9.1064, Books: Linguistic Theory

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Subject: 9.1064, Books: Linguistic Theory

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Date:  Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:56:24 -0400
From:  papa at routledge.com (Matthew Papa)
Subject:   LINGUISTIC THEORY

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Date:  Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:56:24 -0400
From:  papa at routledge.com (Matthew Papa)
Subject:   LINGUISTIC THEORY

     Dominique Sportiche, PARTITIONS AND ATOMS OF CLAUSE STRUCTURE
     Subjects, Agreement, Case and Clitics
     This collection builds on the theory of Principles and Parameters and
     its Economy--minimalist descendants. The essays progressively develop
     a view of syntactic structures in which syntactic properties are
     increasingly analyzed as atomized in progressively smaller elementary
     components and partitioned in the way these elementary components are
     represented. Dominique Sportiche argues that as a consequence of this
     view, languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization.
     Routledge Leading Linguists
     Routledge: 1998: 448 pp
     CL: 0 415 16926 7: #D4946: $110.00

     Laura A. Michaelis, ASPECTUAL GRAMMAR AND PAST TIME REFERENCE
     This work examines the linguistic constructions which speakers use to
     talk about events that occurred in the past and states which held in
     the past. Laura Michaelis argues that the fundamental conceptual
     division between events and states forms the basis of systems of
     verbal aspect in all languages, and that one cannot talk about the
     meaning of a past-tense assertion without making reference to the
     event-state distinction. Focusing on English data, the author examines
     the semantic and functional overlap between assertions about the past
     and assertions involving events: when one asserts that an event of a
     given kind exists, one is making an assertion about the past. This
     semantic overlap can be evoked as a way of characterizing the close
     relationship between the past-tense construction and the past-perfect
     construction: while a past tense assertion like She left is used to
     describe the past, a present-perfect assertion like She has left is
     used to assert the existence of an event by invoking its aftermath
     (her absence). Dr. Michaelis argues that the two constructions are
     semantically equivalent, but distinguished by their function in
     narrative. This study presents a semantic framework for analyzing all
     aspectual constructions in terms of the event-state distinction, and
     describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of
     a theory of grammatical constructions.  In this theory, grammatical
     constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs,
     which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic
     semantic values, but also with respect to the functional opposition in
     which they participate. Michaelis argues that many of the otherwise
     puzzling grammatical constraints which characterize the English
     present-perfect construction can be motivated in terms of the
     functional opposition between present perfect and past tense.

     Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics 4
     Routledge: 1998: 320 pp
     CL: 0 415 15678 5: #D4385: $90.00

     Asa Kasher, ed, PRAGMATICS
     6 Volume Set
     The purpose of this collection is to portray the development of
     pragmatics as a science of language, in a such a way as to enable
     readers to critically assess this theorectical development. Issues
     explored include * presupposition * implicature * discourse * grammar
     * communication * indexicals * psychology * sociology. This work
     provides highly useful references and suggestions for further reading,
     and has an exceptionally detailed subject and name index to enable
     easy and immediate access for the reader.

     Critical Concepts
     Routledge: 1998: 2653 pp
     CL: 0 415 11734 8: #D2960: $905.00

     For more information on these and other titles from:
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Blackwell Publishers
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Cambridge University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
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Garland Publishing
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
	http://www.erlbaum.com/inform.htm
MIT Press (Books Division)
Mouton de Gruyter
	http://www.deGruyter.de/hling.html
Oxford University Press
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Routledge
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Summer Institute of Linguistics
	http://www.sil.org/

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Cascadilla Press:
        http://www.cascadilla.com/
Cassel
CSLI Publications:
	http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/
Francais Practique
	http://www.pratique.fr/
Lodz University, Department of English Language
Torino, Rosenberge & Sellier
Utrech Institute of Linguistics	


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