Semantics: A bibliography, 1965-1978 By W. Terrence Gordon (review)

254 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 57, NUMBER 1 (1981) syntax' ignores semantics altogether, and has no place in the book. A. v. Stechow's analysis of German relatives also has little semantic discussion ; he states that 'Most of the problems arising with relatives are syntactic problems. The semantics of relatives seems to be pretty clear' (226). U. EgIi, dealing with the semantics of Chrysippus' Ifanyone is in Athens, it is not the case that he is in Rhodos, translates the Stoic concept of anaphora into a logic (supposedly similar to Quine's predicate functor logic) which uses pronouns marked for anaphoric relation instead of bound variables. K. Hülser describes the Stoic concept of dialectics. C. Schwarze makes a contrastive study of German and French verbs belonging to the lexical field of repairing. C. Hauenschild, E. Huckert, and R. Maier claim to show 'how some semantic problems are handled in the machine translation system SALAT'; but the only sentence discussed is Das alpine Gebiet ist klein, which doesn't give them much scope. R. Cohen, S. Kelter, and G. WoIl describe experiments showing aphasies to be specifically impaired in the analytical ability to isolate and identify conceptually individual features of objects or concepts (362); this may underlie their linguistic impairment . C. Heeschen reports that both brain hemispheres are equally responsive to semantic relations ; but the right brain stores words in diffuse associative fields, whereas the left brain organizes them into a hierarchy of logical linguistic relations, with classificatory relations at the top. Finally, H. Kamp creates a logic for expressing temporal relations between events. There are some lemons here; but the standard of papers is generally high, as one might expect from the list of contributors. For quick publication , the book was photographically reproduced from typescript; there are many typographical errors, but no significant ones. A rather nice touch is the group photograph of conference participants. [Keith Allan, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.] Semantics: A bibliography, 1965-1978. By W. Terrence Gordon. Metuchen , NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 307. $16.50. Some 3330 separate works are listed in this useful reference volume—mainly in English, but also in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Entries are made under 23 headings : books, surveys of semantics, definitions and models of meaning, reference/pragmatics, ambiguity/indeterminacy/generic meaning, synonymy , antonymy, polysemy, homonymy, morphosemantics , associate series in the lexicon, semantic fields/componential analysis, kinship terminology, color terms, parts of speech, semantics and syntax, negation, modals, idioms, case grammar, child language, comparative semantics , and universals. Topics deliberately ignored (p. xiii) are general semantics, the history of semantics (but then why is R. H. Robins' Short history oflinguistics listed as [521]?), semiotics , stylistics, teaching and translation, discourse analysis, lexicology, and logical semantics (though B. C. van Fraassen's Formal semantics and logic is here, 200). Topics largely forgotten are meaning and intonation, presupposition , and speech acts. There is a 'lexical index' (i.e. ofwords mentioned in titles as under discussion), and also an index of authors. The latter contains some double entries; e.g., S. Thompson and Sandra A. Thompson are the same person, and so are Y. Wilks and Yorick Wilks. In a bibliography, lacunae are only too easily identified. Thus Weinreich's 'On the semantic structure of language' is omitted from the 'semantic universals' section, although it appeared in Greenberg's Universals oflanguage, listed as [229]. (The listing ofa bookdoes not preclude the listing of articles within it; cf. [190] and [2565].) Deirdre Wilson's Presupposition and non-truthconditional semantics (1975) goes unrecorded, yet Ruth Kempson's Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics is there [321]. Two papers by Quang Phuc Dong are mentioned, but not the important 'Sentences without overt grammatical subject' (La Linguistique 7, 1974). Grice's 'Logic and conversation' is, amazingly, unlisted; but then so are papers in a similar vein from Robin Lakoff, indicating that the compiler has a restricted notion ofpragmatics. I expected to find Lorian N. Baker's The lexicon: Some psycholinguistic evidence (UCLA working papers in phonetics 26, 1974) in the section headed 'Associative series in the lexicon', but was disappointed . Looking up Baker in the index, I chanced upon my own name, and unearthed a curious error. My...