Book reviews

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Yishai Tobin, Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1994, xxii + 406 pp. (Alan S. Kaye)

Stig Eliasson and Ernst Håkon Jahr (eds.), Language and its Ecology: Essays in Memory of Einar Haugen. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. (Alan S. Kaye)

Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Narrative Performances: A Study of Modern Greek Storytelling. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997, 282 pp. (Laura Camargo Fernández)

Dennis Kurzon, Interpreting Silence: Discourse of Silence (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998, VI +161 pp., hardback $53. (Patricia E. O'Connor)

Keith Harvey and Celia Shalom (eds.), Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy. London: Routledge, 1997, x + 249 pp. (Karen Tracy)

Barbara A. Fennell, Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany. Chapel Hill/London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997, 167 S. (Inge Weber-Newth)

Yishai Tobin, Aspect in the English Verb. London: Longman, 1993, xvii + 398 pp. (Alan S. Kaye)

Martin Pütz (ed.), Language Choices: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997, pp. xxi + 430. $127. (Alan S. Kaye)