A Linguistics Book in Russian on Sale
Irina Sekerina
sekerina at linc.cis.upenn.edu
Thu Sep 17 21:44:01 UTC 1998
Seelangers,
I apologize if some of you have seen this message before but since it
originally was posted in the summer some people might have missed it.
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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.
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.
The information may also be found at the following URL:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sekerina/BOOK.HTM.
--
Irina Sekerina
The Institute for Research
in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sekerina
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