8.649, TOC: SKY-Yearbook Finland's Lx Association

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Subject: 8.649, TOC: SKY-Yearbook Finland's Lx Association

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SKY 1996 (The Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland)
(ed. by Timo Haukioja, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Elise
Ka"rkka"inen, 176 pp.) is now available!


Table of Contents:

Marja-Liisa Helasvuo: A Discourse Perspective on the
Grammaticization of the Partitive Case in Finnish

Tuomas Huumo: On the Semantic Function of Domain Instrumentals

Esa Itkonen: Is there a 'Computational Paradigm' within Linguistics?

Ritva Laury: Pronouns and Adverbs, Figure and Ground: The Local
Case Forms and Locative Forms of the Finnish Demonstratives in
Spoken Discourse

Arja Piirainen-Marsh: Face and the Organization of Intercultural
Interaction

Eeva-Leena Seppa"nen: Ways of Referring to a Knowing
Co-participant in Finnish Conversation

(Price USD 20 / FIM 100 plus shipping&handling)

Also available:



SKY 1993 (Ed. by Susanna Shore and Maria Vilkuna, 272 pp.)

GENERAL SECTION:

Deirdre Wilson & Dan Sperber: Pragmatics and Time

Laurence R. Horn: Economy and Redundancy in a Dualistic Model of
Natural Language

Lauri Carlson: Dialogue Games with Finnish Clitics

Maria Vilkuna: Finnish juuri and just: Varieties of Contextual
Uniqueness

Knud Lambrecht: C'est pas con comme idee - The Syntax of
Non-Focal Predicate Nominals in Spoken French

Auli Hakulinen: The Grammar of Opening Routines

Pirkko Nuolija"rvi: Interacting in an Institutional Setting

Susanna Shore: A Functional and Social-Semiotic Perspective on
Language, Context and Text

NEWS REPORTING, WORLD CRISES, AND IDEOLOGY:

Jan-Ola O"stman: Introduction

Anna-Mari Ma"kela": Functional Ambivalence in Headlines in The
Sun and The Independent

Jaana Po"ppo"nen & Pirjo-Liisa St at hlberg: Whose War Is It? The
Hidden Ideology of the Persian Gulf War

Pa"ivi Autio: Source Indication as a Persuasive Strategy in News
Reporting

Heli Huttunen: Pragmatic Functions of the Agentless Passive in
News Reports of the 1990 Helsinki Summit

Tomi Palo: Metaphors They Live By: Metaphorical Expressions in
the Context of the Soviet Crisis 1991

DISCUSSION AND SQUIBS:

Martti Nyman: Mental Strain and Abstract Characterization

Timo Haukioja: Language, Parameters, and Natural Selection.

(Price USD 14 / FIM 70 plus shipping&handling)


SKY 1994 (Ed. by Susanna Shore and Maria Vilkuna, 192 pp.)

John Harris & Geoff Lindsey: Segmental Decomposition and the Signal

Harry van der Hulst: An Introduction to Radical CV Phonology

Pirkko Kukkonen: Consonant Harmony

Markku Filppula & Anneli Sarhimaa: Cross-Linguistic Syntactic
Parallels and Contact-Induced Change

Marja Leinonen: Interpreting the Perfect: the Past as Explanation

Martti Nyman: All You Need is What the System Needs?

(Price USD 14 / FIM 70 plus shipping&handling)



SKY 1995 (Ed. by Tapio Hokkanen, Marja Leinonen and Susanna Shore, 208 pp.)

GENERAL SECTION:

Tuomas Huumo: Bound Domains: A Semantic Constraint on Existentials

Tarja Riitta Heinonen: Null Subjects in Finnish: from Either-Or
to More-Or-Less

Lea Laitinen: Metonymy and the Grammaticalization of Necessity
in Finnish

Merja Koskela: Variation of Thematic Structure within a Text

Maija Gro"nholm: Wo"rter und Formen in Finnischen als
Zweitsprache: wachsen sie Hand in Hand?

Esa Penttila": Linguistic Holism with Special Reference to
Donald Davidson

SQUIBS AND DISCUSSION:

Esa Itkonen: A Note on Explaning Language Change

Martti Nyman: On Dialect Split and Random Change

(Price  USD 14 / FIM 70 plus shipping&handling)



For ordering information please contact:

The Linguistic Association of Finland
c/o General Linguistics
PL 4
00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND

or by e-mail:

meri.larjavaara at helsinki.fi


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