9.995, TOC: A Survey of American Linguistics

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Date:  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:19:46 -0400
From:  Irina Sekerina <sekerina at linc.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  Books: A Survey of American Linguistics

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Date:  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:19:46 -0400
From:  Irina Sekerina <sekerina at linc.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  Books: A Survey of American Linguistics

The Publishing House of Moscow State University has just released
a groundbreaking 455-page hard cover book in Russian which is a
collection of surveys on the state of modern American linguistics.
"FUNDAMENTAL TRENDS OF MODERN AMERICAN LINGUISTICS"
("Fundamental'nye napravlenija sovremennoj amerikanskoj lingvistiki")
is unique in its scope since it is the first ever comprehensive
publication in Russian which presents diverse disciplines within
American linguistics to Russian-speaking audience.

The book consists of three major parts:

        PART I: GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
        CHAPTER 1. Brief History of the Generative Grammar
                (John Bailyn, SUNY at Stony Brook)
        CHAPTER 2. A Study of Syntactic Conditions in the Generative
                Grammar (Konstantin Kazenin & Yakov Testelec, MGU)
        CHAPTER 3. The Generative Grammar and the Free Word
                Order Problem (Natasha Kondarshova, Cornell U)
        CHAPTER 4. The Generative Grammar and Russian Linguistics:
                Aspect and Case
                (Natal'ja Isakadze & Irina Kobozeva, MGU)
        PART II: OTHER FORMAL THEORIES: PHONOLOGY,
        SEMANTICS, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, AND ACQUISITION
        CHAPTER 5. Phonology (Katya Zubritskaya, NYU)
        CHAPTER 6. Formal Semantics
                (Roumyana Izvorska, U of Pennsylvania)
        CHAPTER 7. Psycholinguistics
                (Irina Sekerina, U of Pennsylvania)
       CHAPTER 8. Acquisition (Sergey Avrutin, Yale U)

        PART III: Functional and Cognitive Theories
        CHAPTER 9. Functionalism
                (Andrey Kibrik and Vladimir Plungjan, MGU)
        CHAPTER 10. Semantics in Cognitive Linguistics
                (Alan Cienki, Emory U)
        CHAPTER 11. Main Concepts of Cognitive Semantics
                (Ekaterina Rakhilina, VINITI)
        APPENDIX: The Grammaticala Relevance of Theme/Rheme Partition
                (George Fowler, Indiana University)

        Index of Languages
        Index of Terms

 The authors and the editors made every attempt to concisely and
 accurately translate the linguistic terms without which it modern
 American linguistics will not be comprehensible. The reader will
 find Russian  translations and definitions of such syntactic
 terms as "Subjacency Principle", "Spellout", "island constraints",
 phonological terms such as "Underspecification Theory", "Onset
 Principle", "The OCP", "Optimality Theory", and many others
 included in the comprehensive 47-page Russian-English index.
 Most of the phenomena discussed are illustrated with Russian
 examples.

 Please address your  inquires to Dr. Irina Sekerina at
SEKERINA at LINC.CIS.UPENN.EDU. More information is posted at the
following URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sekerina/book.htm.

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