Recent Publications

This list acknowledges recent works (except offprints of single articles) that appear to bear on the scientific study of language. The receipt of individual books cannot be separately acknowledged and no book can be returned to the publisher. Note especially that by accepting a book the Editor implies no promise that it will be reviewed in this journal. Reviews are printed as circumstances permit.

Abdel-Massih, Ernest; Zaki N. Abdel-Malek; and El-Said M. Badawi 2009. A reference grammar of Egyptian Arabic. With Ernest N. McCarus. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 337.

Adams, Michael 2009. Slang: The people's poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 238.

Aijmer, Karin (ed.) 2009. Corpora and language teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. viii, 232.

Askedal, John Ole; Ian Roberts; Tomonori Matsushita; and Hiroshi Hasegawa (eds.) 2009. Germanic languages and linguistic universals. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. v, 213.

Baker, Anne, and Bencie Woll (eds.) 2009. Sign language acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xi, 167.

Banks, David 2008. The development of scientific writing: Linguistic features and historical context. London: Equinox. Pp. 221.

Barðdal, Jóhanna, and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.) 2009. The role of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors in the development of case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xx, 432.

Beeby, Allison; Patricia Rodríguez Inés; and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón (eds.) 2009. Corpus use and translating: Corpus use for learning to translate and learning corpus use to translate. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. x, 151.

Beňuš, Štefan 2009. Optimality theory and phonetics-phonology interface. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 146.

Bergs, Alexander, and Gabriele Diewald (eds.) 2008. Constructions and language change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 271.

Berjaoui, Nasser 2009. Moroccan secret languages: Evidence from the guş. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 427.

Bickerton, Derek 2009. Adam's tongue: How humans made language, how language made humans. New York: Hill and Wang. Pp. 286.

Bills, Garland D., and Neddy A. Vigil 2008. The Spanish language of New Mexico and southern Colorado: A linguistic atlas. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Pp. 383.

Bischoff, Shannon T. 2009. Coyote overpowers sun (securing sun disk): Dorothy Nocodemus' Coeur d'Alene narrative as recorded by Gladys Reichard. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 154.

Blackledge, Adrian 2005. Discourse and power in a multilingual world. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. x, 252.

Blom, Elma 2008. The acquisition of finiteness. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 162.

Bremmer, Rolf H., Jr. 2009. An introduction to Old Frisian: History, grammar, reader, glossary. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xii, 237.

Brinton, Laurel J. 2008. The comment clause in English: Syntactic origins and pragmatic development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 280.

Brucart, José; Anna Gavarró; and Jaume Solà (eds.) 2009. Merging features: Computation, interpretation, and acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 372.

Bullock, Barbara E., and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds.) 2009. The Cambridge handbook of linguistic code-switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 422.

Butler, Christopher S., and Javier Martín Arista (eds.) 2009. Deconstructing constructions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xx, 306.

Byrom, Franklin 2008. Basic ASL dictionary. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris. Pp. 164.

Campbell, Lyle, and William J. Poser 2008. Language classification: History and method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 536.

Cohn, Rella Israly 2008. Yiddish given names: A lexicon. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Pp. 407.

Culicover, Peter 2009. Natural language syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 490.

D'Alessandro, Roberta; Susann Fischer; and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (eds.) 2008. Agreement restrictions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 325.

de Houwer, Annick 2009. Bilingual first language acquisition. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 412.

Dell, François, and Mohamed Elmedlaoui 2008. Poetic meter and musical form in Tashlhiyt Berber songs. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. Pp. 274. Includes CD.

Díaz Negrillo, Ana 2009. EARS: A user's manual. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 158.

Dunn, John, and Shamil Khairov 2009. Modern Russian grammar: A practical guide. New York: Routledge. Pp. 469.

Elsig, Martin 2009. Grammatical variation across space and time: The French interrogative system. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xvi, 282.

Fabb, Nigel, and Morris Halle 2008. Meter in poetry: A new theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 297.

Filppula, Markku; Juhani Klemola; and Heli Paulasto (eds.) 2009. Vernacular universals and language contacts: Evidence from...