Review of English nouns: The ecology of nominalization Rochelle Lieber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 207 pp. ISBN: 9871316613870

Global Competitive Strategy, by Daniel F. Spulber, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., ISBN 978-0-521880-81-7

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

Hans Peeters University Press , 2005 , 177 pp . , ISBN 0521796679 , £ 15 . 99 On the Principles of Analytical Sociology . Cambridge : Cambridge Review : Theoretical Approaches

Review of: Ted Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002

In 1990, when Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom proposed that ‘there is every reason to believe that a specialization for grammar evolved by a conventional neo-Darwinian process’ (Pinker and Bloom, 1990), the consensus in linguistics had been, for a long time, quite the opposite: ‘It is perfectly safe to attribute this development to “natural selection”, so long as we realize that there is no substa...

Review of Physical Causation, by Phil Dowe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Phil Dowe begins Physical Causation by outlining his metaphilosophical stance, distinguishing between the task of analysing our concept of causation, and the task of offering an “empirical analysis” of “what causation in fact is in the actual world” (p.3). Dowe’s energies are to be devoted to the latter task, although he regards the former as also legitimate. Thus he is not restricted by what w...

Laurel J. Brinton, The comment clause in English: Syntactic origins and pragmatic developments (Studies in English Language). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. xvii-280

This book takes a diachronic approach to a variety of forms commonly subsumed under the notion of COMMENT CLAUSE (CC). It explicitly excludes some of the most frequent, well-known and widely studied CCs, for example I think and I guess, which have been discussed elsewhere by the same author (Brinton 1996). At the same time, it includes some less widely studied examples, such as CCs with see, sa...