7.752 , Books: Amerindian Lgs, Malayo-Polynisian Lgs, Ling Theory

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Subject: 7.752, Books: Amerindian Lgs, Malayo-Polynisian Lgs, Ling Theory

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------------------------------New Books-------------------------------------

AMERINDIAN LANGUAGES

Munro, Pamela, Ed.  CHEROKEE PAPERS FROM UCLA
     UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, volume #16
     Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee by Richard Wright
     Laryngeal Metathesis and Vowel Deletion in Cherokee by
     Edward S. Flemming
     The Cherokee Laryngeal Alternation Rule by Pamela Munro
     Classificatory Verbs in Cherokee by Barbara Blankenship
     Animacy and Agreement in Cherokee by Michael Dukes
     Cherokee Possession and the Status of -jeeli by Robert S. Williams
     Cherokee Clause Structure by Filippo Beghelli
     Cherokee Agentive Nominalizations by Brian Potter
     US $8.00 Send check or money order to: UCLA Dept. of Linguistics,
     3125 Campbell Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave., LA, CA  90095-1543

MALAYO-POLYNESIAN LANGUAGES

Pearson, Matthew and Paul, Ileana, eds. THE STRUCTURE OF MALAGASY,
     VOLUME 1.  UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, vol. 17
     Quantity and Moras: An Amicable Separation by Sean Erwin
     Malagasy Morphology: Basic Rules by Edward L. Keenan and
     Jean Paulin Razafinmamonjy
     The Active Marker and Nasals in Malagasy by Ileana Paul
     Morphological Causatives in Malagasy by Clement Luc Andrianierenana
     The Malagasy Genitive by Ileana Paul
     Morphology is Structure: A Malagasy Test Case by Edward L. Keenan
     Domain Phrases and Topic Arguments in Malagasy Existentials by
     Matthew Pearson
     Multilingualism in Daily Life by Marie Jeanne Razanamanana
     Does the Brain Possess a Syntactic Parser? by Christian Lehmann
     US$8.00 Send check or money order to: UCLA Dept. of Linguistics,
     3125 Campbell Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543

Schachter, Paul  THE SUBJECT IN TAGALOG:STILL NONE OF THE ABOVE

		UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, vol. #15
           (NB: This volume replaces the previous vol. #15
           PHASING AND RECOVERABILITY by Daniel Silverman, which
           has be renumbered as UCLA Dissertations in Linguistics, #1)
           Arguing against recent proposals regarding the Tagalog
           'subject', including that Tagalog does have a well-defined
           subject (Kroeger 1993), that it has two subject positions
           (Guilfoyle, Hung and Travis 1992), and that it is an
           ergative language, Schachter suggests instead that Tagalog
           challenges the universality of the subject, and that, rather
           than being a syntactic primitive, the subject may instead
           be a composite of semantic and pragmatic properties.
           US $3.00.  Send check or money order to: UCLA Dept. of Ling-
           uistics, 405 Hilgard Ave., LA, CA  90095-1543

LINGUISTIC THEORY
FUNCTIONALISM

Functionalism and Grammar
T. GIVON (University of Oregon)

This book is Professor Givon's long-awaited critical examination of
the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the
functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to
take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical
definitions of both 'function' and 'structure'. Ideological
hand-waving, however fervent and right-thinking, is seldom an adequate
substitute for analytic rigor and empirical responsibility. If the
reductionist extremism of the structuralist schools is to be
challenged on solid intellectual grounds, the challenge cannot itself
be equally extreme in its reductionism.

The book is divided into nine chapters:
1. Prospectus, somewhat jaundiced (overview)
2. Markedness as meta-iconicity: Distributional and cognitive correlates of
 syntactic structure
3. The functional basis of grammatical typology
4. Modal prototypes of truth and action
5. Taking structure seriously: Constituency and the VP node
6. Taking structure seriously II: Grammatical relations and clause union
7. The distribution of grammar in text: On interpreting conditional
 associations
8. Coming to terms with cognition: Coherence in text vs. coherence in mind
9. On the co-evolution of language, mind and brain
John Benjamins Publishing  xxi, 477 pp. + index
US& Canada:Hb 1 55619 500 1  US$89.00/Pb 1 55619 501 X  US$34.95
Rest of world:90 272 2147 2 Hfl.150,--/Pb:90 272 2148 0 Hfl.70,--

Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com)
John Benjamins searchable ONLINE catalogue:
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*via gopher -- gopher Benjamins.titlenet.com 6400

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