ISSUE 2

CONTENTS


ARTICLES

  1. Verb-Noun Combinations in Machine Translation
    (Bill Niven, University of Aberdeen)

  2. The Pragmatics of Slang
    (Anthony Lodge, University of St Andrews)

  3. Towards a unified account of adjectival agreement in French
    (Jane Shelton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  4. Unstressed a and ai in the Gothic Class III Weak Verbs
    (Julian Skinner, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

REVIEWS

  1. Coveney, Aidan: Variability in Spoken French. A Sociolinguistic Study of Interrogation and Negation.
    (Nigel Armstrong, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  2. Biber, Douglas, 1995: Dimensions of Register Variation. A Cross-Linguistic Comparison.
    (Nigel Armstrong, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  3. Wittven, Andreas: Infotainment. Fernsehnachrichten zwischen Information und Unterhaltung.
    (Hugh Dauncey, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  4. Hawkins, Eric (ed.): 30 years of language teaching.
    (Hugh Dauncey, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  5. Laver, John: The Gift of Speech.
    (Patrick Honeybone, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  6. Barnbrook, Geoff: Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language.
    (Francis Jones, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  7. Anagnostopoulou, Elena, Henk van Riemsdijk, and Frans Zwarts (eds): Materials on Left Dislocation.
    Nils Langer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  8. Johnson, Sally A.: Gender, group identity and variation in the Berlin vernacular: a sociolinguistic study.
    (Jim Milroy, University of Michigan)

  9. Lavatori, Gerard Ponziano: Language and Money in Rabelais.
    (Ian Morrison, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  10. Gutknecht, Christoph and Lutz J. Rölle: Translating by Factors.
    (Bill Niven, University of Aberdeen)

  11. Taylor, Jill: Sound Evidence: Speech Communities and Social Accents in Aix-en-Provence.
    (Stephen F. Noreiko, University of Hull)

  12. Yule, George: The Study of Language.
    (Alan Smith, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  13. Pfeffer, J. Alan and Garland Cannon: German Loanwords in English. An historical dictionary.
    (Jonathan West, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  14. Beaton, K. B.: A Practical Dictionary of German Usage.
    (Jonathan West, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  15. Nerbonne, John, Klaus Netter, and Carl Pollard (eds): German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
    (Jonathan West, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

  16. Gutknecht, Christoph: Lauter böhmische Dörfer. Wie die Wörter zu ihrer Bedeutung kamen. Lauter spitze Zungen. Geflügelte Worte und ihre Geschichte.
    (Jonathan West, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)


Please send reports of typos, etc. to

jon.west@ncl.ac.uk.

Many thanks. Last update on 27 November 1997.


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