nan lang planning davis kathryn anne language planning multilingual contexts policies communities schools luxembourg john benjamins 1994 xix 220 pp ling theory cloth us 1 55619 539 7 eur 90 272 4111 2 us 45 00 hfl 80 volume examines sociocultural factors influence language choices uses multilingual country luxembourg patterns language use within across communities viewed terms interrelationships among language policy intent implementation experience also studied difference reality expectation individual government goals history past language policies practices sets background recent policy formation current language uses values xvi 220 pp 155619 539 7 45 00 hb studies bilingualism 8 pb 155619 636 9 37 95 paulston christina bratt linguistic minorities multilingual settings implications language policies john benjamins 1994 xi 139 pp lang planning cloth us 1 55619 347 5 eur 90 272 4104 x us 39 00 hfl 75 paper us 1 55619 540 0 eur 90 272 4112 0 us 19 95 hfl 40 paulston presents analytical framework explaining predicting language behavior social groups behavior relates linguistic policies minority groups argues number factors considered understanding establishment language policies groups 1 social context language problems 2 linguistic consequences social groups contact vary depending focus social mobilization e ethnicity nationalism 3 identifying salient factors contribute language maintenance shift e conditions book vital help educational policies successful language planning general pidgins creoles kihm alain kriyol syntax portuguesebased creole language guineabissau john benjamins 1994 xii 310 pp pidgins creoles cloth us 1 55619 168 5 eur 90 272 5235 1 us 70 00 hfl 135 book describes portuguese based creole widely spoken first language guinea bissau study focuses one variety central kriyol aims present complete description grammar language theoretical framework syntactic analysis purposely eclectic relies primarily generalized phrase structure grammar lang acquisition lakshmanan usha universal grammar child second language acquisition null subjects morphological uniformity john benjamins 1994 x 166 pp language acquisition cloth us 155619 247 9 eur 90 272 xxx x us 35 00 hfl xx book examines child second language acquisition within principles parameters framework linguistic theory focus null subject phenomenon property received considerable attention within linguistic theory linguistic acquisition takes current theory null subjects namely morphological uniformity principle investigates extent predictions supported context child second language grammar book demonstrates value child second language acquisition data evaluating specific proposals within linguistic theory universal principle thus contributes growing body research role universal grammar second language acquisition bilingual first language acquisition french german grammatical development j rgen meisel ed university hamburg contributions volume based analysis data bilingual children acquiring french german simultaneously papers focus development specific grammatical phenomena explanations given within framework principles parameter approach study primarily concerned acquisition socalled functional categories consequences acquisition development grammar basic hypothesis underlying study early child grammars consist lexical categories functional categories implemented later child grammar happens exactly central issue explored book language acquisition language disorders 7 vi 280 pp hb 155619 242 8 70 00