New Book on Linguistics in Russian On Sale

[Irina Sekerina]

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

        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 Grammatical Relevance of the 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 new linguistic terms without which contemporary
American linguistics is not comprehesible. 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.

The book is on sale for $20 plus $3 Priority Mail shipping and
will be mailed upon the receipt of payment.  Please address your
inquires to Dr. Irina Sekerina at SEKERINA at LINC.CIS.UPENN.EDU,
an authorized representative. Those of you who will be attending
The Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 7 Workshop
at the University of Washington in Seattle next week can browse
through the book and purchase it there.

More detailed information will be posted shortly at the following URL:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sekerina/book.htm.
Irina Sekerina
The Institute for Research
in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania