GENERAL LINGUISTICS Agrammatism Neurolinguistics of Grammatical LINCOM Studies Impairment in Hindi Aphasia PRASANNANSHU in Neurolinguistics University of Delhi Agrammatism is the outstanding feature of Broca’s aphasia. Traditionally, it is defined as the The Neural Basis of Language selective lack of availability to the patient, for both production and comprehension, of closed ÁNGEL LÓPEZ-GARCÍA class items (function words) and inflectional University of Valencia grammatical morphemes with relative preservation of uninflected nouns, verbs and adjectives. (Nadeu and Rothi, 1992). The concept The continuity (distributed structure) and the discontinuity (modular structure) are not the of agrammatism revolves round the deficits in exclusive property of neural webs that affect wide areas of the brain, but their possibility is syntax and morphology. implied in the microscopic base within themselves. This situation is found in all types of For the present study, agrammatic data was psychic activity: emotional, rational and linguistic, although in a different way in each of collected from Hindi speaking subjects. The subjects included both males and females. The them. Language maximizes the coexistence of both types of nervous processing maintaining goals of the study have been: examination of them in equilibrium from the first moment. A theory of language which is capable of Hindi agrammatic evidence; identification of its assuming the two perspectives is needed, since it is the only one that is neurologically morphological and syntactic features; to examine justified. whether agrammatic data from Hindi show the same features as are exhibited by agrammatics In this book it is proposed that said theory be constructed on Gestaltic principles; this is from other linguistic groups and to identify because Gestaltic principles formally adjust to Topological rules, which allow us to, at the general features of agrammatism. same time, be informed about the spatial reception of the world, specific to the dominated Observations made in relation to the tests hemisphere, and its correlative verbalization through some form of natural language, which administered to the subjects have provided data in each case. Data were thus recorded, transcribed is specific to the dominant hemisphere. and observations were processed, analysed, and Angel Lopez-Garcia is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Valencia (Spain), interpreted to yield conclusions. and he has been a visiting Professor at the universities of Virginia, Mainz, Minnesota, Ch. 1: Introduction: Background and Previous Tucumán and Aarhus. He helped to develop the Liminar Grammar model of Cognitive Studies; Ch. 2: Methodology; Ch. 3: Observations Linguistics as soon as 1980, and elaborated a series of applications to natural languages. and Discussions; Ch. 4: Grammatical Impairment Lately he is working on the relation between Linguistics and Biology. He is the author of in Agrammatism; Ch. 5: Morphological Impairment in Agrammatism; Ch. 6: Conclusions; The grammar of genes. How the Genetic Code Resembles the Linguistic Code (2005). References; Appendices. ISBN 978 3 89586 405 6. LINCOM Studies in Neurolinguistics 03. 128pp. 39 illustrations. USD ISBN 978 3 89586 385 1. LINCOM Studies in 94.10 / EUR 64.00 / GBP 46.10. 2007. Neurolinguistics 02. 270 pp. USD 113.50 / EUR 77.20 / GBP 55.60. 2007. Aspects de la syntaxe, de la et intègrent la structure conceptuelle de type ‘tout-intégré’, d’après l’approche lexicale et sémantique et de la mor- multidimensionnelle de la sémantique des Challenges in the phologie des verbes a relations parties/tout de Moltmann (1997), investigation of envisagée comme étant celle qui dénoterait le /complexité/ lexique verbal marqué par le trait de complexité. cerebral function: Neuroanatomical substrates of ALINE M.P. FRANÇA BAZENGA ISBN 978 3 89586 001 0. Linguistics Edition language processing Universidade de Lisboa 61. 190pp. USD 104.60 / EUR 71.20 / GBP 51.20. 2007. Cet ouvrage porte sur l’analyse des propriétés du MARCELLO CHERCHI lexique verbal marqué par le trait de complexité. The University of Illinois at Chicago Ce trait induit une lecture ‘plurielle’ à la structure Fundamentals of College of Medicine argumentale. Celle-ci se caractérise par deux propriétés: (i) présence d’un argument au pluriel, Synchronic Linguistics Since early in its development the field of (ii) présence de deux arguments nécessairement GÖRAN HAMMARSTRÖM neurology has been concerned with the correliés. Deakin University mechanisms which mediate language. Although L’hypothèse générale ou point de départ de the brain presents a number of unique challenges cette étude consiste à préciser l’interprétation de to investigators, considerable progress has been ‘pluralité inhérente’ des verbes à trait de This book sums up and further develops ideas of made in neurophysiological techniques and complexité comme étant de type ‘collectif’, c’est- the author's books Linguistische Einheiten im imaging technology. The present paper begins à-dire désignant un tout constitué de parties, ou Rahmen der modernen Sprachwissenschaft with a discussion of some of the properties of the du ‘plus d’un en un’. (Berlin 1966), Linguistic units and items (Berlin brain which render its investigation difficult, Du point de vue formel, les réseaux 1976) and Linguistic units and items II (Frankfurt followed by an overview of several of the syntactico-sémantiques de la structure am Main 1995). The terminological system methods which are employed to study brain argumentale sont pris en charge par une generally accepted for phoneme-allophone- structure and function. représentation abstraite de la syntaxe verbale, phone and morpheme-allomorph-morph is Cherchi then proceed to a specific discussion conçue comme une ‘syntaxe de position’ où sont developed so as to include all fundamental facts of the neuroanatomical structures which are délimitées, autour du noyau verbal, deux zones of language in a five-level description. The levels believed to mediate language processing and the syntaxiques (SUJET et OBJET) constituées de are α with phonemes, prosodemes, syllabemes variety of disorders that result from lesions to points d’ancrage du trait de complexité. etc.; β with contouremes and stylemes; γ with these structures. After a brief note concerning Le recours au concept d’opérateurs de idiolemes, sociolemes and dialemes; δ with how these arguments can be evaluated the author complexité (affixes dérivationnels, prépositions, proxemes and kinemes; ε with text aspects. In a comments on how information and evidence from SE), entendus comme des opérateurs du trait detailed or "narrow" description an item (variant neurology can contribute to the study of [discret] et supposant une relation de type or realisation) from one level is conditioned by linguistics. The final section presents a summary parties/tout, permet de mieux définir la notion de items from all the other levels. Both spoken and and draws conclusions. ‘collectif’ appliquée au domaine verbal. Les written language, and the relationship between instructions induites par les opérateurs de them, should be included in a complete ISBN 3 89586 424 2. LINCOM Studies in complexité se situent à différents niveaux de description. Neurolinguistics 01. 60pp. USD 59.70 / EUR structuration de type méréologique (dimension The synchronic description of a language is 40.60 / GBP 29.20. 2000. attributive, descriptive, participative, quantitative) fundamentally taxonomic. In recent years many 76 ♦ LINCOM EUROPA• project line 18 • 2008 GENERAL LINGUISTICS "explanations", complex "models" and "theories" access to only one. The translator has the scientific characterisation of Language called have been suggested which in the opinion of the (not-always-absolute) power of modifying and Performative Linguistics (UWAJEH, 2002), author are mostly not adequate because they do occasionally distorting the ST. This study how translation is essentially a linguistic not directly describe the language known and explores the issue of translation as power and operation. This demonstration is effected through used by the speakers and writers. ideology and as an expression of culture and an in-depth study of the key translation notion of provides examples thereof from different equivalence. ISBN 978 3 89586 565 2. Linguistics Edition translations from Arabic to English and vice In Chapter One, we argue that, being a 63. 60pp. USD 58.80 / EUR 40.00 / GBP 28.80. versa. It also touches on translation along the language performance, translation is impossible 2008. line of X-phemism, Orientalism and without language competence, comprising Occidentalism, translating Arabic literature and language structure knowledge and language use Islamist discourse, translating metaphors, and knowledge. Chapter Two characterises translation Translation Studies cultural references. The study argues for a as a linguistic communication activity; we "politics of translation, or a critical analysis of demonstrate here that information (NOT translation (CAT), a more critical view of meaning) is therefore the primary goal of Translating the Body translated texts that enables readers of those translation, and that there are four standard types texts to spot conscious or unconscious of equivalence between TTs and STs in HORTENSIA PÂRLOG, PIA BRÎNZEU, "treasons" and "corruptions", "omissions" and translation for conveying the information - ABA-CARINA PÂRLOG "commissions", instances of "domestication", following the tenets of the