Publications Received / Ouvrages Reçus / Eingegangene Schriften

. 1988 . Europäischer Strukturalismus: Ein forschungsgeschichtlicher Uberblick . (= Uni-Taschenbücher, 1487 .) Tübingen : Francke Verlag , ( with the permission of Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt ), vii, 262 pp. [ This survey of European structuralism consists, apart from an introduction and an “Ausblick”, of the following chapters: 2, “Zur Vorgeschichte der strukturalen Sprachwissenschaft”; 3, “Die Saussureschen Dichotomien und ihre Nachwirkungen”; 4, “Die ‘Schulen’ des europäischen Strukturalismus”, among which the author also counts “Die russische Schule” (67–71), which has its ultimate sources in the work of Baudouin de Courtenay, and “Die englische Schule” (71–75) associated with the name of John Rupert Firth (1890–1960); 5, “Die Abgrenzung des europäischen Strukturalismus ‘nach außen’; 6, “Sprache und Sprachbeschreibung im Zeichen des Strukturalismus”; 7, “Strukturalismus und Sprachwandel”; 8, “Strukturalismus außerhalb der Sprachwissenschaft”, i.e., in anthropology (Lévi-Strauss), semiotics, and literary theory; 9, “Zum Begriff der ‘Struktur’”, and 10, “Die Kritik des Strukturalismus”. Bib. (237–255); index of authors (256–262) .]

eds. 1988 . Sociolinguistics / Soziolinguistik: An international handbook of the science of language and society / Ein internationales Handbuch zur Wissenschaft von Sprache und Gesellschaft . Second1 Volume / Zweiter Halbband . Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , xix, [855-] 1912 pp. in 4 °. [ For contents of Tome I, see HL XV.448–449 (1988). – The close to 100 individual contributions to the present volume are organized under the following major headings: VII, “Problems of [Sociolinguistic] Method I: General” (855–910); VIII, “Problems of Method II: Elicitation methods” (911–965); IX, “Problems of Method IIΙ: Recording and transcribing data” (966–1118); X, “The Social Relevance of Levels of Linguistic Analysis” (1119–1237); XI, “Problem Areas” (1238–1429); XII, “Historical Sociolinguistics” (1430–1642) – possibly the longest section of the entire enterprise – XIII, “Application” (1643–1797), and XIV, “Research Practice” (1798–1826). The volume is rounded off by detailed indices of names (1827–1887) and of subjects (1887–1912). (Editorial note: Contrary to the instruction [p. 1827], Baudouin de Courtenay’s name should be listed under ‘Baudouin’, not ‘Courtenay’ [see p. 1838]; his first name is ‘Jan’; also ‘De’ and ‘Di’ in Italian are usually not ‘nobility markers’; finally: my family name has been regularly spelt with ‘oe’ [not ‘ö’] since the 19th century.) – The list of contributors to this volume is a veritable ‘who is who’ in Sociolinguistics, incl. David Sankoff, Norbert Dittmar, John Piatt, Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia, Joachim Schildt, Joshua A. Fishman, and many others .]

. 1989 . Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 44 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi, 280 pp. [ This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of ‘etymologia’ in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages, including, apart from grammatical and philosophical texts, writings in biblical exegesis and in encyclopedic contexts. It has the following main chapters: 1, “Etymology and discourse in late antiquity”; 2, “Technical and exegetical grammar before Isidore [of Seville (c.560–636)]”; 3, “Isidore of Seville and the Etymological Encyclopedia”, and 4, “The text of early medieval grammar”. Bib. of primary (255–260) and secondary sources (260–275); general index (277–280) .]

( avec la collaboration de Jean-Louis Chiss & Christian Puech ). 1988 . L’écriture: Théories et descriptions . (= Prisme problématiques, 10 .) Bruxelles : De Boeck-Wesmael , 252 pp. [ The study has three major parts: I, “Approches à l’écriture”; II, “Une graphématique autonome?”, and ΙII, “Les espaces graphiques”.The back matter consists of a brief conclusion (243), a small glossary of terms (245–246), and a “Table des matières” (247–252). Each chapter has a select bib. appended .]

eds. 1988 . Germanic Linguistics II: Papers from the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3–4 October 1986) . Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana Univ. Linguistics Club , [ v1 ], 150 pp. [ Contributions by the editors and 12 other scholars, incl. Anatoly Liberman, Thomas F. Shannon, James W. Marchand, and others. No index .]

. 1989 . Historical and Comparative Linguistics . Second revised edition . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 6 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xv, 462 pp. [ This is a rev. ed. of the author’s 1972 book, An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics (New York: Macmillan), which has been widely reviewed and acclaimed as a major achievement in the field (see the relevant entries in the Bibliographie Linguistique for the years 1973–1976 for locations of reviews and review articles). Among the new features of the volume are: a section on (historical) syntax (355–363), a 23rd chap., “Genetic linguistics and metaheory” (399–411), and a thoroughly revised and updated (select) bibliography (413–447). The front matter contains an “Introduction 1988” (ix–xv), and the volume is rounded off by a detailed general index (449–462) .]

ed. 1989 [ for 1988 ]. Antoine Meillet et la linguistique de son temps . (= Histoire Epistémologie Langage X:2 .) Paris : S.H.E.S.L. ( © PUV St-Denis ), 348 pp. ; 1 portrait . [ This special issue of HEL publishes the bulk of the papers presented at the Meillet Conference held at the University of Paris X – Nanterre in Sept. 1987 – cf. the report by Zlatka Guentchéva in HL XV:3.439–446 (1988), for details. It includes contributions on a wide variety of topics, from Meillet’s attitude towards reconstruction in historical-comparative linguistics to his involvement in (nationalist) political issues during World War I, by Marie-José Reichler-Béguelin, Simone Delesalle, Konrad Koerner, Brigitte Nerlich, Françoise Létoublon, Kathryn Klingebiel, Yakov Malkiel, Pierre Caussat, Anna Morpurgo Davies, Jacqueline Lafontaine, Jean Rousseau, and many others. No index .]

. 1988 . A Government-Binding Account of the Complementizer System in Bernese Swiss German . (= Arbeitspapier, 25 .) Bern : Inst. für Sprachwissenschaft, Univ. Bern , 61 pp. [ Bib. , 58 – 61 .]

eds. 1988 . Dutch Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists, Sofia, September 14–22, 1988 – Linguistics . (= Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, 11 .) Amsterdam : Rodopi , [viii], 645 pp. [ This massive volume prints 22 papers by Dutch Slavists dealing with avariety of topics, including accentuation, aspect, dialectology, tense systems, morphological questions, etc Of particular inrterest to HL readers may be Frederik Kortlandt’s “Remarks on Winter’s Law [in Slavic and Baltic]” (387–396) and Han Steenwijk’s discussion of “The fate of the circumflex sign [for medial length of vowels] in Baudouin de Courtenay Resian notes [1875–1893]” (495–506). There is no index .]

. 1988 . Toponymes et microtomes du Mont Beuvrey (Saône-et-Loire-Nièvre) . Dijon : A.B.D.O. [ 22, rue de la Bresse, Fontaine-les-Dijon France ], 166 pp. [ Unter Leitung von Gerard Taverdet entstandene Arbeit. Sie enthält, außer der Einleitung, eine sprachliche und geographische Skizze des behandelten Gebietes, die Präsentation des umfangreichen Marterials in Lexikonform (S.14–144), Karten (oft mehrfarbig) und Fotos, sowie einen Index der behandelten Ortsnamen (S.133–161). – HJN .]

ed. & introd. 1988 . Istorija sovetskogo jazykoznanija: Nekotorye aspekty obshchej teorii jazyka. Xrestomatija . 2nd rev. and enl. ed. Moskva : Vysshaja Shkola , 526 pp. [ This is a much enlarged ed. of Berezin’s anthology of a variety of Soviet scholars from Lev V. Shcherba and E. D. Polivanov to authors like A. A. Reformatskij writing during the 1970s. – See HL IX.193 (1982) for the entry on the 1981 ed. ]

eds. 1988 . Certamen Phonologicum: Papers from the 1987 Cortona Phonology Meeting . Torino : Rosenberg & Sellier , viii, 432 pp. [ This vol. brings together 15 papers, organised under three headings: “General theoretical issues”, “Prosodic theory”, and “Italian and Italian dialects”. Contributors include John Anderson, Geert Booij, Thomas D. Cravens, Michael Kenstowicz, Irene Vogel, Aldo di Luzio, Nigel Vincent, and others. No index .]

1987 . A History of the Hindi Grammatical Tradition: Hindi-Hindustani grammar, grammarians, history and problems . Leiden-New York-; København-Köln : Ε. J. Brill , [xii], 229 pp. ; ill . [ The book has 6 main chapters: 1, “The nature and origin of the Hindi grammatical tradition” (going back about 300 years); 2, “The dawn of Hindi grammar: The earliest period (1698–1770)” – cf. on this Bhatia’s paper published in HL ΧΠΙ/1986, “Toward a religious-colonial linguistic model of early Hindi grammar” (1–17); 3, “A new foundation for Hindi grammar: The [John B.] Gilchrist eara (1771–1820)”; 4, “The eve of the [Samuel H.] Kellog era (1821–1875)”; 5, “The silver age: The Kellog era (1876–1920)”, and 6, “The golden era: The modern era (1920 to the present)”. Bib. footnotes; only for Chapter 6 a select bib. has been provided (209–211); indices of names (213–218), of subjects (219–226), and of Hindi/Sanskrit terms (227–229). – A full review is to appear in HL XVII/1990 .]

Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 1986, et compléments des années précédentes / Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1986 […] Edited by Mark Janse & Hans Borkent , with the assistance of Sijmen Tol [ and a number of international contributors – see pp. v – vi ]. Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer Academic Publishers , 1988 . Pp. lxvi, 993 pp. [ The total coverage (17,203 items) having increased only slightly over the previous year, the History of Linguistics by comparison shows a noticeable augmentation: 536 (as against 425) items in the regular HoL section (pp. 33–60) and 452 (compared to some 350 in BL 1985) in the “Biographical Data / Données biographiques” section (pp. 60–77). As a laudable innovation users of the BL will appreciate that the HoL section has now been subdivided into a variety of subsections from “General” to “Arab tradition” (the latter with the collaboration of Kees Versteegh, Cairo). However, this should not prevent historians of linguistics to consult other sections in the Bib., such as the “Festschriften/Mélanges in honorem” rubric (17–24), congress reports, and generalties subsections in sections devoted to specific language fields or preceding (or dispersed in) general linguistic theory and philosophy of language sections. Another recent feature in the HoL section is the addition of life-dates in individual entries .]

1988 . Evolution in Language . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Karoma Publishers , xi, 178 pp. [ This study, whose author maintains that “language evolution is a fact, and [that] it proceeds in the direction of early-acquired features” (Foreword, p.x), has the following chaps.: 1, “Unity and directionality of language evolution”; 2, “The biological evolution”; 3, “Language and biology”; 4, “Language acquisition”; 5, “The evolution and acquisition of phonology”; 6, “The evolution and acquisition of morphology”; 7, “The evolution and acquisition of syntax”, and 8, “Linguistic paedomorphosis: A putative theory of language evolution”. Bib. (167–178; no index) .]

. 1989 . Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure . Newly edited , together with a bio-bibliographical account of Bopp by Joseph Daniel Guignaut , and introduction to Analytical Comparison by Friedrich Techmer , and a letter to Bopp by Wilhelm von Humboldt , by Konrad Koerner , with a new foreword, a selectbibliography, and an index of authors (= Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 3 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publ. Co. , xxxviii, 68 pp.; 1 portr . [ New re-edition of the 1820 publication – a revised English version of the linguistic portion of Bopp’s Conjugationssystem of 1816 prepared by himself – which first appeared in Amsterdam in 1974 – cf. Sebastiano Timpanaro’s review in HL 3.225–230 (1976) .]

ed. 1986 . Functional Explanations in Linguistics . (= Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 1 .) Brussels : Editions de l’Univ. de Bruxelles , 285 pp. [ This first number/volume of the BJL – see De Houwer & Gillis (1987) below for an entry on volume 2 – presents a discussion of the differing approaches to ‘functional grammar’, beginning with an exposition by Simon Dik, “On the notion ‘functional explanation’” (11–52), and ending with a paper by Paul Werth on “A functional approach to presupposition: Pulling the plug on holes and filters” (239–279). All papers being in English, the summaries (281–285) are either in Dutch or French .]

. 1989 . Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 57 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xv, 331 pp. [ Apart from an introduction outlining the thrust of the study (1–18) and a chapters of “Conclusions” (285–303), the work has five major chaps.: 1, “Methodology”; 2, “The Hellenistic social and linguistic context”; 3, “Decline of ancient Greek dialects”; 4, “Growth of various forms of koiné”, and 5, “Hellenistic Koiné in contact with other languages”. The back matter consists of a bib. (305–315), and indices of names (317–319), of cited inscriptions (321–328), and subjects (329–331) .]

eds. 1988 . Categorial Grammar . (= Linguistic & Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 25 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 365 pp. [ The vol. brings together 20 papers “concerning various aspects of the theory of categorial grammars and its applications” (main editor’s introduction, p. 1), a number of them reprinted from Western sources such as the American Mathematical Monthly, Synthese, and The Monist. These are organized under two major headings: “Studies in Categorial Grammar” and “Borderlines of Categorial Grammar”. There is no index .]

Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin publiés par le directeur de l’Institut . Nos. 56 – 58 . Copenhague : I kommission hos Erik Paludan-International Boghandel [ Fiolstæde 10, DK-1171 Copenhagen Κ ], 1988–1989 , 238, 188, and xx, 322 pp. , respectively . [ Contributors include Irène Rosier, Sten Ebbesen, Robert Andrews, Paul Vincent Spade, Christian Troelsgård, Johnny Christensen, Karin Margareta Fredborg, C. H. Kneepkens, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Brian Patrick McGuire, Bjarne Schartau, Christian Knudsen. – From the contents: “Ό Magister…’: Grammaticalité et intelligibilité selon un sophisme du XIIe siècle” by Irène Rosier (56.1–102); “A grammatical sophisma by Nicholas of Normandy, Albus musicus est” by Sten Ebbesen (56.103–116); “Grammatica Porretana” by Karin Margareta Fredborg & C. H. Kneepkens (57.11–67); No.58 is taken up by a critical text edition, De Sacramentis dualitatis by Odo de Moribund (1116–1161), prepared by Hanne Lange. No.57.179–188 provides an Index to the Cahiers Nos.1–56 (1969–1988), preceded by a list of addenda to nos.3–56 prepared by Sten Ebbensen (171–178) .]

Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 421 ( 1988 ). Genève : Éditions Droz , 272 pp. [ The vol. contains, among other contributions, the following items of particular interest to HL readers: “N. S. Troubetzkoy et les origines de la phonologie moderne” by Morris Halle (5–22); “Meillet et la poésie indo-européenne” by Françoise Bader (97–125); “Diachronie: l’apport de Genève” by Rudolf Engler (127–166), and “Saussure’s meeting with Whitney, Berlin, 1879” by John Ε. Joseph (205–213) .]

. 1989 . Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic . With a foreword by Paul Friedrich . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 51 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xxiii, 137 pp. [ This former Univ. of Chicago dissertation has been thoroughly revised, with a foreword by Paul Friedrich, one of Chatterjee’s former teachers, indicating the particular approach taken by the author: “Aspect and language: The Wittgensteinian Turn” (xi–xv). Following a succinct “Introduction: The magic of aspect” (1–3), the study has 5 chaps.: 1, “Aspect and its literature” (5–16); 2, “Aspects and meaning: Slavic” (17–67); 3, “Aspects and meaning: Indic” (69–93), and 5, “Slavic, Indic, and ‘general aspect theory’” (113–119). Bib. (121–131); general index (133–137) .]

. 1988 . The Predictability of Informal Conversation . London & New York : Pinter Publishers , viii, 132 pp. [ Apart from an introduction and a conclusion, the study has 5 chaps.: 1, “Some approaches to interactional encounters”; 2, “Goal and status”; 3, “Transactional (fixed status) encounters”; 4, “Interactional (variable status) encounters”, and 5, “Repairs in interactional dialogue”. Bib. (126–129); index (131–132) .]

ed. 1988 . With Forked Tongues: What are national languages good for? Ann Arbor, Mich. : Karoma Publishers , [viii], 185 pp. [ The vol. brings together papers that grew out of a workshop held in 1985 at the annual meeting on languages and linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The contributors include Jacob Mey, Robert L. Cooper, Peter Lowenberg, Ralph Fasold, and others. No index .]

ed. 1988 . Papers of the Nineteenth Algonquian Conference . Ottawa : Carleton Univ . [ send orders to the Linguistics Dept. ], vi, 234 pp. [ The vol. prints the papers presented at the 19th annual meeting held 23–25 Oct. 1987 at the Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. It contains papers such as “The historical morphology of the independent order of the Micmac TA verb” by Audrey Dawe-Sheppard (31–38); “Native Penodscot and European missionary time concepts” by Carlo J. Krieger (103–110), and “Theoretical implications of C. C. Uhlenbeck’s Algonquian studies” by Pierre Swiggers (225–234). No index .]

. 1986 . Bolivian Quechua Reader and Grammar-Dictionary . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Karoma Publishers , iii, 151, 84 pp. [ The vol. presents stories in Quechua, preceded by short lessons on Quechua syntax, with English equivalents of lexical items; the second part provides a grammar and a Quechua-English and an English-Quechua dictionary .]

eds. 1987 . Perspectives on Child Language . (= Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2 .) Brussels : Éditions de l’Univ. de Bruxelles , 161 pp. [ The vol. brings together papers by Belgian and Dutch scholars on a variety of approaches to child language study, including “Complex primitives in language acquisition” by Claude Vandeloise (11–36) and “Segmental awareness and learning the alphabetic code” by Alain Content (133–146). The back matter presents summaries in English and also either in French or Dutch (147–154) and the Journal’s style sheet (155–161) .]

. 1989 . Introduction to the Study of Language: A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages . New edition prepared with a forewrd and a selected bibliography by Konrad Koerner . (= Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 8 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publ. Co. , xxvi, 148 pp.; 1 portr . [ A reprint, with minor corrections, of the 1974 edition – cf. review by Christian Peeters in HL 2.242–244 (1975), for details .]

. 1989 . La Philosophie médiévale . (= Que sais-je?, 1044 .) Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 128 pp. [ This booklet has 5 chaps.: 1, “La littérature philosophique du Moyen Age”; 2, “Logique”; 3, “Physique”; 4, “Métaphysique”, and 5, “Psychologieet éthique”. The back matter consists of a short bib. (125–126) and a “Table des matières” (127–128) .]

eds. 1988 . Phonological Reconstruction: Problems and methods . (= Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 3 .) Brussels : Éditions de l’Univ. de Bruxelles , 183 pp. [ This vol. of the organ of the Belgian Linguistic Circle brings together 8 papers devoted to the subject indicated in the book’s title; conributors include Christian Peeters, André Martinet, and Didier Goyvaerts. The back matter prints summaries in English and French, but not Dutch as suggested on the back cover, all contributions are in English .]

ed. 1989 . Speculum historiographiae linguisticae: Kurzbeiträge der IV. Internationalen Konferenz zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften (ICHoLS IV) Trier, 24.-27. August 1987 . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 422 pp. [ This vol. brings together the bulk of the short papers read at the Trier Conference that, for restrictions of space, could not be included in the regular volume of proceedings, History and Historiography of Linguistics: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV) ed. by Hans-Josef Niederehe & Ε. F. Konrad Koerner (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, in press). They are 33 in number and organized under ten (untitled) sections. As the editor (p. 12) states, “each author had been free to revise his paper for publication [and] not a single paper had to be shortened for technical reasons”, thus allowing for at times fairly well-developed papers on a variety of topics, from medieval Semitic linguistics to 19th-century historical and comparative philology and, indeed, 20th-century linguistic theory in a paper entitled “Arguing against Non-Existent Arguments in Early Transformational Pragmatics” (331–336). Contributors include Michael G. Carter, J. B. Rudnytskyj, Daniel J. Taylor, Bernard Colombat, Geert R. W. Dibbets, Robin D. Smith, Daniel Baggioni, Jean-Claude Chevalier, Pierre Swiggers, Leslie Seiffert, Andreas Dörner, Mirko Tavoni, Daniel Droixhe, Jean-Claude Muller, and others. A useful “Index of Names” (409–422), which actually includes authors discussed only but supplies life-dates of most of them, rounds off the volume .]

. 1987 . Apollonius Dyscole: Essai sur l’histoire des théories grammaticales dans l’antiquité . Hildesheim-Zürich-New York : Georg Olms Verlag , [viii], 349 pp. [ Reprint of Egger’s (1813–1885) well-known work, first published in 1854 (Paris: Auguste Durand) .]

. 1988 . Rationality and the History of Linguistics . [ Followed by ] Theorie und Praxis: Formen und Aufgaben einer semiotischen Geschichtsschreibung by Klaus D. Dutz . (= Arbeitsberichte, 4 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 47 pp. [ The first essay takes up pages 3–25; the second pages 27–47; both address theoretical and methodological issues in linguistic and semiotic historiography respectively. Bib. (23–25, 46–47) .]

. 1988 . Sanskrit Studies of M. B. Emeneau: Selected papers . Edited by B[arend] A. van Nooten . Berkeley, Calif. : Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley , ix, 213 in-4˚; 15 figs . [ The vol. brings together 24 studies by Emeneau (b.1904) written between 1944 and 1977. They are divided into two classes: one, Literary and Philological (1–105), and two, Linguistic (107–205). The former contains papers such as “Signed verses by Sanskrit poets” (1955) and Bark-cloth in India – Sanskrit valkala” (1962); the latter “The dialects of old Indo-Aryan” (1966) and “Towards an onomastics of South Asia” (= article 22, 1978). The back matter consists of I, “General index” (206–207); II, “Sanskrit and Prakrit words” (207–209), and III, “Names in article 22” (210–213) .]

English World-Wide: A journal of varities of English 9 : 2 ( 1988 ). Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , [iv], [153-] 356 pp. [ The issue contains the following contribution of possible interest to HL readers: “What Happened to Sociolinguistics?” by Ronald K. S. Macaulay (153–169) .]

eds. 1989 . Satzlehre – Denkschulung – Nationalsprache: Deutsche Schulgrammatik zwischen 1800 und 1850 . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 146 pp. [ Apart from an introd. by the editors, the book consists of 5 studies, two of them by Clemens Knobloch, dealing with German grammar in the first half of the 19th century, in particular the work of Robert Heinrich Hiecke (1805–1861), Karl Ferdinand Becker (1775–1849), and Otto Friedrich Theodor Heinsius (1770–1849). The “Namenregister” (141–146) supplies life-dates of many authors, but by no means all .]

Escorial Bible I.J.4 . Vol. II1 Edited by Oliver H. Hauptmann [†] & Marc G. Littlefield . Madison : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies Ltd. , 1987 , [xiv,] ii–lxxii, 647 pp. [ Diese etwa auf 1530/1540 zu datierende spanische Übersetzung des Alten Testaments scheint sich einer hebräischen Vorlage bedient zu haben; die Vulgata wurde wohl nur zur gelegentlichen Kontrolle und Ergänzung herangezogen. Bd. I war von Hauptmann 1933 in Philadelphia (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press for Grinell College Press) herausgebracht worden. Littelfield hat den Nachlaß des 1959 verstorbenen Gelehrten überarbeitet und druckfertig gemacht. Der Vorspann enthält 6 Faksimiles der Hs., eine Einführung von L. (bis p.ix), der, ab p.xx, eine “Introduction by Oliver H. Hauptmann” folgt. Bibeltext bis p. 500, Anmerkungen ab p. 501 – HJN .]

eds. 1989 . Language Change and Variation . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 52 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 451 pp. [ The vol. brings together research papers first presented at the annual NWAVE colloquium held in 1982; those included have all been updated. The 22 contributions are organized under the following headings: “Variation in speech communities”, “Syntactic and morphological change”, “Syntactic variation”, “Variation in language development” and “Controversies and methods in the study of linguistic variation”. Contributors include: William Labov, David Sankoff, Henrietta Cedergren, Anthony Kroch, Ann Huston, Benji Wald, Walt Wolfram, Rajendra Singh & Alan Ford, Shana Poplack, and others. – One regrets the absence of any index .]

. 1988 . The Art of Naming . Chicago & London : Univ. of Chicago Press , xix, 203 pp. [ The study of the poetic language of 16th-century authors such as Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, and especially Edmund Spenser “examines the coloration given to the verb to read in its now most common sense but also as a name for acts of speaking, seeing, and interpreting non-verbal matter” and “explores the implications of a lack of consistent distinctions among these meanings for to read in a variety of poems and in uses of the narrator as reader in The Faerie Queene” (from the dust jacket). It has 4 chapters, endnotes (179–199) and general index (201–203), but no comprehensive bib. ]

. 1989 . Language: Its structure and use . New York-Chicago-London, etc. : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , xiv, 547 pp. [ The book, in which the authors intend to “present a glimpse of language as it is understood in the 1980s” (Preface, p.iii), has the following main chaps.: 1, “Language structure and language use”; 2, “Phonetics: The sounds of language”; 3, “Phonology: The sound systems of language”; 4, “Morphology: Structured meaning in words”; 5, “Syntax: Sentences and their structure”; 6, “Semantics: Word meaning and sentence meaning”; 7, “Pragmatics: Information structure”; 8, “Language universals and language typology”; 9, “The historical development of languages”; 10, “Speech acts and conversation”; 11, “Writing”; 12, “Dialects: Linguistic variation among social groups”; 13, “Registers: Language variation in situations of use”; 14, “The historical development of English”, and 15, “Language standards and language attitudes”. The back matter consists of a glossary, a general index, and a language index. Each chap. has a separate list of references; there is no general bib. ]

ed. 1988 . Historical Dialectology: Regional and social . (= Trends in Linguistics; Series and Monographs, 37 .) Berlin & New York : Mouton de Gruyter , xiii, 694 pp. [ The vol. brings together 29 papers prepared for a conference held in Poland on 7–10 May 1986. It continues the series of thematic meetings in Historical Linguistics begun in March 1976 dealing with Phonology, followed by others devoted to Morphology (1978), Syntax (1981), and Semantics (1984). The papers are arranged alphabetically by author; contributors include Henning Andersen, Lyle Campbell, Ives Goddard, Manfred Görlach, Raymond Hickey, Hans Henrich Hock, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Helmut Lüdke, Thomas L. Markey, Herbert Pilch, Dennis Preston, Peter Trudgill, and Peter Wiesinger. The range of topics is wide, from “The dangers of dialect parochialism: The Scottish vowel length rule” (by Alex Agutter) to “The phonological incorporation of Spanish into Mexicano (Nahuatl)” (by Kenneth C. Hill). There is only an index of names (687–694), and these do not even include initials for first names (with the exception of 6 instances on p. 694) .]

. 1987 . Ideology, Society & Language: The odyssee of Nathan Βirnbaum . Foreword by Charles A. Ferguson & Shirley Brice Heath . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Karoma Publishers , xii, 284 pp.; 2 maps, 15 photographs . [ This biography of Nathan Birnbaum (1864–1937), mostly remembered as the coiner of word ‘Zionism’ and a influential representative of an ultra-Orthodox line of Jewish nationalism, is really a kind of history of the various late 19th and early 20th century movements among (mainly) the East European Jewry in search for a national identity and a possible homeland. The second part of the volume (145–245) prints translations from German and Yiddish (prepared by Walter Kramer, Michael Gertner, Itzek Gottesman, and Michael Shakun) of 15 papers by Birnbaum first published between 1886 and 1931. The informative “Glossary: Names, technical terms and non-English (German, Hebrew and Yiddish) words” (247–278) includes terms such as ‘Abstand language’ (247–248) and ‘Ausbau Language’ (p. 250), but does not identify its coiner, the late Heinz Kloss. General index (279–284) .]

. 1989 . Language and Experience in 17th-Century British Philosophy . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 49 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 178 pp. [ This study is a thoroughly revised and updated translation of the author’s 1970 book, Linguistca ed empirismo nel Seicento inglese (Bari: Laterza). It consists of the following major parts: 0, “Introduction: Francis Bacon and the Renaissance linguistic tradition” (1–14); 1, “Language and the languages” (15–50); 2, “The reconstruction of linguistic unity” (51–90), and 3, “Semiotics and the theory of knowledge” (91–132). The “Concluding renmarks” (133–136) are followed by a bib. of primary (137–152) – which also supplies life-dates to the various authors discussed in this work – and secondary (152–169). The study is rounded off by an index of names (171–176) and an index of subjects (177–178). All three parts of the book have “Suggestions for further reading” appended (see pp. 49–50, 89–90, and131–132) .]

(a cura di) 1988 . Prospettive di storia della linguistica: Lingua, linguaggio, communicazione sociale . Prefazione di Tullio De Mauro [“ Nazionalità e internationalità degli studi linguistici ” ( xi – xxv )]. Roma : Editori Riuniti , xxvii, 517 pp. [ This vol. unites papers given at two colloquia, held at Mistretta on 24–26 March 1984 and in Messina & Catania on 1–3 Oct. 1984. There are altogether 27 contributions; several authors (e.g., Auroux, Di Cesare, Droixhe, and Gensini) have two items each to their credit. The bulk of the papers were given in Italian and by Italian scholars (Rudolf Engler appears to be the exception); those by Sylvain Auroux (361–386, 437–462) were translated by Raffaela Petrilli, and by Daniel Droixhe (225–240, 257–269) by Marina Giacobbe and Raffaele Petrilli, respectively, whereas Anna Maria Thornton translated Ulrich Ricken’s contribution (241–255). No index. – For further details, see Thomas Frank’s review of this volume in the present issue (above) .]

eds. 1989 . Handbook of Philosophical Logic . Volume IV1 : Topics in the Philosophy of Language . (= Synthese Library, 167 .) Dordrecht-Boston-London : D. Reidel , xi, 717 pp. [ The massive vol. brings together 10 major contributions by Dag Westerståhl, George Bealer & Uwe Mönnich, Nino Β. Cocchiarella, Nathan Salmon, Rainer Bäuerle & Max J. Cresswell, and several others on subjects such as “Quantifiers in formal and natural languages”, “Property theories”, “Philosophical perspectives on formal theories of predication”, etc. It is rounded off by an index of names (707–711) and an index of subjects (712–717) .]

eds. 1989 . Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change . (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 111 .) Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer Academic Publishers , xi, 465 pp. [ The vol. resulted from a conference dedicated to the memory of Imre Lakatos (d.1974), who 20 years earlier had organized, in 1965, a conference under the same title, namely, “Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge”, which then was largely devoted to a discussion of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientfic Revolutions (Chicago, 1962). The 1986 International Conference in Epistemology was held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in the month of August. The papers included in the present volume “are diverse in topic and approach, reflecting the aims of the occasion that led to them” (Introduction, p.x). They are 31 in number and organized under 6 different (though untitled) parts. From the contents: “Development of science as a change of types” by Herbert Hörz (33–46); “Continuity and discontinuity in the definition of a disciplinary field: The case of XXth century physics” by Marcello Cini (83–94); “Lakatos on the evaluation of scientific theories” by Nikolaos Avgelis (157–167); “Through the looking glass: Philosophy, research programmes and the scientific community” by Pantelis D. Nicolacopoulos (189–202); “A critical consideration of the Lakatosian concepts ‘mature’ and ‘immature’ science” by Emilio Metaxopoulos (203–214); Bridge structures and the borderline between the internal and the external history of science” by Ulrich Gähde (215–225); “Louis Althusser and Joseph D. Sneed: A strange encounter in philosophy of science?” by Aristides Baltas (269–286); “Research programmes and paradigms as dialogue structures” by Aris Koutougos (361–374), and “Has Popper been a good thing [for the development of the philosophy of science]?” by David Papineau (431–440). Index of names and subjects (457–465) .]

ed. 1987 . Historia del Conte Fernán González . A facsimile and paleographic edition with commentary and concordances . Madison : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd ., ISBN 0–942260–89–9 , xvi, [130], 76, 51 pp. [ Schöne, Fol. 136r-190v von Codex IV-b-21 im Faksimile reproduzierende Ausgabe mit moderner Transliteration. In die moderne Ausgabe sind Reproduktionen etlicher Bildtafeln (ohne Paginierung) aufgenommen. Did letzten, separat paginierten 51 Seiten enthalten einer automatisch erzeugten Wortformenindex. Auf p.iii und p.v der Einleitung wurden versehentlich Sonderzeichen bei der letzten nicht in den Text eingesetzt. Ein Inhaltsverzeichnis fehlt! – HJN ]

eds. 1989 . Theorien vom Ursprung der Sprache . 21 vols. Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , xii, 675 , and viii, 588 pp. , respectively . [ These two vols. bring together a host of ideas concerning the long-standing debate on the origin of language; vol.I, in particular, deals with the many theories proposed since Plato’s Cratylus (on which there is a contribution on pp. 42–64, which, however, ignores all the available scholarship). Of especial interest – and value – are the contributions of Ludger Kaczmarek, “Aspekte scholastischer Sprachursprungstheorien: Dionysius der Karthäuser [(c.1402–1471)] über den Ursprung der Sprache. Mit einem chronobibliographischen Anhang” (65–82, 82–88); “‘Lingua Adamica nobis certe ignota est’: Die Ursprungsdebatte und Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz” by Klaus D. Dutz (204–240; “Autour de l’œuvre de [James Burnett, Lord] Monboddo: Réflexions sur les tensions dans les théories de l’origine du langage en Grande Bretagne dans le dernier tiers du 18e siècle” by Patrice Bergheaud (241–286); “Asekte der Sprachursprungsproblematik in Frankreich in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts” by Daniel Droixhe & Gerda Hassler (312–358); “Sprachursprungsentwürfe im Schatten von Kant und Herder” by Wolfert v. Rahden (421–467). Vol.II continues to no small extent the historical perspective on the glottogonic debate, from Rainer Albertz’s “Die Frage des Ursprungs der Sprache im Alten Testament” (1–18) to Joan Leopold’s “Anthroplogical perspectives on the origin of language debate in the nineteenth cenrtury: Edward B. Tylor and Charles Darwin” (151–176). The remainder of the vol. carries contributions by scholars, a number of which work outside linguistics (such as biology, psychology, and philosophy). Of particular value are the detailed indices appended to vol.II, the “Personenregister” (513–540), and the “Sachregister” (541–588), which frequently supplies English terms as well .]

ed. 1987 . Adam von Rottweil. Deutsch-Italienischer Sprachführer. Màistro Adamo de Rodvila. Introito e porta de quelle che voleno imparare e comprender todescho o latino, cioè italiano . Edito di sulle stampe del 1455 e 1500 e corredato di un’introduzione, di note e di indici . (= Lingua et traditio, 8 .) Tübingen : Gunter Narr , 341 pp. [ Förderung des “Studium[s] des Frühneuhochdeutschen in Italien” (Vorwort, p. 9) ist vorrangiges Ziel der hier angezeigten Ausgabe eines der frühersten italienischdeutschen Sprachführer (bzw. nach Sachgruppen geordneten Wörterbücher, welches daher auch nach der 1. Auflage regelmäßig unter dem vielleicht sachgerechteren Titel Vochabuolista… publiziert wurde); vor ihm scheint es allenfalls das bislang noch nicht edierte Werk von “Maestro Zorzi [Giorgio] di Norimberga” bzw. Meister Georg von Nürnberg gegeben zu haben (c.1420). Adams Introito leitet eine ganze Serie von Sprachführern ein, welche ihn abschreiben, umarbeiten und ausbauen; hierzu mehr in dem [in der Bibliographie von G. nicht erwähnten] Buch von Alda Rossebastiano, Antichi vocabolari plurilingui d’uso popolare: la tradizione del “Solenissimo Vochabuolista”, Alessandria: Edizioni del Orso, 1984 [G. benutzt wohl eine frühere, von 1977 stammende, Teilausgabe dieser grundlegenden Studie]. Der von Aldo Bart Rossebastiano 1971 vorgelegte anastatische Nachdruck des Introito e Porta von 1477 (Torino: Bottega d’Erasmo) zählte, ohne Einleitung, 112 Seiten. Giustinianis Ausgabe der ersten und letzten Ausgabe des 15. Jh. hat mehr als den dreifachen Umfang, und dies bei, in moderner Technik eng bedruckten, Seiten. Sie enthält, außer einer gut dokumentierten Einleitung (S.9–30) und Bibliographie (S.31–33; in ihr vermißt man außer dem oben gen. Titel auch Gunnar Tancke, Die italienischen Wörterbücher von den Anfängen bis zum Erscheinen des “Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca” (1612) (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1984), die synoptische Ausgabe der Editionen von 1477 und 1500 (S.49–121), einen kritischen Apparat (S.123–125), “Note esplicative” und “Aggiunte alle note” (S.127–150); ferner eine “Lista alfabetica dei termini italiani del ‘Vochabuolista’” (S. 151–238), “Lista alfabetica dei termini tedeschi del ‘Vochabuolista’” (S.239–325), “Lista alfabetica degli equivalenti moderni tedeschi” (S.335–341). Fünf faksimilierte Seiten verschiedener Ausgaben des Vochabuolista sind beigefügt und lassen erkennen, daß die im italienischen Text verwendeten Akzente damals noch nicht üblich waren (vgl. dazu G.s Erläuterungen, S.123). Alles in allem: Eine nützliche sprachgeschichtliche Studie, die auch dem Wissenschaftsgeschichtler großen Nutzen bringen kann. – HJN ]

. 1988 . Native Writings in Massachusett . 21 vols. Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society , xxiv, 471 , and x, [473-] 791 pp. in-4° . [ This massive work has 5 major chapters and various front and back matter as well as many photographs and facsimiles of manuscript writings in Massachusett, a now extinct Algonquian language. The preface contains a “History of the Project” (xvii–xxiii), which, given the efforts of the Massachusetts Historical Society, goes back almost 200 years. Chap. 1, “Introduction” (1–23) describes the cultural context, the historical background and the general content of the Massachusett documents (more than 150 in number) that are presented in facsimile, transcription, and translation in Chapter 2, which takes up the bulk of volume I (25–471). (The documents are mainly from the (early) 18th century; the first, a will, dates from 1679.) Vol.II offers in the main a (in fact rather detailed) “Grammatical Sketch” (= Chapter 3 = pages 473–594); it is followed by Chapter 4, “[Massachusett] Word Index” (595–752), and Chapter 5, “English Index” (753–771), which “is intended to serve as a general guide to the content of the Massachusett documents and, where possible, to provide specificbiographical information about the individuals mentioned in them” (p. 753). Bib. (784–791) .]

Grammaire et histoire de la grammaire: Hommage à la mémoire de Jean Stéfonini . Recueil d’études rassemblées par Claire Blanche-Benveniste, André Chervel & Maurice Gross . Aix-en-Provence : Publication de l’Univ. de Provence , 1988 , [iii], 497 pp.; 1 portr . [ This vol. in memory of Jean Stéfanini (1917–1985) contains a number of contributions of particular interest to HL readers such as “Beauzée et l’universalité des parties du discours” (37–58) by Sylvain Auroux; “Aux origines de l’explication de textes français: Rollin 1728, Batteux 1753, Condillac 1775” (87–104) by Sonia Branca-Rosoff; “La syntaxe de Meillet et l’anlyse des langues parlées” (181–202) by José Deulofeu; “Signification, (sens), acceptation, dans la ‘Préface’ du Père Besnier (1694) au Dictionnaire étymologique de Ménage” (203–210) by Françoise Douay-Soublin; “La définition de Priscien de l’énoncé: Les enjeux théoriques d’une variante, selon les commentateurs médiévaux” (353–373) by Irène Rosier, and others. These are prefaced by an obituary by Maurice Molho (7–12) and a bib. of Stéfani’s writings comp. by Véronique Xatard (13–23), and followed by an “Index thématique” (495–497) .]

1988 . Germano-European: Breaking the sound law . Carbondale & Edwardsville : Southern Illinois Univ. Press , xvi, 271 pp. [ The study is an argument against what Jay Gould has recently termed “Grimm’s most exciting tale”. It has the following chaps.: 1, “Sound laws: Principles and practice”; 2, “The traditional sound laws”; 3, “Dynamic phonology: The basis of the new sound law”; 4, “New sound laws: The Indo-European sound shift”, and 5, “Corroboration”. Entnotes (229–247); bib. (248–262), and general index (263–271) .]

. 1989 . Leçons de linguistique […], 1946–1947. Grammaire particulière du français et grammaire générale (II) . Texte établ i par Jacques Thibault en collaboration avec Guy Cornillac . Québec : Les Presses de l’Univ. Laval ; Lille : Presses Universitaires de Lille , [v], 291 pp. [ This 9th volume in the Leçons de linguistique series of editions of the Paris lectures of Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960) covers the period of 29 Nov. 1946–6 June 1947. To this the following items have been added: “Table analytique” (219–246), a detailed “Index des noms et notions” (247–290), and an “Index des noms propreset des ouvrages cités” (291), which includes Saussure and the Cours de linguistique générale. – For earlier vols. consult previous “Publications Received” rubrics in HL .]

eds. 1988 . Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse . (= Typological Studies in Language, 18 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiii, 442 pp. [ Apart from the editors’ Introduction and the indices of languages (429–431), of names (433–436) and of subjects (437–442), the vol. contains 13 studies by 16 authors, including the following: “Concessive clauses in English and Romance” by Martin B. Harris (71–99); “Towards a typology of clause linkage” by Christian Lehmann (181–225) and “Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose by Johanna Nichols (399–428) .]

1988 . Bibliografía della lingüistica italiana: Terzo supplemento decennale (1976–1986) . Pisa : Giardini Editori e Stampatori , xi, 620 pp. [ This third supplement to Hall’s monumental Bibliography lists close to 20,000 items, organized under the following main headings: I, “Storia della lingua italiana” (68–144); II, “Descrizione della lingua italiana” (145–267); ΙII, “Dialettologia” (268–430), and IV, “Storia della linguistica italiana” (431–456) – the last-mentioned part (with over 400 entries) will be of particular interest to HL readers, although it is understandably far from complete. The index section by itself is an enormous achievement (especially for those who know that the entire work was compiled without the use of a computer); it has the following subsections: A, “Autori e titoli” (462–575); B, “Località e dialetti” (576–581); C, “Etimi” (582–585); D, “Parole italiane e dialettali” (585–595), and E, “Materie” (595–617) .]

eds. 1988 . Studies in Syntactic Typology . (= Typological Studies in Language, 17 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiv, 394 pp. [“ The introduction and the fifteen papers to follow were originally presented at a meeting entitled ‘Language universals and language typology’ held March 29–30, 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. They constitute about half of the total program of the conference. Almost all of the papers that appear here are in revised form” (Preface, p.ix). Contributors include Karen L. Fisher, Linda Schwartz, Jan Terje Faarlund, Talmy Givón, John Haiman, John A. Hawkins, and others. The back matter consists of indices of authors (379–384), of subjects (385–388), and of languages (389–394) .]

. 1987 . Hermes oder philosophische Untersuchung über die allgemeine Grammatik . Übersetzt von Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck [( 1761–1837 )], nebst Anmerkungen und Abhandlungen von F[riedrich] A[ugust] Wolf [( 1759–1824 )]. Erster Teil [ no other published ]. Hildesheim-Zürich-New York : Georg Olms Verlag , xxx, 352 pp. [ Reprint of German transl. (published in Halle: Johann Jacob Gebauer, 1788) of the first volume of James Harris’ (1709–1780) Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar (London: J. Nourse & P. Vaillant, 1751) .]

ed. 1988 . Linguistic Thought in England, 1914–1945 . London : Duckworth , xii, 201 pp. [ For details, see W. Terrence Gordon’s review article in the present issue, “Language Philosophy and Linguistics in Inter-Bellum Britain.” .]

1987 . How Is Language Possible? Philosophical reflections on the evolution of language and knowledge . La Salle, Ill. : Open Court Publ. Co. , xxi, 224 pp. [ This book has the following chapters: 1, “Problems regarding natural language”; 2, “The desiderata for a theory of language [expressive capabilities, innovativeness, etc.]”; 3, “The structure of language and the limits of innovation”; 4, “Communicability and communication”; 5, “Empiricist theories of meaning”; 6, “Psychological and biological ramifications”; 7. “The structure of problems and the growth of knowledge and language”; 8, “Empiricism from a biological pespective”; 9, “Essence versus evolution in language”; 10, “Mind and the origin of language”, and 11, “Stages in the development of language”. Endnotes (211–220); index (221–224) .]

. 1987 . Romanische Literatur- und Fachsprachen in Mittelalter und Renaissance: Beiträge zur Frühgeschichte des Provenzalischen, Französischen, Italienischen und Rätoromanischen . Hrsg. von Rudolf Engler & Ricarda Liver . Wiesbaden : Ludwig Reichert Verlag , xvi, 229 pp. [ Anläßlich des 70. Geburtstages des verdienten schweizer Romanisten Siegfried Heinimann am 13. April 1987 haben R. Engler und R. Liver in Zusammenwirken mit dem Jubilar 14 seiner zwischen 1960 und 1980 publizierten Aufsätze neu herausgebracht, wobei der Anmerkungsteil bibliographisch aktualisiert und jedem der Beiträge ein Postscriptum Heinimanns beigegeben wurde, welcher wichtige Ergänzungen und Hinweise auf neuest Forschungsergebnisse enthält. Die Beiträge sind in vier Gruppen zusammengefaßt, von denen namentlich “I. Grammatische und rhetorische Begriffsbildung” für die Leser von Historiographia linguistica von großem Interesse sein dürfte. (Teil II beinhaltet zwei Aufsätze zur “Biblische[n] und litur-gische[n] Sprache”, Teil IIΙ drei “Stilgeschichtliche Probleme der weltlichen Dichtung” und IV vier Aufsätze zu “Dante”.) Es ist sicherlich nicht übertrieben, wenn die Herausgeber zu den Aufsätzen von Teil I. schreiben: “Diese Studien stellen eine unabdingbare Grundlage für alle Forschungen dar, die die Erkenntinisse mittelalterlicher Sprachtheoretiker aus der Sicht moderner Linguistik werten” (p.VII). Im einzelnen handelt es sich dabei um den 1963 publizierten Beitrag “Zur Geschichte der grammatischen Terminologie im Mittelalter” (S.1–15), “Die Lehre vom Artikel in den romanischen Sprachen vom Mittelalter zum Humanismus (S.16–50; 1965–1967 zuerst publiziert), “L’Ars minor de Donat traduit en ancien français” (S.51–59; Studie und Edition, zuvor 1966 publiziert), “Zum Wortschatz von Brunetto Latinis ‘Tresor’” (S. 60–69; von 1968) und “Umprägung antiker Begriffe in Brunetto Latinis ‘Rettorica’” (S. 70–78; von 1973). Von Teil IV ist als wissenschaftsgeschichtlich relevant zumindesten noch der Aufsatz “Die Muttersprache im Denken und Wirken Dantes” (S. 155–174; von 1966) hier zu nennen. – Selten ist eine solche Aufsatzsammlung mit derartiger Sorgfalt produziert worden, wie die hier angezeigte. Durch die aktualisierenden Zusätze empfiehlt sie sich nachdrücklich dem Wissenschaftsgeschichtler, durch sorgfältig erarbeitete Wortindices aber auch dem Romanisten und Mediävisten. – HJN ]

. 1988 . Entwicklung der Sprachwissenschaft seit 1970 . 21 ., unveränderte Auflage . Leipzig : Bibliographisches Institut , 323 pp. [ The work has two main parts inscribed “Die kommunikativ-pragmatische Wende in der Sprachwissenschaft und die Grammatiktheorien” and “Richtungen der kommunikativ-pragmatisch orientierten Linguistik”, respectively. Part I deals with topics such as “Anforderungen der Gesellschaft and die Sprachwissenschaft”, “Marxistisch-leninistische Grundpositionen in der Sprachwissenschaft”, and “Kritische Einschätzung älterer Sprachauffassungen und Grammatiktheorien [i.e., Humboldt, Saussure, Weisgerber, and especially Chomsky]”. Part II has chapters on “Textlinguistik”, “Sprechaktheorie”, “Gesprächsanalyse” and “Hermeneutik in der Sprachwissenschaft”. There is an index of authors (315–317) and of subjects (318–323) .]

. 1988 . Charles Bally. Frühwerk – Rezeption Bibliographie . (= Abhandlungen zur Sprache und Literatur, 8 .) Bonn : Romanistischer Verlag [ Hochkreuzallee 46, D-5300 Bonn 2 ], [xii] + 266 pp. [ Aachener Dissertation, welche die stilistischen Arbeiten (Précis de stylistique, Traité de stylistique française) von Charles Bally (1865–1947) vornehmlich aus der Perspektive des Schulmannes würdigt. Trotz der “Vorstellung dreier von Bally inspirierter Werke” (Kap. II.4.3) keine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Arbeit im engeren Sinne. Man konsultiert jedoch mit Nutzen die beigegebene, umfangreiche “Bibliographie [der Schriften Ballys]” (163–250), welche (ab S.240) auch die Rezensionen zu Β’s Publikationen erfaßt. – HJN ]

ed. 1988 . Charles Bally. Unveröffentlichte Schriften: Comptes rendus et essais inédits . (= Abhandlungen zur Literatur und Sprache, 9 .) Bonn : Romanistischer Verlag [ Hochkreuzallee 46, D-5300 Bonn 2 ], [xiii] + 110 pp. [ Der Titel ist etwas irreführend, da das Bändchen vornehmlich Miszellen aus Tageszeitungen enthält; sie sind in die Gruppen “Rezensionen” (pp. 6–59), “Würdigung zeitgenössischer Linguisten” (60–80), “Beiträge zu verschiedenen kulturellen Anlässen und Themen” (81–101) aufgeteilt; es schließen “Persönliche Dokumente” an, so die von Bally eigenhändig erstellte “Liste des principales publications …” (102–106), ein Gedicht in Faksimile, ein Brief an Elise Richter sowie ein Selbstporträt. – HJN ]

1989 . A Natural History of Negation . Chicago & London : Univ. of Chicago Press , xxii, 637 pp. [ Contrary to its title this massive work is not a biological treatise, but a study which deals with the subject of negaion from a variety of historical, logical, and linguistic perspectives, ancient and modern. The main chap. headings are: 1, “Negation and opposition in classical logic [from Aristotle to Hegel]” (1–96); 2, “Negation, presupposition, and the excluded middle [age period]” (97–153); 3, “Markedness and the psychology of negation [from St.Thomas to Tamly Givón]” (154–203); 4, “Negation and quantity [from Jespersen (1917, 1924) to Barwise & Cooper (1981)” (204–267); 5, “The pragmatics of contra(dictor)y negation [from the Stoics to H. P. Grice]” (268–361); 6, “Metalinguistic negation [from Bertrand Russell (1905) to Ruth Kempson (1986)” (362–444), and 7, “Negative form and negative function” (445–518), which also includes a discussion on “Aristotle as a Montague grammarian” (463–480). The back matter consists of 2 short appendices on ‘multivalued logic’ and ‘inherent negation’, endnotes (525–579), a bib. of some 700 titles (581–615), and indices of names (617–625) and of subjects (627–637) .]

. 1988 . Words in Time: A social history of the English Vocabulary . Oxford : Basil Blackwell [ distributed in Canada by Oxford Univ. Press, Don Mills, Ontario ], [x], 270 pp. [ This study has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction: Words and social change”, outlining the direction and purpose of the inquiry; 2, “Words of conquest and status: The semantic legacy of the middle ages”; 3, “Moneyed words: The growth of capitalsm”; 4, “The mobilization of words: Printing, the Reformation and the Renaissance’” 5, “The fourth estate: Journalism”; 6, “Advertising: Linguistic capitalism and wordsmithering”; 7, “Words and power: Democracy and language”; 8, “Ideology and propaganda”, and 9, “Conclusion: Verbicide and semantic engineering”. The back matter consists of “Epigraph sources” (251–252); bib., arranged in two sctions: chronological list of dictionaries from 1567 to 1985 (253–255) and other works (255–261). Indices of subjects (263–267) and of words (268–270) .]

1988 . Science as a Process: An evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development of science . Chicago & London : Univ. of Chicago Press , xiii, 586 pp.; 8 photos, 19 figs., 11 tables . [ The vol. has 13 chapters and almost as many appendices (523–537) dealing with annual meetings of the Society of Systematic Zoology and other associations, citations of artcles published in “Systematic Zoology”, etc. The chaps. are titled as follows: 1, “Science, philosophy of science, and the science of science”; 2, “Up from Darwin”; 3, “Up from Aristotle”; 4, “A clash of doctrines”; 5, “Systematics at war”; 6, “Down with Darwinism – Long live Darwinism”; 7, “Down with cladism [i.e., numerical taxonomy] – Long live cladism”; 8, “The need for a mechanism”; 9, “Secrecy and bias in science”; 10, “The visible hand”; 11, “A general analysis of selection processes”; 12, “Science as a selection process”, and 13, “Conceptual interaction”. Bib. (539–573); name index (575–583) – Schleicher is mentioned only in passing (p. 235); cf. comments made in entry on Richards (1987) below – and subject index (584–586) .]

. 1988 . On Language: The Diversity of Human Language-Structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind . Transl. by Peter Heath , with an introduction by Hans Aarsleff . (= Texts in German Philosophy, [7] .) Cambridge-New Yor, etc. : Cambridge Univ. Press , lxix, 296 pp. [ New English transl. of Humboldt’s famous Einleitung to his posthumous Kawi-Werk (Berlin: F. Dümmler, 1836–39). For details, see Paul R. Sweet’s review in the present issue .]

Ibn Sa^cīd al-Maghribī : The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of the Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond . Selected and translated by James A. Bellamy & Patricia Owen Steiner . Madison : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies , xxxix, 239 pp. [ Auswahl von 193 Gedichten in Prosaübersetzung aus einer Sammlung des Jahres 1243, welche gute Einblicke in 300 Jahre arabischer Kulter in Al-Andalus gewährt. – HJN ]

. 1988 . Ethnie Continuity in the Carpatho-Danubian Area . (= East European Monographs, 249 .) New York : Columbia Univ. Press [ distributor for the Monograpoh series of Boulder, Colo. ], xiii, 439 pp. [ The study approaches the subject from 4 distinct angles, namely, I, “History”; II, “Archaeology”; III, “Linguistics”, and IV, “Geographical Names”. Part III is subdivided into the following sections: “The Romanian language” (191–210); “The problem of the ethno-linguistic substratum” (211–252); “The Romanian linguistic literature” (252–268), and “The [now largely discarded] theory of the ‘core regions’ (Kerngebiete) of the Romanian language” (268–290). The back matter consists of the following items: Endnotes (337–397); a “Selected bibliography” (399–419); a name index (423–429), a “Gazetteer [mainly place names]” (431–437), and a subject index (438–439) .]

eds. 1988 . Languages and Cultures: Studies in honor of Edgard C. Polomé . Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter , xvi, 791 pp.; 1 portr . [ The first ed. provided a brief biographical sketch of Edgar Charles Polomé (b.1920), which is followed by a full list of P’s publications (2–20). The 64 contributions, which range over a variety of topics reflecting P’s wide scholarly interests, are arranged alphabetically by author, from Peter F. Abboud to Werner Winter, including such internationally known scholars as Robert S. P. Beekes, Enrico Campanile, the late Georges Dumézil, Eric P. Hamp, Einar Haugen, Archibald A. Hill, Henry M. Hoenigswald, Frederik Kortlandt, W. P. Lehmann, Aldo Prosdocimi, and many others. Of special interest to HL readers may be the following papers: “Ex oriente lux: On the problem of an Asiatic homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans” by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (161–167); “The impact of language (morphology) on Luther: Sapir-Whorf redux” by Irmengard Rauch (535–549), and “[August Heinrich] Hoffmann von Fallersleben [(1798–1874)]: Anreger einer niederländischsprachigen Neuphilologie” by Cornells Soetemann (631–647). No index has been provided .]

. 1989 . Le Comparatisme . Tome I1 : Généalogie d’une méthode . Louvain-la-Neuve : Éditions Peters , 205 pp. [ This first tome of a projected 3-volume enterprise continues the author’s research on the foundations of comparativism of the past five or so years. It begins with the reflections of Plato as the major source of Western thought in general, and ends with the contributions of Buffon and Linnæus in the 18th century. The vol. has the following chaps.: 1, “La vision grecque depuis Platon”; 2, “L’idéalisme occidental”; 3, “Les jeux de langage”; 4, “La rhétorique”; 5, “Le choc des découvertes [since the discovery of the American continent]”; 6, “L’adaptation épistémologique”; 7, “Le contexte historique [of 17th and 18th century Europe, in particular France]”, and 8, “Ces luttes théoriques”. Bib. (195–201) .]

. 1989 . La Méthode comparative dans les sciences de l’homme . Louvain-la-Neuve : Éditions Peters ; Namur : PUN , 138 pp. [ “Les textes publiés dans ce volume reprennent les conférences faites, de février à mai 1989, aux Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix à Namur dans le cadre de la Chaire Francqui au titre belge” (Introduction, p. 7). They are published here in the form of 9 chaps.: 1, “Le comparatisme dans l’histoire de la pensée”; 2, “Deux grands moments historiques: La première sophistique et la première renaissance”; 3, “La comparaison et l’avènement de l’évolutionnisme”; 4, “Le rôle de la comparaison dans les sciences de l’homme”; 5, “Modes de relation à l’autre et typologie de la traduction”; 6, “Usages du langageet institutions démocratique”; 7, “Questions de méthode comparative”, and “Pourquoi le comparatisme?”. Bib. (127–134) .]

. 1988 . Guardians of Language: The grammarian and society in late antiquity . Berkeley-Los Angeles-London : Univ. of California Press , xxi, 524 pp. [ This work, devoted to the profession of the grammatici of the fourth and fifth centuries, consists of two major parts: the first (11–230) deals with their work and social status; the other consists of a survey of grammarians “known between A.D. 250 and A.D. 565”, and “is the product of a fresh review and analysis of the sources for the period” (p. 233) and will be a most useful reference tool for anyone working in this period of scholarly activity or looking for biobibliographical information on grammarians from Acacius (probably at Constantinople in the mid-4th century) to the Sophist Zosimus (active under Anastasius during the late 5th and early 6th cent. A.D.) – pp. 237–440. Individual chapters are devoted to Pompeius of the late 5th century (139–168) and to Servius, active in Rome toward the end of the 4th century (169–197). The back matter consists of 5 appendices (443–478), number 5 of which provides a “Geographical-chronological list of teachers” (463–78), a bib. (479–510), and a general index (511–524) .]

( in collaboration with Jacek Fisiak ) eds. 1988 . Luick Revisted: Papers read at the Luick-Symposium at Schloß Liechtenstein, 15.-18.9.1985 . Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag , xxvii, 466 pp.; 1 portr . [ This vol. brings together 25 papers presented by Anglicists from many countries at a conference held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Karl Luick’s (1865–1935) death. The front matter includes (xiii–xxvii) a reprint of Luick’s bib. (first published in the 1935 festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday). Luick is best known for his (massive but incomplete) Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache, Part I (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, [1914-] 1921–1940), reprinted, with an index by R. F. S. Hamer (Stuttgart: Tauchnitz; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964). Part I of the present volume brings appraisals of Luick’s work by Gero Bauer (biographical and general), Jacek Fisiak (historical English phonology), Klaus Dietz (historical English dialectology), and Udo Fries (syntax). Part II prints the bulk of the papers, most of them devoted to special issues in historical and structural English linguistics, by John Anderson, Alfred Bamnmesberger, Wolfgang U. Dressier, Manfred Markus, Herbert Pilch, Matti Risanen, Robert P. Stockwell & Donka Minkova, Roger Lass, and others. The back matter consists of “Addresses of Authors” (451–452), an “Index of topics” (453–458) as well as an “Index of names” (458–466) .]

ed. & transl. 1987 . Astadyayi of Pāṇini . In Roman transliteration by Sumitra M. Katre. Austin, Tex.: Univ. of Texas Press, xlvi, 1,330 pp. [This massive vol. is the first to bring the Sanskrit text of Pāṇini’s ‘eight books of grammatical rules’ in Roman transliteration; previous editions, beginning with Otto von Böhtlingk’s (1815–1904) German edition of 1839–1840, revised ed., 1887, and republished in 1964 (Hildesheim: G. Olms), the text had been given in Davanagari characters. (All these details, including an account of the earlier English editions of 1882 and 1891, can be found in Katre’s “Preface”, xv–xviii.) The ed.’s Introduction (xix–xlvi) places the text (probably from the 6th cent. B.C.) in historical perspective and explains Pāṇini’s approach to the description of Sanskrit. The transliteration of the text is given verse by verse, each followed by a translation and detailed annotations. The back matter provides an alphabetic index (1067–1072), the integral Sanskrit text in transliteration (1073–1200), an “Alphabetical index of verbal stems” (1201–1224), a list of the “Verbal stems according to meanings” (1225–1258), a list of “Verbal stems with specific markers indicated in the sutras” (1259–1263), the transliterated and annotated text of a supplement to Pāṇini’s work (1265–1325), and a select bib. (1327–1330) .]

. 1988 . Geschichte der psychologischen Sprachauffassung in Deutschland von 1850 bis 1920 . (= Reihe Germanistische Linguistik, 86 .) Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag , vii, 564 pp. [ This 1987 Habilitationsschrift submitted at Siegen University deals with the various psychological conceptions of language in the second half of the 19th and the first two decades of the 20th century, from Heymann Steinthal (1823–1899) to Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920). It has the following main chapters: 1, “Die Sprachpsychologie in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts – Überblick und Entwicklungstendenzen”; 2, “Vom Ursprung der Sprache, oder: Über den historiographischen Nutzen der Spekulation”; 3, “Das Völkerpsychologie-Problem”; 4, “Psychologische Semantik: Bedeutung und Verstehen [in the work of Gustav Gerber, Anton Marty, Hermann Paul, Philipp Wegener, Karl Erdmann, and others]”; 5, “Psychologie und Grammatik”; 6, “Sprache und Denken – Grammatik, Logik und Psychologie”, and 7, “Die Anfänge des Experiments in der Sprachtheorie [especially the work on slips of the tongue and misreading of Rudolf Meringer (1859–1931)]”. The back matter consists of biographical notices on authors discussed in the work (514–517) and a list of primary (518–543) and secondary (544–564) sources; no index .]

. 1989 . Practicing Linguistic Historiography: Selected essays . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 50 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xii, 454 pp. [ A selection from the author’s papers, most of them written between 1980 and 1987, some of them reprinted from the original places of publication, many others revised and updated. They are organized under 3 main headings: I, “Methods and Models in Linguistic Historiography” (1–146); II, “Tradition and Transmission of Linguistic Notins” (147–266), and III, “Schools and Scholars in the History of Linguistics” (267–443). A detailed “Index of Authors” supplying life-dates of all scholars treated in these 24 chapters rounds off the volume .]

. Deutsche Grammatica: Zum newen Methodo der Jugend zum besten zugerichtet . (= Documenta Linguistica: Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache des 15. bis 20. Jahrhunderts; Reihe IV: Deutsche Grammatiken des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, [unnumbered.] ) Hildesheim-Zürich-New York : Georg Olms Verlag , [xii], 88 pp. in-16° . [ Facs. reprint of booklet first published in Weimar: Johann Weidner, 1618. No information about the author or the work has been added .]

La Gran Conquista de Ultramar . Biblioteca Nacional ms 1187, edición con introducción, notas y glosario por Louis Cooper . Elaboración electrónica por Franklin M. Waltman . Madison, Wisconsin : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies , 1989 , xxxii, 278 pp. [ Die anonyme Gran conquista gehört zum sog. Cycle of the Crusades. Der Text wurde zum erstenmal 1503 in Salamanca gedruckt. Die vorliegende Edition basiert auf der ältesten überlieferten Hs. von ca. 1295. Der Herausgeber hält sich erfreulich genau an die Graphie der Vorlage, folgt jedoch im Detail nicht dem vorzüglichen, von D. Mackenzie herausgegebenen Manual of Manuscript Transcription for the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (Madison: Hisp. Seminary, 1984). Es ist auch schade, daß der kritische Apparat in den Anhang verwiesen wurde. Glossar (273–277). – HJN .]

comps. 1988 . Bibliographie de travaux québécois . Volume I1 : Psycholinguistque et pédagogie de la langue . Québec : Office de la langue française , [vi], 176 pp. [ Alphabetical listing of 2,040 titles by authors (1–127); detailed index (131–176) .]

comps. 1988 . Bibliographie de travaux québecois . Volume II1 : Linguistique génértale; linguistique computationnelle; terminologie; traduction . Québec : Office de la langue française , [vi], 315 pp. [ The bib. lists 3,772 titles alphabetically by author (1–239); detailed index from ‘adjectif’ to ‘Yoruba’ (241–315) .]

Langages: Revue trimestrielle . 23e année , No. 92 ( Décembre 1988 ), 127 pp. [ This number, ed. by Bernard Colombat, is devoted to “Les parties du discours”, and carries contributions by Sylvain Auroux, Jean-Patrick Guillaume, Jacques Julien, Jean-Pierre Lagarde, Jean Lallot, and Irène Rosier, several of which are devoted to particular traditions, e.g., ”Le discours tout entier est nom, verbe et particule’: Élaboration et constitutionde la théorie des parties du discours dans la tradition grammicale arabe” by Guillaume (25–36); “Les parties du discours aux confins du XIIe siècle” by Rosier (37–49), and “La terminologie française des parties d discours et leurs sous-classes au XVIe siècle” by Julien (65–78) .]

. 1988 . Glossaire de Rully . Dijon : A.B.D.O. [ 22, rue de la Bresse, Fonaine-lès-Dijon, France], VI, 37 pp. [Kleines, aber nützliches, vom Arzt des [in der Nähe von Mercurey (Burgund) gelegenen] Dorfes (“native speaker” des Dialektes) zusammengestelltes Glossar. Einführendes Vorwort von der Dialektologin Françoise Dumas. – HJN ]

. 1988 . Evgenij Dmitrievich Polivanov: Stranicy xizni i dejatel’ nosti . Moskva : Glavnaja redakcija vostochnoj literatury , 328 pp. ; various photographs and illustrations [ This is a full – and apparently the first – biography of one of the most distinguished Baudouin de Courtenay students at the Univ. of Leningrad, E. D. Polivanov (1891–1938), who was a victim of Stalin’s Purge during the 1930s. It does not only show Polivanov as a linguist and specialist of Far Eastern languages but also as a literary critic and a poet. (In fact, a number of poems by him are reproduced in the present book.) The author has had access to a variety of archival material, both private and public. The list of Polivanov’s writings (compiled by L. R. Koncevich) is very complete (313–324), though not in chronological order; it does not include the English translation of his papers originally edited by A. A. Leont’ev in Moscow in 1968, Selected Works: Articles on general linguistics (The Hague: Mouton, 1974). – There is no index .]

( with the assistance of Ugo Pincelli, Paola Ferrari, Pietro U. Din & Michelangelo Balluchi ) eds. 1988 . Renaissance Linguistics Archive, 1350–1700: A second print-out from the secondary-sources data base . Ferrara : Presso l’Istituto [ © Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali ], xv, 301 pp. [ This important research tool for students of Renaissance linguistics has three major parts: I, “Sources”, divided into periodicals and collective volumes (1–27); II, “Bibliography” arranged alphabetically by author – 2,000 items in all (29/31–232), and ΙII “Indices” (233/235–299) according to subject-authors, key-terms, countries and localities, and languages and dialects .]

. 1986 . Sprogets geometri: En analyse af sammenhœng og perspektiv i grundbegreberne i Viggo Brøndals sprogfilosofi . 21 vols. Odense : Odense Universitates Forlag , 827 pp; 5 ill . [ This massive work constitutes the author’s doctoral dissertation, devoted to the linguistic theory and philosophy of language of Viggo Brøndal (1887–1942), the co-founder – with Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) – of the Cercle linguistique de Copenhague in 1934. Vol.I of the study investigates the philosophical underpinnings of (and traditions followed by) Brøndal’s work, especially Aristotle, Leibniz, and Kant; vol. II is devoted to a close analysis of Brøndal’s linguistic theory. The back matter contains a French résumé (819–825); a bib. – a list of B’s writings is on pp. 832–833 (827–865), and indices of terms (866–868) and of names (869–875) .]

1987 . Langages: Revue trimestrielle , 22e année , No. 86 ( Juin 1987 ), 127 pp.; 1 portr . [ This number of the periodical is inscribed “A l’occasion d’un centenaire: Actualité de Brøndal” and is devoted to a discussion of the work of Viggo Brøndal (1887–1943), a co-founder, with Louis Hjelmslev, of the Cercle linguistique de Copenhague (1931). After an introduction by Larsen, “Viggo Brøndal (1887–1942): Linguiste, philosophe, sémioticien” (7–12), follow a variety of contributions (including a humorous one by Jacob Mey entitled “Dialogus de ente linguistico”, obviously playing on the particular meaning of (Zeitungs)ente in German) dealing with phonological, epistemological, and other theoretical issues in Brøndal’s work. – Cf. preceding entry .]

Lenguaje en contexto . Volumen I , números 1/2 ( septiembre 1988 ), 213 pp. Buenos Aires, Argentina : © Beatriz R. Lavandera [ who is the editor of this newly established periodical ]. [ The vol. contains six articles – three of them by well-known European scholars – one review article, two reviews, and a section of announcements; contributions not (originally) written in Spanish have been translated (by the ed. or members of the editorial board). Articles have a brief English abstract (as well as a Spanish ‘resumen’) added. Of interest to HL readers may be the lead artickle by Erica C. García, “Lingüística Cartesiana o el método del discurso” (5–36), and Dell Hymes’ review of Konrad Koerner’s Saussurean Studies / Etudes saussuriennes (Genève: Slatkine, 1988 – see HL XV.474, for details) on pp. 199–203 .]

Linguistic Abstracts . Volume 4 , Nos. 3–4 ( 1988 ), and volume 5 , No. 1 ( 1989 ). Oxford : Basil Blackwell , [117-] 238 pp. , and 60 pp. , respectively . [ Under the section title “Historiography” the summaries of the contributions to HL vol.XIV (1987) by the following scholars are reproduced (pp. 155–158): Ives Goddard, David E. Rogers, Henry M. Hoenigswald, William G. Moulton, Robert A. Hall, Jr., John U. Wolff, Winfred P. Lehmann, Mohammed Sawaie, Hans-Helmut Christmann, Andreas Dörner & Gregor Meder, Gustav Ineichen, and Ricardo Escavy Zamora. Most of the other abstracts are from contributions to HEL vol.IX (1987). In V:1 (1989) the “Linguistic Historiography” section includes summaries of papers published in journals such as Filologija, HEL, Word, ZPSK, and others (pp. 49–51) .]

. 1988 . Das Ungarische Sprachsystem . Preface by Thomas A. Sebeok . (= Eurasian Language Archives, 1 .) Bloomington, Ind. : Eurolingua , 303 pp. [ This is a reprint of John Lotz’s (1913–1973) book published in 1939 in Stockholm with the imprint of the Ungarisches Institut (though printed in Budapest); it had been written by Lotz during his directorship of the Hungarian Institute in Stockholm 1936–1938 – for details, see Gyula Décsy’s “Nachwort des Herausgebers dieses Nachdrucks – Corrigenda and Addenda” (297–303), but also Lotz’s own “Vorwort” (7–14, where the American-born Lotz signs his first name as János). – A review of the original publication by Thomas A. Sebeok appeared in Language 19.55–58 (1942) .]

. 1988 . A Tentative Autobibliography . With an introduction by Henry Kahane . (= Romance Philology ; Special issue , 1988–1989 , ed. by Joseph J. Duggan & Charles B. Faulhaber .) Berkeley & Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press , xxxi, 186 pp. [ This is by no means a ‘tentative’ but exhaustive and most authoritative of any Personalbibliographie imaginable. It is preceded by a Tabula gratulatoria and other front matter, including an “Introductory essay” by Henry Kahane (b.1902), which is actually a ‘portrait’ of Malkiel the scholar, with whom Kahane had shared a similar fate, including the study in Romance linguistics at Berlin University under the same Doktorvater, Ernst Gamillscheg (1887–1971), and exile to the United States in the late 1930s (xvii–xxv). The back matter includes “A candid retrospect” by Malkiel (145–156) and 4 other appendices (read: indices of topics, etymologies, reviews, and necrologies) .]

gen. ed. 1988 . Biographical Directory of Anthropologists Born before 1920 . Compiled by Library-Anthropology Resource Group (LARG) . New York & London : Garland Publishing , xix, 245 pp. [ This vol. has altogether 3,488 entries on scholars from almost 100 countries, from Algeria (2 entries) to Zaire (1 entry). Individual entries are rather brief and the sources consulted are almost invariably North American publications. While readers of HL would welcome an entry on the Jesuit missionary Manuel Alvares (1558–1619), they may also regret the absence of one on Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837–1899), the first North American holder of a chair in anthropology (at the University of Pennsylvania). It appears that because of the heavy reliance on library reference works, important publications of 1984–1986 on Sapir, his background, work, and influence were not noted. However, the width of the coverage makes up for such, probably inevitable, shortcomings .]

. 1988 . Le patois de Varennes-Saint-Sauveur (Saône-&-Loire ). Dijon : A.B.D.O. [ 22, rue de la Bresse, Fonaine-lès-Dijon , France ], [XIII], 96 pp. [ Dialektmonographie eines in der Bresse, bei Louhans, liegenden Ortes. Geographische und geschichtliche Einleitung. Onomasiologische Präsentation des Wortschatzes. Legenden. Chansons. Kein Index des behandelten Wortschatzes. – HJN ]

. 1988 . Morphological Naturalness . Preface by Rupert Riedl . (= Linguistica extranea, Studia 17 .) Ann Arbor, Mich. : Karoma Publishers , XV, 150 pp. in-4° . [ English translation, by Janice Seidler, of Morphologische Natürlichkeit (Wiesbaden: Athenaion, 1981). Bib. (145–150); no index. – Cf. the reviews of the German original by Bernard Comrie in Linguistics 20.666–667 (1982) and Witold Mańczak in SLang 6.146–152 (1982) .]

. 1988 . A Comparative Study of Lake-Iroquoian Accent . Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer Academic Publishers , x, 197 pp. [ Rev. version of the author’s 1983 Harvard doctoral dissertation, it is the “aim of this study […] to give an integrated summary of the developments that shaped the accent patterns of the five Lake-Iroquoian languages that survive until the present day from Proto-Lake-Iroquoian: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca” (Introduction, p. 1). The work has six main chapters, dealing in turn with “Segmental phonology and morphophonemic processes”, “Accent”, “Glide/vowel alternations”, “e-epenthesis”, “The joiner [i.e., an epenthetic] vowel”, and “*r-loss in the western languages”. Bib. (189–192) and indices of names (193) and of subjects (194–197) .]

. 1988 . Viena i načaloto na bǎlgarskata ezikoslovna nauka . Sofia : Izd . “ Narodna Prosveta ”, 143 pp.; 24 facs . [ Rather than a regular history of “Vienna and the beginnings of Bulgarian linguistics”, the book treats, in individual chapters, the life and work of (mostly) Bulgarian scholars between the late 19th and the first two decades of the 20th century, from Ljubomir Miletich (1863–1937) to Stefan Mladenov (1880–1963). The first two chapters deal with the beginning of Slavic studies in the early 19th century and the career of the Slovenian scholar Vatroslav Jagić (1838–1923), respectively. The back matter consists of a detailed bib. (119–134) and summaries in Russian (135–138) and German (139–142); no index .]

. 1989 . The Language of Sadomaschism: A glossary and linguistic analysis . New York-Westport, Connecticut-London : Greenwood Press , xi, 197 pp. [“ Introduction: Sadomasochism – the subculture and its place in history and literature” (1–24), followed by a glossary of terms, which includes etymologies (25/31–157), and back matter (epilogue, bib., and index to synonyms) .]

ed. 1988 . Anthologie de la linguistique allemande au XIXe siècle . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , xviii, 259 pp. [ The vol. presents selections, in French translation (prepared by the ed. and several others), from fourteen 19th-century German authors, though beginning with a piece by Johann Gotfried Herder (1744–1803) from his 1785 Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit. These are organized under the following section headings: I, “Du rationalisme à l’historicisme” (Herder, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Christoph Adelung, and Johann Severin Vater); II, “L’historicisme et le biologisme” (Franz Bopp, Karl Ferdinand Becker, and August Schleicher); IIΙ, “De l’historicisme à la sémantique” (Christian Karl Reisig and Friedrich Haase), and IV, “Psychologisme et sociologisme” (Heymann Steinthal, Hermann Paul, Philipp Wegener [1848–1916], Wilhelm Wundt, and Ferdinand Tönnies [1855–1936]). Each author/selection is introduced and the text is placed in its historical and intellectual context; introducer include, apart from the ed., Christian Stetter, Peter Schmitter, Daniel Baggioni, Clemens Knobloch, Achim Eschbach, and H. Walter Schmitz. The bib. is divided between primary (229–242) and secondary (243–253) sources. An index of names rounds off the anthology (255–259) .]

ed. [ with Robert N. Ubell as executive ed. ] 1988 . Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey . 41 vols. Cambridge-New York-Melbourne, etc. : Cambridge Univ. Press , x, 500 ; viii, 320 ; ix, 350 , and x, 292 pp. , respectively . [ The Survey is divided into the following vols.: I, Linguistic Theory: Foundations; II, Linguisdtic Theory: Extensions and Implications; IIΙ, Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects, and IV, Language: The Socio-Cultural Context. Each vol. has between 12 and 18 individual contributors writing on subjects of their research interests. Vol.I has separate papers on syntactic (David Lightfoot), morphological (Stephen R. Anderson), and phonological (Paul Kiparsky) change, but there is no single contribution devoted to Historical Linguistics or (traditional) Comparative Grammar in general, thus reflecting much of what is regarded in certain quarters as ‘mainstream’. Significantly, vol.I has an appendix (but not a regular chapter) devoted to the History of Linguistics (462–484), in which Robert H. Robins offers a general survey of linguistic ideas from Plato to Chomsky. – Vol.II has sections on language acquisition, speech errors, discourse analysis, computer applications, and a lengthy exchange between Derek Bickerton and Pieter Mysken on the linguistic status of creole languages (267–306). Vol.III deals with a variety of psycholinguistic, neurological and biological problems; vol.IV essentially with various kinds of sociological issues, including language and social class, language and race, language death, language and gender, etc. Readers of HL may find Jane H. Hill’s critical survey of the literature concerning the so-called Sapir-Whorf-Hypothesis (“Language, culture, and world-view”) particularly interesting. Each chapter/section has a select bib.; each volume has indices of names and of subjects .]

. 1989 . The Germanic Languages: Origins and early dialectal interrelations . Tuscaloosa, Ala. & London : Univ. of Alabama Press , x, 177 pp. [ The book constitutes a revised translation into English of a work that appeared in 1979 in Danish (cf. the late Harry Andersen’s review in Medieval Scandinavia 11.281–288, 1979). It consists of the following chapters: 1, “The Germanic languages”; “Germanic: An Indo-European language group”; 3, “Germanic tribal movements”; 4, “The grouping of the Germanic languages”, and 5, “Methodological deliberations”. Bib. (153–170); general index (171–177). – The present writer enjoyed the many references to August Schleicher’s work, especially his Die Deutsche Sprache of 1860 (2nd ed., 1869), and his Stammbaum theory and other ideas about language grouping (pp. 109–113, and elsewhere) .]

ed. 1988 . Relativism and Realism in Science . (= Australian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 6 .) Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer Academic Publishers , ix, 299 pp. [ The vol. brings together 9 original papers plus an introduction by the ed. They include the following: “Does the sociology of science discredit science?” by David Papineau (37–57); “The strong sociology of knowledge without relativism” by Philip Pettit (81–91); “Are all theories equally good? A dialogue [between a relativist and a non-relativist]” by Larry Laudan (117–139)”, and “On a dogma concerning realism and incommensurability” by Graham Oddie (169–203). The back matter consists of “Notes on [the] contributors” (293–295) and an index of names (297–299) .]

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics . No. 14 ( 1988 ), [v], 141 pp. [ Contains 4 papers, one of them in Norwegian but with an English summary (p. 102). They include: “On the transparency of the English comparative constructions” by Leiv Egil Brevik (1–31) and “Word order in tensed clausal complements” (118–141) by Knut Taraldsen .]

Общественные Науки за Рубежом . Serija 6 : Jazykoznajia . Nos. 3–61 ( 1988 ), Nos. 1–21 ( 1989 ), ca. 180–200 pages each . Moskva : Institut Nauchnoj Informacii po Obshchestvennym Naukam, Akad . Nauk SSSR . [ As in previous numbers since the creation of this periodical these issues provide reviews of the various linguistics publications appearing outside the Soviet Union; the first section in each number is devoted to History of Linguistics; the present issues includes reviews of Bhatia (1987) – see the entry above; of Calero Vaquera (1986) – see HL XV.456–457 (1988); and a variety of other recent publications in the field .]

Общественные Науки в СССР . Serija 6 : Jazykoznanija . Nos. 3–6 ( 1988 ), and Nos. 1–21 ( 1989 ). Ibid. [ This is the corresponding publication informing on Russian linguistic scholarship – see entries in earlier issues of HL for further details .]

1987 . History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brethren on the Carribean Islands of St.Thomas, St.Croix, and St. John . Edited by Johann Jakob Bossard . English translation and edition by Arnold R. Highfield & Vladimir E. Barac Ann Arbor, Mich. : Karoma Publishers , xxxv, 737 pp.; ill., tables, and maps . [ This is an English transl. of Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp’s (1721–1787) Geschichte der evangelischen Brüder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan, ed. from MS by Johann Jakob Bossart (1721–1789) and published at Barby (near Magdeburg) in 1777 (Christian Friedrich Lauer, publisher for the seminary of the Moravian Brethren) of some 1,100 pages. Oldendorp, a member of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeinde, had been commissioned, in February 1766, to undertake a history of the missions in the Danish West Indies; he arrived at St.Croix in March 1667, spending the next one-and-a-half years on these islands, returning after a six-month sojourn at the Brethren’s settlement at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for archival work. “The history is divided into two quite distinct parts. Part One provides detailed background information to the mission history, dealing with such matters as geography, history of the Indianxs, early colonial history, political organization, travel conditions, natural history, ethnology of the Blacks, both in Africa and in the West Indies, and a survey of the most important social, economic, and political instuitutions in the Danish West Indies at the time. […] Part Two contains the mission history proper” (Translators’ Introduction, p.xxiv). The back matter consists of a Lebenslauf of Oldenburg, partly autobiographical, partly written by a Brother after his death and published here in English transl. (633–640), copious notes (641–703), bib. (705–711), and a detailed index (713–737) .]

ed. 1989 . Contrastive Pragmatics . (= Pragmatics & Beyond – New series, 3 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiii, 281 pp. [ The vol. brings together 11 original papers divided into 2 sections: “Pragmatics in Cross-Language Studies” and “Pragmatics in Interlanguage and Second Language Acquisition Studies”. Contributors include Robert K. Herbert, Tomasz P. Krzeszowski, Marie-Louise Liebe-Harkort, Susan C. Shepherd, Hans W. Dechert, and others. “Index of names and aurthors” (277–282), which actually – and happily – includes a number of subjects and terms as well .]

eds. 1987 . Prekursorzy słowiańskiego językoznawstwa porównawczego (do końca XVIII wieku ). (= Prace Slawistyczne, 57 .) Warsaw-Cracow, etc. : Zakład narodowy imiena Ossolińskich wyd. Polskiej Akad . Nauk , 362 pp. [ This vol. brings together papers first presented at a conference on ‘Precursors of Slavic linguistics from the 18th century onwards’ held in Warsaw in 1984; understandably, the bulk of the papers are in Polish, with others in Russian, German and Czech, though there are also four contributions in English. Of these the following are of particular interest: “Explorations in the history of the theory of genetic relationship among Slavic scholars before 1800” by Tom M. S. Priestly (25–38), and “Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) and Slavic lexicology and lexicography” by Milan Fryščǎk (351–360). There is no index .]

, see Katre ( 1987 ) above .

eds. 1989 . Workpapers Concerning Waorani Discourse Features . (= Language Data; Amerindian series, 10 .) Dallas, Texas : The Summer Institute of Linguistics , xx, 168 pp. [ The vol. has 4 parts, the first 3 of which are papers by various scholars addressing subjects such as “Some Grammatical Structures of Discourse”, “Some Grammatical Structures from Discourse to Morpheme Classes”, and “Some Referential Structures of Discourse”, respectively. Part IV, “The Texts” (105–168) presents 10 stories narrated by natives of the Waorani tribe of eastern Ecuador in transcription, word-by-word translation, and free translation. The front matter includes a bib. (xvii–xx) .]

. 1986 . Practicing Linguist: Essays on language and languages, 1950–1985 . Vol. I1 : On Language . Heidelberg : Carl Winter , [v], 231 pp. [ This first vol. of Pulgram’s two-volume collection of alltogether 40 papers, most of them written between 1957 and 1979, contains 16 items on historical linguistics, language and writing, and several other subjects. For readers of HL the following are probably of particular interest: “Sciences, humanties, and the place of linguistics” of 1967 (5–23), the 1971 review article on Chomsky’s Language and Mind (48–60), and his 1979 appraisal of a distinguished Austrian Romance scholar, In pluribus prima: Elise Richter (1865–1943)” (209–224). Many of the papers have a new introduction added, and the bibliograhical references have been combined to a master list at the end of the volume (225–231). However, no index has been added .]

. 1988 . Practicing Linguist: Essays […] . Vol. II1 : On Languages . Heidelberg : Carl Winter , [viii], 345 pp. [ This sequel to Pulgram (1986) above reprints 23 papers published between 1953 and 1988, concluding with his 1979 Presidential Address given at the LACUS meeting held at the Univ. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, as an ‘Epilogue’ (319–337). They are organized under the following headings: “Dialects, past and present”; “Segmental phonolgy”; “Non-segmental phonology (prosodies)”, and “Morphology and syntax”. Master list of references (339–345); no index. – Of particular interest to HL readers will be the following artciles: “Family tree, wave theory, and dialectology”, first published in 1953, reprinted twice (in 1968 and 1972) and translated into Spanish in 1965 (1–6), and “Neogrammarians and sound laws” of 1955 (45–49) .]

ed. 1989 . Yugoslav General Linguistics . (= Linguistic & Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 26 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 381 pp. [ This vol. brings together 20 orignal papers representing Yugoslav linguistic scholarship at its best; contributors include Ranko Bugarski, Rudolf Filipović, Milka Ivić, Pavle Ivić, Radoslav Katicić, Svenka Savić, Olga Mišeska Tomić, and many others. Subjects treated are bilingualism, dialectological differenciation, language change, and various other topics. – No index .]

. 1987 . Linguistic Typology . (= Empirical Approaches to Language Tyopology, 1 .) Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter , xi, 244 pp. [ “With a few minor changes, this collection of paperrs is the English translation of a book which first appeared in Italian (Linguistica Tipologica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1984, […]” (Foreword, p.vii), with a chap. on “Sentence negation in Romance and Germanic” (165–187), co-authored by Giuliano Bernini and Piera Molinelli, added. Chap. 10 deaks with “The language typology of Wilhelm von Humboldt” (192–213). Bib. (215–239) and “Analytical index” (241–244). – See HL XV.486 (1988), for an earlier note on this book, of which an abbreviated version appeared in Paris (PUF, 1985), and Frans Plank’s review of the Italian original in Folia Linguistica 20.233–235 (1986) .]

. 1988 . Archaeology and Language: The puzzle of Indo-European origins . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press [ first published in London : Jonathan Cape , 1987 ], xiv, 346 pp.; ill., tables, and maps . [ This work has the following chaps.: 1, “The Indo-European problem in outline”; 2, “Archaeology and the Indo-Europeans”; 3, “Lost languages and forgotten scripts: the Indo-European languages, old and new”; 4, “Homelands in question”; 5, “Language and language change”; 6, “Language, population and social organization: A processual approach”; 7, “Early language dispersals in Europe”; 8, “The early Indo-Iranian languages and their origins”; 9, “Ethnogenesis: Who were the Celts?”; 10, “Indo-European mythologies”, and “Archaeology and Indo-European origins: An assessment”. Endnotes (291–305); rich bib. (307–335), and general index (337–346). – For a review, see Igor M. Diakonoff in Annual of Armenian Linguistics 9/1988 .]

Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric VI1 : 3 – 4 ( 1988 ). Berkeley & Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press for the International Society for the History of Rhetoric , [205-] 422 pp. [ No.3 prints papers first presented at a conference on Cicero’s De Oratore held in Tatnic, Maine, during Oct. 1987; contributions by Woldemar Görler, Eckart Schütrumpf, William W. Fortenbaugh, Elaine Fantham; Dirk M. Schenkeveld, and Doreen Innes. A. “Basic reading list for Cicero’s Rhetorica” ([327]-[329]) concludes the issue .]

ed. 1987 . Tri-linear Edition of ‘Lazarillo de Tormes’ of 1554, Burgos, Alcalá de Henares, Amberes . Madison : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd. , xviii, 81 pp. [ Synoptische Ausgabe des ersten span. Schelmenromans, der überall in Europa Nachahmer gefunden hat. Der [sorgfältigen] Ausgabe ist lediglich eine ausführliche Inhaltsanalyse beigegeben, sonst nichts! – HJN ]

. 1987 . Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior . Chicago & London : Univ. of Chicago Press , xvii, 700 pp. ; 36 portr . [ This massive work has 11 major chaps., a conclusion and 2 appendices, the first of which includes a section on “Five models in the historiography of science” (560–574). These are: 1, “Origins of evolutionary biology of behavior”; 2, “Behavior and mind in evolution: Charles Darwin’s early theories of instinct, reason, and morality”; 3, “Contribution of natural theology to Darwin’s theory of the evolution of mind and behavior”; 4, “Debates of evolutionists over human reason and moral sense, 1859–1871”; 5, “Darwin and the descent of human rational and moral faculties”; 6, “[Herbert] Spencer’s conception of evolution as a moral force”; 7, “Evolutionary ethics: Spencer and his critics”; 8, “Darwinism and the demands of metaphysics and religion: [George] Romanes, [St.George] Mivart, and [Conwy Lloyd] Morgan”; 9, “The personal equation in science: William James’s psychological andmoral uses of Darwinian theory”; 10, “James Mark Baldwin: Evolutionary biopsychology and the politics of scientific ideas”, and 11, “Transformation of the Darwinian image of man in the twentieth century”. Bib. (629–662) and detailed general index (663–700). – The study makes mention of August Schleicher’s ‘Darwinian’ essay of 1863 (pp. 202–203) and reproduces Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Stammbaum des Menschen’ of 1874 on the front cover, but no reference is made to Schleicher’s 1853 genealogical trees or the influence he had on Haeckel in the use of the tree model and the materialist philosophy of ‘monism’. – Cf. the review note in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 25.302 (July 1989), for further comments .]

Rivista di Lingüistica . Volume I , No. 1 ( 1989 ), 222 pp. Torino : Rosenberg & Sellier, editor . [ Τhis newly established biannual periodical is to publish “papers on all aspects of natural languages: evolution, description, structure, usage, textual interpretation, mental representation, pathologies, historiography of linguistic research etc.” (Foreword, p. 4). Readers of HL will be glad to notice the names of Sylvain Auroux (Paris) and Hans-Josef Niederehe (Trier) on board of the “Comitato Scientifico”, and scholars like Raffaele Simone (Rome) and Mirko Tavoni (Pisa) as members of the “Comitato di Redazione”. No.1 includes a paper by Pierangiolo Berrettoni, “An idol of the school: the aspdectual theory of the Stoics” (33–68), and an obituary of Giorgio Raimondo Cardona (1943–1988) by Alberto M. Mioni (209–216) .]

ed. [ 1988 ]. L’Abiguïté: Cinq études historiques . Avant-propos de Catherine Fuchs . [ Villeneuve-d’Ascq near Lille ]: Presses Universitaires de Lille , 186 pp. [ The vol. brings together 5 studies devoted to the subject of ‘ambiguity’ (and ‘paraphrase’), 4 of which deriving from a research program under the C.N.R.S. in Paris, namely, “Apollonius Dyscole et l’ambiguïté linguistique: problèmes et solutions” by Jean Lallot (33–49); “Homonymie et synonymie d’après les textes théoriques latins” by Françoise Desbordes (51–102); “Évolution des notions d’equivocatio et univocatio au XIIe siècle” by Irène Rosier (103–106), and “Polysémie, ambiguïté et équivoque dans la théorie et la pratique poétiques du Moyen Age français” by Jacqueline Cerquiglini (167–180). These are preceded by an editor’s “Introduction” (9–13) and a paper by Sten Ebbesen, “Les Grecs et l’ambiguïté” (15–32). “Index des noms propres” (181–183) .]

ed. 1988 . L’Héritage des grammairiens latins de l’antiquité aux lumières: Actes du colloque de Chantilly, 2–4 septembre 1987 . Louvain : Peeters [ for the Société pour l’information grammaticale , Paris ], 360 pp. [ This conference vol. prints 26 papers, all but one (G. L. Bursill-Hall’s “The Modistae revisited” [215–232]) of which were presented at its ‘table-ronde’. 8 papers are in English; 2 in Italian; all papers have an English summary at the outset of the article. The many informative contributions include: “Priscian and the context of his age” by R. H. Robins (49–55); “La dimension historique chez les grammairiens latins (Donat, Dosithée)” by Pierre Flobert (27–35); “Les innovations théoriques de la grammaire carolingienne: Peu de chose. Pourquoi?” by Louis Holtz (133–145); “Absolutio: A note on the history of a grammatical concept” by C. H. Kneepkens (155–169); “Le paradigme grammatical medievo-latin dans la grammaire portugaise de la Renaissance” by Maria Leonor Carvalhão Buesco (271–282); “Les grammairiens anciens et modernes dans les Introductiones Latinae d’Antono de Nebrija” by Virginia Bonmat Sánchez (293–302). An “Index nominum” (355–360) rounds off the vol. ]

. 1988 . The Sanskrit Grammar and Manuscripts of Father Heinrich Roth S. J. (1620–1668) . Facsimile edition of Biblioteca Nazionale, Rome, MSS. Or. 171 and 172. With an Introduction by Arnulf Camps and Jean-Claude Muller . Leiden-New York-K0benhavn-Köln : Ε. J. Brill , [v], 25, [166] in-4° . [ This vol. reproduces 2 important MSS of the German missionary in India, Heinrich Roth, namely, “Grammaticca [sic] linguae Sanscretanae Brachmanum Indiae orientalis” and 2 Indian texts, with Latin annotations by Roth, of the late 15th and mid-17th centuries. These are prefaced by various introductory sections, including “Father Heinrich Roth, S. J. (1620–1668) and the history of his Sanskrit manuscripts” by Arnulf Camps, O. F. M.; English translations of German accounts, “Notes on the content of the three manuscripts of Heinrich Roth” by Richard Hausschild† (1969) and “A list of the letters, reports and manuscripts written by Father Heinrich Roth” by Bruno Zuimmel† (1969), and a bib. on Roth (pp. 23–25) comp. by Jean-Claude Muller .]

SAIS Arbeitsberichte Heft 11 ( Oktober 1988 ), [viii], 148 pp. Kiel : Seminar für Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft, Univ. Kiel . [ This number brings together 7 papers by regular members and guests of the Seminar dealing with a variety of subjects, both synchronic and diachronic. The possibly most interesting of them is “Areal language phenomena: Similar, but not identical” by Jadranka Gvozdanović (28–39) .]

. 1989 . The Study of Language in 17th-Century England . Second Edition . (= Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 17 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xix, 220 pp. [ This 2nd ed. of the book, first published in 1979, has the following additions (apart from a few minor corrections of the texts): “Preface to the second edition” (xi–xiii), a list of titles for further reading pertaining to the Preface as well as to the 11 chapters of the book (xv–xix), and an updated list of the author’s publications, 1957–1987 (207–213) as well as items in press (p. 213). – Some 10 reviews of the original edition are listed on p. 211 .]

. 1988 . Taal . Inleid, vertaald en van een aanvullende bibliografie voorzien door Pierre Swiggers . Leuven & Paris : Peeters , xxi, 203 pp. ; 5 pictures of Edward Sapir [ xxiii – xxxi ]. [ This Dutch transl. follows the one by August Lammert Sötemann published in 1949 under the title Wat is taal? Inleiding tot de taalkunde (Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Maatschappij). It is a translation of Sapir’s book Language: An introduction to the study of speech, first published in 1921 (New York: Harcourt & Brace). To this new ed. has been added a preface (vii–viii, an introd., “Edward Sapir als taalkundige” (ix–xvii), a select bib. of Sapir’s writings (xviii–xxi), and, at the end of the volume a survey of linguistics (193–203), but no index .]

Sartonia . Volume 11 ( 1988 ). [ Ghent : Published by the ] Sarton Chair of the History of Sciences , University of Ghent , Belgium , 156 pp. [ The volume resulted from the Inaugural Ceremony of the Sarton Chair held in Ghent on 28 Nov. 1986, followed by other special lectures given at Ghent between 30 Jan. and 4 March 1987 by recipients of the Sarton Medal for distinguished work in the History of Science. The establishment of the chair, with Robert K. Merton as the first holder, was in honor of George Sarton (1884–1956), founder and long-time editor of Isis, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to ‘science and its socil impact’ .]

. 1986 . Le leggende germaniche . Scritti scelti e annotati a cura di Anna Marinetti e Marcello Meli . Promessa di Aldo Prosdocimi . Este : Librería Editrice Zielo , 511 pp. [ This vol. contains a text edition of a selection from Saussure’s MSS on the Nibelungen and other Germanic (usually OHG) Heldensagen deposited at the Geneva Public and University Library (13/15–448). (For an introduction to the subject matter, see A. Prosdocimi’s paper, “Sul Saussure delle leggende germaniche”, CFS 37.35–106, 1983.) To this the editors have added two papers: “Per una lettura degl’inediti di F. de Saussure sulle leggende germaniche” by M. Meli (449–479; bib., 479–502), and “Un frammento di Saussure sui nomi divini” by A. Marinetti (503–510); no index .]

. 1987 . Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans le languages indo-européennes . 21 . Nachdruck. Hildesheim-Zürich-New York : Georg Olms , [vii], 303 pp. [ Second printing (the first appeared in 1968) of Saussure’s Mémoire, which first appeared in Leipzig in Dec. 1878 with the imprint “en vente chez Β. G. Teubner. 1879”. It has recently been translated into Russian (1977) and Italian (1978); it was reviewed by Brugmann, August Fick, Louis Havet, Kruszewski, John Rhys, Henry Sweet, and a few other contemporaries of Saussure, who by the way referred to his work as “mon système (des voyelles)” whenever he referred to it in correspondence or in oral communication. – For a detailed account of the fate of the Mémoire, see Remo Gmür’s 1986 dissertation briefly analyzed in HL XV.465 (1988) .]

ed. 1988 . Berlinisch in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Stadtsprache und Stadtgeschichte . (= Linguistische Studien; Reihe A: Arbeitsberichte, 174 .) Berlin : Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft, Akad. der Wiss . der DDR , [vi], 157 pp. [ The book consists of 15 articles devoted to the history and sociology of the Berlin city dialect; they resulted from a conference held at the Institute held in May 1987 in conjunction with the 750th anniversary of the first mention of the city’s name in historical documents. – No index .]

ed. 1988 . Die Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts . Band 31 : England. 2 vols. Basel : Schwabe & Co. AG, Verlag , xxxiv, 339 and [ν] , [341/343-] 874 pp. , respectively, plus a 20-page brochure ptinted the editor’s Gesamtvorwort . [ This “völlig neubearbeitete Ausgabe” of Friedrich Ueberweg’s (1826–1871) Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, which appeared between 1863 and 1928 in altogether 12 editions. The present work deals with the various philosophical currents of 17th-century Britain, not only the major ones associated with Thomas Hobbes, the Cambridge Platonists, and John Locke, but also ‘school philosophy’, religious debates, the impact of Descartes, the natural sciences (viz. the importance of the Royal Society), and political considerations. It contains analyses of some 300 philosophical texts of the period; primary sources appended to individual chapters amount to about 2,000 titles, secondary sources to about 2,200. A most useful feature of the work is the 72-page name index (803–874), which supplies life-dates of historical persons as much as they could be ascertained – from Peter Abælard (1079–1142) to Jacobus Zabarella (1533–1589). Historians of 17th-century British linguistics will be especially interested in the sections on John Wallis (1616–1703), John Wilkins (1614–1672), both by Paul Β. Wood (pp. 424–429 and 430–434, respectively) and the sub-chapter, authored by Brigitte Asbach-Schnitker & Hans Jürgen Höller, “Projekte zur Schaffung einer ‘characteristica’ und’lingua universalis” (313–339), which has individual sections on Thomas Urquart (1611-c.1660), Seth Ward (1617–1689), Francis Lodwick (1619–1694), Cave Beck (1623-c.1706), and George Dalgarno (1626–1687), but not on Wilkins .]

. 1987 . Biographisches und bibliographisches Lexikon der Fremdsprachenlehrer des deutschsprachigen Raumes. Spätmittelalter bis 1800 . Band I1 : Quellenverzeichnis; Buchstaben A-C . (= Augsburger I- & I-Schriften, 40 .) Augsburg : Universität Augsburg [ for ordering, send your request to the author at the Institut für englische Sprachwissenschaft, Univ. Augsburg, D-8900 Augsburg ], xxv, 269 pp. [ This is the first of a five-volume project, containing two parts (apart from the front matter): “Quellenverzeichnis” (1–114), which lists biographical sources, biographical accounts, lexicons, bibliographies and the like, organized along political and geographic line; the remainder (115/116–269) provides information on foreign language teachers from “Abbi” to “Czerniawsky”. Depending on information available on these Sprachmeister, some entries are less than 2 lines long (e.g., “Braiff, Paul. Sprachmeister an der Universität Erfurt, belegt für das Jahr 1741” [p. 190]); others (e.g., the one on Matthias Cramer [(c.1640-c.1727)] takes up seven pages [256–263] plus 2 full-page (unnumbered) illustrations) .]

ed. 1988 . In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics . Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter , xiii, 826 pp.; 1 portr . [ The vol. brings together some 35 papers, 11 of them by Mary (Rosamond) Haas (b.1910), herself a former student of Edward Sapir, which were first presented at a conference held at the Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, in June 1986. The editor’s Introduction (vii–x) offers a brief vita of Haas. Giving her background as an Amerindianist (apart from her work on Thai), the bulk of the papers deal with various aspects of a variety of (mainly) North American Indian languages. Of particular interest to HL readers will be Emanuel J. Drechsel’s contribution, “Wilhelm von Humboldt and Edward Sapir: Analogies and homologies in their linguistic thoughts” (225–264). Contributors include: Pamel Bunte, Catherine A. Callaghan, James M.Crawford, Scott DeLancey, Ives Goddard, Dale Kinkade, Sheldon Klein, Margaret Langdon, Wick R. Miller, Marianne Mithun, David L. Shaul, Frank T. Siebert, and many others. A detailed “Index of languages” (819–826) concludes the hommage volume .]

1989 . Defender of the Union: The oratory of Daniel Webster . Foreword by Haiford R. Ryan . (= Great American Orators, 1 .) New York-Westport, Connecticut-London : Greenwood Press , xiv, 195 pp.; 1 portr . [ Study of the lawyer and public orator Daniel Webster (1782–1852), who dominated the Federal courts, the Congress, and the public speaking circuit during his time, and of several of his famous speeches (made between 1819 and 1850). “Bibliographic essay” (177–190) and general index (191–195) .]

. 1988 . Translation Studies: An integrated approach . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 163 pp. [ The book has 4 main chapters: 1, “Translation studies as an independent discipline” (7–37); 2, “Translation as a cross-cultural event” (39–64); 3, “Translation, text and language” (65–110), and 4, “From special language to literary translation” (111–130). The back matter contains a conclusion, an appendix, list of dictionaries, and a bib., but no index .]

1987 . Poemas breves medievales . Edited by Ivy A. Corfis . Madison : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies , xiv, 97 pp. [ Enthält bislang teilweise unveröffentlichte, wichtige Studien des 1937 verstorbenen, bedeutenden Literaturwissen-schaftlers A. G. Solalinde, mit einer vorangestellten [pp.vi–xiv], bibliographischen Aktualisierung, und zwar zu den “Orígenes del teatro [español]”, sowie den “poemas breves” “Disputa del alma y el cuerpo”, “Razón de Amor con Denuestos del agua y el vino”, “Vida de Santa María Egipciaca” und dem “Libro de los Tres Reyes”. – HJN ]

1988 . Saussure, Derrida, and the Metaphysics of Subjectivity . (= Approaches to Semiotics, 80 .) Berlin-New York-Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter , xi, 304 pp. [ The book consists of 2 main parts, the first devoted to the traditional Saussurean concepts, but preceded by an introductory chapter, “Saussure and the intellectual traditions of the twentieth century” (1–40), the second to “Derrida and Saussure”, beginning with another introduction and ending with a chapter entitled “Deconstructing Saussure”. Rudolf [not Rudolph] Engler’s édition critique of the Cours is given short shrift (cf. p. 78). Bib. – few of them are references to linguistic writings (289–296); general index (297–304) .]

1988 . Herinneringen van een oude taalonderzoeker . Leiden : no publisher [ printed in 300 copies with a grant from the Inst. voor Nederlandse Lexicologie en de Maatschappij der Neiderlands Letterkunde], 37 pp.; 1 portr. [For English version, see “Reminiscenses of an old language researcher” in HL 15.317–329 (1988) .]

eds. 1988 . Américo Castro: The Impact of His Thought: Essays to mark the centenary of his birth . Madison : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies , xv, 267 pp. [ “This volume brings together many of the papers presented at two conferences, one at Syracuse University, the other at Princeton University, in October 1985 to mark the centenary of Américo Castro’s birth” (vii). Der Gedächtnisband für einen der bedeutendsten spanischen Philologen des 20.Jahrhunderts, Américo Castro (1885–1972), welcher die wichtigsten Jahre seines Lebens in den U.S.A. verbracht hat, enthält, außer einter “Bibliography of the Writings of Américo Castro” (1–36) 22 Beiträge von Schülern und Freunden, welche in fünf Gruppen präsentiert werden: “I. Remembering Américo Castro” (mit Beiträgen von Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman und Rafael Lapesa; letztgenannter behandelt “La huella de Américo Castro en los estudios de lingüística española” und verdient besonders die Aufmerksamkeit der Leser von HL); “ΙII. Américo Castro and Historiography” (mit Artikeln von Edmund L. King, Francisco Márquez Villanueva, John Beverley und Anian Peña); “IV. Cristianos, moros y judíos” (mit Aufsätzen von Adriana Lewis Galanes, A. A. Sicroff, María Rosa Menocal und Vicente Cantarino); “V. Writers and Texts” (mit Beiträgen von Angel L. Cilveti, Mary Gaylord Randel, Helen H. Reed, Daniel P. Testa, Alix Zuckerman-Ingber, Manuel Durán und Joaquín Rodríguez Suro). Es ist schade, daß diesem informativen und repräsentativen Band kein Sachindex beigegeben worden ist. – HJN ]

. 1986 . Les noms de lieux de l’Aube . Dijon : Centre Régional de Documentation Pédagogique & Fontaines lès Dijon : Association Bourguignonne de Dialectologie et d’Onomnastique [ 22, rue de la Bresse, F-21121 Fontaine lès Dijon ], 51 pp. [ Knappe, aber informative Einleitung in die Sprachgeschichte der behandelten Region. 443 toponomastische Artikel in alphabetischer Reihenfolge. Ein zuverlässiges Nachschlagewerk, auch zur Mikrotoponomastik! – HJN .]

. 1986 . Les nom de lieux de la Haute-Marne . Dijon : Centre Régional de Documentation Pédagogique & Fontaines lès Dijon : Association Bourguignonne de Dialectologie et d’Onomastique [ 22, rue de la Bresse, F-21121 Fontaine lès Dijon ], 63 pp. [ Knappe, aber informative Einleitung in die Sprachgeschichte der behandelten Region; 552 toponomastische Artikel in alphabetischer Reihenfolge – HJN ]

. 1986 . Les nom de lieux du Jura . Dijon : Centre Régional de Documentation Pédagogique & Fontaines lès Dijon : Association Bourguignonne de Dialectologie et d’Onomastique , 78 pp. [ Anlage wie vorstehender Band; 535 Artikel. – HJN ]

, see Lardet & Tavoni eds. ( abocve ).

. 1987 . The Auxiliary Do in Eighteenth-Century English: A sociohistorical-linguistic approach . (= Geschiedenis van de Taalkunde, 6 .) Dordecht/Holland & Providence, R. I. : Foris Publications , x, 257 pp. [ This former doctoral diss., done under the supervision of N. E. Osselton, Univ. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has 8 chaps., not counting the introd. and conclusion. They are tided 2, “The types of language analysed”; 3, “The ten constructions encountered”; 4, “The use and non-use of the auxiliary do”; 5, “The auxiliary do in informative prose”; 6, “The auxiliary do in epistolary prose”; 7, “The auxiliary do in the language of direct speech”; 8, “A stylistic comparison between the three types of language analysed”, and 9, “The grammarians’ descriptions of the auxiliary do”. Bib. (245–250) and index of names (251–257) .]

comp. 1989 . Bibliotheca Lexicologiae Medii Aevi . Vol. I1 : Les classiques au Moyen Age / Classics in the Middle Ages. L’éducation au Moyen Age / Education in the Middle Ages . Preface by Rodrigue LaRue . Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter : The Edwin Mellen Press , xli, 308 pp. [ Publisher’s addresses: Box 450, Lewiston, NY 14092, U.S.A.; Mellen House, Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales, United Kingdom SA48 DY7; Box 67, Queenston, Ontario, Canada L0S 1L0. – This is the first of altogether 10 volumes projected to appear in the next few years; contrary to the main title, the coverage is to include subjects such as ‘Grammars in the Middle Ages’ (vol.IV); ‘Rise of the Vernacular Languages’ (vol.V); and ‘[The] Influence of Vulgar Latin ‘ (vol.VI). – Following the front matter, consisting of a preface in French, English, German, Spanish, and Japanese (!), a dedication, and an introduction in both French and English, in which the compiler circumscribes the scope of his bibliographical investigations and the many sources he has consulted, there is an alphabetical listing of journals, series, individual monographs, and bibliographies (potentially) relevant to the subject matter (5–58), from A Bibliography of the Survival of the Classics (London: Warburg Institute, 1938) to A. – regrettably, the compiler rarely supplies first names of authors – Zimmermann’s Etymologisches Wörter-buch der lateinischen Sprache, hauptsächlich bestimmt für höhere Schulen und für klassische Philologen (Hanover: Hahn, 1915). The bulk of the volume is taken up by a listing of items devoted to “Education in the Middle Ages” (61–308), which includes both primary and secondary sources .]

. 1989 . Written Language Revisited . Selected, edited and introduced by Philip A. Luelsdorff . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiv, 221 pp. [ The vol., published on the occasion of Vachek’s 80th birthday on 1 March, brings together 19 papers, several of them dating back over 40 years, though most of them are from the 1980s, with one each from 1939 and 1959 having been revised in 1987. It has a introd. to life and work of Vachek and is rounded off by indices of persons (215–217) and of subjects (219–221) .]

. 1988 . De zin van de vorm: Roorda’s logische analyse en de algemene grammatica . Academisch proefschrift […] . Amsterdam : Vrije Universiteit Uitgiverij , xiv, 370 pp. [ The work is a thorough analysis of the linguistic work of (and the theoretical assumptions guiding) the Dutch scholar Taco Roorda (1801–1874), who is best known for his establishment of Javanese studies in the Netherlands. The back matter consists of a detailed (though in terms of linguistic historiography rather outdated) bib. (323–349), an index of authors (351–357), a subject index (358–363), and an English summary (365–370) .]

eds. 1988 . Distributions spatiales et temporelles, constellations des manuscrits: Études de variation linguistique offert à Anthonij Dees à l’occasion de son 60e anniversaire / Spatial and Temporal Distributions, Manuscript Constellations: Studies in language variation […] . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publ. Co. , xxii, 277 pp.; 1 portr . [ The front matter includes, among others, a tabula gratulatoria (xiii–xvi), a list of Dees’ publications, 1971–1988 (xix–xxii). Contributors include Robert de Dardel, Hans Goebl, Yves-Charles Morin & Louise Dagenais, Willy van Hoecke, and others. No index .]

. 1988 . Event Structure . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 59 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , x, 181 pp. [ This revised version of the author’s Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Ottawa, 1987, deals with the “relation […] established […] between the semantics of the subject and the direct object noun phrase and aspect” (Abstract, p.vii). It has 7 chapters entitled 1, “Introduction”; 2, “Event structure”; 3, “The semantics of the subject”; 4, “Unaccusativity”; 5, “Passivization and reflexivization”; 6, “Involvement”, and 7, “Tense”. References (171–177); gen. index (179–181) .]

. 1988 . Proto-Slavic and Old Bulgarian Sound Changes . Translated, edited, and typeset by Ernest A[lden] Scatton . Columbus, Ohio : Slavica Publishers , 187 pp. [ English transl. of a work first published in Bulgarian in 1980 (Sofia: Inst. for Bulgarian Language). Apart from an introduction, the study has 3 main chapters: 2, “Assimilatoty fronting”; 3, “The elimination of closed syllables”, and 4, “Reorganization of the vocalic system”. There is a short concluding chap. (168–173) and a fairly detailed bib. (174–187), but no index .]

ed. 1989 . Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Linguistic Variation and Change . (= Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1988 .) Washington, D.C. : Georgetown Univ. Press , x, 357 pp. [ The vol. prints 27 papers presented at the GURT 1988 meeting which was devoted to the subject indicated in the title. The contribuors include Naomi S. Baron, Bernard Comrie, Joseph E. Grimes, John E. Joseph, Henry Kahane, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Shuy, and many others, including scholars from Finland, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, and other countries. The topics range from “The sounds of change: Arabic linguistic influences in Sicilian” by Barbara DeMarco (94–101) to “Pragmatic differences between native and indigenized varieties: Requesting in Indian English” by Kamal K. Sridhar (326–241). No index. – For comments on the conference and the majority of the papers, see the report by John Charles Smith in Diachronica 5.247–250 (1989 for 1988) .]

ed. 1988 . Computer Power and Legal Language: The use of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and expert systems in the law . New York-Westport, Connecticut-London : Quorum Books [ © Greenwood Press ], xiv, 392 pp. [ The vol. brings together some 25 original papers by legal experts, computer specialists, and linguists on the subject indicated in the book’s title. index of terms and concepts (385–389) .]

ed. 1986 . Sprache – Bewußtsein – Tätigkeit: Zur Sprachkonzeption Wilhelm von Humboldts . Berlin : Akademie-Verlag , 216 pp. [ The vol. brings together the following original papers: “Zur philosophischen und sprachtheoretischen Begründung der Einheit von Sprache und Denken bei Wilhelm von Humboldt” by the ed. (9–67); “Zur Kritik an der Humboldt-Adaption der Neuhumboldtianer [Leo Weisgerber, Helmut Gipper, Bruno Liebrucks]” by Klaus Junker (68–93); “Ein Plädoyer für die Universalität der Logik” by Horst Wessel (94–104); “Sprache als Arbeit des Geistes” by Wilhelm Bondzio (105–126); “Grammatik als Verfahren” by Renate Neurath (127–153); “Die These von der Sprachrelativität des Denkens in der Aufklärung und bei Wilhelm von Humboldt” by Gerda Haßler (154–177), and “Humboldt in der russischen philologischen Literatur” by Jury V. Roždestvenskij (178–197). Bib. of primary (198–199) and secondary (199–212) sources; name index (213–216) .]

. 1988 . The Semantics of Grammar . (= Studies in Language Companion Series, 18 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , x, 617 pp. [ This massive study consists of two major parts, dealing with the semantics of syntax and the semantics of morphology respectively. Its 10 chapters are entitled: 1, “The semantics of English complementation in a cross-linguistic perspective”; 2, “Ethno-syntax and the philosophy of grammar”; 3, “The semantics of causative constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective:; 4, “The Japanese ‘adversative’ passive in a typological context”; 5, “Why can you have a drink when you can’t *have an eat?”; 6, “The semantics of ‘internal dative’ in English; 7, “The meaning of case: A study of the Polish dative; 8, “The semantics of case marking”; 9, “What’s in a noun?”, and 10, “Oats and wheat: Mass nouns, iconicity, and human categorization”. Bib. (563–583); “Subject and name index” (585–595), and “Index of lexical items” (597–617) .]

eds. 1989 . Studies in Language Origins . Volume I1 . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiii, 331 pp. [ “This book is the result of the activities of a group of scholars, members of the Language Origins Society, who have approached the problem not only from the viewpoint of linguistics, but from that of anatomy, physiology, social sciences, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative zoology, general biology, ethology, evolutionary biology, psychology, etc.” (from the book cover). The vol. contains contributions by the editors as well as another dozen authors; the “Notes on contributors” (vii–xiii) reveals the diversity of backgrounds and of age (the oldest is born in 1903, the youngest in 1961!). Apart from the editors, the contributors include prominent scholars like Gordon W. Hewes and Mary Ritchie Key. Index of authors (305–312); subject index (313–331) .]

. 1989 . Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School . (= Synthese Library: Studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science, 198 .) Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer Academic Publishers , xiv, 364 pp. ; photographs [ pp. 27 – 33 ]. [ The work – of which a Polish version was published in 1985 – deals with the origin and development of a school of philosophy established by Kazimierz Twardowski (1866–1938) shortly after his arrival at Lvov University to take up the Chair of Philosophy on 15 Nov. 1895, and which had many (Polish) followers, including Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886–1981), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886–1939), Alfred Tarski (1901–1982), and others – whose theories are discussed in individual chapters; among others, the linguists Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978) and Henry[k] Hiż (b.1917) as well as the literary theorist Roman Ingaden came under Twandowski’s influence. The back matter consists of a detailed bib. (327–351), a list of the philosophers of the Lvov-Warsaw School, with life-dates as much as the author could supply them (352–353), and indices of names (354–358) and of subjects (359–364) .]

. 1989 . Inflectional Morphology and Naturalness . Translated from the German by Manfred Schentke . Berlin : Akademie-Verlag ; Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers [ Distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada: Kluwer Acad. Pub., 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A.], x, 219 pp. [This is an English transl. of the author’s 1984 book, Flexionsmorphologie und Natürlichkeit: Ein Beitrag zur morphologischen Theoriebildung (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag) – cf. the review by Andrew Carstairs in JL 21.487–495 (1985). It has the following chaps.: 1, “Prerequisites I: Naturalness in grammar”; 2, “Prerequisites II: Basic morphological notions”; 3, “Formulation of the problem: Inflectional classes and Naturalness”; 4, “System congruitry”; 5, “Inflectional class stability and productivity”, and 6, “Results and integration”. Bib. (208–213); indices of names (214–215) and of subjects (216–219) .]