nan history ling magic common language jakobson mathesius trubetzkoy prague linguistic circle jindrich toman current studies linguistics series 26 mit press 40 hardcover available mit press 800 356 0343 mitpressorders mit edu social cultural environment historical factors tenets prague linguistics circle available discussion ling semiotics tobin yishai invariance markedness distinctive feature analysis contrastive study sign systems english hebrew john benjamins xii 402 pp contrastive analysis hb us 1 55619 565 6 eur 90 272 3614 3 us 100 00 hfl 180 volume provides new kind contrastive analysis two unrelated languages english hebrew based semiotic concepts invariance markedness distinctive feature theory concentrates linguistic forms constructions remarkably different language despite fact share familiar classifications labels tobin demonstrates traditional modern syntactic categories grammatical number verb tense aspect mood voice conditionals interrogatives etc equivalent across languages argued socalled universal concepts function differently language system belong distinct languagespecific semantic domains marked different sets semantic features current issues linguistic theory iii socioling lippigreen rosina university michigan ann arbor language ideology language change early modern german sociolinguistic study consonantal system nuremberg john benjamins xiv 150 pp sociolinguistics hb us 1 55619 573 7 eur 90 272 3622 4 us 48 00 hfl 85 quantitative study based computerized corpus texts written five men early 16th century nuremberg employs multivariate glm statistical procedures analyze way linguistic social stylistic factors work individually interaction influence variation observed texts study provides evidence consonantal variation early modern written texts random particular importance quantification individual relationship emerging ideology language standardization way relationship interacts written language variation current issues linguistic theory 119