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REVIEWS389 (Potential donors may write to Hall at 6125 Helen White Hall, 600 N. Park St., Madison WI 53706.) Volume IV will contain P-S; Volumes V and VI will complete the text and add a supplement, data summary, bibliography, further maps, and a cumulative index. DARE has become both a model and a source for lexicographers, who hold it in great esteem. Eleven other dictionaries so far have used either published or unpublished DARE materials. Its influence is ubiquitous in the recent issue of Dictionaries devoted to dialect labels. Standards go beyond expectations. For example, evidence taken from other dictionaries was verified in the original source, a practice that has rectified errors that earlier passed from dictionary to dictionary and that demonstrates the approach the staff has taken to the evaluation and use of materials of inconsistent reliability. DARE is an exemplary work of scholarship that presents a challenge to linguistics; work in this tradition deserves a more central place therein. As a linguist whose primary focus is outside the more systematic areas of phonology and syntax, I am convinced it is time for us to conceive of a new, poststructuralist linguistics that can incorporate both meaning and variation. We will never properly account for the contents of such a dictionary as DARE without it. REFERENCES Algeo, John. 1993. DARE in the classroom. Language variation in North American English: Research and teaching, ed. by A. Wayne Glowka and Donald M. Lance, 140-43. New York: Modern Language Association. Carver, Craig. 1988-94. Word histories. The Atlantic Monthly. Cassidy, Frederic G. 1993. Area lexicon: The making of DARE. American dialect research, ed. by Dennis R. Preston, 93-106. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ------. 1997. DARE: Some etymological puzzles. Language variety in the South revisited, ed. by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally, and Robin Sabino, 277-81. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Frazer, Timothy C. 1983. Sound change and social structure in a rural community. Language in Society 12.313-28. Horowitz, Rick. 1997. Without more money and a lot more time . . . Chicago Tribune, January 10, WWW edition. Johnson, Ellen. 1995. Kinship terms in Southern American English: From ma and pa to mom and dad. Paper presented at the fall meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. ------. 1996a. In the family way: Euphemism and dysphemism surrounding childbirth and kinship. Paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. ------. 1996b. Lexical change and variation in the southeastern United States, 1930-1990. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Kretzschmar, William A., Jr.; Virginia G. McDavid; Theodore K. Lerud; and Ellen Johnson (eds.) 1994. Handbook of the linguistic atlas of the middle and south Atlantic states. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Labov, William. 1994. Principles of linguistic change. Volume I: Internal factors. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Lighter, Jonathan E. 1994—. Historical dictionary of American slang. New York: Random House. Metcalf, Allan (comp.) 1993. An index by region, usage, and etymology to the Dictionary ofAmerican Regional English, volumes I and II. Publication of the American Dialect Society 77. Rickford, John R.; Thomas A. Wasow; Norma Mendoza-Denton; and Juli Espinoza. 1995. Syntactic variation and change in progress: Loss of the verbal coda in topic-restricting asfar as constructions. Language 71.102-31. Department of English Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101 Language and space. Ed. by Paul Bloom, Mary A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel, and Merrill F. Garrett. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press/Bradford, 1996. Pp. x, 597. $50.00. Reviewed by Ronald W. Langacker, University of California, San Diego This substantial and significant volume summarizes current thought and research on spatial expressions and their cognitive basis. A considerable variety of disciplines and methodologies 390LANGUAGE, VOLUME 74, NUMBER 2 (1998) are represented—descriptive and theoretical, psychological, anthropological, crosslinguistic, acquisitional , computational, and neurological. Despite some inevitable gaps and biases, the book is reasonably described as comprehensive, sensibly arranged, and open-minded. It should prove to be a highly useful and widely used resource. With 577 large pages of text divided into just fifteen chapters, the authors can pursue their chosen topics in consequential depth and detail. In 'The architecture of the linguistic-spatial interface' (1-30), Ray Jackendoff explores the relation between an algebraic conceptual structure and a geometric (or quasitopological...