3 Functional Books: Hajicova, Lockwood, Manney

[Paul Peranteau]

John Benjamins Publishing would like to bring to your attention these three
recently published books:

Prague Linguistic Circle Papers. Volume 3.
Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série.
Eva HAJICOVÁ, Tomáš HOSKOVEC, Oldrich LE KA, Petr SGALL and Zdena
SKOUMALOVÁ (Charles University, Prague) (eds.)
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers 3
US & Canada: 1 55619 672 5 / USD 84.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 5443 5 / NLG 168.00 (Hardcover)

Contents: O.Leška (†): Prague School Linguistics: Units in Diversity;
P.Sériot: The Impact of Czech and Russian Biology on the Linguistic
Thoughts of the Prague Linguistic Circle; P.Sgall: Types of Languages and
Probabilistic Implication Laws; C.H.van Schoonveld: Are the Phonological
Distinctive Features Ordered?; Y.Tobin: Developmental and Clinical
Phonology: The Prague School and Beyond; E.Stankiewicz: Grammatical
Categories and Their Formal Patterns; B.H.Partee: Nominal and Temporal
Semantic Structure; Aspect and Quantification; H.Kucera: In the Beginning
Was the Verb: Markedness in Grammatical Categories; J.Sabršula: Aspect,
Contexte, Distribution; W.U.Dressler: What is Natural in Natural
Morphology (NM)?; A.Steube and A.Späth: Determination in German and
Russian; T.Hoskovec: Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-européen
(première partie); M.Komárek: Autosemantic Parts of Speech in Czech;
A.Boguslawski: Inherently Thematic or Rhematic Units of Language;
E.Hajicová and I.Kruijff-Korbayová: On the Notion of Topic; J.Firbas: The
Theory of Functional Sentence Perspective as a Reflection of an Effort
Towards a Means-Ends Model of Language; L.Dušková: Basic Distribution of
Communicative Dynamism vs. Nonlinear Indication of Functional Sentence
Perspective; M.Jelínek: Anregungen des Prager linguistischen Zirkels zur
Verwissenschaftlichung der Stilistik; J.V.Neustupny: Sociolinguistics and
the Prague School; L.R.Waugh: Roman Jakobson's Intellectual Influence in
America; H.Schnelle: Dichotomies in the Brain - Jakobsonian and Modern.



Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition.
Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb.
David G. LOCKWOOD (Michigan State University), Peter H. FRIES (Central
Michigan University) and James E. COPELAND (Rice University) (eds.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 163
US & Canada: 1 55619 879 5 / USD 135.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3668 2 / NLG 270.00 (Hardcover)

This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language
and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the
authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar
to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics.
The volume is organized into two sections.
The first section 'Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language:
Theory and Practice' starts with contributions developing a
Stratificational model; these are followed by contributions focusing on
some related functional model of language; and by articles describing some
particular set of language phenomena.
In the second section 'Functional Approaches to the History of Language
and Linguistics' general studies of language change are addressed first; a
second group of contributions examines language change, lexicon and
culture; and the last cluster of contributions treats the history of
linguistics and culture.
Contributions by: James E. Copeland; David G. Lockwood; Sydney M. Lamb;
Ernst-August Müller; William M. Christie; Earl M. Herrick; Tim Pulju; Adam
Makkai; William J. Sullivan; Toby D. Griffen; Winfred P. Lehmann; Chang In
Lee; Jonathan J. Webster; Robert E. Longacre; Yoshihiko Ikegami; Roger W.
Wescott; M.A.K. Halliday; Katharina Barbe; Cynthia Ford Meyer; Peter H.
Fries; Heather K. Hardy; Philip W. Davis; John Regan; Nancy Pine; Joe
Stephenson; Dell Hymes; Henry Rogers; Robert Austerlitz; Joseph H.
Greenberg; James E. Copeland; David C. Bennett; Carleton T. Hodge; William
Bright; Connie Eble; F.W. Householder; Merritt Ruhlen; Edgar C. Polomé;
M.B. Emeneau; Thomas A. Sebeok; Saul Levin; Victor H. Yngve.

Middle Voice in Modern Greek.
Meaning and function of an inflectional category.
Linda Joyce MANNEY (United States International University)
Studies in Language Companion Series 48
US & Canada: 1 55619 934 1 / USD 94.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3051 X / NLG 188.00 (Hardcover)

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle
category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive
linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle
structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that
this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types,
which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of
state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts,
middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to
demonstrate more clearly the semantic distinctions and pragmatic functions
encoded by inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Major semantic
groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in
particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of
state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent
subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the
designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is
affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like
events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to
varying degrees.


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