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Arsenault, Paul
Review of Phonology: Analysis and theory by Edmund Gussmann (2002). [SILEBR 2003-004]
Beal, Heather
Review of Optimality theory: Phonology, syntax, and acquisition by Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) (2000). [SILEBR 2008-002]
Beimers, Gerry
Review of Defining Creole by John H. McWhorter (2005). [SILEBR 2006-004]
Boswell, Freddy
Review of A Dictionary of European Anglicisms: A usage dictionary of Anglicisms in sixteen European languages by Manfred Görlach (ed.) (2001). [SILEBR 2006-010]
Bruce, Les
Review of Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective by Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.) (2001). [SILEBR 2004-009]
Bugenhagen, Robert
Review of The Noun Phrase by J. Rijkhoff (2002). [SILEBR 2005-013]
Cahill, Mike
Review of The Cambridge handbook of phonology by Paul de Lacy (ed.) (2007). [SILEBR 2007-009]
Review of Reduplication: Doubling in morphology by Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll (2005). [SILEBR 2008-001]
Chung, Karen Steffen
Review of Coarticulation: Theory, data and techniques by William J. Hardcastle and Nigel Hewlett (eds.) (2000). [SILEBR 2003-025]
Collins, Wesley M.
Review of Linguistic anthropology by Alessandro Duranti (1997). [SILEBR 2003-024]
Daggett, Sheri
Review of Conversational style: Analyzing talk among friends by Deborah Tannen (2005). [SILEBR 2007-001]
Decker, Ken
Review of The vocabulary of World English by Stephen Gramley (2001), World Englishes: An introduction by Gunnel Melchers and Philip Shaw (2003), and International English: A guide to the varieties of Standard English by Peter Trudgill and Jean Hannah (2002). [SILEBR 2005-001]
Review of English in modern times, 1700-1945 by Joan C. Beal (2004), English in the Middle Ages by Tim William Machan (2003), and The development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, descriptions, conflicts by Laura Wright (ed.) (2000). [SILEBR 2008-007]
Eaton, Helen
Review of Understanding phonology by Carlos Gussenhoven and Haike Jacobs (2005). [SILEBR 2007-010]
Errington, Ellen
Review of Different games, different rules: Why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other by Haru Yamada (1997). [SILEBR 2003-011]
Franklin, Karl
Review of English: Meaning and culture by Anna Wierzbicka (2006). [SILEBR 2006-009]
Gardner, William
Review of Ikalanga phonetics and phonology: A synchronic and diachronic study by Joyce T. Mathangwane (1999). [SILEBR 2004-011]
Gilley, Leoma
Review of English phonetics and phonology: A practical course by Peter Roach (2001). [SILEBR 2005-010]
Hohulin, E. Lou
Review of Evaluation in text: Authorial stance and the construction of discourses by Susan Hunston and Geoff Thompson (eds.) (2001). [SILEBR 2003-023]
Review of Mood and modality (2nd edition) by F. R. Palmer (2001). [SILEBR 2004-010]
Review of Prepositions and particles in English: A discourse-functional account by Elizabeth M. O’Dowd (1998). [SILEBR 2005-005]
Review of Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective by William Croft (2001). [SILEBR 2005-006]
Hohulin, Lou
Review of Theories of case by Miriam Butt (2005). [SILEBR 2007-004]
Holbrook, David J.
Review of An introduction to pidgins and creoles by John Holm (2000). [SILEBR 2003-001]
Review of Pidgins and creoles: An introduction by Ishtla Singh (2000). [SILEBR 2003-017]
Howlett, Marsha
Review of The politics of language: Conflict, identity, and cultural pluralism in comparative perspective by Carol L. Schmid (2001). [SILEBR 2003-018]
Huttar, George
Review of Language acquisition: The growth of grammar by Maria Teresa Guasti (2002) and How children learn the meanings of words by Paul Bloom (2000). [SILEBR 2004-012]
Huttar, George L.
Review of Language and ethnicity by Carmen Fought (2006). [SILEBR 2009-004]
Inglis, Douglas
Review of Usage-based models of language by Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer (eds.) (2000). [SILEBR 2004-004]
Jackson, Eric M.
Review of Argument realization by Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav (2005). [SILEBR 2008-005]
Jeffery, Dave
Review of Language, education and culture by Tariq Rahman (1999). [SILEBR 2003-007]
Johnson, Eric C.
Review of Dialect change: Convergence and divergence in European languages by Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens, and Paul Kerswill (eds.) (2005). [SILEBR 2007-003]
Joswig, Andreas
Review of The Phonology of German by Richard Wiese (2000). [SILEBR 2005-012]
Kievit, Dirk
Review of Practical guide to syntactic analysis (2nd edition) by Georgia M. Green and Jerry L. Morgan (2001). [SILEBR 2003-006]
Review of The morphology of Dutch by Geert Booij (2002). [SILEBR 2004-001]
Review of Skeptical linguistic essays by Paul M. Postal (2004). [SILEBR 2009-003]
Kompaoré, Anne Garber
Review of Grammatical relations: A functionalist perspective by T. Givón (ed.) (2001). [SILEBR 2005-009]
Kroeger, Paul
Review of Subordination by Sonia Cristofaro (2003). [SILEBR 2006-001]
Malone, Terry
Review of Classifiers: A typology of noun classification devices by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2000). [SILEBR 2004-005]
Review of A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2003). [SILEBR 2006-003]
Review of Analyzing sociolinguistic variation by Sali A. Tagliamonte (2002). [SILEBR 2007-008]
Maxwell, Michael
Review of Inflectional morphology: A theory of paradigm structure by Gregory T. Stump (2001). [SILEBR 2003-019]
McElhanon, Kenneth A.
Review of Anthropology of color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, and Don Dedrick (eds.) (2007). [SILEBR 2008-006]
Merrill, Elizabeth
Review of A glossary of sociolinguistics by Peter Trudgill (2003). [SILEBR 2005-007]
Moe, Ronald
Review of Vocabulary: Description, acquisition and pedagogy by Norbert Schmitt and Michael McCarthy (eds.) (1997). [SILEBR 2004-014]
Nicolle, Alison
Review of Contact Linguistics: Bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes by Carol Myers-Scotton (2002). [SILEBR 2006-006]
Nicolle, Steve
Review of Anaphora: A cross-linguistic study by Yan Huang (2000). [SILEBR 2003-010]
Review of Auxiliation: An enquiry into the nature of grammaticalization by Tania Kuteva (2001). [SILEBR 2003-016]
Review of Negation and polarity: Syntactic and semantic perspectives by Laurence R. Horn and Yasuhiko Kato (eds.) (2000). [SILEBR 2003-021]
Review of On biocultural diversity: Linking language, knowledge, and the environment by Luisa Maffi (ed.) (2001). [SILEBR 2004-007]
Review of Representing direction in language and space by Emile van der Zee and Jon Slack (eds.) (2003). [SILEBR 2006-002]
Review of Constructions of Intersubjectivity: Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition by Arie Verhagen (2005). [SILEBR 2007-006]
Review of Real Conditionals by William G. Lycan (2001) and Mental spaces in grammar: Conditional constructions by Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser (2005). [SILEBR 2008-003]
Pelkey, Jamin
Review of Epistemology of Language by Alex Barber (ed.) (2003). [SILEBR 2005-004]
Pelkey, Jamin R.
Review of Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture by N. J. Enfield (ed.) (2002). [SILEBR 2005-014]
Review of Lexicalization and language change by Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (2005). [SILEBR 2007-002]
Ray, Chesley W.
Review of Just and lasting change: When communities own their futures by Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E. Taylor (2002). [SILEBR 2007-007]
Reeder, JeDene
Review of Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning by Arnetha F. Ball and Sarah Warshauer Freedman (eds.) (2004). [SILEBR 2007-005]
Roberts, John
Review of English Words: History and Structure by Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova (2001). [SILEBR 2005-011]
Roberts, John R.
Review of Morphological productivity by Laurie Bauer (2001). [SILEBR 2003-026]
Schroeder, Helga
Review of The syntax of verb initial languages by Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle (eds.) (2000). [SILEBR 2003-022]
Seibert, Uwe
Review of Syntactic change in Akkadian: The evolution of sentential complementation by Guy Deutscher (2000). [SILEBR 2003-013]
Review of A grammar of Sisaala-Pasaale by Stuart McGill, Samuel Fembeti, and Mike Toupin (1999). [SILEBR 2003-014]
Stark, John E.
Review of African languages: An introduction by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse (2000). [SILEBR 2004-002]
Starwalt, Coleen Anderson
Review of The Origins of vowel systems: Studies in the evolution of language I by Bart de Boer (2001). [SILEBR 2009-006]
Stegen, Oliver
Review of Function, selection, and innateness: The emergence of language universals by Simon Kirby (1999). [SILEBR 2004-008]
Review of Style and sociolinguistic variation by Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford (eds.) (2001). [SILEBR 2006-005]
Tehan, Thomas M.
Review of Communicating science: The scientific article from the 17th century to the present by Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon, and Michael Reidy (2002). [SILEBR 2009-007]
Unger, Christoph
Review of Modes of discourse: The local structure of texts by Carlota S. Smith (2003). [SILEBR 2004-013]
Unseth, Peter
Review of Language and identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration by Robert Greenberg (2004). [SILEBR 2005-002]
Review of Convict words: Language in early colonial Australia by Amanda Laugesen (2003). [SILEBR 2006-008]
Van Otterloo, Karen
Review of African voices: An introduction to the languages and linguistics of Africa by Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure (eds.) (2000). [SILEBR 2003-012]
Vogel, Alan
Review of The design of agreement: Evidence from Chamorro by Sandra Chung (1998). [SILEBR 2003-008]
Review of The syntax of adjuncts by Thomas Ernst (2002). [SILEBR 2004-006]
Weber, David
Review of Coherence in natural language: Data structures and applications by Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson (2006). [SILEBR 2008-004]
Weber, David J.
Review of Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language by Adele E. Goldberg (2006). [SILEBR 2009-005]
Willett, Thomas
Review of Semantics, tense, and time: An essay in the metaphysics of natural language by Peter Ludlow (1999) and Predicates and temporal arguments by Theodore B. Fernald (2000). [SILEBR 2003-002]
Wise, Mary Ruth
Review of A reference grammar of Spoken Tamil by Harold F. Schiffman (1999). [SILEBR 2003-009]
Review of Language Contact in Amazonia by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2002). [SILEBR 2005-003]
Review of Dynamics of language contact: English and immigrant languages by Michael Clyne (2003). [SILEBR 2006-007]
Review of The Dravidian languages by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003). [SILEBR 2009-001]
Review of Eighteenth-Century Cholón by Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus (2005). [SILEBR 2009-002]
Xie Chaoqun
Review of Comparative Dravidian linguistics: Current perspectives by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2001). [SILEBR 2004-003]
Zwarts, Joost
Review of Number by Greville G. Corbett (2000). [SILEBR 2003-005]
Review of The phonological structure of words: An introduction by Colin J. Ewen and Harry van der Hulst (2001). [SILEBR 2003-020]