LINGUIST List 4.542

Mon 12 Jul 1993

Books: Historical, Dialects, Sociolinguistics

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    Message 1: Historical, Dialects, Sociolinguistics

     Date: Mon 12 Jul 1993
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    Subject: Historical, Dialects, Sociolinguistics
    HISTORICAL LING

    Brogyanyi, Bela & Reiner Lipp (eds.) COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS:INDO-EUROPEAN AND FINNO-UGRIC. IN HONOUR OSWALD SZEMERENYI John Benjamins 1993 xi, 571 pp. Historical Ling Cloth US:1 55619 159 6/EUR:90 272 3598 8 US$145.00/Hfl. 250,-- Most of the articles in this volume deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the book.

    Aschmann, Richard P. PROTO WITOTOAN 1993 viii,168 pp. paper ISBN: 0-88312-189-1 $17.00 Summer Institute of Linguistics and U Texas Arlington >Internet: academic.bookssil.org Comp method, Huitotoan Rigorous application of the Comparative Method demonstrates genetic relationship of Boran lgs and reconstructs PBM, demonstrates relationship between four Huitoto-Ocaina lgs and reconstructs PHO, demonstrates relationship between PBM and PH) and reconstructs Proto Huitotoan.

    DIALECTOLOGY

    Preston, Dennis et al (eds.) AMERICAN DIALECT RESEARCH. CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIV. OF THE ADS John Benjamins 1993 xv, 460 pp. Dialectology Cloth US:1 55619 488 9/EUR:90 272 132 4 US$89.00/Hfl 150,-- Paper US:1 55619 489 7/EUR:90 272 2133 2 US$29.95/Hfl. 60,-- Offers accounts of how questions are formulated and how data is collected, stored and interpreted in the various traditions of research of the ADS. Most generally, it is a trip to the scholar's laboratory. How is this work done? What pitfalls in fieldwork, processing, and interpretation lurk for the unwary? What rewarding techniques and devices have been used to get at the mysteries of language variation? What lies over the horizon?

    Arensen, Jonathan E. MICE ARE MEN: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY AMONG THE MURLE OF SUDAN 1993 xvii,362 pp. paper ISBN: 0-88312-606-0 $27.00 International Museum of Cultures >Internet: academic.bookssil.org Language and society East Africa Oxford doctoral thesis exposes close correspondences between Murle (Sudan) language and Murle culture. Discussion includes basic and extended meanings, meanings by associations, idioms, names, colors, numbers, time, grammatical categories, ideophones, meaning in grammar, discourse, culture heroes, etc.

    Bain, M. S. THE ABORIGINAL-WHITE ENCOUNTER: TOWARDS BETTER COMMUNICATION 1993 xvi,251 pp. Paper ISBN: 0-86892-347-8 $25.00 Summer Institute of Linguistics and U Texas Arlington >Internet: academic.bookssil.org Sociolinguistics Psycholinguistics Faced with unexplained communication difficulties, the author draws on linguistics, anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and concludes that traditional Aborigines prefer to operate on the basis of thought which is directly tied to reality and action which is interactional.