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Sun 14 Mar 1993

Books: Lezghian, Finno-Ugric, Germanic

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    Message 1: Lezghian, Finno-Ugric, Germanic

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    Haspelmath, Martin A GRAMMAR OF LEZGIAN 1993. xx, 567 pp. Clothbound. ISBN 3-11-013735-6 DM 298,00; approx. US $ 206,00 Mouton de Gruyter >internet:100064.2307compuserve.com Langs, Grammar This grammar presents a comprehensive description of Lezgian, one of the indigenous languages of the Caucasus belonging to the Nakho-Daghestanian language family. Lezgian is a mainly suffixing agglutinating language with consistently head-final word order and ergative clause structure.

    Nevis, Joel, & Juta Kitching (eds.). FUSAC '91 ACEFO: Proceedings of the 8th Meeting of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada/Actes du huitieme colloque de l'association canadienne des etudes finno-ougriennes. 1992. v + 115 pp. Paperback. $30.00(CAN) or $25.00(US). FUSAC Publications. >JOEL_NEVISCSUFresno.edu Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian On a variety of topics in linguistics and phonetics, sociology, history, geography, and literature.

    Kenesei, I. and Csaba Pleh (eds). APPROACHES TO HUNGARIAN, VOL. 4, JATE, Szeged, 306pp. (Proceedings of the first conference on Hungarian in the U.S.A., held at Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1992). Contains papers (i) IN SYNTAX, IN PHONOLOGY, IN SEMANTICS, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. Available from: JATE Angol Tanszek A/H, Pf. 691, Szeged 6701, HUNGARY Price: US$13.00 + $4.00 (S/H surface) or $6.00 (S/H air) Make checks payable to Dept. of English, U of Szeged.

    GERMANIC LANGUAGES

    Weerman, Fred THE V2 CONSPIRACY: A SYNCHRONIC AND A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF VERBAL POSITIONS IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES 1992. 1st printing 1989. xii, 263 pp. Paperback. ISBN 3-11-013141-2 DM 58.00; approx US $ 40.00 Mouton de Gruyter >internet:100064.2307compuserve.com Germanic Langs, Syntax, Textbook In this diachronic study, it is argued that the changes under consideration are the result of a shift from "morphological" means of visualizing certain relations to "syntactic" means; which is in turn related to deflexion.