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452 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 74, NUMBER 2 (1998) where we learn, with many relevant examples, about morphological analysis; allomorphy in general; phonetics ; regular allomorphy (morphophonology) and certain implications of Latinate vocabulary; and polysemy and semantic change. Subsequent chapters deal with usage and variation (social and regional differences); Latin and Greek morphology and their impacts on English structure; the prehistory of English , including Indo-European; the impact of Latin words, phrases, and abbreviations; and the course of phonological changes from Latin through French to English, as reflected primarily in cognate forms. Each chapter contains exercises designed to review or deepen students' command of the material; two long appendices follow Ch. 12. Appendix I first provides a list of morphemes with glosses and sources, then a list ofglosses with corresponding morphemes; Appendix ? provides nine sets of morphemes with their meanings or functions, intended to encourage vocabulary building. The book closes with a list of references and an index. Works dealing with English word resources are not rare, but few provide the impressively broad coverage , current awareness, and linguistic sophistication of English vocabulary elements. As a response to the practical needs the authors address in the preface , or as a useful complement to course books on the general history and structure ofEnglish, this text is a most useful addition to the available literature. [Douglas C. Walker, University of Calgary.] Tendences récentes en linguistique française et générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone. (Linguisticae investigationes supplements, 20.) Ed. by Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot and Lucien Kupferman. Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 1995. Pp. xviii, 409. David Gaatone, aprofessor atTel AvivUniversity, is widely known for his publications on French and general linguistics, particularly in the areas ofsyntax, lexicology, phonology, and French-Hebrew contrastive analysis. In this extensive and welcome volume , a number of Gaatone's colleagues, former students, and friends demonstrate their appreciation of his contributions to the discipline. After a brief introduction by the editors and a useful list of Gaatone's publications, 32 contributions (5 in English, 27 in French) from scholars in Israel, France, Belgium, and Canada address a variety of topics spanning the linguistic spectrum. Not surprisingly , the great majority of the papers (26, in fact) deal with areas of French linguistics, primarily syntax (e.g. conjunctions and connectors, the verb and VP, the noun and NP, adverbs and adjectives, negation ) although semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistically -oriented pieces, verbal morphology, the lexicon, and the history of the discipline are also appropriately represented. The variety of theoretical approaches is impressively wide, and the names of many contributors will be familiar to readers on both sides of the Atlantic: Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Jean-Claude Chevalier, André Dugas, Maurice Gross, Alexander Grosu, Jean-Marcel Léard, Igor Mel'cuk, Jacques Labelle, Robert Marttn, Yves-Charles Mortn, Lelia Picabia, Nicholas Ruwet, Paul Wexler, Marc Wilmet, among others. Inevitably, it is impossible to give each contribution to a collection such as this the attention it deserves . Without minimizing the collective interest of the volume, those which I would like to underscore specifically include Shyldkrot's 'Adverbe ou adjectif ?' a discussion, on the basis of French tout, of the difficulties in distinguishing grammatical categories, paired with Koren's similar investigation ofthe definition of 'noun'; Blanche-Benveniste's survey of the constraints on the repetition ofgrammatical constituents , complemented by Borillo's study of lexical and syntactic reduplication; Gross's analysis of French locative complements; Morin's insightful exploration of the implications of defective verbs; Ruwet's revisitingofadomain, verbesde sentiment, for which he is already justifiably well known; and Schapira's ever-topical review ofdevelopments in the feminization of nouns in French. Others will no doubt find much more to whet their theoretical or descriptive appetites. Despite (or perhaps because of) its sophistication, much of this volume will be of interest and accessible to nonspecialists. As a result, it is, in the words of Ruwet (355), a fitting recognition and reflection of the accomplishments of David Gaatone, 'grand linguiste moderne mais qui a toujours su combiner l'étude de problèmes théoriques, l'observation scrupuleuse des faits, et une vaste érudition.' [Douglas C Walker, University of Calgary.] AIDS counselling: Institutional interaction and clinical practice. By Anssi Per...