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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-368. Sat Mar 9 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  111
 
Subject: 7.368, Available for Review: Books Available
 
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Date:  Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:16:03 EDT
From:  dseely at emunix.emich.edu (Daniel Seely)
Subject:  Books now available for review
 
I now have copies of the following books and can
send them out for review.  Please let me know if
you are interested.  dseely at emunix.emich.edu
 
 
Lynn Frazier and Charles Clifton, Jr., CONSTRUAL
     This book presents a new theory of sentence processing; one allowing a
     very limited type of underspecification in the syntactic analysis of
     sentences.
     The MIT Press (1996)
 
Roy Harris, SIGNS OF WRITING
     SIGNS OF WRITING is the first book to provide a new general theory of
     writing in over forty years. Harris disputes the supposition that
     writing is peripheral to linguistic study and provides a unique
     argument for its vitality to our understanding of language,
     communication and cognition. Addressing the nature of writing and
     discussing how it differs from all other forms of human communication,
     he shows how musical, mathematical and other forms of writing obey the
     same principles as verbal writing--principles which govern texts of
     all kinds.
     Routledge (1996)
 
Gareth King, BASIC WELSH  A Grammar and Workbook
     Unique in its combination of detailed grammar and challenging
     exercises, this workbook is an important supplement to any study in
     modern Welsh language. With emphasis on colloquial, spoken Welsh as
     used by modern-day native speakers, BASIC WELSH is intended as a
     grammar-based self tutor for those in the earlier stages of learning
     Welsh. Features include almost forty grammar points with full
     explanations; a wide range of increasingly challenging exercises; an
     answer key for each test; and a Welsh/English-English/Welsh glossary.
     Routledge Grammars
     Routledge (1996)
 
E.F.K. Koerner and R.E. Asher (eds), CONCISE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES
     Presents in a single volume a comprehensive history from ancient times
     through to the twentieth century, and going beyond traditional
     Eurocentric accounts to cover a broad geographical spread. There is
     also a concentration on those approaches in linguistic theory expected
     to have direct relevance to work being done at the beginning of the
     21st century.
     Published by Elsevier Science (1995)
 
Richard Larson and Gabriel Segal, KNOWLEDGE OF MEANING:  An Introduction
     to Semantic Theory
     The only introduction to truth-theoretic semantics for natural
     languages,integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyian program
     in linguistic theory and research in cognitive psych. and philosophy.
     The MIT Press (1995)
 
 
Frederick J. Newmeyer, GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS
     Here together for the first time are all of Frederick J. Newmeyer's
     writings on the origins and development of generative grammar.
     Spanning a period of fifteen years, the essays in GENERATIVE
     LINGUISTICS address the nature of the "Chomskyan Revolution", the deep
     structure debates of the 1970s, The Chicago Linguistic Society, the
     structure of the field of linguistics and its consequences for women
     and the attempts to apply generative theory to second language
     aquisition. These articles, many of which have never been published
     before, will inevitably fan the flames of controversy still raging in
     the field. Newmeyer's audacious conclusions and his argument that
     generative semantics collapsed because it was empirically disproved
     challenge much current thinking.
     History of Linguistic Thought
     Routledge (1996)
 
 
James Pustejovsky,  THE GENERATIVE LEXICON
     Presents a theory of lexical semantics that addresses multiplicity of
     word meanings, or how we are able to give an infinite number of senses
     to words with finite means.  This first formally-elaborated theory of a
     generative approach to word meaning lays the foundation for an
     implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects
     explicity to a compositional semantics.
     The MIT Press (1996)
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