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The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen Hans Henrich Hock and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. This volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the two symposia. The thirteen papers cover a broad cross-section of Germanic linguistics including problems in synchronic syntax mainly of Dutch and German; the synchronic morphology of German; synchronic morphophonology of various Germanic languages; historical and comparative Germanic phonology; language contact and early Germanic morphosyntax; and early Germanic historical and comparative syntax with extensive reference to Beowulf. Bibliographic references are consolidated in a single Master List of References; there also is an Index of Names.

This collection contains a selection of papers presented a the very First All-European Canandian Studies Conference that took place in The Hague October 24-27 1990. This unique meeting took place for the first time in the history of Canadian Studies. The focus of the papers is on the future rather than the past and it took place at a moment in time when Canada went through major crises that raised serious doubts about the country’s future. The papers of this volume explore the main issues and problems that Canada faces. The volume contains sections on demography environmental problems economic transformations Canadian identity political power structure aboriginal issues and Canada’s international relations. As a whole the book takes stock where Canada stands and where it is going.

Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature its theater its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy both in America and in Israel. As the title suggests this volume attempts to show that Yiddish is now finally on the path towards recovery. The volume consists of 17 papers grouped into five sections: Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Yiddish in America; Corpus Planning: The ability to change and grow; Status Planning: The Tshernovits Conference of 1908; Stock-taking: Where are we now? Each section is prefaced by an introduction. In addition there are also five papers written in Yiddish. The work emphasises an empirical and theoretical approach to the growing Ultra-Orthodox sector that until now has largely been ignored. Fishman's interest in Yiddish (among other Jewish languages) has previously been difficult to access and it is hoped that the appearance of this book will go some way toward alleviating this situation. The volume also includes a statistical appendix bringing together data on Yiddish for the past 100 years from the Czarist Empire the USSR Poland Israel the USA and other parts of the world. This extensive and enlightening study should be of interest to sociolinguists and all those engaged in efforts on behalf of small languages everywhere.

The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain containing a full introduction an alphabetical word-list and a comprehensive bibliography fills this gap. As a compendious directory to mapped words it provides not only a lexical compass in a cartographic jungle but serves as a guide to the major dialect surveys (Survey of English Dialects Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects Linguistic Survey of Scotland) and the numerous publications they have spawned. All atlases as well as the maps in the many individual studies and scattered articles are fully documented. Each of the over 2000 lexical entries identifies the original survey by questionnaire number and gives a detailed list of all the references to printed maps in which these words and phrases are contained. The present volume will prove an indispensable guide for all researchers in the field of dialectology and linguistic variation enabling its users to gain quick access to the various sources of maps. In this way the Index — while still a simple work of reference — may also furnish the materials for more thorough studies of map-making and its implications.

The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First what is the structure and thematic constitution of the construction? The answers to this question cover the spectrum of the options that are available in current grammatical theory. Second what aspect of the grammar differentiates between languages which have serial constructions and those which do not? The specific proposals made by the authors are discussed by R. Larson in the concluding paper. Larson opens new perspectives for research on verb serialization by posing the following question: what analogues for verb serialization can be found in the more familiar grammatical apparatus of English? It is suggested that verb serialization finds a clear parallel in the secondary predicate structures of English.

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946 which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have traditionally flowed from theory to application equally important contributions can be made in the other direction as well. Second although there is a strong tendency in the field of linguistics to see “theorists” working within formal models of syntax SLA research can contribute to linguistic theory more broadly defined to include various functional as well as formal models of syntax theories of phonology variationist theories of sociolinguists etc. These assumptions formed the basis for a conference held at Stanford University during the Linguistic Institute there in the summer of 1987. The conference was organized to update the relation between second language acquisition and linguistic theory. This book contains a selection of (mostly revised and updated) papers of this conference and two newly written papers.

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar concentrating on functional-semantic fields with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for distinguishing between linguistically structured meaning and non-linguistic cognitive content is developed in a discussion on “the Category of Aspect and its Environment” which includes an analysis of aspectual opposition according to the Prague School. Special attention is also paid to analysing polycentric fields and specifically taxis in the Russian language. The book is divided into three sections: Functional Grammar: Subject Matter and Goals — Structural Types of Functional-Semantic Fields — Categorial Situations. This book is intended for those interested in the general theory of linguistics.

This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language maintenance and revitalization still others look at ways in which bilingual education could stabilize the functions of the societal languages. All contributions support bilingualism in society and consider how bilingual education could promote that goal. A special section is devoted to US policies and politics

Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory research and pedagogy this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in Australia Europe and North America the volume offers novel critiques and theorisations from within political economy neomarxist and critical theory ethnomethodology interactive sociolinguistics poststructuralism and postmodernism. The volume is arranged in four sections; The Politics of Pedagogy; Reading in Classrooms; Reconstructing Theory; Reading the Social. This collection is provocative and innovative offering clear alternatives for conceptualising literacy for conducting literacy research and for reconstructing the discourses and practices of reading and writing in schools. The volume is addressed to a broad audience of researchers educators and students.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>