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    Message 1: Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics

     Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:50 -0500 (EST)
    From: Grace_Fuqua <Grace_Fuquasil.org>
    Subject: Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics


    Subject: Journal Longacre, Robert E., JOURNAL OF TRANSLATION AND TEXTLINGUISTICS, Vol.10 1998 ISSN: 1055-4513; $7.95 Summer Institute of Linguistics. Nicholas A. Bailey "What's Wrong with My Word Order?" Ethel E. Wallis Mark's Goal-Oriented Plot Structure Julia Irene Dieterman Participant Reference in Isthmus Mixe Narrative Discourse C. John Collins Coherence in James 1:19-27 Subject: Journal Dr. Pattiya Jimreivat for the MKS Editorial Board MON-KHMER STUDIES: A JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES VOL. 28, Pb; ISSN: 0147-5207, viii+228 pp., 1998, $29.00 Summer Institute of Linguistics. This volume is In Memoriam of William A. Smalley. Articles are: -Tones and voice quality in modern northern Vietnamese: Instrumental case studies, by NGUYEN Van Loi and Jerold A. EDMONDSON -Kyansittha and the Indic words in Myanmar from Mon, by NAI PAN HLA -Affixes in Katu of the Lao P.D.R., by Nancy A. COSTELLO -An acoustic study of Battambang Khmer vowels, by Ratree WAYLAND -Prepositional vs. directional coverbs in Vietnamese, by SOPHANA Srichampa -Some Kam-Tai loan-words in Mon-Khmer languages, by QIN Xiaohang -Expressing comparison in the Tai languages, by Lev N. MOREV -Numeral classifiers in Sgaw Karen, by SURIYA Ratanakul -Diachronic evolution of initial consonants in Buyang, by LI Jingfang and ZHOU Guoyan Internet: academic.bookssil.org AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW http://www.sil.org Subject: Linguistics Walter A. Cook, S.J., author; CASE GRAMMAR APPLIED; Pb. ISBN: 1-55671-046-1; xiii+275 pp., 1998, $29.00. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Walter Cook, S.J., is one of the promoters of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics and author of numerous publications in linguistics. In CASE GRAMMAR THEORY (1989), the author described the Case Grammar models of Fillmore, Chafe, Anderson, Gruber, Jackendoff, and some tagmemicists as contrasting models within Case Grammar theory. In the present volume, intended as a companion volume to the previous one, we find a methodology for Case Grammar, tested in extended textual analysis including Ernest Hemingway's THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. Because Case Grammar lends itself well to displaying the way syntactic features are associated with semantic structures, the author is able to use Case Grammar as an unusually clear, simple guide for sentence analysis. Internet: academic,bookssil.org AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW http://www.sil.org Karen Ann Daley, author; VIETNAMESE CLASSIFIERS in Narrative Texts. Pb. ISBN: 1-55671-021-6; xii+214 pp., 1998, $29.00 Summer Institute of Linguistics, and the University of Texas at Arlington. Karen Daley leads the reader into what is perhaps the first discourse study of Vietnamese classifiers to date. After presenting a summary of classifiers and their function in languages of the world, she challenges the validity of regarding Vietnamese classifiers as simply fitting the prototypical pattern of phrase-level numeral classifiers. In Vietnamese several of the functions attributed to classifiers imply discourse relations, despite the prevailing assumption that their use is associated with the syntactic relations of phrases. A coherent pattern of classifier use becomes evident when they are observed in the larger syntactic environment of discourse. Daley uses discourse measurements of overall frequency, referential distance, and referential persistence and compares them with four criteria from a study of classifiers in White Hmong. The results in the present study indicate that the basic function of classifiers in Vietnamese discourse is referential--to mark salience. Internet: academic.bookssil.org AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW http://www.sil.org LONG Yaohong and ZHENG Guoqiao, authors, translated from Chinese by D. Norman GEARY; THE DONG LANGUAGE in Guizhou Province, China; Pb. ISBN: 1-55671-051-8; xvi+272 pp., 1998, $29.00. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. The Dong people are renowned within China for their beautiful singing and their architectural prowess. Their gifts have grown and flourished in the valleys and mountains of Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi Provinces of Southwestern China. In relative obscurity before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the 2.5 million Dong people are fast gaining an international reputation. The Dong language is distinctive for its many tones. It is often referred to outside China as Kam and occupies a significant position in the Kam-Tai family of the Sino-Tibetan phylum. Long Yaohong and Zhong Guoqiao are recognized authorities on Dong language research. Mr. Long is a native speaker of Dong. He provides an introduction, touching on many aspects of Dong history, culture, and language, and a discussion of the grammar. Mr. Zheng supplies sections on phonology, lexicon, and orthography. The two authors jointly present a chapter on Dong dialects. The book as a whole represents the first comprehensive description of the Dong language available in English. Internet: academic.bookssil.org AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW http://www.sil.org Subject: WEG (Pakistan) Joan L.G. Baart, author; THE SOUNDS AND TONES OF KALAM KOHISTANI; WITH WORDLISTS AND TEXTS; Pb. ISBN: 969-8023-03-8; 1997, xvi+128 pp., $12.00. Summer Institute of Linguistics and National Institute of Pakistan Studies. This volume starts a new series "Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan," published jointly by the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the National Institute of Pakistan Studies in Islamabad. The series will include studies of the phonology, grammar, lexicon, and oral literature of Kalasha, Shina, Burushaski, and other languages of northern Pakistan. Kalam Kohistani (in the literature also known as Garwi or Bashkarik) belongs to the Dardic branch of Indo-Aryan. The current volume presents a sketch of the sound system and tonal system of this language, based on recent fieldwork. It also makes a wordlist and text data available for further study. Internet: academic.bookssil.org AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW http://www.sil.org Sincerely, Grace Fuqua Academic Publications Summer Institute of Linguistics grace_fuquasil.org






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