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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1600. Sat Nov 11 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  109
 
Subject: 6.1600, Books: Lang Acquisition, Discourse Analysis, Syntax
 
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
 
Organization in Discourse: Proceedings from the Turku Conference.
Edited by Warvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen & Risto Hiltunen. 1995.
(Anglicana Turkuensia, 14). ISBN 951-29-0572-8. Turku, Finland:
University of Turku.                           Price FIM 120
 
	This volume contains papers presented at the conference on
	Organization in Discourse in Turku, Finland, 10 - 14 August, 1994.
	Contributions include the plenary papers on some of the most
	topical issues in the field by Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor,
	Frantisek Danes, Nils Erik Enkvist, Jan Firbas, Michael Hoey,
	Jan-Ola Ostman, and Eija Ventola. The 44 section papers address
	issues of discourse organization in, for example, narratives,
	scientific and academic discourse, and conversation in a variety
	of historical and present-day settings.
	Contents and order form: http://www.utu.fi/tdk/hum/engfil/pubs.html
	
 
SYNTAX
 
Runner, Jeffrey T. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Noun Phrase
                Licensing and Interpretation, Pb. xi + 166 pp. Ph.D.
		dissertation, 1995. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4 foreign
		surface). Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA),
		University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The central claim of this thesis is that English objects move overtly to a
VP-external Case position: Spec,AGRo. This claim is motivated in part by
constituency tests, asymmetric c-command, and adverb placement considera-
tions; it is further argued that "ECM" subjects and both objects of the
double object construction likewise move to this Case position. PF/LF
"mismatches" are accounted for by the copy and delete strategy for overt
movement, which allows a neat explanation of "lowering" effects. An
interesting conclusion reached is that there is no LF A-movement in English
nor in any language; differences in "overt" and LF movement follow from the
different movement strategies available at these levels.
 
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