SIL Electronic Book Reviews
Titles Index
- 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
- Anthropology of color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
- By Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, and Don Dedrick (eds.) (2007) [SILEBR 2008-006]
- Reviewed by Kenneth A. McElhanon
- Argument realization
- By Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav (2005) [SILEBR 2008-005]
- Reviewed by Eric M. Jackson
- 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
- Bilingual education in the 21st century: A global perspective
- By Ofelia García and Hugo Baetens Beardsmore (2008) [SILEBR 2010-007]
- Reviewed by James Arritt
- Cambridge handbook of endangered languages
- By Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank (eds.) (2011) [SILEBR 2011-008]
- Reviewed by Mary Pearce
- The Cambridge handbook of phonology
- By Paul de Lacy (ed.) (2007) [SILEBR 2007-009]
- Reviewed by Mike Cahill
- Child language: Acquisition and growth
- By Barbara C. Lust (2006) [SILEBR 2009-008]
- Reviewed by Paul Thomas
- Chinese Englishes: A sociolinguistic history
- By Kingsley Bolton (2006) [SILEBR 2011-010]
- Reviewed by Eldwin Truong
- Christian and critical English language educators in dialogue: Pedagogical and ethical dilemmas
- By Mary Shepard Wong and Suresh Canagarajah (eds.) (2009) [SILEBR 2011-005]
- Reviewed by Carol Orwig
- 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
- Cognitive grammar
- By John R. Taylor (2002) [SILEBR 2010-004]
- Reviewed by Thomas M. Tehan
- Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction
- By David Lee (2001) [SILEBR 2009-009]
- Reviewed by Thomas M. Tehan
- Coherence in natural language: Data structures and applications
- By Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson (2006) [SILEBR 2008-004]
- Reviewed by David Weber
- 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]
- Reviewed by Thomas M. Tehan
- Communication in medical care: Interaction between primary care physicians and patients
- By John Heritage and Douglas W. Maynard (eds.) (2006) [SILEBR 2012-005]
- Reviewed by Richard L. Boutwell
- Comparative Dravidian linguistics: Current perspectives
- By Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2001) [SILEBR 2004-003]
- Reviewed by Xie Chaoqun
- Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language
- By Adele E. Goldberg (2006) [SILEBR 2009-005]
- Reviewed by David J. Weber
- 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
- Default semantics: Foundations of a compositional theory of acts of communication
- By Kasia M. Jaszczolt (2005) [SILEBR 2010-015]
- Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
- Defining Creole
- By John H. McWhorter (2005) [SILEBR 2006-004]
- Reviewed by Gerry Beimers
- Derivations in Minimalism
- By Epstein, Samuel David and T. Daniel Seely (2006) [SILEBR 2009-014]
- Reviewed by Donald A. Burquest
- The design of agreement: Evidence from Chamorro
- By Sandra Chung (1998) [SILEBR 2003-008]
- Reviewed by Alan Vogel
- Developing adult literacy: Approaches to planning, implementing and delivering literacy initiatives
- By Juliet McCaffery, Juliet Merrifield, and Juliet Millican (2007) [SILEBR 2010-013]
- Reviewed by Ian Cheffy
- The development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, descriptions, conflicts
- By Laura Wright (ed.) (2000) [SILEBR 2008-007]
- Reviewed by Ken Decker
- 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
- The Dravidian languages
- By Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) [SILEBR 2009-001]
- Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
- Dynamics of language contact: English and immigrant languages
- By Michael Clyne (2003) [SILEBR 2006-007]
- Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
- Eighteenth-Century Cholón
- By Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus (2005) [SILEBR 2009-002]
- Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
- Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective
- By Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.) (2001) [SILEBR 2004-009]
- Reviewed by Les Bruce
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
- By Nicholas Ostler (2005) [SILEBR 2009-016]
- Reviewed by Brian O’Herin
- Endoclitics and the origins of Udi morphosyntax
- By Alice C. Harris (2002) [SILEBR 2009-021]
- Reviewed by John M. Clifton
- English: Meaning and culture
- By Anna Wierzbicka (2006) [SILEBR 2006-009]
- Reviewed by Karl Franklin
- English in modern times, 1700-1945
- By Joan C. Beal (2004) [SILEBR 2008-007]
- Reviewed by Ken Decker
- English in the Middle Ages
- By Tim William Machan (2003) [SILEBR 2008-007]
- Reviewed by Ken Decker
- 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
- European vernacular literacy: A sociolinguistic and historical introduction
- By Joshua A. Fishman (2010) [SILEBR 2011-011]
- Reviewed by Ken Decker
- 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
- Everyday Literacies in Africa: Ethnographic Studies of Literacy and Numeracy Practices in Ethiopia
- By Alemayehu Hailu Gebre, George Openjuru, Alan Rogers, and Brian Street (2009) [SILEBR 2009-023]
- Reviewed by Agatha van Ginkel
- 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
- The Germanic Languages
- By Wayne Harbert (2007) [SILEBR 2009-024]
- Reviewed by René van den Berg
- 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
- A history of Roget's thesaurus: Origins, development, and design
- By Werner Hüllen (2004) [SILEBR 2012-004]
- Reviewed by Dirk Kievit
- How children learn the meanings of words
- By Paul Bloom (2000) [SILEBR 2004-012]
- Reviewed by George Huttar
- How words mean: Lexical concepts, cognitive models, and meaning construction
- By Vyvyan Evans (2009) [SILEBR 2011-007]
- 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
- Impoliteness: using language to cause offence
- By Jonathan Culpeper (2011) [SILEBR 2012-003]
- Reviewed by Vitaly Voinov
- Inflectional morphology: A theory of paradigm structure
- By Gregory T. Stump (2001) [SILEBR 2003-019]
- Reviewed by Michael Maxwell
- International bibliography of paremiology and phraseology
- By Wolfgang Mieder (2009) [SILEBR 2010-012]
- Reviewed by Peter Unseth
- International English: A guide to the varieties of Standard English
- By Peter Trudgill and Jean Hannah (2002) [SILEBR 2005-001]
- Reviewed by Ken Decker
- Introducing Functional Grammar
- By Geoff Thompson (2004) [SILEBR 2009-022]
- Reviewed by Dirk Kievit
- An introduction to applied linguistics
- By Norbert Schmitt (ed.) (2010) [SILEBR 2011-009]
- Reviewed by Jey Burkhardt
- Introduction to Cognition and Communication
- By Keith Stenning, Alex Lascarides, and Jo Calder (2006) [SILEBR 2010-011]
- Reviewed by George Huttar
- An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
- By Ralph W. Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton (eds.) (2006) [SILEBR 2009-019]
- Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
- An introduction to pidgins and creoles
- By John Holm (2000) [SILEBR 2003-001]
- Reviewed by David J. Holbrook
- Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural models and real people
- By Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (2004) [SILEBR 2009-018]
- Reviewed by John Grummitt
- The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia
- By R. M. W. Dixon and with Alan R. Vogel (2004) [SILEBR 2009-013]
- Reviewed by Mary Ruth Wise
- 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 ethnicity
- By Carmen Fought (2006) [SILEBR 2009-004]
- Reviewed by George L. 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
- Language rights and political theory
- By Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten (eds.) (2003) [SILEBR 2010-006]
- Reviewed by Joan Bomberger Yoder
- Languages and communities in early modern Europe
- By Peter Burke (2004) [SILEBR 2010-016]
- Reviewed by Joan Bomberger Yoder
- Laughter in interaction
- By Phillip Glenn (2003) [SILEBR 2010-009]
- Reviewed by Carol Magnusson
- Linguistic anthropology
- By Alessandro Duranti (1997) [SILEBR 2003-024]
- Reviewed by Wesley M. Collins
- Linguistics and the formal sciences: The origins of generative grammar
- By Marcus Tomalin (2006) [SILEBR 2011-003]
- Reviewed by Iwo Iwanov
- The magic prism: An essay in the philosophy of language
- By Howard Wettstein (2004) [SILEBR 2010-008]
- Reviewed by Samuel Mubbala
- Memory-based language processing
- By Walter Daelemans and Antal van den Bosch (2005) [SILEBR 2011-006]
- Reviewed by Samuel Mubbala
- Mental spaces in grammar: Conditional constructions
- By Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser (2005) [SILEBR 2008-003]
- Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
- Mind Design and Minimal Syntax
- By Wolfram Hinzen (2006) [SILEBR 2009-020]
- Reviewed by Joshua M. Jensen
- 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
- A natural history of Latin
- By Tore Janson (2004) [SILEBR 2009-011]
- Reviewed by George L. Huttar
- 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 Origins of vowel systems: Studies in the evolution of language I
- By Bart de Boer (2001) [SILEBR 2009-006]
- Reviewed by Coleen Anderson Starwalt
- The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax
- By Gigielmo Cinque and Richard S. Kayne (eds.) (2008) [SILEBR 2010-014]
- Reviewed by James K. Watters
- Paradigms in phonological theory
- By Laura J. Downing, T. Alan Hall, and Renate Raffelsiefen (eds.) (2005) [SILEBR 2012-001]
- Reviewed by Andreas Joswig
- 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
- The phonology of Mongolian
- By Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlsson, and Vivan Franzén (2005) [SILEBR 2011-012]
- Reviewed by Brendon Yoder
- 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
- Possible and probable languages: A generative perspective on linguistic typology
- By Frederick J. Newmeyer (2005) [SILEBR 2010-005]
- Reviewed by Brian O’Herin
- 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
- Principles and Parameters in a VSO Language: A Case Study in Welsh
- By Ian G. Roberts (2005) [SILEBR 2009-015]
- Reviewed by Cheryl A. Black
- Proto-properties and grammatical encoding: A correspondence theory of argument selection
- By Farrell Ackerman and John Moore (2001) [SILEBR 2010-001]
- Reviewed by Terry Malone
- 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 modern Hebrew
- By Edna Amir Coffin and Shmuel Bolozky (2005) [SILEBR 2010-002]
- Reviewed by Craig Soderberg
- 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
- Sinitic grammar: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
- By Hilary Chappell (ed.) (2001) [SILEBR 2011-004]
- Reviewed by Keith W. Slater
- Skeptical linguistic essays
- By Paul M. Postal (2004) [SILEBR 2009-003]
- Reviewed by Dirk Kievit
- The Slavic languages
- By Roland Sussex and Paul Cubberley (2006) [SILEBR 2012-002]
- Reviewed by Terrill Schrock
- The social art: Language and its uses (2nd edition)
- By Ronald Macaulay (2006) [SILEBR 2010-010]
- Reviewed by Elizabeth Parks
- Sociolinguistic variation: Critical reflections
- By Carmen Fought (ed.) (2004) [SILEBR 2010-003]
- Reviewed by Elizabeth Parks
- Study abroad and second language use: Constructing the self
- By Valerie Pellegrino Aveni (2005) [SILEBR 2009-010]
- Reviewed by Paul Thomas
- The Study of Language (Third Edition)
- By George Yule (2005) [SILEBR 2009-019]
- Reviewed by Steve Nicolle
- 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
- Talk that counts: Age, gender, and social class differences in discourse
- By Ronald K. S. Macaulay (2005) [SILEBR 2009-017]
- Reviewed by Yujeong Choi
- The syntax of anaphora
- By Kenneth Safir (2004) [SILEBR 2011-002]
- Reviewed by Erwin R. Komen
- Theories of case
- By Miriam Butt (2005) [SILEBR 2007-004]
- Reviewed by Lou Hohulin
- A Theory of Ellipsis
- By Marjorie J. McShane (2005) [SILEBR 2009-012]
- Reviewed by Stephen H. Levinsohn
- 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
- Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
- By Daniel Lefkowitz (2004) [SILEBR 2011-001]
- Reviewed by Elizabeth Parks
- 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