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Review of Yves Roberge & Marie-Thérèse Vinet (1989) La variation dialectale en grammaire universelle. (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal/Les Editions de l’Université de Sherbrooke.) (1992)
Journal Article
Rowlett, P. (1992). Review of Yves Roberge & Marie-Thérèse Vinet (1989) La variation dialectale en grammaire universelle. (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal/Les Editions de l’Université de Sherbrooke.). Journal of French Language Studies, 2(2), 283-285. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500001447

The corporatist ideal-type and political exchange (1992)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1992). The corporatist ideal-type and political exchange. Political Studies, XL(2), 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1992.tb01383.x

This article challenges the consistency and coherence of the concept of neo-corporatism by exploring its characteristics as an ideal-type and relating it to the concept of political exchange. It argues that, in its existing form, it has limited use v... Read More about The corporatist ideal-type and political exchange.

Arabic cultural/educational and linguistic background as factors affecting EFL writing performance (1992)
Thesis
Labidi, A. Arabic cultural/educational and linguistic background as factors affecting EFL writing performance. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

Effective communication in a foreign language depends on more than knowing the rules of its lexicon, grammar, and phonology. It involves the processing of cultural as well as linguistic knowledge. Any form of communication (and language is one for... Read More about Arabic cultural/educational and linguistic background as factors affecting EFL writing performance.

On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in French (1992)
Journal Article
Rowlett, P. (1992). On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in French

The author evaluates aspects of recent work by Pollock (1989), Belletti (1990) and Zanuttini (1991), in particular one fundamental assumption made there about the syntax of negative clauses in French. While accepting Pollock's claim that the clitic... Read More about On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in French.

Pettyfogging to respectability : a history of the development of the profession of solicitor in the Manchester area, 1800-1914 (1992)
Thesis
Parrott, V. Pettyfogging to respectability : a history of the development of the profession of solicitor in the Manchester area, 1800-1914. (Thesis). University of Salford

The thesis presents a social history of the development of solicitors as a professional group in Manchester during the period 1800-1914. This is the first work on the history of Manchester solicitors and one of the few histories of the profession o... Read More about Pettyfogging to respectability : a history of the development of the profession of solicitor in the Manchester area, 1800-1914.

Distant thunder at a picnic : the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991 (1992)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1992). Distant thunder at a picnic : the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991. Regional and Federal Studies, 2(3), 76-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597569208420850

This article analyses the outcome of the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991 which, it is argued, were a harbinger of the dramatic changes that would occur in the Italian general election nearly a year later, and which would mark the biggest uph... Read More about Distant thunder at a picnic : the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991.

Polish yers in non-linear phonology (1992)
Book Chapter
Bekerman, M. (1992). Polish yers in non-linear phonology. In W. Dressler, H. Luschuetsky, O. Pfeiffer, & J. Rennison (Eds.), Phonologica 1988 (215-228). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

The article examines the phanomenon of "flickering" or disappearing vowels in Polish in the framework of non-linear phonology and tries to find a conceptual solution by applying elements of the underspecification and redundancy theory in language.