LINGUIST List 9.1416

Sun Oct 11 1998

TOC: Glot International

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Rint Sybesma, Glot International 3-7

 G l o t I n t e r n a t i o n a l 

Editors: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Rint Sybesma
<mailto:glotrullet.leidenuniv.nl> <http://www.hag.nl/glot.htm>;

Table of Contents, Vol. 3, Issue 7 (September 1998)

*State-of-the-Article*
Ljiljana Progovac on Structure for coordination (part I)

"While counterexamples do not necessarily falsify a theory, it
seems safe to conclude that counterexamples do indeed falsify a
generalization that does not follow from a theory, which seems
to be the case with Coordination of Likes Constraint."

*Column*
Neil Smith on Jackdaws, sex and language acquisition

"In fact, ethologists make pretty good mothers compared to the
average jackdaw."

*Dissertations*
Willem Visser's The Frisian syllable (VU Amsterdam, 1997)
reviewed by Sam Rosenthall

Norvin Richards' What moves where when in which language?
(MIT, 1997)
reviewed by Andrew Simpson

*Book reviews*
Roger Schwarzschild's Pluralities (Kluwer 1996)
reviewed by Sjaak de Mey

*Goodies*
Sean Crist and Tony Kroch's Trees
reviewed by Colin Phillips

*Book notice*
Shohei Yoshida's Phonological Government in Japanese
(Australian National U, 1997) (Krisztina Polgardi)

"The Number of Death"
A Linguistic Mystery in Eight Installments
by Chris Sidney Tappan
Chapter 6: Supporting datas