avail for review : syntax , chomsky the books listed below are in the linguist office and now available for review . if you are interested in reviewing a book ( or leading a discussion of the book ) ; please contact our book review editor , andrew carnie , ph . d . , at : carnie @ linguistlist . org please include in your request message a brief statement about your research interests , background , affiliation and other information that might be valuable to help us select a suitable reviewer . do not include an electronic cv or a url linking to a personal homepage . these will be ignored . please also send a surface mail address for us to send the book to . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * syntax : esther torrego ( 1998 ) the dependencies of objects . mit press . this monograph investigates the nature , properties , and consequences of the grammatical constraints that yield overt marking of objects in a variety of languages . the author , working within the minimalist program , concentrates on the syntactic and semantic behaviors of a particular class of objects : objects morphologically marked by the dative preposition in romance languages , especially in several spanish dialects , with consideration of similar phenomena in other languages . noam chomsky - biography * * * special note : the reviewer for the following volume should be willing to review not only the book , but also the interactive web site associated with the book . the reviewer must therefore have web-reading software and knowledge of the www * * * robert f . barsky ( 1997 ) noam chomsky : a life of dissent . mit press cambridge . this biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape noam chomsky , a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics , politics , cognitive psychology , and philosophy . it also presents an engaging polical history of the last several decades . the book highlights chomsky 's views on the uses and misuses of the university as an institution , his assessment of useful political engagement and his dobuts about postmodernism . because chomsky is given ample space to articulate his views on many of the major issues relating to his work , both linguistic and political , this book can also be seen as the autobiography that chomsky says he will never write .