Book Reviews

[...]semi-transitives do not meet the essential preconditions for the definition of transitivity (viz. the occurrence of a direct object, and the ability of this object to be the subject in object-oriented constructions). [...]the reader should be cautioned against some regrettable terminological confusion, e.g. p. 53 (lst column, 2nd line from bottom) 'object' should be 'subject'; p. 11 (lst column, 6th line from bottom) 'intransitive' should be 'transitive'; p. 83, head of paragraph 7.5.6.1: 'transitive' should be 'intransitive'. When this strategy comes into conflict with that for dealing with polysemy, the latter takes precedence. [...]konvnsi is split into three main articles: 1. "agreement", 2. "convention" and 3. "reunion, meeting", with the word konvnsionil as a sub-entry of konvnsi 2. First of all, there should be a comparative perspective: the pidgin or the creole developed from it should show a 'palpable' difference in structure with their stock languages.