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)

jon.west@ncl.ac.uk.

Many thanks. Last update on 27 November 1997.