York Papers in Linguistics No. 12.

A collection of papers on linguistics includes: "Italian Comparatives of Inequality with 'Che' and 'Di'" (Adrian C. Battye); "A Note on Passives in GPSG [Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar]" (Robert D. Borsley); "Reduplicated Constructions in Chinese and Questions of Generative Power" (Jonathan Calder); "A Note on Subcategorization, Constituent Order, and the Notion 'Head'" (Gerald Gazdar, Geoffrey K. Pullum); "Constituent Structure in Text-Copying" (Patrick D. Griffiths); "Gaps in Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar" (Steve J. Harlow); "Some Rhythm, Resonance and Quality Variations in Urban Tyneside Speech" (John K. Local); "A Methodology for Describing Socio-Linguistic Variability within Multi-lingual Settings in General and 'Interactive' and 'Reactive' Ethnic Processes in Language in Particular" (Ben Rampton); and "Ellipsis Conditions and the Status of the English Copula" (Anthony R. Warner). Three monographs are also reviewed. The monographs are on sentence particles in Cantonese, interracial friendship and communication among black and white adolescents, and Pacific linguistics. (MSE)