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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED This listing acknowledges the receipt of 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, and copies are sent to the publishers of the works reviewed. Aarts, F. G. A. M., et al. (eds.) The best of DQR. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984. Pp. 332. [Distrib. in the US by Humanities Press; $32.25.] Aarts, Jan, and Willem Meijs (eds.) Corpus linguistics: Recent developments in the use ofcomputer corpora in English language research. (Costerus, n.s., 45.) Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984. Pp. 229. [Distrib. in the US by Humanities Press; $23.00.] Akmajian, Adrian; Richard A. Demers; and Robert M. Harnish. Linguistics: An introduction to language and communication. 2nd edn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 547. Cloth $30.00, paper $16.95. Alekseev, P. M. Statistiche Lexikographie: Zur Typologie, Erstellung und Anwendung von Frequenzw örterbüchern. (Quantitative linguistics, 22.) Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1984. Pp. 157. DM 24.80. [Transi, of a work published in Leningrad, 1975.] Algonquian and Iroquoian linguistics 8:4 (1983), 9:1 (1984). Alinei, Mario, et al. (eds.) Atlas linguarum Europae (ALE), Volume I: Commentaires, premier fascicule; Cartes, premier fascicule. Assen: van Gorcum, 1983. Pp. xcvii, 177; 20 maps./ 175.00. Amsenga, B. J., et al. (eds.) Miscellanea Slavica to honour the memory of Jan M. Meijer. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1983. Pp. viii, 542. [Distrib. in the US by Humanities Press; $69.00.] Andersen, Paul Kent. Word order typology and comparative constructions. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, IV: Current issues in linguistic theory, 25.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1983. Pp. xvii, 245. Anderson, E. Richard, and Hilario Concepción Roque. Diccionario cuicateco: Espaftol-cuicateco, cuicateco-espaftol. (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas 'Mariano Silva y Aceves', 26.) México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1983. Pp. xviii, 802. Archiv orientální 51:4 (1983). ASAIL notes 1:1-2 (Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 1984). Australian journal of linguistics 3:2 (1983). Bäcklund, Ingegerd. Conjunction-headed abbreviated clauses in English. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis , Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia, 50.) Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1984. Pp. 197. Baldi, Philip (ed.) Papers from the XIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, IV: Current issues in linguistic theory, 26.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1984. Pp. xii, 611. [Proceedings ofconference at Pennsylvania State University, 1982.] Balis, A., et al. (eds.) Art in culture. (Communication and cognition, 17:1.) Ghent: Communication & Cognition, 1984. Pp. 130. Baugh, John, and Joel Sherzer (eds.) Language in use: Readings in sociolinguistics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Pp. 316. Bauman, Richard. Let your words be few: Symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenthcentury Quakers. (Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture, 8.) Cambridge: University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 168. Cloth $32.50, paper $9.95. Bender, M. Lionel (ed.) Nilo-Saharan language studies. (Committee on Northeast African Studies, Monograph 13.) East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1983. Pp. xviii, 374. $13.95. Beylsmit, J. J. (ed.) Linguistic bibliography for the year 1980, and supplement for previous years. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1983. Pp. 1, 782. /325.00. 1008 PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED1009 Beylsmit, J. J. (ed.) Linguistic bibliography for the year 1981, and supplement for previous years. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1984. Pp. xlix, 861. Bibliographia Urálica 1981 (Tallinn, 1983). Blackburn, Simon. Spreading the word: Groundings in the philosophy of language. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 368. $32.00. Borkin, Ann. Problems in form and function. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1984. Pp. ix, 153. $24.50. Bornstein, Diane D. An introduction to transformational grammar. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984. Pp. ix, 260. $10.75. [Reprint of 1977 publication.] Bosquet, Alain. Instead of music: Poems. Selected and translated by William Frawley. A bilingual edition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii, 49. Brixhe, Claude. Essai sur le grec anatolien au début de...

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