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  • Books and Journals Received
Bailey, Richard W. 2012. Speaking American: A history of English in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. 207 pp. $27.95 (cloth).
Bolles, Edmund Blair. 2011. Babel’s dawn: A natural history of the origins of speech. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press. 258 pp. $25.00 (paper).
Borsley, Robert D., and Kersti Börjars, eds. 2011. Non-transformational syntax: Formal and explicit models of grammar. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 454 pp. $149.95 (cloth).
Clark, Alexander, and Shalom Lappin. 2011. Linguistic nativism and the poverty of the stimulus. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 248 pp. $99.95 (cloth).
Clements, G. Nick, and Rachid Ridouane, eds. 2011. Where do phonological features come from? Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 347 pp. $158.00 (cloth).
Cognition. 119.1 (April 2011), 119.2 (May 2011), 119.3 (June 2011), 120.1 (July 2011), 120.2 (August 2011), 120.3 (September 2011), 121.1 (October 2011), 121.2 (November 2011), 121.3 (December 2011), 122.1 (January 2012), 122.2 (February 2012), 122.3 (March 2012), 123.1 (April 2012). Gerry T. M. Altmann, ed. The Netherlands: Elsevier.
Durkin, Philip. 2011. The Oxford guide to etymology. New York: Oxford University Press. 360 pp. $35.00 (paper).
Elbourne, Paul. 2011. A slim guide to semantics. New York: Oxford University Press. 192 pp. $24.95 (paper).
Gelderen, Elly van. 2011. The linguistic cycle: Language change and the language faculty. New York: Oxford University Press. 464 pp. $49.95 (paper).
Golla, Victor. 2011. California Indian languages. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 380 pp. $90.00 (cloth).
Hodges, Adam. 2011. The “War on Terror” narrative: Discourse and intertextuality in the construction and contestation of sociopolitical reality. New York: Oxford University Press. 192 pp. $39.95 (paper).
Jackendoff, Ray. 2012. A user’s guide to thought and meaning. New York: Oxford University Press. 274 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
Janson, Tore. 2011. The history of languages: An introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. 320 pp. $35.00 (paper).
Kratzer, Angelika. 2012. Modals and conditionals. New York: Oxford University Press. 203 pp. $45.00 (paper).
Language. 87.1 (March 2011), 87.2 (June 2011), 87.3 (September 2011), 87.4 (December 2011). Brian D. Joseph, ed. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Linguistic Sciences: Yuyan Kexue (LS is in Chinese with cover, table of contents, and masthead in English). 9.5 (September 2010), 9.6 (November 2010), 10.1 (January 2011), 10.2 (March 2011), 10.3 (May 2011), 10.4 (July 2011), 10.5 (September 2011), 10.6 (November 2011), 11.1 (January 2012). Yang Yiming, ed. Beijing: Science Press.
McClure, William, and Marcel den Dikken, eds. 2011–12. Japanese/Korean linguistics, vol. 18. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 443 pp. $37.50 (paper). [End Page 707]
Otheguy, Ricardo, and Ana Celia Zentella. 2012. Spanish in New York: Language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity. New York: Oxford University Press. 320 pp. $35.00 (paper).
Oostendorp, Marc van, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice, eds. 2011. The Blackwell companion to phonology. 5 vols. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 755 pp. $995.00 (cloth).
Opción. (Spanish) 26.62 (August 2010). Matilde Flores Urbaez, ed. Maracaibo, Venezuela: La Universidad del Zulia, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Departamento de Ciencias Humanas.
Paulsen, Geda. 2011. Causation and dominance: A study of Finnish causative verbs expressing social dominance. Biskopsgatan, Finland: Abo Akademi University Press. 379 pp. (paper).
Shuy, Roger W. 2011. The language of perjury cases. New York: Oxford University Press. 232 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
Sobin, Nicholas. 2011. Syntactic analysis: The basics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 177 pp. $29.95 (paper).
Sohn, Ho-Min, Haruko Minegishi Cook, William O’Grady, Leon A. Serafim, and Sang Yee Choen, eds. 2012. Japanese/Korean linguistics, vol. 19. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 547 pp. $38.50 (paper).
Sophia Linguistica. 2010. Vol. 58. Sophia Linguistic Institute for International Communication, The Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Sophia University. Tokyo, Japan.
Sparks, W. H. 2010. Language and conscious experience: The nature of consciousness and development of language. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse. 231 pp. $18.95 (paper).
Storch, Anne. 2011. Secret manipulations: Language and content in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. 232 pp. $45.00 (paper...

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