LINGUIST List 9.952

Thu Jun 25 1998

Books: Avail for review: phono/semantics/Dong/transl.

Editor for this issue: Andrew Carnie <carnielinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Andrew Carnie, Avail for review: Phonology, Semantics, Dong, Interpreting

The books listed below are in the LINGUIST office and now
available for review. If you are interested in reviewing
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PHONOLOGY

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Livio Gaeta, GeorgiJetchev & David Michaels (eds),
Certamen Phonologicum III. Papers from the Third Cortona Phonology Meeting,
April 1996. Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier 1997, pp. 291, price Lit. 63.000 
(approximately US$ 37). ISBN 88-7011-717-0.

SEMANTICS

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Il dominio tempo-aspettuale. Demarcazioni, intersezioni, contrasti. Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier 1997, pp 252, price Lit 48.000
isbn 887011726X (approximately US$ 25.50)

Contents
-Introduzione
I. Demarcazioni
- Aspect vs. Actionality 
- Statives, progressives, habituals
- The progressive as a 'partialization' operator
II. Intersezioni
- Neutralizations and interactions in temporal-aspectual categories
- Metafore tempo-aspettuali
- L'interazione tra azionalita e aspetto nella perifrasi 'continua'
III. Contrasti
- Le strutture tempo-aspettuali dell'italiano e dell'inglese
- Le perifrasi abituali in italiano e in inglese
- L'espressione della ' progressivita/continuita': un confronto tripolare

(Editor's note: the reviewer of this book must be fluent in both Italian and English).

DONG LANGUAGE

Long yaohong and Zheng Guoqiao (translated by D.N. Geary) (1998) The Dong 
Langauge in Guizhou Province China. SIL/U Texas Austin.

INTERPRETING/TRANSLATION

Harris, Brian (compiler) (1997) Translation and Interpreting Schools. 
Language international World Directory. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

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