7.1004, Books: Psycholinguistics & Phonetics, Ling Theory, Syntax

[The Linguist List]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1004. Wed Jul 10 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  180
 
Subject: 7.1004, Books: Psycholinguistics & Phonetics, Ling Theory, Syntax
 
Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu> (On Leave)
            T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. <dseely at emunix.emich.edu>
 
Associate Editor:  Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>
Assistant Editors: Ron Reck <rreck at emunix.emich.edu>
                   Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
                   Annemarie Valdez <avaldez at emunix.emich.edu>
 
Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
 
Editor for this issue: lveselin at emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova)
 
Additional information on the following books, as well as a short
backlist of the publisher's titles, may be available from the
Listserv.  Instructions for retrieving publishers' backlists appear at
the end of this issue.
 
 
------------------------------New Books-------------------------------------
 
 
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS and PHONETICS
 
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 19: Linguistics
	in the Laboratory. Pb. v + 327 pp. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4
 	foreign surface). Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA),
 	University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
This volume contains 12 papers investigating diverse aspects of the
interaction between the grammar and the language processor. Contributions
range from the perception of focus and the processing of prosody, to the
acquisition of light verbs, to the processing of quantifiers. For further
information, including the table of contents, contact
glsa at linguist.umass.edu.
 
 
 
LINGUISTIC THEORY
 
 
Configurations: Essays on Structure and Interpretation
edited by Anna-Maria Di Sciullo
 
This collection of papers addresses several fundamental questions in
syntax and morphology: how word structure and phrase structure relate
to each other, the properties of a configurational theory of argument
structure and adjunct structure, and the correct licensing
requirements and conditions of grammar.  The authors base their
proposals on a wide range of evidence from Romance, Hellenic, West
Germanic, Semitic, African and Amerindian languages.  This book is a
vital contribution to understanding the structural issues central to
linguistic theory.
 
The contributors to Configurations are: Emmon Bach, Anna-Maria Di
Sciullo, Teun Hoekstra, Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Mireille Tremblay,
Christopher Laenzlinger, Degif Petros, Pilar Barbosa, Arhonto Terzi,
Geoffrey Poole, Ed Zoerner, Jeffrey Gruber, Juvenal Ndayiragije,
Rejean Canac Marquis, and Edward Keenan and Edward Stabler.
 
A complete table of contents and the preface are available on our web
site at http://www.cascadilla.com/config.html.
 
July 1996   $23.95 paperback   344 pages + index   ISBN 1-57473-006-1
Cascadilla Press   PO Box 440355, Somerville, MA 02144, USA
phone: 617-776-2370   fax: 617-776-2271   e-mail: sales at cascadilla.com
 
 
SYNTAX
 
====================================================================
NOW AVAILABLE : NEW DISSERTATION ON BINDING IN 'ROMANCE'
 
               A SOLUTION OF BOUND PRONOUNS
====================================================================
 
The special topic of this doctoral dissertation is: how to account
for pronouns bound in their governing category.
 
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract of "The Case of Bound Pronouns in Peripheral Romance"
                by Dr. Jelly Julia de Jong
of the Department of General Linguistics of the University of
Groningen
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
 
The (un) grammaticality of data like in (1) and (2) is not accounted
for by the standard binding conditions:
 
(1)   a.   Fernando[i] habla siempre de   el[i].            [Spanish]
           F.          talks always about him
 
      b.   O Fernando[i] comprou a  casa para ele[i].    [Portuguese]
           the F.        bought the house for him
 
(2)   a. * Fernando[i] se lava a el[i].                     [Spanish]
           F.           washes   him
      b. * O Fernando[i] ama-se demasiado a ele[i].      [Portuguese]
           the F.        loves  too-much    him
 
The dissertation presents lots of new binding-data; all examples are
given in six languages: Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Rumanian,
Sardinian and Spanish. The thesis presents data of bound pronouns in
locative PPs (sometimes also called 'adjuncts'), non-locative PPs
(with oblique prepositions) and data of anaphors in PPs with a dummy
preposition and with 'fixed' prepositions, as well as
ECM-constructions.
 
    The explanation by DeJong of data as in (1) and (2) exploits a
module of generative grammar: Case-theory, and does not make use of
the 'standard' binding conditions by Chomsky (1981,1986). Special
about the analysis of the data is that both a GB-solution and a
minimalist account are presented in different chapters. This means
that the account of bound pronouns in local domains is not dependent
on the framework used.
 
The price of "The Case of Bound Pronouns in Peripheral Romance" by
Jelly Julia de Jong is $20,-
 
For more info you can contact: julia at let.rug.nl or via
faxno. 31-50-3636855 (to: Jelly de Jong, ATW)
 
You can order the doctoral dissertation in three different ways:
-send money grants for the value of $20,-
-send an American Express traveller cheque of $20,- and fill in "J. de
 Jong" after "pay to the order of" on the cheque
-send $20,- cash by registred mail
 
all to:  Dr. Jelly Julia de Jong
         ATW, Letteren
         Postbus 716
         9700 AS  Groningen
         The Netherlands
 
=====================================================================
Under the same conditions you can also order two other dissertations
from the Department of Linguistics of the University of Groningen:
 
"Barriers and Licensing"                      by Dr. Wim Kosmeijer
"Licensing Conditions and Phrase Structure"   by Dr. Eric Hoekstra
 
$20,- each or all three dissertations for $50,-
 
-----------------------How to get a publisher's backlist-----------------------
Simply send a message to:
 
      Listserv at tamvm1.tamu.edu    (Internet)
           or
      Listserv at tamvm1             (Bitnet)
 
The message should consist of the single line:
 
get publishername lst linguist
 
For example, to get more information on a book published by Mouton
de Gruyter, send the message:
       get mouton lst linguist
 
At the moment, the following lists are available:
      benjamin lst    (John Benjamins)
      Blackwel lst    (Blackwell Publishers) 	
      cornell lst     (Cornell University Linguistics Dept.)
      CSLI lst        (CSLI List)
      erlbaum lst     (Lawrence Erlbaum)
      glsa lst        (U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association)
      holland lst     (Holland Academic Graphics)
      kluwer lst      (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
      mouton lst      (Mouton de Gruyter)
      osuwpl lst      (Ohio State Working Papers in Linguistics)
      pacific lst     (Pacific Linguistics Publications) 	
      sil lst         (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
      ucp lst         (University of Chicago Press)
      USC lst         (U. of S. California Dissertation List)
	
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-7-1004.