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African languages: An introduction
By Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse (2000) [SILEBR 2004-002]
Reviewed by John E. Stark
African voices: An introduction to the languages and linguistics of Africa
By Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure (eds.) (2000) [SILEBR 2003-012]
Reviewed by Karen Van Otterloo
Analyzing sociolinguistic variation
By Sali A. Tagliamonte (2002) [SILEBR 2007-008]
Reviewed by Terry Malone
Anaphora: A cross-linguistic study
By Yan Huang (2000) [SILEBR 2003-010]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
Auxiliation: An enquiry into the nature of grammaticalization
By Tania Kuteva (2001) [SILEBR 2003-016]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning
By Arnetha F. Ball and Sarah Warshauer Freedman (eds.) (2004) [SILEBR 2007-005]
Reviewed by JeDene Reeder
Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
By Lesley Mandel Morrow, Linda B. Gambrell, and Michael Pressley (eds.) (2003) [SILEBR 2005-008]
Reviewed by Chesley W. Ray
The Cambridge handbook of phonology
By Paul de Lacy (ed.) (2007) [SILEBR 2007-009]
Reviewed by Mike Cahill
Classifiers: A typology of noun classification devices
By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2000) [SILEBR 2004-005]
Reviewed by Terry Malone
Coarticulation: Theory, data and techniques
By William J. Hardcastle and Nigel Hewlett (eds.) (2000) [SILEBR 2003-025]
Reviewed by Karen Steffen Chung
Coherence in natural language: Data structures and applications
By Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson (2006) [SILEBR 2008-004]
Reviewed by David Weber
Comparative Dravidian linguistics: Current perspectives
By Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2001) [SILEBR 2004-003]
Reviewed by Xie Chaoqun
Constructions of Intersubjectivity: Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition
By Arie Verhagen (2005) [SILEBR 2007-006]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
Contact Linguistics: Bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes
By Carol Myers-Scotton (2002) [SILEBR 2006-006]
Reviewed by Alison Nicolle
Conversational style: Analyzing talk among friends
By Deborah Tannen (2005) [SILEBR 2007-001]
Reviewed by Sheri Daggett
Convict words: Language in early colonial Australia
By Amanda Laugesen (2003) [SILEBR 2006-008]
Reviewed by Peter Unseth
Defining Creole
By John H. McWhorter (2005) [SILEBR 2006-004]
Reviewed by Gerry Beimers
The design of agreement: Evidence from Chamorro
By Sandra Chung (1998) [SILEBR 2003-008]
Reviewed by Alan Vogel
Dialect change: Convergence and divergence in European languages
By Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens, and Paul Kerswill (eds.) (2005) [SILEBR 2007-003]
Reviewed by Eric C. Johnson
A Dictionary of European Anglicisms: A usage dictionary of Anglicisms in sixteen European languages
By Manfred Görlach (ed.) (2001) [SILEBR 2006-010]
Reviewed by Freddy Boswell
Different games, different rules: Why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other
By Haru Yamada (1997) [SILEBR 2003-011]
Reviewed by Ellen Errington
Dynamics of language contact: English and immigrant languages
By Michael Clyne (2003) [SILEBR 2006-007]
Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective
By Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.) (2001) [SILEBR 2004-009]
Reviewed by Les Bruce
English: Meaning and culture
By Anna Wierzbicka (2006) [SILEBR 2006-009]
Reviewed by Karl Franklin
English phonetics and phonology: A practical course
By Peter Roach (2001) [SILEBR 2005-010]
Reviewed by Leoma Gilley
English Words: History and Structure
By Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova (2001) [SILEBR 2005-011]
Reviewed by John Roberts
Epistemology of Language
By Alex Barber (ed.) (2003) [SILEBR 2005-004]
Reviewed by Jamin Pelkey
Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture
By N. J. Enfield (ed.) (2002) [SILEBR 2005-014]
Reviewed by Jamin R. Pelkey
Evaluation in text: Authorial stance and the construction of discourses
By Susan Hunston and Geoff Thompson (eds.) (2001) [SILEBR 2003-023]
Reviewed by E. Lou Hohulin
Expanding educational opportunity in linguistically diverse societies
By Nadine Dutcher (2001) [SILEBR 2004-015]
Reviewed by Joan Bomberger Yoder
Function, selection, and innateness: The emergence of language universals
By Simon Kirby (1999) [SILEBR 2004-008]
Reviewed by Oliver Stegen
Globalized e-learning cultural challenges
By Andrea Edmundson (ed.) (2006) [SILEBR 2007-011]
Reviewed by Tim Hatcher
A glossary of sociolinguistics
By Peter Trudgill (2003) [SILEBR 2005-007]
Reviewed by Elizabeth Merrill
A grammar of Sisaala-Pasaale
By Stuart McGill, Samuel Fembeti, and Mike Toupin (1999) [SILEBR 2003-014]
Reviewed by Uwe Seibert
A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2003) [SILEBR 2006-003]
Reviewed by Terry Malone
Grammatical relations: A functionalist perspective
By T. Givón (ed.) (2001) [SILEBR 2005-009]
Reviewed by Anne Garber Kompaoré
How children learn the meanings of words
By Paul Bloom (2000) [SILEBR 2004-012]
Reviewed by George Huttar
Ikalanga phonetics and phonology: A synchronic and diachronic study
By Joyce T. Mathangwane (1999) [SILEBR 2004-011]
Reviewed by William Gardner
Inflectional morphology: A theory of paradigm structure
By Gregory T. Stump (2001) [SILEBR 2003-019]
Reviewed by Michael Maxwell
International English: A guide to the varieties of Standard English
By Peter Trudgill and Jean Hannah (2002) [SILEBR 2005-001]
Reviewed by Ken Decker
An introduction to pidgins and creoles
By John Holm (2000) [SILEBR 2003-001]
Reviewed by David J. Holbrook
Just and lasting change: When communities own their futures
By Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E. Taylor (2002) [SILEBR 2007-007]
Reviewed by Chesley W. Ray
Language, education and culture
By Tariq Rahman (1999) [SILEBR 2003-007]
Reviewed by Dave Jeffery
Language acquisition: The growth of grammar
By Maria Teresa Guasti (2002) [SILEBR 2004-012]
Reviewed by George Huttar
Language and identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration
By Robert Greenberg (2004) [SILEBR 2005-002]
Reviewed by Peter Unseth
Language Contact in Amazonia
By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2002) [SILEBR 2005-003]
Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
Linguistic anthropology
By Alessandro Duranti (1997) [SILEBR 2003-024]
Reviewed by Wesley M. Collins
Mental spaces in grammar: Conditional constructions
By Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser (2005) [SILEBR 2008-003]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
Modes of discourse: The local structure of texts
By Carlota S. Smith (2003) [SILEBR 2004-013]
Reviewed by Christoph Unger
Mood and modality (2nd edition)
By F. R. Palmer (2001) [SILEBR 2004-010]
Reviewed by E. Lou Hohulin
Morphological productivity
By Laurie Bauer (2001) [SILEBR 2003-026]
Reviewed by John R. Roberts
The morphology of Dutch
By Geert Booij (2002) [SILEBR 2004-001]
Reviewed by Dirk Kievit
Negation and polarity: Syntactic and semantic perspectives
By Laurence R. Horn and Yasuhiko Kato (eds.) (2000) [SILEBR 2003-021]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
The Noun Phrase
By J. Rijkhoff (2002) [SILEBR 2005-013]
Reviewed by Robert Bugenhagen
Number
By Greville G. Corbett (2000) [SILEBR 2003-005]
Reviewed by Joost Zwarts
On biocultural diversity: Linking language, knowledge, and the environment
By Luisa Maffi (ed.) (2001) [SILEBR 2004-007]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
Optimality theory: Phonology, syntax, and acquisition
By Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.) (2000) [SILEBR 2008-002]
Reviewed by Heather Beal
The phonological structure of words: An introduction
By Colin J. Ewen and Harry van der Hulst (2001) [SILEBR 2003-020]
Reviewed by Joost Zwarts
Phonology: Analysis and theory
By Edmund Gussmann (2002) [SILEBR 2003-004]
Reviewed by Paul Arsenault
The Phonology of German
By Richard Wiese (2000) [SILEBR 2005-012]
Reviewed by Andreas Joswig
Pidgins and creoles: An introduction
By Ishtla Singh (2000) [SILEBR 2003-017]
Reviewed by David J. Holbrook
The politics of language: Conflict, identity, and cultural pluralism in comparative perspective
By Carol L. Schmid (2001) [SILEBR 2003-018]
Reviewed by Marsha Howlett
Practical guide to syntactic analysis (2nd edition)
By Georgia M. Green and Jerry L. Morgan (2001) [SILEBR 2003-006]
Reviewed by Dirk Kievit
Predicates and temporal arguments
By Theodore B. Fernald (2000) [SILEBR 2003-002]
Reviewed by Thomas Willett
Prepositions and particles in English: A discourse-functional account
By Elizabeth M. O’Dowd (1998) [SILEBR 2005-005]
Reviewed by E. Lou Hohulin
Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective
By William Croft (2001) [SILEBR 2005-006]
Reviewed by E. Lou Hohulin
Real Conditionals
By William G. Lycan (2001) [SILEBR 2008-003]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
Reduplication: Doubling in morphology
By Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll (2005) [SILEBR 2008-001]
Reviewed by Mike Cahill
A reference grammar of Spoken Tamil
By Harold F. Schiffman (1999) [SILEBR 2003-009]
Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
Representing direction in language and space
By Emile van der Zee and Jon Slack (eds.) (2003) [SILEBR 2006-002]
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
Semantics, tense, and time: An essay in the metaphysics of natural language
By Peter Ludlow (1999) [SILEBR 2003-002]
Reviewed by Thomas Willett
Style and sociolinguistic variation
By Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford (eds.) (2001) [SILEBR 2006-005]
Reviewed by Oliver Stegen
Subordination
By Sonia Cristofaro (2003) [SILEBR 2006-001]
Reviewed by Paul Kroeger
Syntactic change in Akkadian: The evolution of sentential complementation
By Guy Deutscher (2000) [SILEBR 2003-013]
Reviewed by Uwe Seibert
The syntax of adjuncts
By Thomas Ernst (2002) [SILEBR 2004-006]
Reviewed by Alan Vogel
The syntax of verb initial languages
By Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle (eds.) (2000) [SILEBR 2003-022]
Reviewed by Helga Schroeder
Theories of case
By Miriam Butt (2005) [SILEBR 2007-004]
Reviewed by Lou Hohulin
The vocabulary of World English
By Stephen Gramley (2001) [SILEBR 2005-001]
Reviewed by Ken Decker
Understanding phonology
By Carlos Gussenhoven and Haike Jacobs (2005) [SILEBR 2007-010]
Reviewed by Helen Eaton
Usage-based models of language
By Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer (eds.) (2000) [SILEBR 2004-004]
Reviewed by Douglas Inglis
Vocabulary: Description, acquisition and pedagogy
By Norbert Schmitt and Michael McCarthy (eds.) (1997) [SILEBR 2004-014]
Reviewed by Ronald Moe
World Englishes: An introduction
By Gunnel Melchers and Philip Shaw (2003) [SILEBR 2005-001]
Reviewed by Ken Decker
Lexicalization and language change
By Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (2005) [SILEBR 2007-002]
Reviewed by Jamin R. Pelkey