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This volume is an enhanced version of the English translation from the French original edition 'Principes d'analyse syntaxique' (Québec 1973). It provides a survey of theoretical approaches to syntax including traditional grammars structuralism functionalism and formal approaches.

The book sketches a systematics of non-verbal communication. It contains the following separate chapters: movement potential and expression repertoire; clinical literature on the eye’s movement potential; eye movement viewed from the perspective of communicative action; eye communication as part of non-verbal communication; detailed analysis of deliberate avoiding the addressee’s eye focus.

The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology.

This volume presents the main tenets of Sanctius’ linguistic theory and explores the questions raised by Robin Lakoff in her 1969 review of the Grammaire générale et raisonnée (Port Royal). Part I surveys earlier developments in the study of language in particular the Graeco-Roman and Medieval traditions the Renaissance period and Judaeo-Arabic scholarship. Part II contains a synopsis in English of Sanctius’ Minerva placing special emphasis on theoretical passages and illustrative data. Part III is devoted to Sanctius’ linguistic doctrine: (1) his philosophical approach to language analysis (2) his notion of logical structure and rule (3) his classification of the parts of speech and (4) his basic semantic postulates.

This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language. Thus far many observations have been made on Latin word order particularly within the noun phrase. Yet a more systematic investigation with respect to the order of the sentence consituents was still lacking that is till the arrival of the current monograph The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A Study of Latin Word Order. This excellent research monograph on the order of the sentence consituents in a particular typologically ambivalent language will be welcomed by both Latinists and general linguists.

This volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections. The first section is devoted to the history of language contact in Cameroon (contact with Islam and contact with Europeans); the development of English in Cameroon; the teaching of English in Cameroon in various stages of its history; and on idiosyncratic aspects of this variety of English. The second section is the text part of the volume consisting of sixteen printed texts (mostly modern but also five extracts of historical significance) eleven written texts (essays on pedagogical subjects personal letters a folk history an academic paper and literary extracts) and 13 oral texts (interviews radio). These texts have been selected because of their linguistic interest and because of the information they provide on Cameroonian life and culture.

It has always been thought difficult if not impossible to define what the philosophy of Carlyle was. Ever since the publication of Sartor Resartus in 1833-1834 the view that Carlyle had a theistic conception of the universe has been defended as well as opposed. At a time therefore when Carlyle’s work as a whole is being reappraised his philosophy should first and foremost be dealt with. Carlyle’s life-philosophy is based on the inner experience of a process of ‘conversion’ which set in with an incident that occurred to him at Leith Walk Edinburgh. This study – which settles the old question of the date of the incident – demonstrates that the inner struggle the dynamics of which are described most fully in Sartor is analogous to the Jungian process of individuation. For the first time in critical literature the basic ideas of Carlyle’s philosophy are thus linked to depth psychology and shown to be analogous to the fundamental concepts of Analytical Psychology.

In recent criticism it has been asserted that the crisis recorded in Sartor is akin to the crisis of doubt said to underlie Jean Paul’s “Rede des todten Christus” (1796) which is probably the first poetic expression of nihilism in European literature and has become a classic. Apart from demonstrating that in the last fifty years at least the “Rede” has erroneously been interpreted as a dream of annihilation this book invalidates the view of Jean Paul as victim of the skepticism of his age and argues that contrary to what is usually maintained the “Rede” is not the document of a crisis but of a belief which had become antiquated and obsolete for Carlyle.

The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965) Ross (1967) Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent detailed studies are Emonds (1970) and Bresnan (1972) . These studies have increased enormously the body of factual knowledge about the complement system of English and about the phenomenon of complementation in general. As a consequence there are a number of empirical hypotheses about the structure of human languages which must now be tested against facts of different languages. Of these hypotheses perhaps the most interesting is that the grammars of all languages make use of the principle of the transformational cycle. Testing this hypothesis constitutes one of the main concerns of the present book. Furthermore these studies have also raised numerous interesting empirical issues of great importance for linguistic theory most of which are still awaiting fresh evidence from different languages in order to be settled. This study is directed towards resolving some of these issues by adducing relevent data primarily from Portuguese.

This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl’s Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar and the lexicon. Furthermore the basic mechanisms of the self-organization of organisms in their environments are discussed in so far as they lead to linguistic control and abilities.

The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak talk say and tell. More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs.