Publications Received

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED This list acknowledges the receipt ofrecent 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, and copies are sent to the publishers of the works reviewed. Africa and Übersee 80:2 (1997). Altmann, Gerry T. M. The ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 257. American journal of numismatics 9 (1997). Andrade, Carlos Valderrama. Miguel Antonio Caro y la regeneración: Apuntes y documentos para la comprensión de una época. Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1997. Pp. 823. Annals of applied probability, The 7:4 (1997). Archiv orientální 64:4 (1996), 65:3 (1997). Babel 43:2 (1997). Bache, Carl. The study of aspect, tense and action. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 348. Baltistica 31:1, 2 (1996). Bauer, Robert S., and Paul K. Benedict. Modern Cantonese phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. 559. Beeman, Mark, and Christine Chiarello (eds.) Right hemisphere language comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998. Pp. 408. Benware, W. A. Workbook in historical phonology: Sound change, internal reconstruction, comparative reconstruction. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. Pp. 100. Beimel, Neil. Context and the lexicon in the development ofRussian aspect. Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press, 1997. Pp. 483. Bernhardt, Barbara Handford, and Joseph P. Stemberger. Handbook of phonological development from the perspective of constraint-based nonlinear phonology. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 793. Blackburn, Patrick, and Maarten de Rijke. Specifying syntactic structures. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information & The European Association for Logic, Language and Information, 1997. Pp. 289. Borda, Juan Gustavo Cobo (comp.) Leyendo A Silva (La Granada Entreabierta 82). Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1997. Pp. 679. Boskovic, Zeljko. The syntax of nonfinite complementation: An economy approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. 247. Brewka, Gerhard (ed.) Principles of knowledge representation. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information & The European Association for Logic, Language and Information, 1996. Pp. 318. Brisk, María Estela. Bilingual education: From compensatory to quality schooling. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998. Pp. 206. Browne, Wayles; Ewa Dornish; Natasha Kondrashova; and Draga Zee (eds.) Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics: The Cornell meeting, 1995. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1997. Pp. 487. Brustad, Kristen; Mahamoud Al-Batal; and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Al-kitaab fii ta 7allum al-7rabiyya: A textbook for beginning Arabic: Part 2. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997. Pp. 448 (also includes a set of 5 audio cassettes). Cahiers de l'I.C.P. (Institut de la communication parlée), Les 5 (1996-1997). Cahiers de linguistique française 19 (1997). Campbell, LyIe. American Indian languages: The historical linguistics ofNative America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 512. Chelliah, Shobhana. A grammar of Meithei. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. 539. Chimombo, Moira P. F., and Robert L. Roseberry. The power of discourse: An introduction to discourse analysis. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998. Pp. 438. Cohen, George Leonard. Studies in slang: Part 5. Berlin: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 182. Cruttenden, Alan. Intonation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 201. Devlin, Keith, and Duska Rosenberg. Language at work: Analyzing communication breakdown in the work469 470LANGUAGE, VOLUME 74, NUMBER 2 (1998) place to inform systems design. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1996. Pp. 212. Diachronica 14:2 (1997). Dil dergisi: Language journal 61, 62 (1997), 63 (1998). Dokic, Jerome (ed.) European review of philosophy: Cognitive Dynamics 2. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1997. Pp. 184. Duranti, Alessandro. Linguistic anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 398. Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analyzing casual conversation. London: Cassell, 1997. Pp. 333. Études celtiques 31 (1995). Fachsprache: International journal of the LSP 19:3-4 (1997). Faingold, Eduardo D. Child language, creolization, and historical change: Spanish in contact with Portuguese. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1997. Pp. 206...