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The German Language: A Linguistic Introduction. By JEAN BOASE-BEIER and KEN LODGE. Oxford: Blackwell. 2003. 254 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-631-23138-2 (pbk 0-631-23139-0).
This book, intended for second- and final-year undergraduates, is more demanding than, say, Sally Johnson's Exploring the German Language (London: Arnold, 1998) or Charles Russ's The German Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction (London: Routledge, 1994). It takes a broadly generativist approach (in marked contrast to the decidedly anti-generativist one in Christopher Beedham's German Linguistics: An Introduction (Munich: iudicium, 1995)) which even non-generativists like myself can appreciate for the consistent theoretical framework...
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