE
		CONSTRUCTIONS IN ADULT AND CHILD GERMAN
	Avrutin, Sergey - EVENTS AS UNITS OF DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION
		IN ROOT INFINITIVES
	Schaeffer, Jeannette - ON THE INTERPRETATION OF (BARE) OBJECT
		NOUNS IN CHILD LANGUAGE
	Roeper, Tom and Ana Perez-Leroux - THE INTERPRETATION OF BARE
		NOUNS IN SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX: INHERENT POSSESSORS,
		PIED-PIPING, AND ROOT INFINITIVES


MITWPL also announces the publication of two other Occasional Papers:

MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics Volume 10:

ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF DUTCH REFLEXIVES by Fleur Veraart, 1996


MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics Volume 11:

A GRAMMAR OF KADIWEU with special reference to the Polysynthesis
		Parameter by Filomena Sandalo, 1997


New Dissertations also available:

1996:	M. Babyonyshev, Structural Connections in Syntax and
		Processing: Studies in Russian and Japanese

	C. Phillips, Order and Structure
	
1997:	C. Schutze, INFL in Child and Adult Language: Agreement, Case
		and Licensing

	R. Pesalfini, Jingulu Grammar, Dictionary, and Texts


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