6.125 New Books: Phonology, Syntax, Semantics

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-125. Sun 29 Jan 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 122
 
Subject: 6.125 New Books: Phonology, Syntax, Semantics
 
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PHONOLOGY & PHONETICS
 
Burquest, Donald A. and David L. Payne;  PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS: A
FUNCTIONAL APPROACH: Pb.: ISBN: 0-88312-608-7; viii, 179 pp.; $19.00.
Summer Institute of Linguistics.
     Burquest and Payne have produced an introductory textbook oriented
     primarily to students interested in previously unstudied or little
     studied languages and who need a practical guide on how to carry out
     their investigation. It gives a broad base of exposure to the kind of
     phonological phenomena found in a range of languages.
     Internet: academic.books at sil.org      Textbook,   Phonology
 
 
NOTE: [Price correction for the book below]
 
Watt, David L. E. THE PHONOLOGY AND SEMOLOGY OF INTONATION IN ENGLISH: AN
     INSTRUMENTAL AND SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE. 1994. 192 pp. 6x9 book. PREPAID
     US$22.00 + 3.50 p&h (US)/5.00 (CAN)/5.50 (Other). IULC Publications,
     720 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomington IN 47401. <iulc.indiana.edu>
Watt presents an extensive study of intonation and its meaning potential from a
systemic functional perspective, advancing Halliday's description of
intonation. Includes over 250 instrumentally derived illustrations of examples
from original tape recordings, cited examples, and recordings of casual
conversations.  (A previous posting to the List contained an incorrect price
for the book.  We regret any inconvenience.)
 
 
SYNTAX
 
Harms, Phillip L.; EPENA PEDEE SYNTAX: STUDIES IN THE LANGUAGES OF
COLOMBIA 4; Pb.: ISBN: 0-88312-276-6;  xiv, 213 pp. $27.00. Summer
Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas Arlington.
     The author describes the major grammatical structures of the language
     from morphology through discourse, with an introductory phonological
     sketch. Epena Pedee is an ergative-absolutive language, but one in
     which the subject has an important role, in that it manifests number
     agreement with the verb.
     Internet: academic.books at sil.org         Syntax, Colombia
 
 
 
Wiering, Elizabeth and Marinus Wiering; THE DOYAYO LANGUAGE: SELECTED
STUDIES; Pb.: ISBN: 0-88312-620-6;  x, 299 pp. $28.00 Summer Institute of
Linguistics and University of Texas Arlington.
     Doyayo is the language of about 15,000 people in northern Cameroon.
     Using a descriptive linguistic approach, the Wierings cover phonology,
     structure of indicative verbs, some major systactic structures on
     levels from morpheme through discourse, and some features of
     folktales.
     Internet: academic.books at sil.org       Syntax, Phonology, Cameroon
 
 
Cope, Pamela; INTRODUCTORY GRAMMAR: A STRATIFICATIONAL APPROACH; Pb.; ISBN:
1-55671-001-1; ix, 113 pp.; $12.00. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
     Cope presents a clear exposition of stratificational grammar, intended
     primarily for beginning linguistic students.
     Internet: academic.books at sil.org         Textbook, Syntax
 
 
 
SEMANTICS
 
Berman, Stephen R. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); On the Semantics
                and Logical Form of WH-Clauses, Pb. xiii + 279 pp. Ph.D.
                dissertation, 1991. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4 foreign
                surface). Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA),
                University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
   This dissertation proposes a semantically dichotomous analysis of
   wh-clauses as denoting either questions or quantified propositions,
   depending on syntactic context (in certain cases additionally influenced
   by lexical properties). Behavior under quantificational adverbs provides
   the primary diagnostic tool and motivates analysing wh-phrases as
   inherently nonquantified open sentences, following the Heim/Kamp treatment
   of indefinites. Restrictions on wh-phrase quantifiability, which it is
   argued interacts with presupposition, motivate the semantic dichotomy.
   Additionally, the quantified interpretation is argued not to involve
   inherent exhaustiveness. Contact glsa at linguist.umass.edu for more info.
 
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