LINGUIST List 4.541

Mon 12 Jul 1993

Books: Otomi, Arabic, Russian

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    Message 1: Otomi, Arabic, Russian

     Date: Mon 12 Jul 1993
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    Subject: Otomi, Arabic, Russian
    OTOMI

    Andrews, Henrietta THE FUNCTION OF VERB PREFIXES IN SOUTHWESTERN OTOMI 1993 xi,120 pp. Paper ISBN:0-88312-605-2 $10.00 Summer Institute of Linguistics and U Texas Arlington >Internet: academic.bookssil.org Syntax, Verb morphology Many Otomi verb prefixes encode temporal and spatial settings that must agree with deictic pronouns, noun determiners, certain verb suffixes, or deictic adverbs in the context. While the study centers on prefixes, it also introduces these other elements that carry deictic force.

    ARABIC

    Eid, Mushira & Clive Holes (eds.) PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS V John Benjamins 1993 vii, 347 pp. Arabic Cloth US:1 55619 554 0/EUR:90 272 3603 8 US$75.00/Hfl.140,-- These papers from the Fifth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics deal with variation in Arabic and phonological, syntactic and historical issues.

    RUSSIAN

    Benson, Morton & Evelyn (eds.) THE RUSSIAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF VERBAL COLLOCATIONS (REDVC) Dictionaries John Benjamins 1993 ix, 269 pp. Langs Cloth US:1 55619 483 8/EUR:90 272 2127 8 US$45.00/Hfl. 80,-- Paper US:1 55619 484 6/EUR:90 272 2128 6 US$22.95/Hfl. 45,-- Recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to an individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language and are perhaps the most troublesome barrier to true foreign language fluency. This new bilingual dictionary is the first to systematically list over 20,000 such Russian combinations under 4600 main entries. Easy-to-use look-up format.