Lawrence Solan

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Contributions to Books

• Linguistic Issues in Statutory Interpretration, in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)
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• The Language of Crime (with P. Tiersma), in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law (co-editor with P. Tiersma, Oxford University Press, 2012)
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• The Expert Linguist Meets the Adversarial System, in Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (M. Coulthard and A. Johnson, eds., Routledge, 2010)
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• Talking Like a Person, Thinking Like a Lawyer (and vice versa), in Verbal/Visual Narrative Texts in Higher Education (M. Solly and others, ​Peter Lang Publishing, 2008)
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• Statutory Interpretation in the EU: The Augustinian Approach, in Translation Issues in Language and Law (F. Olsen and others, eds., Palgrave Macmillan ​2009)
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• La Lingúística Forense en los Tribunales Norteamericanos, in Lingüística Forense, Lengua y Derecho: Conceptos, Metodos y Aplicaciones (M. Turell ed., Edicions A Petició, 2006) (with P.M. Tiersma)
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• Language and Law: Definitions in Law, in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier Science 2d ed., 2005)
• Vagueness and Ambiguity in Legal Interpretation, inVagueness in Normative Texts (V.K. Bhatia and others eds., ​​Peter Lang Publishing, 2005)
• Finding Ordinary Meaning in the Dictionary, in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference (M. Robinson ed., William S. Hein & Co., 2003)
• Ordinary Meaning in Legal Interpretation (reprinted in Ordinary and Legal Language (B. Pozzo ed. Giuffrè, 2005)
• The Clinton Scandal: Some Lessons from Linguistics, in Language in the Legal Process (J. Cotterill ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
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• Perjury and Impeachment: The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers? in Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle (Kaplan & B. Moran eds., NYU Press, 2001)
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• Chomsky and Cardozo: Linguistics and the Law, in Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments  (C. P. Otero ed., Routledge, 1994)
• Does the Legal System Need Experts in English Syntax?, in The Language Scientist as Expert in the Legal Setting (W. Stewart & R. Reiber eds., New York Academy of Sciences, 1990)
• Linguistic Principles as the Rule of Law, in Langue et droit -- Language and Law (P. Pupier & J. Woehrling, eds., Wilson et Lafleur, 1989)
• Parameter Setting and the Development of Pronouns and Reflexives, in Parameter Setting (T. Roeper & E. Williams eds., D. Reidel Publishing, 1987)
• A Comparison of Null and Pronoun Anaphora in First Language Acquisition Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Defining the Constraints, in Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora: Defining the Constraints (B. Lust ed., Springer, 1986) (with others)
• Language Acquisition Data and the Theory of Markedness: Evidence from Spanish, in Markedness (F. Eckman and others eds., Plenum Press, 1986)
• A Metrical Analysis of Spanish Stress in Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (W. Cressey & D. Napoli eds., 1981) (reprinted as Analisis Métrico del Acento Español, in Panorama de la Fonología Español Actual (Juana Gil, ed., 2000))
• Fixing Parameters: Language Acquisition and Language Variation in Markedness and Learnability (J. Pustejovsky & V. Burke eds., University of Massachusetts Press, 1981)
• The Acquisition of Structural Restrictions on Anaphora in Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory (S. Tavakolian ed., The MIT Press , 1981)
• The Acquisition of Tough Movement in Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition (F. Eckman & A. Hastings eds., Newbury House Publishers, 1979)
• Children’s Use of Syntactic Structure in Interpreting Relative Clauses in Papers in the Structure and Development of Child Language (H. Goodluck & L. Solan eds., University of Massachusetts, 1978) (with T. Roeper)