Reviews.

John Lyons, Language, meaning and context. (Fontana Linguistics) London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1980. Pp. 256. Kent Bach & Robert M. Harnish, Linguistic communication and speech acts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979. Pp. xvii + 327. P.H. Matthews, Syntax. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.) Cambridge: University Press, 1981. Pp. xix + 306. Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical morphology. The Hague: Mouton, 1980. Pp. xiii + 476. D.L. Goyvaerts (ed.), Phonology in the 1980's. Ghent: Story‐Scientia, 1981. Pp. 647. . Bernard Comrie, Language universals and linguistic typology: syntax and morphology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1981. Pp. xi + 252. G Mallinson & B. Blake, Language typology: cross‐linguistic studies in syntax. (North‐Holland Linguistic Series.) Amsterdam: North‐Holland, 1981. Pp. 486. Anna Wierzbicka, The case for surface case. (Linguistica Extranea, Studia, 9.) Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1980. Pp. xix + 182. Carl Georg von Brandenstein, Ngadjumaja: an Aboriginal language of South‐East Western Australia. (Innsbrucker Beitrage zur Kulturwissenschaft, Sonderheft 48.) Innsbrucker Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Geisteswissenschaften, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck. 1980. Pp. vi + 165. John Haiman, Hua: a Papuan language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1980. Pp. lviii + 550. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]