Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique: Volume 39 - Issue 2

Syntax: Autonomous or Meaning Motivated?
Walter H. Hirtle
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27 June 2016, pp. 95-111
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… on ne peut rien savoir de scientifiquement valable concernant les actes d’expression si l’on n’a fait préalablement l’étude des actes de représentation dont ils émanent. (Gustave Guillaume 1954:28)
Perhaps the most remarkable trait of human language is the way it adapts spontaneously to the particular experience the speaker wants to express. Thanks to our mother tongue, the linguistic means are available to render more or less faithfully whatever we intend to communicate regardless of the particular nature or quality of the message. This is remarkable first of all because, in itself, raw experience is strictly private and incommunicable, a fact Northrop Frye (1971:124) depicts quite vividly in the following passage:
… it is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Measuring the Interface
Michael Dobrovolsky
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27 June 2016, pp. 113-140
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Donald G. Frantz. Blackfoot Grammar. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1991. Pp. x + 159. $45.00 (hardcover).
Eleanor M. Blain
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27 June 2016, pp. 141-144
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Linda R. Waugh, and Stephen Rudy, eds. New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation. Proceedings of the Second International Roman Jakobson Conference, New York University, Nov. 5–8, 1985. In the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 49. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1991. Pp. x + 544. US$70.00 (hardcover), $34.95 (softcover).
Kathleen Connors
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27 June 2016, pp. 145-149
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Johanna Nichols. Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 1992. Pp. xvi + 358. US$39.95 (hardcover).
John Hewson
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27 June 2016, pp. 149-154
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Jacques Maurais, éditeur. Les langues autochtones du Québec. Conseil de la langue française. Québec: Les Publications du Québec. 1992. Pp. xviv + 456. $39.95 (non-relié).
Marie-Odile Junker
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27 June 2016, pp. 155-156
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Noriko Fujii. Historical Discourse Analysis: Grammatical Subject in Japanese. In the series Discourse Perspectives on Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1991. Pp. xiv + 266. DM 148,– (hardcover).
Michiko Kawashima
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27 June 2016, pp. 157-159
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Allan Bell. The Language of News Media. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1991. Pp. xvi + 278. US$52.95 (hardcover), 18.95 (softcover).
Alan S. Kaye
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27 June 2016, pp. 159-161
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Ofelia García and Ricardo Otheguy, eds. English Across Cultures: Cultures Across English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1989. Pp. xxii + 492. DM 178,– (hardcover).
Alan S. Kaye
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27 June 2016, pp. 161-162
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Klaus Schubert, ed. Interlinguistics: Aspects of the Science of Planned Languages. In the series Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 42. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1989. Pp. vi + 348. DM 148,– (hardcover).
Alan S. Kaye
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27 June 2016, pp. 162-164
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Christopher J. Hall. Morphology and Mind. A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics. London: Routledge. 1992. Pp. xx + 224. US$69.50 (hardcover).
Jurgen Klausenburger
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27 June 2016, pp. 165-168
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Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and Marlene Dolitsky, eds. Language Bases … Discourse Bases. Some Aspects of Contemporary French-Language Psycholinguistics Research. In the series Pragmatics and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1991. Pp. vi + 342. Hfl. 100,–; US$53.00 (hardcover).
Marie Labelle
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27 June 2016, pp. 168-169
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Jean-Émile Gombert. Metalinguistic Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1992. Pp. viii + 238 (softcover).
P.G. Patel
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27 June 2016, pp. 170-171
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Michel Bréal. The Beginnings of Semantics: Essays, Lectures and Reviews. Edited and Translated by George Wolf. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991. Pp. 332. US$39.50 (hardcover).
Bert Peeters
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27 June 2016, pp. 172-176
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Jadranka Gvozdanović, ed. Indo-European Numerals. In the series Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1992. Pp. x + 944. DM 468,– (hardcover).
Marc Picard
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27 June 2016, pp. 177-178
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Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin, eds. Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. In the series Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. Pp. viii + 364. US$75.00 (hardcover), 27.95 (paperback).
Gary D. Prideaux
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27 June 2016, pp. 178-181
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Douglas R. Parks. Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians. Vol. 1: Stories of Alfred Morsette: Interlinear Linguistic Texts; Vol. 2: Stories of Other Narrators: Interlinear Linguistic Texts. Vol. 3: Stories of Alfred Morsette: English Translations; Vol. 4: Stories of Other Narrators: English Translations. In the series Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1991. Vol. 1: pp. xxxiv + 1–684; Vol. 2: xiv + 685–1344; Vol. 3: pp. xxvi + 1–468; Vol. 4: pp. xvi + 469–902. Vols. 1, 2: US$70.00 per volume, $125.00 for Vols. 1-2; $75.00 for Vols. 3-4 (hardcover).
Paul Proulx
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27 June 2016, pp. 181-182
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Elizabeth Tonkin. Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. Pp. xiv + 172 (hardcover).
Paul Proulx
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27 June 2016, pp. 182-183
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James A. McGilvray. Tense, Reference, and Worldmaking. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 376. $44.95.
Matsuo Soga
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27 June 2016, pp. 183-186
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27 June 2016, pp. 187-189
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Donald G. Frantz. Blackfoot Grammar. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1991. Pp. x + 159. $45.00 (hardcover).

Johanna Nichols. Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 1992. Pp. xvi + 358. US$39.95 (hardcover).

Jacques Maurais, éditeur. Les langues autochtones du Québec. Conseil de la langue française. Québec: Les Publications du Québec. 1992. Pp. xviv + 456. $39.95 (non-relié).

Noriko Fujii. Historical Discourse Analysis: Grammatical Subject in Japanese. In the series Discourse Perspectives on Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1991. Pp. xiv + 266. DM 148,– (hardcover).

Allan Bell. The Language of News Media. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1991. Pp. xvi + 278. US$52.95 (hardcover), 18.95 (softcover).

Ofelia García and Ricardo Otheguy, eds. English Across Cultures: Cultures Across English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1989. Pp. xxii + 492. DM 178,– (hardcover).

Klaus Schubert, ed. Interlinguistics: Aspects of the Science of Planned Languages. In the series Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 42. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1989. Pp. vi + 348. DM 148,– (hardcover).

Christopher J. Hall. Morphology and Mind. A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics. London: Routledge. 1992. Pp. xx + 224. US$69.50 (hardcover).

Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and Marlene Dolitsky, eds. Language Bases … Discourse Bases. Some Aspects of Contemporary French-Language Psycholinguistics Research. In the series Pragmatics and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1991. Pp. vi + 342. Hfl. 100,–; US$53.00 (hardcover).

Jean-Émile Gombert. Metalinguistic Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1992. Pp. viii + 238 (softcover).

Michel Bréal. The Beginnings of Semantics: Essays, Lectures and Reviews. Edited and Translated by George Wolf. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991. Pp. 332. US$39.50 (hardcover).

Jadranka Gvozdanović, ed. Indo-European Numerals. In the series Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1992. Pp. x + 944. DM 468,– (hardcover).

Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin, eds. Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. In the series Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. Pp. viii + 364. US$75.00 (hardcover), 27.95 (paperback).

Elizabeth Tonkin. Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. Pp. xiv + 172 (hardcover).

James A. McGilvray. Tense, Reference, and Worldmaking. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 376. $44.95.

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