The use of the Tok Pisin particle i, traditionally known as the "predicate marker," is shown to be overwhelmingly subject to two constraints, i.e., that of "nondeictic" use (as controlled by subject arguments), and that of "resumptive" use, with the latter sometimes overriding the former. Here, nondeictic means any nonpronominal or pronominal nonfirst and nonsecond person NP. The hypothesis concerning the first constraint seems weakened by apparent counterevidence in the use of i as triggered by -pela pronouns, by the failure of prima facie nondeictic subjects in equa-tional constructions to trigger the use of i, and by the use of i with follow-up verbs in serial constructions and with downstairs verbs in causative constructions. However, all these apparent exceptions are shown either to serve primarily resumptive rules or to be in fact compatible with the non-deixis rule. A corollary reviews openness of i to reanalysis as a copula.

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State whether the verbs used in the following sentences are transitive or intransitive.

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This book is the first in a new series entitled The Politics of Language, which, as a statement attached to that title says, "covers the field of language and cultural theory and will publish radical and innovative studies in this area." M.'s book certainly fits this characterization. It merits an extensive sociolinguistic review and perhaps even more one from the point of view of sociology, a field which has for some time been going through the upheavals of the "cultural studies" paradigm, which in its turn has roots in, and is serving as perspective for, postmodernist approaches. For example, M.'s claim that monolingual societies are almost inevitably harmful to linguistic ecology is interestingly parallel to Certeau's (1974Certeau's ( /1998 idea that monocultural communities are inevitably repressive, or Bourdieu's (1982Bourdieu's ( /1997 thesis that national language policies have long been instruments of political power.From a linguist's point of view, the book will come across as an attempt to present a perspective rather different from the "structural" and other