Subject: book notice list

language journal of the linguistic society of america book notice list below is the list of books currently available for 500 word book notices . the opportunity to write book notices is offered to all readers of language whether or not they are lsa members , though the editor reserves the right to decline to send books to volunteers whose previous book notices have presented substantive or stylistic problems that increase the time required for editing . students are encouraged to write book notices , though a faculty supervisor must agree to approve the book notice before it is submitted to the editor . book notices are due within three months after the reviewer receives the book ; this insures that works are reviewed in a timely fashion . please feel free to circulate this list to colleagues . arteaga , alfred ( ed . ) an other tongue : nation and ethnicity in the linguistic borderlands . durham : duke university press , 1994 . pp . x , 295 . cloth $ 49 . 95 , paper $ 17 . 95 . bates , dawn , thom hess and vi hilbert ; edited by dawn bates . lushootseed dictionary . seattle and london : university of washington press , 1994 . pp . xxi , 381 . paper $ 30 . 00 belcher , diane and george braine ( eds . ) academic writing in a second language : essays on research and pedagogy . norwood , nj : ablex publishing co . , 1995 . pp . xxxi , 410 . cloth $ 59 . 95 , paper $ 24 . 95 . bergen , robert d . ( ed . ) biblical hebrew and discourse linguistics . dallas , tx : sil , 1994 . pp . 560 . paper $ 40 . 00 . bharati , akshar , vineet chaitanya and rajeev sangal . natural language processing : a paninian perspective . new delhi : prentice hall of india , 1995 . pp . xviii , 220 . breva - claramonte , manuel . la didactica de las lenguas en el renacimiento : juan luis vives y pero simon abril . bilbao : universidad de deusto , 1994 . pp . 270 . campbell , kim sydow . coherence , continuity , and cohesion : theoretical foundations for document design . hillsdale , nj : lawrence erlbaum associates , 1994 . pp . ix , 113 . cloth $ 29 . 95 , paper $ 17 . 95 . carl , wolfgang . frege 's theory of sense and reference : its origins and scope . cambridge : cambridge university press , 1995 . pp . viii , 220 . crangle , colleen and patrick suppes . language and learning for robots ( csli lecture notes , 41 ) . stanford : center for the study of language and information , 1994 . pp . xxi , 276 . darnell , regna and juidith irvine ( eds . ) the collected works of edward sapir , iv : ethnology . berlin and new york : walter de gruyter , 1994 . pp . 963 . de beaugrande , robert , abdulla shunnaq , and mohamed h . heliel , eds . language , discourse and translation in the west and middle east . amsterdam & philadelphia : john benjamins publishing company , 1994 . pp . xi , 256 . dougherty , ray c . natural language computing : an english generative grammar in prolog . ( with accompanying disk ) hillsdale , nj : lawrence erlbaum associates , 1994 . pp . xlvi , 349 . cloth $ 69 . 95 , paper $ 36 . 00 . engh , jan . verb i passiv fulgt av perfektum partisipp : bruk og historie . oslo : novus forlag , 1994 . pp . x , 374 . paper nok 285 . 00 extra , guus and ludo verhoeveon ( eds . ) the cross-linguistic study of bilingual development . amsterdam : north - holland , 1994 . pp . 288 . fassi fehri , abdelkader . issues in the structure of arabic clauses and words . dordrecht , boston & london : kluwer academic publishers , 1993 . pp . xiv , 314 . fine , elizabeth c . the folklore text : from performance to print . bloomington and indianapolis : indiana university press , 1994 . pp . 244 . paper $ 12 . 95 . flower , linda . the construction of negotiated meaning : a social cognitive theory of writing . carbondale and edwardsville : southern illinois university press , 1994 . pp . x , 334 . formigari , lia and daniele gambarara ( eds . ) historical roots of linguistic theories . ( amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science ) . amsterdam & philadelphia : john benjamins , 1995 . pp . viii , 309 . fuchs , catherine and bernard victorri ( eds . ) continuity in linguistic semantics ( lingvisticae investigationes : supplementa 19 ) . amsterdam and philadelphia : john benjamins , 1994 . pp . 255 . gernsbacher , morton ann and t . giv " n . coherence in spontaneous text . ( typological studies in language , 31 ) . amsterdam and philadelphia : john benjamins , 1995 . pp . x , 267 . gile , daniel . basic concepts and models for interpreter and translator training ( benjamins translation library , 8 ) . amsterdam and philadelphia : john benjamins , 1995 . pp . xv , 277 . giv " n , talmy ( ed . ) . voice and inversion . philadelphia : john benjamins publishing co . , 1994 , pp . 402 . gopinathan , s ; anne pakir ; ho wah kam ; & vanithamani saravanan . language , society and education in singapore : issues and trends . singapore : times academic press , 1994 . pp . vii , 391 . grossmann , maria . opposizioni direzionali e prefissazione : analisi morfologica e semantica dei verbi egressivi prefissati con des - e es - in catalano . ( quaderni patavini di linguistica monografie , 14 ) padova : unipress , 1994 . pp . 147 . harries , elizabeth wanning . the unfinished manner : essays on the fragment in the later eighteenth century . charlottesville and london : university press of virginia , 1994 . pp . xi , 215 . haspelmath , martin and ekkehard konig ( eds . ) converbs in cross - linguistic perspective : structure and meaning of adverbial verb forms - - adverbial participles , gerunds - - ( empirical approaches to language typology , 13 ) . berlin and new york : mouton de gruyter , 1995 . pp . x , 565 . hengeveld , kees . non - verbal predication : theory , typology , diachrony ( functional grammar series 15 ) . berlin and new york : mouton de gruyter , 1992 . pp . xxiii , 321 . hill , clifford and kate parry ( eds . ) from testing to assessment : english as an international language ( applied linguistics and language study ) . london and new york : longmans , 1994 . pp . viii , 283 . ilie , cornelia . what else can i tell you ? a pragmatic study of english rhetorical questions as discursive and argumentative acts . stockholm : almqvist & wiksell international , 1994 . pp . vii , 248 . issacharoff , michael and lelia madrid . de la pensee au langage . paris : jos corti , 1995 . pp . 228 . jannedy , stefanie , robert poletto , and tracey l . weldon ( eds . ) . language files : materials for an introduction to language & linguistics ( 6th edition ) . columbus : ohio state university press , 1994 . pp . xiii , 477 . kandiah , thiru , and john kwan - terry ( eds . ) . english and language planning : a southeast asian contribution . singapore : times academic press , 1994 . pp . ix , 309 . karlsson , fred , atro voutilainen , juha heikkila , and arto anttila ( eds . ) constraint grammar : a language-independent system for parsing unrestricted text ( natural language processing , 4 ) . berlin and new york : walter de gruyter , 1994 . pp . viii , 430 . cloth dm 298 . 00 . kassai , ilona ( ed . ) . k tnyelv s g ~ s magyar nyelvhaszn lat ( proceedings of the 6th living language conference , 1993 ) . budapest : hungarian academy of sciences , 1995 . pp . 318 . kenesei , istvan ( ed . ) . levels and structures ( approaches to hungarian , volume five ) . szeged : jate , 1995 . pp . 342 . paper $ 19 . 00 . kim - renaud , young - key ( ed . ) thoeretical issues in korean linguistics . stanford : csli publications , 1994 . pp . xvi , 555 . cloth $ 55 . 00 , paper $ 29 . 95 . king , alan . the basque language : a practical introduction . reno , las vegas and london : university of nevada press , 1994 . pp . xvi , 463 . kiyose , gisaburo n . japanese grammar : a new approach . kyoto : kyoto universitypress , 1995 . pp . x , 181 . kretzenbacher , heinz l . and harald weinrich ( eds . ) linguistik der wissenschaftssprache ( akademie der wissenschaften zu berlin , forschungsbericht 10 ) . berlin & new york : walter de gruyter , 1995 . pp . vi , 407 . laing , margaret , and keith williamson ( eds . ) speaking in our tongues : medieval dialectology and related disciplines . rochester , ny : d . s . brewer , 1994 . pp . xi , 231 . lerat , pierre les langues specialisees . paris : presses universitaires de france , 1995 . pp . 201 . levinsohn , stephen h . ( ed . ) . discourse features of ten languages of west - central africa ( publications in linguistics 119 ) . arlington : summer institute of linguistics and the university of texas at arlington press , 1994 . pp . ix , 241 . lima , susan d . , roberta l . corrigan and gregory k . iverson . the reality of linguistic rules ( studies in language companion series , 26 ) . amsterdam and philadelphia : john benjamins , 1994 . pp . xxiii , 480 . lippi - green , rosina . language ideology and language change in early modern german : a sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of nuremberg . ( amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science ) . amsterdam & philadelphia : john benjamins , 1994 . pp . xiv , 150 . lucas , ceil and clayton valli . language contact in the american deaf community . san diego : harcourt brace jovanovich , 1992 . pp . xviii , 161 . masi canuto , mari luisa . el complemento circunstancial en espanol . castell " de la plana : publicacions de la universitat jaume i , 1994 . pp . 132 . mcclamrock , ron . existential cognition : computational minds in the world . chicago : university of chicago press , 1995 . pp . viii , 215 . cloth $ 28 . 95 . macwhinney , brian . the childes project : tools for analyzing talk ( 2nd ed . ) . hillsdale , nj : lawrence earlbaum associates , 1995 . pp . xii , 458 . meisel , j rgen m . bilingual first language acquisition : french and german grammatical development . amsterdam & philadelphia : john benjamins , 1994 . pp . 282 . merino , barbara j . , henry t . trueba and fabi n a . samaniego ( eds . ) language and culture in learning : teaching spanoish to nation speakers of spanish . washington and london : the falmer press . pp . xi , 279 . merisalo , outi and raija sarasti - wilenius ( eds . ) mare balticum - - mare nostrum : latin in the countries of the baltic sea ( 1500 - 1800 ) . ( acts of the helsinki colloquium , 16-21 august , 1992 ) . helsinki : academia scientiarum fennica , 1994 . pp . 175 . metzger , david . the lost cause of rhetoric : the relation of rhetoric and geometry in aristotle and lacan . carbondale and edwardsville : southern illinois university press , 1995 . pp . xvi , 135 . miikkulainen , risto . subsymbolic natural language processing : an integrated model of scripts , lexicon , and memory . cambridge : mit press , 1993 . pp . xii , 391 . moeschler , jacques , anne reboul , jean - marc luscher , and jacques jayez . langage et pertinence : r f rence temporelle , anaphore , connecteurs et m taphore . nancy , france : presses universitaires de nancy , 1994 . pp . 301 . paper ff 160 . 00 . moreno de alba , jose g . la pronunciacion del espanol en m xico ( estudios de dialectolog ! a mexicana , v ) . santa teresa , mexico : el colegio de mexico . 1994 . pp . 158 . morzinski , mary . the linguistic influence of polish on joseph conrad 's style ( east european monographs no . cdxii ) lublin : maria curie - sk ~ odowska university , 1994 . pp . 148 . cloth $ 28 . 00 . neel , jasper . aristotle 's voice : rhetoric , theory and writing in america . carbondale and edwardsville : southern illinois university press , 1994 . pp . 259 . cloth $ 34 . 95 , nelson , keith e . and zita reger ( eds . ) children 's language : volume 8 . hillsdale , nj : lawrence earlbaum associates , 1995 . pp . xix , 289 . nesset , tore . russian stress : stress as an inflectional formative in russian noun paradigms and bybee 's cognitive morphology . oslo : novus press , 1994 . paper nok 166 . 00 . pp . xi , 172 . norden , magnus . logische beziehungskonzepte und inferenzprozeduren : zu einer semantisch-kognitiven theorie der verbalen idiome im deutschen . stockholm : almqvist & wiksell international , 1994 . pp . 198 . paper sek 162 . odlin , terence ( ed . ) perspectives on pedagogical grammar ( cambridge applied linguistics series ) . cambridge : cambridge university press , 1994 . pp . x , 340 . perera , katharine , glyn collis & brian richards ( eds . ) . growing points in child language . cambridge : cambridge university press , 1994 . pp . 264 . paper $ 19 . 95 . philippaki - warburton , irene , katerina nicolaidis , and maria sifianou , eds . themes in greek linguistics : papers from the first international conference on greek linguistics , reading , september 1993 . amsterdam & philadelphia : john benjamins publishing company , 1994 . pp . xvii , 534 . quasthoff , uta m . ( ed . ) . aspects of oral communication ( research in text theory ) . berlin and new york : walter de gruyter , 1995 . pp . 493 . cloth 250 . 00 dm . rastier , francois , marc cavazza , and anne abeille . semantique pour l ' analyse de la linguistique a l ' informatique . paris : masson , 1994 . pp . xii , 240 . rey , alain . essays on terminology ( benjamins translation library , 9 ) . amsterdam and philadelphia : john benjamins , 1995 . pp . xiv , 223 . ristad , eric sven , ed . dimacs series in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science : language computations . american mathematical society . 1994 . pp . xiv , 198 . rosenblatt , louise m . the reader , the text , the poem : the transactional theory fo the literary work . carbondale and edwardsville : southern illinois university press , 1994 . pp . xv , 210 . paper $ 14 . 95 . saarinen , sirkka ( ed . ) . timofej jevsevjevs folklore-sammlungen aus dem tscheremissischen iv ( m moires de la soci t finno - ougrienne , 219 ) . helsinki : suomalais - ugrilainen seura , 1994 . pp . 447 . selting , margret . prosodie im gesprach : aspekte einer interaktionalen phonologie der konversation . ( linguistische arbeiten ; 329 ) . t bingen : max niemeyer verlag , 1995 . pp . xii , 386 . paper dm 178 . scholfield , phil . quantifying language : a researcher 's and teacher 's guide to gathering language data and reducing it to figures . clevedon , philadelphia and adelaide : multilingual matters , ltd . , 1995 . pp . x , 298 . cloth $ 89 . 95 , paper $ 29 . 95 . schwink , frederick w . linguistic typology , universality and the realism of reconstruction ( journal of indo - european studies monograph series , 12 ) . washington , d . c . : institute for the study of man , 1994 . pp . 133 . sokolov , jeffrey l . and catherine e . snow ( eds . ) . handbook of research in language development ising childes . hillsdale , nj : lea , 1994 . pp . 489 . paper $ 29 . 95 , cloth $ 89 . 95 . snell hornby , mary , franz p chhacker , and klaus kaindl ( eds . ) . translation studies : an interdiscipline . amsterdam & philadelphia : john benjamins , 1994 . pp . 438 . steen , gerard . understanding metaphor in literature : an empirical approach . ( studies in language and linguistics ) . london & ny : longman , 1994 . pp . xiii , 263 . su , soon peng . lexical ambiguity in poetry . ( studies in language and linguistics ) . london & ny : longman , 1994 . pp . ix , 188 . syrett , martin . the unaccented vowels of proto - norse . odense , denmark : odense university press , 1994 . pp . 323 . paper dkk 240 . 00 . szalay , lorand b . , et al . american and chinese perceptions and belief systems : a people 's republic of china - - taiwanese comparison ( cognition and language series ) . ny : plenum press , 1994 . pp . x , 270 . paper $ 69 . 50 . tager - flusberg , helen ( ed . ) . constraints on language acquisition : studies of atypical children . hillsdale , nj : lawrence erlbaum , 1994 . pp . 356 . cloth $ 49 . 95 . tichy , eva . die nomina agentis auf - tar - im vedischen . heidelberg : universit tsverlag c . winter , 1995 . pp . vii , 416 . cloth dm 128 . uda , chiharu . complex predicates in japanese . ny : garland publishing , inc . , 1994 . pp . 358 . cloth $ 72 . 00 . van coetsem , frans . the vocalism of the germanic parent language : systematic evolution and sociohistorical context . heidelberg : universit tsverlag c . winter , 1994 . pp . 230 . veikhman , gregory . a new look at english syntax . moscow : h . g . s . ltd . , 1995 . pp . 289 . weaver , charles a . , iii , suzanne mannes , and charles r . fletcher ( eds . ) . discourse comprehension : essays in honors of walter kintsch . hillsdale , nj : lawrence erlbaum associates , 1995 . pp . xii , 426 . cloth $ 79 . 95 , paper $ 39 . 95 . wenzel , siegfried . macaronic sermons : bilingualism and preaching in late-medieval engliand . ann arbor : university of moichigan press , 1994 . pp . xiii , 361 . cloth $ 52 . 50 . wind , jan , abraham jonker , robin allott , and leonard rolfe , eds . studies in language origins , vol . 3 . amsterdam & philadelphia : john benjamins , 1994 . pp . xix , 344 . winter , werner ( ed . ) on languages and language : the presidential addresses of the 1991 meeting of the societas linguistica europaea ( trends in linguistics . studies and monographs : 78 ) . berlin and new york : mouton de gruyter , 1995 . pp . 294 . requests may be made to : languages reviews c / o edwin battistella humanities division wayne state college wayne , ne 68787 langrev @ wscgate . wsc . edu if requesting by email , please include a s-mail address .
