DOCUMENT RESUME ED 359 805 FL 021 352 AUTHOR Loos, Eugene, Ed. TITLE Notes on Linguistics, 1991. INSTITUTION Summer Ins., of Linguistics, Dallas, Tex. REPORT NO ISSN-0736-0673 PUB DATE 91 NOTE 266p. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Notes on Linguistics; n52-55 Feb-Nov 1991 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Book Reviews; Computational Linguistics; *Computer Software; Dictionaries; *Faculty Publishing; Intercultural Communication; Language Research; Linguistics; Linguistic Theory; Morphology (Languages); Phonology; *Pragmatics; Readability; Reference Materials; *Research Methodology; Scholarly Journals; *Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Word Processing ABSTRACT This document consists of the four issues of"Notes on Linguistics" published during 1991. Articles in the four issues include: "Linguistics without Books: A Diary Entry"(John Verhaar); "Writing for Scholarly Publications" (Howard Law);"Will Kofi Understand the White Woman's Dictionary?" (Gillian Hansford);"Tips About 'WORD'" (Bryan Harmelink); "Checklist for WritingBook Reviews" (translated by Dwight Day); "Introductionto Two-Level Phonology" (Evan L. Antworth); "Computing in Linguistics:A Two-Level Processor for Morphological Analysis" (Gary F. Simons); "OnAmbiguity: A Diary Entry" (John Verhaar); "Handling LanguageData: Excerpts from a Field Manual" (Thomas Payne); "How Pragmatic Is Pragmatics?"(J. Douglas Wingate); "Reanalytics: A Diary Entry" (JohnVerhaar); and "Readability Revisited' (Charles Peck). 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V%c_1( received from the person or organization Originating it C:) 0 Minor changes have been made toImprove reproduction quality Points Of new or opinions stated in this dCcu. merit do not necessarily repreSent &b at TO THE EDUCATIONA, RESOURCES OERI position or policy INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE NOTES ON LINGUISTICS NUMBER 52 FEBRUARY 1991 CONTENTS COORDINATOR'S CORNER Eugene Loos 3 ARTICLES LINGUISTICS WITHOUT BOOKS: A DIARY ENTRY John Verhaar 4 WRITING FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Howard Law 11 WILL KOFI UNDERSTAND THE WHITE WOMAN'S DICTIONARY? Gillian Hansford 17 TIPS ABOUT WORD Bryan Harmelink 29 GUIDELINES FOR WRITING BOOK REVIEWS Dwight Day 39 REPORTS AND REVIEWS THE 29TH CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN INDL4N LANGUAGES Thomas Payne 37 LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND REALITY: SELECTED WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN LEE WHORF, ed. by John B. Carroll Alan Kaye 41 BILJNGUALITY AND BILINGUALISM, by Josianc flamers and Michel Blanc Pete Unseth 47 INFORMATION-BASED SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS, VOLUME I: FUNDAMENTALS, by Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag Michael Maxwell 49 CHILDREN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: A LINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, by Thomas M. Tchan Howard Law 56 ANNOUNCEMENTS BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW 59 THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LACUS MEETING 9 PRONOMINAL SYSTEMS AVAILABLE AT HALF PRICE 10 THE EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMIC CONGRESS 61 THE 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN LINGUISTICS 61 SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LIGUISTICS 7500 W. CAMP WISDOM RD. DALLAS, TEXAS a/":1 NOTES ON LINGUISTICS EDITOR Eugene Loos ASSOCIATE EDITOR Howard W. Law FORMAT EDITORS Mark W. I3ostrom and Robin Lombard INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTICS ADVISORS Ruth Brend HichiganState. U. 'toward P. McKaughan U. of Hawaii, r. John Crawford U. of North Dakota Dinh Hoa Nguyen S Illinois U. Charles A Ferguson Sta oni U.. r. John Oiler - U. of New Mainz Derek Fi,33 U. A. K. Pawley -ANU Peter Fries, Central Miciugan U. Richard Rhodes U. C., Berkeley Shirley Brice Heath Stanford U. William J. Samann U. of Tororuo Yoshihiko Ikegami U. Totem Hu Tan C'erultirt. for Minorities. &tying Frances Ingemann U. Kim.ar Rudolph Troike U. of Arizona Pascal D. kokora. U. d Abidjan Richard Tucker C.A.L. Peter Ladefoged U.C.L.4. John Verhaar The Netherlands Sydney Lamb..._ Rice University Ekkehard Wolff .. U. of Hamburg W. P. Lehmann U. 7... Auxin INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTICS CONSULTANTS John Bendor-Samuel 4frica Joseph E. Grimes Cornell J. David Payne Pens Regina Blass.......___ ....... D froire Austin Hale Philippines Velma Pickett --Minato tissue Bruce -Philippines Alan Heals. SPSIL Eunice Pike Dollar Eunice Burgess. Lou Hohulri Philippine, Evelyn G. Pike Dallas Donald A. Burquest....U.T. Arlington Alan S. Rave U.C.Fullerron Richard S. Pittman Wastuny Ross Cauehlev Asia Stephen H. Levinsoh colombin Gary Simons. Dallas Desmond 'Derbyshire Dallas Robert Lateral.... 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MANUSCRIPT STYLE Intending contributors should ensure that their manuscripts conform to the standards laid Jo.-11 in the LSA Style Sheet printed periodically in the LSA COMPI.TER MEDIA Contributors who have copies of their manuscripts on magnetic media such as 5V," or 37i Inks in PCNS-DOS or on TL158 DEC tapes are urged to submit the same along with their manuscript. (5,4- PC!MS -DOS disks are preferred.) DISCLAIMER:k..qvanribihry for the an-wary of quoted and referenced maternal rests solely upon the author of the dem In Iviuth 71.41 171171e17171 ammo,. ISSN W.14-473 Coordinator's Corner How much linguistic thinking can you do if you are "bookless"?I hope you find John Verhaar's reflections to be light reading, yet provocative. Being bookless for a time is a more-or-less perennial state for most of us, removed from library facilities and without time or funds to keep up with the literature. John has done us a favor by exposing his thoughts.Lack of resources might even have been an asset in writing Linguistics Without Books: A Diary Entry. Howard Law's article Writing For Scholarly Publications touches on a topic that you won't find much written about:the "market" that exists for scholarly writing, to which you need to tailor your article.I have heard from several sources that the article rejection rate of some prominent journals these days is between 80% and 90%. If those figures are correct, they mean that there is a huge number of writers who perhaps wind up leaving their creations in a file or tossed away because of the considerations that Howard deals with. That makes Writing For Scholarly Publications worth reading! GillianHansford'sWill Kofi Understand theWhite Woman's Dictionar discusses problems confronted by a dictionary maker working in an area where knowing both specific traditions and certain reader requirements are necessary and have to be taken into account to make the dictionary useful.Fortunately, most of our dictionary-making enterprises are done with some sort of standard format-marking system so that rapid conversion from one format to another is relatively easy.If you are working on a dictionary, you may he one of the compilers who appreciate knowing what considerations were made and tested by someone in a situation that may be similar to yours. We are indebted to Brazilian scholar Francisco Gomes de Maws for Dwight Day's article Guidelines for Writing Book Reviews.This article offers help to readers who have never undertaken to do a review.Doing a review isn't so very hard, and it can be very rewarding in opening one's horizons, more so than just reading the tx3ok. Do keep in mind our list of new books available, shown on page 59. One or more of them could be yours. Columns in computer journals regularly provide tips on how to do things with word processors.But there arc always things our work requires that weren't consideredby designers of today's word processors. ThankstoBryan lIarmelink for his suggestions in Tips About Word. - Eugene I.00s -3- LINGUISTICS WITHOUT BOOKS: A DIARY ENTRY by John W.M. Verhaar The Netherlands This short essay is triggered by a special circumstance:I have no books. I am moving shortly and all my books are packed. Thus I am left with things that bother me (professionally) and freed, temporarily, from the compulsion to look up what others have said about those things.Here is a sample of my musings in an acute state of biblio deficiency, in tribute to those many field workers out there toting tape recorders and batteries but no books. * * * Sometimes it is asserted that a sentence like: (1) I might do that. is "ungrammatical" for the "permissive" reading of might as: 'was allowed to', except inindirect speech.