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Table of Contents

Identificational focus versus information focus

Katalin É. Kiss
pp. 245-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0211
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The mechanisms of denial

Bart Geurts
pp. 274-307
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0264
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How children's relatives solve a problem for minimalism

Dana McDaniel, Cecile McKee, Judy B. Bernstein
pp. 308-334
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0177
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Resumptive restrictive relatives: A crosslinguistic perspective

Margarita Suñer
pp. 335-364
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0194
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Reviews

Verfolgung und Auswanderung deutschprachiger Sprachforscher, 1933-1945 Band 1, Einleitung und biobibliographische Daten, A-F. By Utz Maas (review)

Ernst Pulgram
pp. 365-366
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0233
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The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology By Carson T. Schütze (review)

Benji Wald
pp. 366-370
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0248
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The new philosophy and universal languages in seventeenth-century England: Bacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins By Robert E. Stillman (review)

Joseph L. Subbiondo
pp. 370-372
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0201
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Cognitive linguistics in the redwoods: The expansion of a new paradigm in linguistics Ed. by Eugene H. Casad (review)

Margaret E. Winters
pp. 372-374
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0218
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The sounds of the world's languages By Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson (review)

Geoffrey S. Nathan
pp. 374-376
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0168
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Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese By Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor (review)

Mary S. Erbaugh
pp. 376-379
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0184
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The handbook of sociolinguistics Ed. by Florian Coulmas (review)

Sharon Ash
pp. 379-382
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0224
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The origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO texts By Traute Ewers. Ed. by Herman Wekker (review)

Ronald R. Butters
pp. 382-384
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0239
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Dramatic discourse: Dialogue as interaction in plays By Vimala Herman (review)

Agnes Weiyun He
pp. 384-386
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0254
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Dictionary of American Regional English: Volumes I-III Chief Ed., Frederic G. Cassidy, Assoc. Ed., Joan Houston Hall (review)

Ellen Johnson
pp. 386-389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0190
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Language and space Ed. by Paul Bloom, Mary A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel, and Merrill F. Garrett (review)

Ronald W. Langacker
pp. 389-392
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0207
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The French influence on Middle English morphology: A corpus-based study of derivation By Christiane Dalton-Puffer (review)

Ingo Plag
pp. 392-395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0260
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Language contact in Japan: A sociolinguistic history By Leo J. Loveday (review)

James Stanlaw
pp. 395-397
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0173
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Nineteenth-century English By Richard W. Bailey (review)

Joan Persily Levinson
pp. 398-400
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0215
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Book Notices

A theory of phrase markers and the extended base By Robert A. Chametzky (review)

Ren Zhang
p. 401
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0230
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Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995 Ed. by Marcel den Dikken and Kees Hengeveld (review)

Karen Ferret
pp. 401-402
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0245
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Units in Mandarin conversation: Prosody, discourse and grammar By Hongyin Tao (review)

Lucy Pickering Elliott
pp. 402-403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0198
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Grammaticalization of the complex sentence: A case study in Chadic By Zygmunt Frajzyngier (review)

Ferdinand de Haan
p. 403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0251
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Norsk grammatikk: Debatt i historisk lys By Frøydis Hertzberg (review)

Berit O. Brogaard-Pedersen
pp. 403-404
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0267
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Nordisk og nedertysk: Språkkontakt og språkutvikling i Norden i seinmelomalderen Ed. by Ernst Hâkon Jahr (review)

Robert McColl Millar
pp. 404-405
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0181
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Pragmatics of Chinese as native and target language Ed. by Gabriele Kasper (review)

Scott McGinnis
p. 405
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0221
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Theoretical issues in Korean linguistics Ed. by Young-Key Kim-Renaud (review)

Virginia LoCastro
pp. 405-407
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0236
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Language ideology and language change in early modern German: A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg By Rosina Lippi- Green (review)

Lee Forester
p. 407
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0204
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On extraction and extraposition in German Ed. by Uli Lutz and Jürgen Pafel (review)

Martin Kappus
pp. 407-408
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0170
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Talking Trojan: Speech and community in the Iliad By Hilary Mackie (review)

Joshua T. Katz
pp. 408-409
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0187
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One speaker, two languages Ed. by Lesley Milroy and Pieter Muysken (review)

Catherine Rudin
pp. 409-410
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0227
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Aspects of Danish prosody Ed. by J0RGEN Rischel and Hans Basboll (review)

Pilar Prieto i Vives
pp. 410-411
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0242
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Introduction to typology: The unity and diversity of language By Lindsay J. Whaley (review)

Mayrene Bentley
p. 411
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0257
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Knowledge and skills in translator behaviour By Wolfram Wilss (review)

Robert Early
pp. 411-412
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0193
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Dictionary of Caribbean English usage Ed. by Richard Allsopp (review)

Michael Aceto
pp. 412-413
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0210
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Aspekte der Sprachbeschreibung: Akten des 29 linguistischen Kolloquiums, Aarhus 1994 Ed. by Per Bærentzen (review)

Fritz Manango Serzisko
p. 413
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0263
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Final devoicing in the phonology of German By Wiebke Brockhaus (review)

Marc Pierce
pp. 413-414
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0176
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Using language By Herbert H. Clark (review)

Brigitte Nerlich, David D. Clarke
pp. 414-416
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0232
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Women talk By Jennifer Coates (review)

Timothy C. Frazer
p. 416
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0247
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Experimental syntax: Applying objective methods to sentence judgments By Wayne Cowart (review)

Frank Keller
pp. 416-417
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0200
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Linguistic variation and language attitudes in Mannheim-Neckarau By Winifred V. Davies (review)

Marc Pierce
pp. 417-418
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0217
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Verb i passiv fulgt av perfektum parcitisipp: Bruk og historie By Jan Engh (review)

Berit O. Brogaard-Pedersen
p. 418
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0253
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Opposizioni direzionali e prefissazione: Analisi morfologica e semantica dei verbi egressivi prefissati con des- e es- in catalano By Maria Grossmann (review)

Llorenç Comajoan
pp. 418-419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0167
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Beiträge zur Methodengeschichte der neueren Philologien: Zum 125 jährigen Bestehen des Max Niemeyer Verlages Ed. by Robert Harsch- Niemeyer, and: Max Niemeyer Verlag: Gesamtverzeichnis 1950-1995 (review)

John M. Jeep
pp. 419-420
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0183
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Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives Ed. by Susan C. Herring (review)

Heather Bortfeld
pp. 420-421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0206
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Information structure (review)

Paul Georg Meyer
p. 421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0223
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Sociolinguistics 2nd edn. By R. A. Hudson (review)

Nancy C. Dorian
pp. 421-422
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0238
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Phonological segments: Their structure and behaviour By Helga Humbert (review)

Alain Thériault
pp. 422-423
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0172
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Nordnorske dialekter Ed. by Ernst Hákon Jahr and Olav Skare (review)

Berit O. Brogaard-Pedersen
p. 423
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0189
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Learnability and the lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research By Alan Juffs (review)

Barbara Hancin-Bhatt
pp. 423-424
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0229
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Sociolinguistique urbaine: La vie des langues à Ziguinchor (Sénégal) By Caroline Juillard (review)

Fiona Mc Laughlin
pp. 424-425
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0244
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Elements of culture-contrastive linguistics By Hannes Kniffka (review)

Paul Georg Meyer
p. 425
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0259
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Moral politics: What conservatives know that liberals don't By George Lakoff (review)

Mark Higgins
pp. 425-426
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0180
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Spoken English on computer: Transcription, mark-up and application Ed. by Geoffrey Leech, Greg Myers, and Jenny Thomas (review)

Vicky Hopwood
p. 426
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0197
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Tungusic vowel harmony By Bing Li (review)

Steven Berbeco
pp. 426-427
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0214
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Batad Ifugao dictionary with ethnographic notes Comp, by Leonard E. Newell and Francis Bon'og Poligon (review)

Philip W. Davis
pp. 427-428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0250
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Themes in Greek linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993 Ed. by Irene Philippaki- Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis, and Maria Sifianou (review)

Mark Janse
p. 428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0266
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The linguistic shaping of accounting By Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui (review)

Nicholas Ostler
pp. 428-429
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0203
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Approaches to second language acquisition Ed. by Kari Sajavaara and Courtney Fairweather (review)

Stephanie Gottwald, Margaret Thomas
pp. 429-430
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0220
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Licensing empty nouns in French By Petra Sleeman (review)

Anne Lobeck
pp. 430-431
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0235
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Wörterbuch der Valenz etymologisch verwandter Wörter By Karl-Ernst Sommerfeldt and Herbert Schreiber (review)

Verena Jung
p. 431
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0169
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Die Orthographischen Regelbücher des Deutschen By Britta Stanze (review)

Désirée Baron
pp. 431-432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0186
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The dialogic emergence of culture Ed. by Dennis Tedlock and Bruce Mannheim (review)

John Attinasi, Paul Friedrich, Nicholas Ostler
pp. 432-433
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0226
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Origins of language Ed. by Jürgen Trabant (review)

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
p. 433
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0241
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Language and society in early modern England: Selected essays, 1981-1994 By Vivian Salmon (review)

Richard W. Bailey
pp. 433-434
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0256
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Second language acquisition and linguistic variation Ed. by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston (review)

Susan Meredith Burt
pp. 434-435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0192
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. . . and the Word was God: Missionary linguistics and missionary grammar Ed. by Even Hovdhaugen (review)

Peter T. Daniels
pp. 435-436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0209
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The design of language: An introduction to descriptive linguistics By Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Jeff Siegel, and Julie Piau (review)

Mark J. Elson
p. 436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0246
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Categories and case: The sentence structure of Korean By William O' Grady (review)

Donna B. Gerdts
pp. 436-437
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0262
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The Kensington rune-stone: Authentic and important By Robert A. Hall, Jr (review)

Stephen O Glosecki
pp. 437-438
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0175
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Vocabulario popoluca de Sayula: Veracruz, México By Lawrence E. Clark (review)

Dennis Holt
pp. 438-440
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0216
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Language loss and the crisis of cognition: Between socio- and psycholinguistics By K. Dallas Kenny (review)

John M. Lipski
pp. 440-441
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0231
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Athabaskan language studies: Essays in honor of Robert W. Young Ed. by Eloise Jelinek, Sally Midgette, Keren Rice, and Leslie Saxon (review)

John M. Lipski
pp. 441-442
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0166
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Serial verbs in Saramaccan: Predication and creole genesis By Tonjes Veenstra (review)

John M Lipski
pp. 442-443
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0182
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The syntax and semantics of the verb in Ancient Greek: An introduction 2nd edn. By Albert Rijksbaron (review)

Stephen Matthews
pp. 443-444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0199
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Conditions and conditionals: An investigation of Ancient Greek By Gerry Wakker (review)

Stephen Matthews
p. 444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0237
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Opening dialogue: Understanding the dynamics of language and learning in the English classroom By Martin Nystrand with Adam Gamoran, Robert Kachur, and Catherine Prendergast (review)

Lisa H. MacNeilley
pp. 444-445
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0252
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A dictionary of South African English on historical principles Ed. by Penny Silva, Wendy Dore, Dorothea Mantzel, Colin Mueller, and Madeleine Wright (review)

M. Lynne Murphy
pp. 445-446
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0205
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Pragmatic development By Anat Ninio and Catherine Snow (review)

Michael R. Perkins
p. 446
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0222
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The Arabic contributions to the English language: An historical dictionary By Garland Cannon in collaboration with Alan S. Kaye (review)

Miriam R. L. Petruck
pp. 446-447
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0171
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Lexiques-grammaires comparés en français: Actes du colloque international de Montréal (3-5 juin 1992) Ed. by Jacques Labelle and Christian Leclère (review)

Alain Polguère
p. 448
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0188
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Linguistic criticism 2nd edn. By Roger Fowler (review)

Zdenek Salzmann
pp. 448-449
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0258
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Ceský jazykový atlas. [The Czech linguistic atlas.] By Jan Balhar, Pavel Jancák and others (review)

Zdenek Salzmann
p. 449
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0261
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The study of language 2nd edn. By George Yule (review)

Zdenek Salzmann
pp. 449-450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0174
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Toward a theory of cultural linguistics By Gary B. Palmer (review)

Zdenek Salzmann
p. 450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0191
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Perspectives in phonology Ed. by Jennifer Cole and Charles Kisseberth (review)

Douglas C. Walker
pp. 450-451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0208
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English vocabulary elements By Keith Denning and William R. Leben (review)

Douglas C. Walker
pp. 451-452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0225
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Tendences récentes en linguistique française et générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone Ed. by Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot and Lucien Kupferman (review)

Douglas C. Walker
p. 452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0240
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AIDS counselling: Institutional interaction and clinical practice By Anssi Peräkylä (review)

Ellen L. Barton
pp. 452-454
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0255
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Western lore and language: A dictionary for enthusiasts of the American West By Thomas L. Clark (review)

Edwin Battistella
p. 454
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0178
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English language scholarship: A survey and bibliography from the beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century By Helmut Gneuss (review)

Edwin Battistella
pp. 454-455
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0195
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Communication development and disorders in African American children: Research, assessment and intervention Ed. by Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock, and Joyce L. Harris (review)

Edwin Battistella
pp. 455-456
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0212
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Male/female language: With a comprehensive bibliography 2nd edn. By Mary Ritchie Key (review)

Edwin Battistella
pp. 456-457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0243
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Hoi toide on the outer banks: The story of the Ocracoke Brogue By Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schtlling-Estes (review)

Edwin Battistella
p. 457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0213
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Lexical change and variation in the southeastern United States, 1930-1990 By Ellen Johnson (review)

Timothy C. Frazer
p. 458
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0228
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The story of writing By Andrew Robinson (review)

Kirsten Fudeman
pp. 458-459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0265
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The role of argument structure in grammar: Evidence from Romance By Alex Alsina (review)

Lutz Gunkel
pp. 459-460
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0179
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Explaining culture: A naturalistic approach By Dan Sperber (review)

Daniel Nettle
p. 460
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0196
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Ebenen der Textstruktur: Sprachliche und kommunikative Prinzipien Ed. by Wolfgang Motsch (review)

Ingrid Piller
pp. 460-461
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0234
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Twentieth-century fiction: From text to context Ed. by Peter Verdonk and Jean Jacques Weber (review)

Teri M. Shaw
pp. 461-462
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0249
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Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic introduction By Antonio Loprjeno (review)

Richard Tuttle
pp. 462-463
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0219
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The Editor's Department

pp. 464-468
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0185
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Publications Received

pp. 469-472
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1998.0202
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