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JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS VOLUME 36 2000 53 CAMBRIDGE 3) UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CN2 IRP, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cB2 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street, New York, Ny 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, vic 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 2000 Printed in United Kingdom by the University Press, Cambridge CONTENTS ARTICLES D. BLAKEMORE: Indicators and procedures: nevertheless and but R. M. W. Dixon: Categories of the Noun Phrase in Jarawara C. HouGH: Towards an explanation of phonetic differentiation in masculine and feminine personal names R. INGHAM: Negation and OV order in Late Middle English O. O. OrIE: Syllable asymmetries in comparative Yoruba phonology G. L. PicGottT: Against featural alignment J.C. PAOLILLO: Formalizing formality: an analysis of register variation in Sinhala B. PLUNKETT: What’s ‘what’ in French questions P. A. M. SEUREN: Presupposition, negation and trivalence P. TRUDGILL: Determinism in new-dialect formation and the genesis of New Zealand English D. WILLIs: On the distribution of resumptive pronouns and wh-trace in Welsh S. WINTNER: Definiteness in the Hebrew noun phrase REVIEW ARTICLES F. ACKERMAN: Some observations on the typology of linguistic theories (Gilles Fauconnier & Eve Sweetser (eds.), Space, worlds, and grammar; Masayoshi Shibatani & Sandra Thompson (eds.), Grammatical constructions: their form and meaning) M. Dukes: Agreement in Chamorro (Sandra Chung, The design of agreement: evidence from Chamorro) F. J. NEWMEYER: Three book-length studies of language evolution (Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, The origins of complex language: an inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables, and truth; Simon Kirby, Function, selection, and innateness: the emergence of language univerals; Daniel Nettle, Linguistic diversity) G. PooLe: Representing Minimalism (Juan Uriagereka, Rhyme and reason) S. VALERA: Conversion and onomasiological theory (Pavol Stekauer, A theory of conversion in English) REVIEWS A. ALSINA, J. BRESNAN & P. SELLS (eds.): Complex predicates (Lin) C. Y. BETHIN: Slavic prosody: language change and phonological theory (Billings) R. BLENCH & M. SpricGs (eds.): Archaeology and language, vol. 1: Theoretical and methodological orientations & vol. Il: Archaeo- logical data and linguistic hypotheses (Sidwell) R. D. BorsLey & I. Roperts (eds.): The syntax of the Celtic languages: a comparative perspective (Guilfoyle) M. Butt & W. GEUDER (eds.): The projection of arguments: lexical and compositional factors (Nelson) P. CARRUTHERS & J. BOUCHER (eds.): Language and thought: inter- disciplinary themes (Lantolf) J. COLEMAN: Phonological representations: their names, forms and powers (Archangeli) M. DAVENPORT & S.J. HANNAHS: Jntroducting phonetics and phonology; C. GUSSENHOVEN & HEIKE JACOBS: Understanding phonology; 1. RocA & W. JOHNSON: A course in phonology. P. CARR: English phonetics and phonology (Lodge) L. HAEGEMAN (ed.): Elements of grammar: handbook of generative syntax (Roussou) M. HAMMOND: The phonology of English: a prosodic optimality- theoretic approach (Honeybone) J. R. HURFORD, M.STUDDERT-KENNEDY & C. KNIGHT (eds.): Ap- proaches to the evolution of language (Gibson) H. KITAHARA: Elementary operations and optimal derivations (Law) S. LAPPIN & E. BENMAMOUN (eds.): Fragments: studies in ellipsis and gapping (Huang) C. LEFEBVRE: Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar (Plag) C. Lyons: Definiteness (Spencer) M.MITHUN: The languages of Native North America (Vajda) F. J. NEWMEYER: Language form and language function (Battistella) R. Posner: Linguistic change in French (Mazzola) S. ROMAINE (ed.): The Cambridge history of the English language, vol. IV: 1776-1997 (Bailey) J.C. SALMons & B. D. Josepu (eds.): Nostratic: sifting the evidence (Baldi) S. SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH, S. G. SHANKER & T.J. TAYLOR: Apes, language and the human mind (Kirby) D. SPORTICHE: Partitions and atoms of clause structure: subjects, agreement, case and clitics (Shlonsky) S. B. STEEVER (ed.): The Dravidian languages (Comrie) E. TORREGO: The dependencies of objects (Adger) SHORTER NOTICES J. C. BEAL: English pronunciation in the eighteenth century: Thomas Spence’s Grand repository of the English language (S6nmez) D. N.S. BHAT: The prominence of tense, aspect and mood (Sew) U. BRINKMANN: The locative alternation in German: its structure and acquisition (Maylor) J. ByBEE, J. HAIMAN & S. A. THOMPSON (eds.): Essays on language function and language type: dedicated to T. Givon. (Matthews) S. CHAPMAN: Accent in context: the ontological status and com- municative effects of utterance accent in English (Winkler) D. L. Everett: Why there are no clitics: an alternative perspective on pronominal allomorphy (Bennis) R. FABRI, A. ORTMANN & T. Paropi (eds.): Models of inflection (Spencer) T. Givon (ed.): Grammatical relations: a functionalist perspective (Newman) J. HAJEK: Universals of sound change in nasalization (Sampson) D. HAUMANN: The syntax of subordination (Hendrick) R. HETZRON (ed.): The Semitic languages (Watson) J. B. JOHANNESSEN: Coordination (Afarli) A. Jurrs: Learnability and the lexicon: theories and Second Language Acquisition research (Sorace) W. KEHREIN & R. WIESE (eds.): Phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages (Klein) A. VAN KEMENADE & N. VINCENT (eds.): Parameters of morpho- syntactic change (Willis) P. McConveLt & N. Evans (eds.): Archaeology and linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in global perspective (Lynch) A. G. RAMAT & P. J. HOPPER (eds.): The limits of grammaticalization (Claudi) A.G. RAMAT & P. RAMAT (eds.): The Indo-European languages (Vajda) G. SAMPSON: Educating Eve: the ‘language instinct’ debate (Hurford) R. STALMAKER: Context and content: essays on intentionality of speech and thought (Capone) ERRATUM Iwata’s article in Journal of Linguistics 35.3 PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED EDITORIAL NOTES ANNOUNCEMENTS LAGB 2000 MEETINGS INDEX