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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

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Journal Title:	English Language and Linguistics
Volume/Issue:	10/1
Date:	2006
Table of Contents:	The Social and Linguistic Conditioning of Back Vowel Fronting across Ethnic Groups in Memphis, Tennessee by pp 1-22 The Segmental Phonology of Nineteenth-century Tristan da Cunha English: convergence and local innovation by Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill pp 119-141 The Variability of Compound Stress in English: structural, semantic, and analogical factors by Ingo Plag pp 143-172 Linguistic Change, Sociohistorical Context, and Theory-building in Variationist Linguistics: new-dialect formation in New Zealand by Miriam Meyerhoff pp 173-194 Gabriella Mazzon, A History of English Negation. London: Pearson Longman, 2004. Pp. xv + 176. ISBN 0 582 38185 1 reviewed by Gunnel Tottie pp 195-200 Elly van Gelderen, Grammaticalization as Economy. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 71. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. 320. ISBN 90 272 2795 0 (Eur.), 1 58811 552 6 (US) reviewed by Elizabeth Closs Traugott pp 200-208 Joan C. Beal, English in Modern Times: 1700–1945. London: Arnold, 2004. xvi + 264 pp. ISBN 0 340 76117 2 reviewed by Erik Smitterberg pp 208-219 Gunnel Melchers and Philip Shaw, World Englishes. The English Language Series. London: Arnold, 2003. Pp. 229. ISBN 0 340 71887 0 (hb), 0 340 71888 0 (pb), 0 340 71889 7 (CD) reviewed by Gerald Nelson pp 219-221 Publications Received by Miriam Meyerhoff pp 223-223 Stour and Blyth as English River-names by Richard Coates pp 23-29 Watching English Grammar Change: a case study on complement selection in British and American English by pp 31-48 The History of the Genitive Case from the Old English Period Onwards by Takeshi Koike pp 49-75 Descriptive Genitives in English: a case study on constructional gradience by Anette Rosenbach pp 77-118
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics Phonology Syntax

LL Issue:	17.2374