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Phonetics
The Science of Speech
MARTIN J. BALL, School of Behavioural and Communication Sciences, University of Ulster, and JOAN RAHILLY, School of English, The Queen's University of Belfast

This comprehensive introductory textbook is designed primarily for students of linguistics who are encountering phonetics for the first time. The book guides the reader through the main sub-areas of phonetic science which constitute the "speech chain", charting the progress of speech from speaker to listener.
0-340-70009-2 November 1999 $65.00 (06) Tentative cloth
November 1999 $19.95 (01) Tentative paper

The Feature Structure of Functional Categories
A Comparative Study of Arabic Dialects
ELABBAS BENMAMOUN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical categories. Language variation is attributed to differences with respect to the categorial feature specifications of functional categories and how they interact with lexical categories. The book brings new insights to issues related to the syntax of functional categories, the relation between syntax and the morpho-phonological component, and comparative syntax.
192 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511994-0 December 1999 $45.00 (06) Tentative cloth
December 1999 $19.95 (06) Tentative paper

Reinventing Identities
The Gendered Self in Discourse
Edited by MARY BUCHOLTZ, Texas A&M University, A. C. LIANG, and LAUREL A. SUTTON

Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays, the first in the new Language and Gender Studies series, advances that effort by bringing together leading feminist scholars in the area of language and gender, including Deborah Tannen, Jennifer Coates, and Marcyliena Morgan, as well as rising younger scholars. Topics explored include African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace.

The Reinventing Identities website features additional data, graphics, and audio and visual clips from the studies in the book.

448 pp.; 14 figures; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512629-7 1999 $65.00 (06) cloth
1999 $35.00 (01) paper

Portuguese Syntax
New Comparative Studies
Edited by JOĂO COSTA, University of Lisbon

This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. The articles are written within the principles and parameters framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages.
288 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512575-4 March 2000 $75.00 (06) Tentative cloth
March 2000 $45.00 (06) Tentative paper

English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners
A History
ANTHONY COWIE

This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their beginnings in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the present day. Anthony Cowie describes the evolution of the major titles, and their fight for dominance of what soon became an enormous market. He shows how developments in lexical and grammatical theory crucially affected the content and structure of ELT dictionaries.

Meaning in Language
An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
ALAN CRUSE

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. It covers topics normally considered to fall under pragmatics, as well as semantic matters. The author seeks, above all, to display and to explain the richness and subtlety of meaning, and to that end provides abundant examples throughout the text. Numerous exercises (and suggested answers) are provided at every stage.

416 pp.; b/w figs.; 0-19-870011-3 November 1999 $100.00 (06) Tentative cloth
November 1999 $24.95 (01) Tentative paper

Syntactic Nuts
Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition
PETER W. CULICOVER

How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of Professor Culicover's in-depth study which will appeal to both graduate students and professionals within the fields of linguistic theory and cognitive science.
256 pp.; 0-19-870023-7 1999 $78.00 (06) cloth 1999 $24.95 (01) paper

Predicates and Temporal Arguments
THEODORE B. FERNALD, Swarthmore College

A distinction is made in formal semantics between "stage-level predicates," predicates that describe the general state of a noun, and "individual-level predicates," predicates that specify the specific properties of a noun. Fernald investigates various contexts in which this distinction is traditionally said to come into play. His aim is to show that the effects displayed are not uniform, and that the differences between the analyses proposed in the literature arise from the authors considering different subsets of data that they take to exemplyify the "core" meaning of the stage/individual distinction. Fernald presents alternatives and extensions that shed light on the limitations of previous theories, as well as making original observations about important aspects of the topic, including coercion, and perceptual reports vs. other phenomena.
176 pp.; 4 line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511435-3 January 2000 $39.95 (06) Tentative

English in New Cultural Contexts
Reflections from Singapore
J. A. FOLEY, T. KANDIAH, BAO ZHIMING, A. F. GUPTA, L. ALSAGOFF, HO CHEE LICK, L. WEE, I. S. TALIB, and W. BOKHORST-HENG, National University of Singapore

This book explores the spread of English as a world language and the different ways in which the language has developed and adaapted in new sociocultural contexts.
352 pp.; 4 figures; 0-19-588415-9 1999 $16.95 (01) paper

Urban Voices
Accent Studies in the British Isles
Edited by PAUL FOULKES, University of Leeds, and GERARD DOCHERTY, University of Newcastle

Bringing together a team of dialectologists, sociolinguists, phoneticians and phonologists, this book presents exciting new data, as well as well-known research on phonological variation and change in urban accents across the British Isles. Each chapter is split in two sections: the first is a detailed description of the social and stylistic variation of a particular accent, the second is a discussion of the implications of this data in broader theoretical terms.
224 pp.; 23 line illus, & 7 halftones; 0-340-70608-2 November 1999 $24.95 (01) Tentative
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Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure
The Phonology of 'Suprasegmentals'
ANTHONY FOX

Fox's book, the first substantial overview on the subject in twenty years, presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language--accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation--and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning.

English Dictionaries, 800-1700
The Topical Tradition
WERNER HULLEN, Professor Emeritus, University of Essen, and President

This fascinating study explores the so-called topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which appeared between the beginnings of written culture and 1700. A form of early dictionary, these lists followed the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and natural history of the time, providing us with evidence on cultural history and linguistic development. Professor Hullen draws on many examples to provide an insight into this lexicographical tradition.

480 pp.; 0-19-823796-0 November 1999 $120.00 (04) Tentative

Xp-Adjunction in Universal Grammar
Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu
AYESHA KIDWAI, Jawaharlal University, India

One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation. It proposes a novel theory of binding and coreference that not only derives the coreference effects in scrambled constructions, but has important consequences for the proper formulation of binding, crossover, reconstruction, and representational economy in the minimalist program. The book will be of interest not only to specialists in Hindi-Urdu syntax and/or scrambling, but to all students of generative syntax.
192 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-513251-3 December 1999 $55.00 (06) Tentative cloth
December 1999 $24.95 (06) Tentative paper

The Turkish Language Reform
A Catastrophic Success
GEOFFREY LEWIS, Oxford University

This is the first account of the transformation of the Turkish language in the years following 1930--probably the most extensive piece of language engineering ever attempted. The book is Important both for the study of linguistic change and for the light it throws on twentieth-century Turkish politics and society.

How the Brain Evolved Language
DONALD LORITZ, Georgetown University

How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those features developed into designs for human language. The result -- what Loritz calls an adaptive grammar -- gives a unified explanation of language in the brain and contradicts directly (and controversially) the theory of innateness proposed by, among others, Chomsky and Pinker.
240 pp.; 91 figures; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511874-X 1999 $45.00 (06)

Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Edited by LYNDA MUGGLESTONE

The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection ssets out to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.

480 pp.; 5 b/w figs., 2 tables; 0-19-823784-7 December 1999 $105.00 (06) Tentative

Whales, Candlelight, and Stuff Like That
General Extenders in English Discourse
MARYANN OVERSTREET, University of Hawaii, Manoa

This innovative work provides the first comprehensive account of general extenders ("or something," "and stuff," "or whatever"). Combining insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, and interactional sociolinguistics, the author demonstrates that these small phrases are not simply vague expressions, but have a powerful role in making interpersonal communication work. The audience for this book includes linguists, scholars of English, teachers of English as a first and a second language, sociolinguists, psycholinguists, and communications researchers.
208 pp.; 1 halftone, 14 line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512574-6 November 1999 $39.95 (06) Tentative

The Higher Functional Field
Evidence from Nothern Italian Dialects
CELIA POLETTO, CNR Consiglio Nazionale deffe Richerche, National Research Foundation

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains dialects that are different in most ways yet homogenous syntactically, making it an ideal ground for analyzing micro-variations in syntax. The book sheds new light on debated problems such as subject-clitic inversion, verb movement and subject positions, and the structure of the higher functional phrases.
240 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-513356-0 January 2000 $75.00 (06) Tentative cloth
January 2000 $35.00 (06) Tentative paper

Seldom Ask, Never Tell
Labor and Discourse in Appalachia
ANITA PUCKETT, Virginia Tech

Puckett takes a new look at the relationship between language, society, and economics by examining how people talk about work in a rural Appalachian community. Through careful analysis of conversations in casual yet commercial contexts, she finds that the construction and maintenance of this discourse is essential to the community's socioeconomic relationships. The volume will appeal to linguists, anthropologists, and scholars in communications and Appalachian studies.
256 pp.; 9 line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-510277-0 February 2000 $65.00 (06) Tentative

Language, Education, and Culture
TARIQ RAHMAN, Quaid-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Pakistan has had many conflicts involving language. The various language movements have sometimes led to rioting and always to assertions of ethnic identity. This book presents a comprehensive analysis, supported by statistical evidence, of the intimate linkages between language, politics, and ethnicity in Pakistan.
336 pp.; 2 line illus; 0-19-579146-0 1999 $26.95 (06)

Interpreting as a Discourse Process
CYNTHIA B. ROY

This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing ccommunication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event in order to offer a definition of interpreted events, describe the process of taking turns with an interpreter, and account for the role of the interpreter in terms of the performance in interaction.
152 pp.; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; 0-19-511948-7 1999 $35.00 (06)

A Dictionary of Old Marathi
the late S. G. TULPULE and ANNE FELDHAUS, Arizona State University

Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra state in India. Old Marathi is the "classical" written form of the language as it appears in the abundant literature and inscriptions dating from around 1000 to 1350 B.C.E. This dictionary, the only one of its kind, is based on all known inscriptions and literary sources from the Old Marathi period. For each word, it offers a transliteration, an abbreviation indicating the grammatical category, an indication of etymology (where known), the attested meaning (with variants), and a citation or citations illustrating the use of the word in Old Marathi sources.
864 pp.; 7-1/2 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512600-9 July 1999 $95.00 (06) Tentative

Checking Theory and Grammatical Functions in Universal Grammar
HIROYUKI URA, Osaka University, Japan

Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way with a limited set of parameters.

"Much recent work on linguistic form and meaning has been guided by the idea that the computational system of natural language is essentially invariant, even rather simple, and that the apparent variety of expressions in typologically different languages reduces largely to small modifications in the morphological component of the system. Ura's theory of multiple feature-checking develops the basic idea in original and highly productive ways, providing persuasive answers to difficult questions that arise in widely-ranging languages, and opening up new and challenging problems. It is an impressive achievement, which merits careful study."--Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
336 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511838-3 December 1999 $65.00 (06) Tentative cloth
December 1999 $35.00 (06) Tentative paper

Specifiers
Minimalist Approaches
Edited by DAVID ADGER, Edited by SUSAN PINTZUK, Edited by BERNADETTE PLUNKETT, and Edited by GEORGE TSOULAS, University of York

This book focuses on the most controversial area of phrase structure, the notion of specifier - a notion encompassing the traditional categories of subjects, possessors, determiners, auxiliaries, and adjuncts. It examines what place the notion has in the new theory and how the projection of specifiers is to be eliminated or extended. The contributors draw on empirical, theoretical research in cross-linguistic phenomena and first and second language acquisition.

368 pp.; 8 line illus; 0-19-823814-2 1999 $45.00 (06) paper

Case Marking and Reanalysis
Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English
CYNTHIA L. ALLEN, Australian National University

English underwent sweeping changes to its inflectional system in the Middle English period and it is widely assumed that the loss of case-marking distinctions had profound consequences for the syntax of the language. Allen here makes a detailed study of these changes, questioning the results of previous analyses which, she argues, posit too direct a link between the morphological and syntactic changes.
528 pp.; 0-19-823867-3 1999 $35.00 (06) paper 1995 $95.00 (04) cloth

The Ascent of Babel
An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding
GERRY T. M. ALTMANN
Illustrated by ANDREA ENZINGER

a state-of-the-art look at what we now know about the miracle of language

With The Ascent of Babel, psycholinguist Gerry Altmann takes us on a journey of discovery, illuminating how, through the workings of the brain, we use language to reach out and touch each other's minds. Here, he explores the ways in which the mind produces and understands language: the ways in which the sounds of language evoke meaning, and the ways in which the desire to communicate causes us to produce those sounds to begin with.

Altmann begins even before we are born, revealing that the fetus in the last trimester is already listening to the language of its parents and that, within days of birth, it can distinguish its parents' language from other languages. From how babies learn language and how we discriminate between different sounds, through comprehension of the sounds and structures of language (and the pitfalls along the way), to the production of spoken and written language, the effects of brain damage on language, and finally the ways in which computer simulations of interconnecting nerve cells can learn language, Altmann offers a wide-ranging, engaging tour. Up to date, authoritative, and engagingly written, The Ascent of Babel is must reading for everyone curious about the mysteries of language or of the mind.

"Altmann explains in lay terms what psycholinguistics is and how its findings affect what we know of human experience."--Booklist
272 pp.; 47 drawings; 0-19-852377-7 1999 $17.95 (03) paper 1997 $27.50 (01) cloth

The English Language in Pakistan
Edited by ROBERT J. BAUMGARDNER

In its present context of use, English in Pakistan has assimilated diverse linguistic features which reflect the multilingual, multicultural character of the language's "new" South Asian home. The present volume brings together for the first time essays on historical, sociological, pedagogical, and linguistic perspectives of the Pakistani the English language in Pakistan.
344 pp.; 37 halftones and linecuts; 0-19-577444-2 1998 $29.95 (06)

English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language
JOAN C. BEAL, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Thomas Spence's Grand Repository differs from the many English pronouncing dictionaries produced in the late eighteenth century firstly in that it was intended primarily for the lower classes, and secondly in that it used a truly 'phonetic' script in the sense of one sound = one symbol. In this unique account, Joan Beal pays attention to the actual pronunciations with a view to reconstructing what was felt to be 'correct' pronunciation in eighteenth-century Britain.

English Syntax
From Word to Discourse
LYNN M. BERK, Florida International University

This clear and highly accessible descriptive grammar of English has a strong semantic and discourse/functional focus. It explains the basics of English syntax while providing readers with a comprehensive view of the richness and complexity of the system. Each structure is discussed in terms of its syntactic features, its meaning, and its uses in discourse.
336 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512352-2 1999 $58.00 (04) cloth
1999 $24.95 (04) paper

The Phonology of Dutch
GEERT BOOIJ, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

This second volume in the Phonology of the World's Languages series is the first comprehensive phonological description of Dutch. Booij's analysis engages a number of current issues in phonological theory, and particular attention is paid to the relation between morphology, syntax, and prosodic structure at word- and at sentence-level.

"I would recommend this book to anyone with a background in generative phonology and with knowledge of Dutch and/or another West Germanic language. It provides a good basis for further study and should be the first text one turns to when embarking on the study of Modern Dutch phonology."--Germanic Notes and Reviews
224 pp.; 8 figures; 0-19-823869-X 1999 $29.95 (06) paper 1995 $55.00 (04) cloth

Syntactic Theory
A Unified Approach
Second Edition
ROBERT BORSLEY, University of Wales, Bangor

Expanded explanations of the main characteristics of each theory

Syntactic theory is central to the study of language. This innovative book introduces the ideas that underlie most approaches to syntax and shows how they have been developed within two broad frameworks: Govermnet Binding Theory and Phrase Structure Grammar. Thoroughly updated in the light of major recent developments, this second edition includes expanded explanations of the main characteristics of the two theories, summaries of the main features, exercises reinforcing key points, and suggestions for further investigation.

On the First Edition: "Borsley has given us a new kind of book: one that combines the best features of other introductory texts on syntax with serious discussion of alternatives to transformational grammar."--Richard Hudson, University College, London
Thoroughly updated in the light of major recent developments
288 pp.; 0-340-70610-4 1999 $24.95 (01)

The Acquisition of Second-Language Syntax
SUSAN BRAIDI, West Virginia University

The issue of syntactic development is one of the most central to both linguistics and applied linguistics. Assuming no detailed background knowledge of linguistics, this book is an introduction to the acquisition of syntax in a second language. The text builds a coherent picture of second language grammatical development by showing the interactions between the syntactic, processing, and functional/discourse approaches, and looks at how and why these different approaches give different results.
232 pp.; 3 linecuts; 0-340-64592-X 1998 $80.00 (06) cloth 1998 $19.95 (06) paper

The Origins of Complex Language
An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth
ANDREW CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

An original an full account of language origins

This book proposes a new theory of the origins of human language ability and presents an original account of the early evolution of language. It explains why humans are the only language-using animals, challenges the assumption that language is a consequence of intelligence, and offers a new perspective on human uniqueness. Brilliantly executed, this book draws on evidence from archaeology, linguistics, cognitive science and evolutionary biology.

Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding
Evidence from English and French
FRANCIS CORNISH, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, France

In this ambitious work, Dr. Francis Cornish sets out an original theory of anaphora and deixis, and proposes a new and elegant theoretical model to represent the transfer of meaning in discourse. He brings together work by linguists, formal semanticists, psychologists, and researchers in artificial intelligence, as well as drawing on his own extensive experimental work on a variety of corpora of different genres in French and English.
304 pp.; 0-19-823648-4 1999 $98.00 (06) cloth 1999 $35.00 (06) paper

Phraseology
Theory, Analysis, and Applications
Edited by A. P. COWIE

Over the last twenty years, phraseology has become a major field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. This book is made up of authoritative contributions from leading specialists who examine the increasingly crucial role played by ready-made word-combinations in language acquisition and adult language use. This book is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the subject to be published in English.

Optimality Theory
Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition
Edited by JOOST DEKKERS, University of Amsterdam, FRANK VAN DER LEEUW, University of Amsterdam, and JEROEN VAN DE WEIJER, Leiden University

Optimality Theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. With contributors that include the leading researchers in the field, this book presents the first fruits of such research as applied to syntax and to language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack on OT by rule-based grammarians.

Narrative Comprehension
A Discourse Perspective
CATHERINE EMMOTT, University of Glasgow

There has so far been relatively little research by cognitive linguists on the comprehension of narrative texts. This book draws on insights from discourse analysis and artificial intelligence to explore how readers construct and maintain mental representations of fictional characters and contexts, and goes on to consider the implications of cognitive modelling for grammatical theory and a literary-linguistic model of narrative text-types.

"a major advance in narrative analysis, the book will be an invaluable resource for discourse analysts, cognitive scientists, and narrative theorists alike." --David Herman, North Carolina State University

"any future serious treatments of written narrative, and particularly of anaphora, will have to take this work into account." --Professor Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara

"This is a book which a lot of people should read. It has relevant things to say to linguists and psychologists interested in text and discourse analysis, narratologists, stylisticians, literary theorists, reading theorists and those interested in the empirical study of literature and in the teaching of literacy skills." --Professor Mick Short, Lancaster University, Journal of Literary Semantics
336 pp.; 5 line illus; 0-19-823868-1 1999 $27.50 (06) paper 1997 $80.00 (06) cloth

The Athabaskan Languages
Perspectives on a Native American Language Family
Edited by THEODORE FERNALD, Swarthmore College, and PAUL PLATERO, Prescott College, Arizona

The Native American language family called Athabaskan has recieved incresing attention from linguists and educators. The linguistic chapters in this volume focus on syntax and semantics, but also involve morphology, phonology, and historical linguistics. Included is a discussion of whether religion and secular issues can be separated in Navajo classrooms.
352 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511947-9 January 2000 $49.95 (06) Tentative

Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity
Edited by JOSHUA A. FISHMAN, New York University

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of our identity. The distinguished sociolinguist Joshua Fishman has commissioned over 25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. The volume is divided into two sections, the first examining disciplinary perspectives on the suject; the second uses the prism of geography, looking at the subject in the context of Africa, Scandinavia, Germany and the rest of Western Europe, North America and elsewhere. The volume is truly interdisciplinary and the contributors are all distinguished figures in their fields. Each chapter is followed by thought provoking questions and essential bibliography, and Fishman pulls together the various views that have been expressed and shows how they differ and how they are alike.The volume is useful as a scholarly reference, a resource for the lay reader, and can also be used as a text in ethnicity courses.
480 pp.; 11 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512428-6 1999 $65.00 (06)

The Phonology of English
A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach
MICHAEL HAMMOND

The Phonology of English offers a new approach to English phonology. It focuses on the prosody of the language, i.e. syllable and foot structure, and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT) perspective. The book is thus intended as a detailed presentation of novel empirical results about the sound system of English, along with important theoretical results about phonological theory.
384 pp.; 0-19-823797-9 1999 $95.00 (06) cloth 1999 $24.95 (01) paper

Evaluation in Text
Authorial Stance and the Construction of Discourse
Edited by SUSAN HUNSTON, University of Birmingham, and GEOFFREY THOMPSON, University of Liverpool

Long neglected as a focus of linguistic research, evaluation in its various guises is now being recognized as a crucial aspect of any study of discourse. In this book, writers coming from different standpoints are brought together, providing a unique profile of the topic from several perspectives. These perpectives include: Systemic Linguistics, Narrative, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis.
320 pp.; 0-19-823854-1 December 1999 $55.00 (06) Tentative

Function, Selection, and Innateness
The Emergence of Language Universals
SIMON KIRBY, University of Edinburgh

This book is a powerful demonstration of the value of looking at language as an adaptive system, which reaches the heart of debates in linguistics and cognitive science on the evolution and nature of language. Simon Kirby combines functional and formal theories in order to develop a way of treating language as an adaptive system in which its communicative and formal roles have crucial and complimentary roles.

Fragments
Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping
Edited by SHALOM LAPPIN, University of London, and ELABBAS BENMAMOUN, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne

This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of ellipis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, computational linguists, and cognitive scientists.
320 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512302-6 1999 $60.00 (06)

Agents in Early Welsh and Early Irish
NICOLE MÜLLER, University of Wales, Cardiff

This book is the first in-depth investigation of the expression of agency in verbal noun and impersonal/passive constructions in medieval Welsh and Irish, drawing on a database of texts from different genres: narrative, legal, and annalistic. The analysis is primarily data-oriented, rather than theory-oriented, although it draws on methods and concepts from functional grammar approaches and cognitive linguistics.
272 pp.; 0-19-823587-9 November 1999 $55.00 (06) Tentative

Linguistic Diversity
DANIEL NETTLE, Merton College, Oxford

Comprehensive explanation of the origins of the diversity of human language

There are some 6,500 different languages in the world. This book investigates why diversity arose, how it relates to the origins and evolution of language and culture, and whether the uneven distribution of human languages may be linked with patterns of human geography and history. Daniel Nettle draws on work in anthropology, linguistics, geography, archeology, and evolutionary science to explain linguistic diversity.

184 pp.; 22 figs; 0-19-823857-6 1999 $19.95 (01) paper 1999 $65.00 (06) cloth

Introducing Transformational Grammer
From Principles and Parameters to Minimalism
Second Edition
JAMAL OUHALLA, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

The first edition of this book quickly established itself as one of the clearest and most readable introductions to generative grammar. Together with a complete introduction to the principles of Universal Grammar, it traced the major shifts of perspective that have influenced the developments of the theory over the last forty years. This revised and expanded new edition introduces students with no previous training ot Transformational Grammar. Covering the framework known as Principles and Parameters as well as the more recent framework known as Minimalism, it includes a range of new exercises, making it ideal for students at all levels.
496 pp.; 0-340-74036-1 1999 $24.95 (01) paper

Nasal Vowel Evolution in Romance
RODNEY SAMPSON, University of Bristol

Drawing on a wide range of philological and linguistic materials, Rodney Sampson provides for the first time a detailed comparative study tracing the rise and pattern of the evolution of nasal vowels in Romance; a family of language in which vowel nasalization has been richly represented. Developments across all the standard varieties and some non-standard varieties are considered, enabling broad characteristics of vowel nasalization in Romance to be identified.
432 pp.; 5 figs & 12 maps; 0-19-823848-7 1999 $105.00 (06)

Approaches to Language Typology
Edited by MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI, Kobe University, Japan, and THEODORA BYNON, University of London

What do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? These typological questions are fundamental to linguistic theory. This collection comprises original contributions from leading scholars of the major schools of contemporary typological research, from the Prague School to the Generative Grammar tradition. Each contributor presents the theoretical foundations and practical achievements of his or her approach to language typology; the whole provides a unique overview of a field characterized by its diversity.
400 pp.; 7 line illus; 0-19-823866-5 1999 $29.95 (06) paper 1995 $75.00 (04) cloth

Grammatical Constructions
Their Form and Meaning
Edited by MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI, Kobe University, Japan, and SANDRA A. THOMPSON, University of California, Santa Barbara

In this collection a cast of distinguished contributors responds to and elaborates Charles Fillmore's and Paul Kay's "Construction Grammar". In contrast to the modular Chomskyan approach which treats grammatical constructions as epiphenomena, Construction Grammar works on the premise that constructions function as units of grammar in a way similar to words, and that their properties derive from complex interplays between lexicon, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
368 pp.; 7 line illus; 0-19-823871-1 1999 $29.95 (06) paper 1996 $80.00 (06) cloth

Harvey Sacks
Social Science and Conversation Analysis
DAVID SILVERMAN

Harvey Sacks's early death in 1975 robbed the social sciences of one of its most original thinkers. Although he published relatively little in his lifetime, his lectures and papers were enormously influential in sociology and sociolinguistics, and they played a major role in the development of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The recent publication of Sacks's Lectures on Conversation has provided an excellent oppourtunity for a wide-ranging reassessment of his contribuion.

In this new book, David Silverman provides a clear introdution to Sacks's work and reassesses its value for sociology, linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. Using a variety of examples, he explains Sacks's ideas on method, language and talk-interaction. He argues that Sack's work offers a highly original perspective on language and social life and raises fundamental questions for the social sciences--questions which, after more than twenty years, remain vitally important and largely unanswered.

Written in a lively and accessible way, this book will be of particular interest to students of sociology, sociolinguistics, social theory and method, but it will also be of interest to students and researchers in anthropology, psychology, and related disciplines.

"David Silverman is to be thanked for leading the novice and the expert through the complex, heretofore underground corpus of Harvey Sacks's work. Finally, the social science community can study and learn from Sacks's pathbreaking studies of talk and conversational analysis. The social science community in the field of everyday life studies owes Silverman a great debt."--Norman K. Denzin,University of Illinois

"Harvey Sacks, as the say, was an original. David Silverman provides a thoughtful, lucid account of his penetrating work. I urge anyone concerned with occuring speech to read this book. One's sense of how to interpret what is said will be changed. Even if one does not adopt the approach, one will have an essential landmark and reference point to inform what one does oneself."--Dell Hymes,University of Virginia

232 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-521472-2 1998 $45.00 (06) cloth 1998 $19.95 (06) paper

Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics
OSWALD J. L. SZEMERÉNYI, University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau

This translation of the German edition first published in 1970, introduces the standard text on the comparative-historical method to an English-speaking audience. After surveying the general principles of diachronic-comparative linguistics, the book uses these principles to analyze the phonological and morphological structure of the Indo-European language group. Each section of the book has a detailed bibliography, so readers can progress from the general overview to a more in-depth examination of particular topics.
392 pp.; 0-19-823870-3 1999 $29.95 (01) paper 1997 $98.00 (06) cloth

Syntactic Change in Welsh
A Study of the Loss of Verb-Second
DAVID W. E. WILLIS, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Scholars have often been puzzled by the fact that the basic word-order rule of Welsh seems to have changed twice in the last 1000 years. David Willis explores how and why these changes have taken place. He examines the relationship between the literary and spoken language throughout the history of Welsh, points out similarities between the rules of earlier Welsh and other European languages, and looks at the forces that cause languages to change over time.

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