The joy of grammar: A Festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley Ed. by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson, and Lynn A. MacLeod (review)

600 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 70, NUMBER 3 (1994) AGR0 itself cannot provide these features. Spec of AGR must be the source. The parametric availability of AGR0 or Spec of AGR as the source of Ô-features is, in essence, the difference between null-subject and non-null-subject languages. Carme Picallo explores the internal structure of the Catalan DP in 'Possessive pronouns in Catalan and the Avoid Pronoun Principle' (211-34). She demonstrates that the alternation between possessive pronouns and strong pronouns in nominal constructions parallels the distribution of pro and overt pronouns as clausal subjects. This leads her to propose that pro is not only a null pronoun, but is lexically empty. The Avoid Pronoun Principle is postulated as a grammatical principle which ensures economy of lexical representation. Most of the reasoning can be applied to other Romance noun phrases. The other papers explore a variety of topics, including the structure of the negative phrase (M. Teresa Espinal's 'Negation in Catalan', 33-63), the structure of benefactive constructions (Albert Branchadell's 'Against argument augmentation', 1-32), clitics (Anna Gavarró's ? note on Catalan clitics', 65-73), compound verbs (Mireia Llinàs i Grau's The affix-like status of certain verbal elements', 129-47), the syntactic ramifications of the imperfect tense (Manuel Pérez Saldanya's 'Imperfects are pronominals', 201-10), and the nature of conjunctions (M. Teresa Solías ? Arís' The category of the conjunction in categorial grammar', 301-41). Taken together, this collection of papers is important for linguists working on Ibero-Romance , while containing theoretical proposals relevant to a broader cross-section ofthe profession . The obvious beneficiaries are syntacticians , but the three papers on phonology are mainstream contributions. University libraries and linguistics programs which publish working papers would do well to acquire the CWPL series . [John M. Lipski, University of New Mexico.] The joy of grammar: A Festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley. Ed. by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson , and Lynn A. MacLeod. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992. Pp. xi, 400. Paper $79.00. This book, not the first to honor McCawley's linguistic intellect, gives a taste of the high esteem in which McCawley is held by teachers and researchers in our field, twenty-four of whom have contributed articles to this volume. The book reflects most of the areas of linguistic research in which McCawley has worked and published. There are articles on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and general linguistic theory—all of which McCawley has thought about deeply. Moreover , five of the twenty-two articles deal with East Asian languages in which McCawley has been interested throughout his career. Although the articles are written within diverse theoretical frameworks, their authors—colleagues and students of McCawley—have in common a deep commitment to their areas of research, a commitment that has been so characteristic of McCawley himself. The data presented in the articles are handled with honesty and rigor—again, in the McCawley tradition. The articles and their authors are Noriko Akatsuka, 'Japanese modals are conditionals'; Bill Darden, The Cairene Arabic verb without form classes'; Paul D. Deane, The transition from oral to written competence: Evidence from teaching freshman composition'; Donka F. Farkas, Two types of "world-creating" predicates'; Louanna Furbee, Tojolabal (Mayan) kinterms and the theory of markedness or a near triumph of the feminine gender' ; John Goldsmith, Tone and accent in Llogoori'; Georgia M. Green, 'Purpose infinitives and their relatives'; Eric P. Hamp, 4A semantic etymology '; Wesley M. Jacobsen, 'Are conditionals topics? The Japanese case': Kostas Kazazis, 'Gender and sex in standard modern Greek pet names'; George Lakoff, 'Philosophical speculation and cognitive science: Comments on William Lycan's logical form in natural language'; D. Terence Langendoen, 'Symmetric relations'; Alexis Manaster Ramer, The Korean precursors of generative phonology'; Salikoko S. Mufwene. 'Why grammars are not monolithic'; Younghee Na & Geoffrey J. Huck, 'On extracting from asymmetrical structures'; Almerindo E. Ojeda, The markedness of plurality'; Paul M. Postal, 'Phantom successors and the French /a/re par construction'; JerroldM. Sadock, ? paper on Yiddish for James D. McCawley'; Y. Tagashira, 'Survival of the positive: History of Japanese antonyms'; Timothy J. Vance, 'Lexical phonology and Japanese vowel devoicing'; BOOK NOTICES 601 Margaret E. Winters & Geoffrey...