Books Received / Livres reçus

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Aboh, O. Enoch, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer, and Petra Sleeman, eds. 2009. Romance languages and linguistic theory: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2007. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xii + 288. US $165.00 (hardcover).

Babby, H. Leonard. 2009. The syntax of argument structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xviii + 307. US $108.00 (hardcover).

Bangalore, Srinivas, and Aravind K. Joshi, eds. 2010. Supertagging: Using complex lexical descriptions in natural language processing. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press. Pp. xx + 488. US $50.00 (hardcover).

Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca, and Michael Haugh, eds. 2009. Face, communication and social interaction. London: Equinox. Pp. xii + 331. US $80.00 (hardcover).

Bartminski, Jerzy. 2009. Aspects of cognitive ethnolinguistics. London: Equinox. Pp. ix + 250. US $120 (hardcover).

Braun, Maria. 2009. Word-formation and creolisation: The case of early Sranan. In the series Linguistische Arbeiten 517. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. Pp. vii + 309. US $157.00 (softcover).

Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson, and Sarah Rose, eds. 2009. Grammatical change in Indo-European languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European linguistics at the XVIIIth international conference on historical linguistics, Montreal, 2007. In the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xx + 262. US $158.00 (hardcover).

Cann, Ronnie, Ruth Kempson, and Eleni Gregoromichelaki. 2009. Semantics: An introduction to meaning in language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiii + 292. US $45.00 (softcover).

Clarke, Sandra. 2010. Newfoundland and Labrador English. Edinburgh University Press. Pp. x + 212. US $35.00 (softcover).

Clyne, Michael, Catrin Norrby, and Jane Warren. 2009. Language and human relations: Styles of address in contemporary language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xi + 183. US $99.00 (hardcover).

Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali, and Kathleen M. Wheatley, eds. 2009. Formulaic language, Vol. 1: Distribution and historical change. In the series Typological Studies in Language 82. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xxiv + 295. US $158.00 (hardcover).

Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali, and Kathleen M. Wheatley, eds. 2009. Formulaic language, Vol. 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological realty, and functional explanations. In the series Typological Studies in Language 83. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xxiv + 638. US $158.00 (hardcover).

Cotter, Colleen. 2010. News talk: Investigating the language of journalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiii + 280. US $32.99 (softcover).

Cummings, Louise. 2009. Clinical pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. x + 305. US $115.00 (hardcover).

Day, William, and Victor J. Krebs, eds. 2010. Seeing Wittgenstein anew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvi + 393. US $27.99 (softcover).

Denham, Kristin, and Anne Lobeck, eds. 2010. Linguistics at school: Language awareness in primary and secondary education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xv + 311. US $99.00 (hardcover).

Dorais, Louis-Jacques. 2010. The language of the Inuit: Syntax, semantics, and society in the Arctic. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. Pp. xii + 396. US $45.00 (hardcover).

Dufter, Andreas, and Daniel Jacob, eds. 2009. Focus and background in Romance languages. In the series Studies in Language Companion 112. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 362. US $149.00 (hardcover).

Edwards, John. 2009. Language and identity: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...