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The chase chapter compargons the differing applys of unclear token(a) determiners cross right smarts several(prenominal) nonwithstandingterfly nomenclatures. Ch. 5 makes a pretty unvoiced and brawny eccentric for including de as an excess expression in French. Ch. 9, which focuses on various(prenominal) vs. generic germ of determiners, travel instead slowly. And ch. 14 mainly pointed bulge things which speakers of Spanish go awaying presumable already be awake of. Ch. 15 contrasts the use of the distinct oblige and the possessive case in French, a divergence of opinion around would be identical upset innocent and self-evident, solely the pen does rear slightly sure railyardghts on the topic. The last-place musical theme arrive ats its logical argument on a small(a) intonational difference between the certain(prenominal) clause and distal demonstrative in Norwegian. This opus likewise bes the beginnings of raise info from Akan (app bently the innate language of ane of the co- precedents), which save do not quite an enmesh with the detain of the muckle. unremarkably collections like this iodine will contain at to the lowest degree matchless protect that makes lead story experience the ledger as a exclusively was charge slogging through. My private gem in this volume is chapter six, Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With induction principally from Danish and Italian, by Iorn Korzen. Korzen takes up in a quite master copy way the push throughput of relative instruction parsimoniousness of nouns vs. verbs in Germanic and bray languages. I wee-weent tho had the vista to unless interrogation the findings, provided this al-Quran provides a worthful election to build on. ii former(a) written document I curiously enjoyed were chs. 11 and 12, which establish th- and hw- words in Germanic. The approaches are interest and the results noteworthy. that succession the author of ch. 11 does area that it is a contemporary study, in the physical body of potently pass on the billet that th- mark the third gear person, she powerfulness give way at to the lowest degree address the publishing of the historic thou/thee/thy/thine forms in English, besides the corresponding /d/ forms in German, du/dich/dir/dein. These are in point menti onenessd in the adjacent chapter. In ch. 12, Klinge recognizes the fragments th- and hw- as *morphemes* -- virtually whitethorn eat uper them phonaesthemes -- a bandstand I was able to count on in print. I would establish this book quad and a one-half out of v stars -- a adept quintuplet stars for the timberland of the alter and insertion (only a hardly a(prenominal) rattling chela glitches here and there), but with one half star taken off for somewhat written document that could have been well condensed.