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<font face="arial" size=2>John Benjamins Publishing would like to call
your attention to two new volumes in linguistics:<br>
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Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects.<br>
Alexandra Aikenvald (Research Centre for Linguistics Typology),
R.M.W. Dixon (La Trobe University) and Masayuki Onishi (Meyo University,
Okinawa) (eds.)<br>
Typological Studies in Language 46 <br>
United States and Canada: 1 58811 043 5 / USD 114.00 (Hardcover)<br>
1 58811 044 3 / USD 49.95 (Paperback)<br>
Rest of world: 90 272 2949 X / NLG 250.00 (Hardcover)<br>
90 272 2950 3 / NLG 110.00 (Paperback)<br>
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In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every
object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their
subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may
mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may
have dative subjects, and another small set may have locative subjects.
Verbs with noncanonically marked subjects and objects typically refer to
physiological states or events, inner feelings, perception and cognition.
The Introduction sets out the theoretical parameters and defines the
properties in terms of which subjects and objects can be analysed.
Following chapters discuss Icelandic, Bengali, Quechua, Finnish,
Japanese, Amele (a Papuan language), and Tariana (an Amazonian language);
there is also a general discussion of European languages. This is a
pioneering study providing new and fascinating data, and dealing with a
topic of prime theoretical importance to linguists of many
persuasions.<br>
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Contributions by: A.Y. Aikhenvald; A.D. Andrews; L. Campbell; R.M.W.
Dixon; M. Haspelmath; G. Hermon; M. Onishi; J. Roberts; A.K. Sands; M.
Shibatani.<br>
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Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages. <br>
Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp), Patrick Dendale (University
of Antwerp) (eds.) <br>
Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14 <br>
United States and Canada: 1 58811 145 8 / USD 41.00 (Paperback)<br>
Rest of world: 90 272 2674 1 / NLG 90.00 (Paperback)<br>
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The Belgian Journal of Linguistics is a yearly publication devoted to a
specific theme determined by the topics of the meetings of the Linguistic
Society of Belgium.<br>
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Table of Contents<br>
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Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale<br>
Introduction<br>
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Delia Bentley<br>
Metonomy and Metaphor in the Evolution of Modal Verbs: Evidence from
Italo-Romance<br>
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Gabriele Diewald<br>
A Basic Semantic Template for Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses of the
German Modals<br>
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Kleanthes K. Grohmann<br>
Null Modals in Germanic (and Romance): Infinitival Exclamatives<br>
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Jacqueline Gueron<br>
From Need to Necessity: A Syntactic Path to Modality<br>
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Javier Gutierrez-Rexach<br>
The Semanitcs of Spanish Permission Sentences: A Dynamic Account<br>
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Paul Larreya <br>
Modal Verbs and the Expression of Futurity in English, French and
Italian<br>
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Tanja Mortelmans<br>
On the 'Evidential' Nature of the 'Epistemic' Use of the German Modals
<i>mussen</i> and <i>sollen<br>
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</i>Virginia Motopanyane and Larisa Avram<br>
The Syntax of <i>putea </i>and its Mixed Typology<br>
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Fatima Oliveira<br>
Some Issues about the Protuguese Modals <i>dever</i> and <i>poder<br>
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</i>Aurelia Usoniene<br>
On the Modality of the English Verbs of Seeming<br>
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Mieke Van Herreweghe<br>
<i>*Motan</i> in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records<br>
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Maria Eugenia Vazquez-Laslop<br>
Epistemic <i>prometer</i> and Full Deontic Modal Verbs<br>
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