Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften

1992 . The Syntax of Norwegian Passive Constructions . (= Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, 7 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 177 pp. [ The book examines the syntax of Norwegian passive constructions in detail and the passive phenomenon in general within a Government & Binding framework. It also discusses related topics such as English passive and Norwegian ergative constructions. It has a bib. (169174) and a subject index (175–177) .]

( in collaboration with Konrad Koerner, R. H. Robins & Irène Rosier ) ed. 1992 . Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Galway, Ireland, 1–6 September 1990 . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 68 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 384 pp. [ The volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Galway conference under the auspices of the National University of Ireland. They deal with various periods and aspects of the history of linguistics. Some of the papers are: Rijcklof Hofman, “The Priscian Text Used in Three Ninth-Century Irish Donatus Commentaries” (7–15); Anneli Luhtala, “On the Origins of the Medieval Concept of Transitivity” (39–48); L. G. Kelly, “L’ordre naturel and Charles Batteux: à bas les philosophes” (135–144); Joseph L. Subbiondo, “John Wallis’ Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1653): The new science and English grammar” (183–190); Jan Noordegraaf, “Dutch Linguists and the Origin of Language: Some nineteenth-century views” (279–289); Stephen J. Nagle, “Thirty-Five Years of English Auxiliaries: A small history of generative grammar” (269–277), and many more. The front matter consists of a “Foreword” written by Anders Ahlqvist (viii–xii); a list of participants (xii–xx); an “Opening Address” by Brian Ó Cuív (1–5); a listing of conference committees (p.xxi); the conference programme (xxiii–xxvii); the back matter prints abstracts of papers presented at ICHoLS V but not included in full in the present volume (329–366); indexes of languages (367–368), of names (369–379), and of terms and concepts (380–384) .]

( sous la direction de ). 1992 . Histoire des Idées Linguistiques: Le développement de la grammaire occidentale . (= Philosophie et Langage, 2 .) Liège : Mardaga , 683 pp. [ This is the second of a three-volume world history of linguistic thought (for comments on the first volume of 1989, see HL XVII: 1/2.243–244, 1990). It has the following chapters, each of them subdivided in subsections provided by specialists in the particular area of interest: 1, “L’antiquité tardive, les grammairiens byzantins et le Haut Moyen Âge” (contributions by R. H. Robins, Pierre Swiggers, Vivien Law, Louis Holtz, Anders Ahlqvist), 2, “La pensée linguistique médiévale” (contributions by Alain de Libera & Irène Rosier, who jointly wrote the 5 sections); 3, “Le tournant de la Renaissance” (contributions by Pierre Lardet, Luce Giard, and W. Keith Percival); 4, “Stratégies de grammatisation” (Sylvie Archambault, Sophie Kessler-Mesguich, Michel Adnès, Christoph Harbsmeier); 5, “Les traditions nationales” (contributions by Claudio Maraz-zini, Ramón Sarmiento, Jean Rousse & Monique Verrac, Sylvain Auroux & Geneviève Clerico, Joachim Gessinger); 6, “Les questions de l’Âge de la Science” (contributions by Vivian Salmon, Marc Dominicy, Lia Formigari); 7, “La Rhétorique en Europe à travers son enseignement” (Françoise Douais-Soublin); 8, “Théories et données” (contributions by Bernard Colombat, Madeleine V. David [d.1989], S. Auroux & Tristan Horde). It has three appendixes dealing with three special subjects, such as the ‘parties du discours’, access to the oldest texts, and the progress of phonetics (581–606), notes on the authors (607–610), a combined bib. (611–654), indexes of biographical names cum life-dates (655–670), of terms and concepts (671–678), and of languages (679–680) .]

. 1991 . Sprachdiskussionen in Italien und Frankreich: Probleme und Tendenzen der Sprachregelung in der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts: Beni, Fioretti, Franzoni, Buommattei-Vaugelas . (= Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 25 .) Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag , 266 pp. [ This revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted in 1988 at the Univ. of Trier (thesis director: Hans-Josef Niederehe) deals with the ‘ques-tione della lingua’ debate in Italy (from Lionardo Salviati [1539–1589] to Benedetto Buommattei [1581–1647]) and subsequently in France. The book is divided into three main parts: I, “Italien”; II, “Claude Favre de Vaugelas [(1585–1650)]”, and III, “Vergleich der Sprachauffassungen in Italien und bei Vaugelas”. It has a detailed bib. of primary and secondary sources (197–256), an index of names (257–262), and an index of terms & concepts (263–266) .]

. 1992 . In Other Words: A coursebook on translation . London & New York : Routledge , ix, 304 pp. [ The book addresses the need for a systematic approach to the training of translators and provides an explicit syllabus which reflects some of the main intricacies involved in rendering a text from one language to another. Each chapter has exercises, suggestions for further reading and notes at the end. It has appendices (261–283), a glossary (284–287), a bib. (288–295), and indexes of authors (297–298), languages (299–300), and subjects (301–304) .]

. 1991 . Wegweiser durch die Grammatik von Heinrich Bauer: Verzeichnisse und Erläuterungen . Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , 678 pp.; 1 portr . [ This volume has been conceived as a ‘guide’ to Heinrich’s Bauer’s (1773–1846) massive – 3,247-page – Vollständige Grammatik der hochdeutschen Sprache (1827–1833), which appeared in a reprint in 1967, and, as the authors concede (p. 7), was largely ignored by historiographers of German grammar. It has indexes of terminology (130–332), of words (336–451), and of names (644–674), as well as a list of publications by Heinrich Bauer, including reviews of his works (675–678). However, the volume is much more than an index to the Grammar and could best be described as a vademecum to Bauer’s oeuvre, which the compilers place in its historical context in scholarly studies preceding the indexes, such as “Von der Gelehrtenrepublik zur Nationalbewegung: Kontexte der Sprachforschung in Deutschland an der Schwelle vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert” by Andreas Dörner (9–60); “Deutsche Grammatiken am Scheideweg” by Henning Bergenholtz (61–89), and others. – Reader’s of HL may be referred to the article by Andreas Dörner & Gregor Meder, “Heinrich Bauers ‘Vollständige Grammatik der neuhochdeutschen Sprache’ (1827–1833): Ein Konjunktivsystem in den Revolutionswirren der Grammatiktheorie” (XIV:3.305–339, 1987), for further information .]

. 1992 . Les Grands courants orthographiques au XVIIe siècle et la formation de l’othographe moderne: Impacts matériels, interférences phoniques, théories et pratiques (1606–1736) . (= Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, Band 245 .) Tübingen : Max Niemeyer , 514 pp. [ Following an introduction, the book is divided into three major parts: I, “Des contraintes matérielles extralinguistiques au XVIIe siècle: L’orthographe, les imprimeurs et les ouvriers typographes, les auteurs” (61–133); II, “Système phonologique et système graphique: La mise en place des règles de notation de l’orthographe modernisée” (135–232); III, “Les grands courants orthographiques en présence: Théories et pratiques” (233–359). This thorough study has a conclusion (361–374), a number of appendixes (377–416), illustrations and documents (417–470), a bib. (471–484), and a general index (485–514) .]

eds. 1992 . Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992 . (= AVT Publications, 9 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 283 pp. [ The twenty-three articles in this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on 18 January, 1992. The papers cover a wide range of topics and languages. They include: Peter Ackema & Jan Don, “Splitting Morphology” (1–12); Clemens Bennik, “Harmony and Disharmony in Turkish” (25–36); Hans Bennis, “Long Head Movement: The position of particles in the verbal cluster in Dutch” (37–47). It has a list of contributors (ix–x) but no index .]

. 1992 . La charpente modale du sens: Pour une sémio-lin-guistique morphogénétique et dynamique . Aarhus : Aarhus Univ. Press ; Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 370 pp. [ In 8 chaps., if one includes the 10-page Introduction, the author develops his dynamic conception of semantics, which is influenced by the work of the semiotician Algirdas J. Grema, the glossematician Gunnar Bech, and the catastrophists René Thorn and Jacques Petitot. It has a bib. (359–367), but no index .]

. 1992 . A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies . (= NOWELE, Supplement vol.6 .) Odense : Odense Univ. Press , vii, 197 pp. [ The book has three parts. Part I presents a comprehensive listing of publications pertaining to the field of Old Frisian studies. It is listed alphabetically by the authors’ surnames. Part II is an index of reviewers, and Part III gives a detailed subject index which discloses the contents of the items in Part I. This section (i.e. Part III) also provides a survey of the work done on a particular subject and will be of interest to scholars .]

ed. 1991 . Oswald Szemerényi: Summing up a life. Autobiographie und Schriftenverzeichnis . Freiburg/Breisgau : Hochschul-Verlag , 135 pp.; 1 portr . [ The book brings together an autobiographical sketch and a full list of the writings of Oswald Szemerényi (b. 1913), Professor emeritus of Comparative and General Linguistics at the Univ. of Freiburg .]

eds. 1992 . Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 386 pp. [This book, dedicated to Oswald Szemerényi on his 75th birthday, contains contributions on the historical comparative and philological aspects of the classical languages, Greek and Latin. It has the following main parts: I, “Greek Linguistics”; II, “Greek Lexicology”; III, “Mycenology”; IV, “Greek Philology”; V, “Italian and Latin Philology”; VI, “Latin and Romance Languages”, and VII, “Roman History”. It has an index of authors (377–386) but no other index,]

. 1992 . Fundamentals of Story Logic: Introduction to Greimassian semiotics . (= Semiotic Crossroads, 5 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 230 pp. [ The book investigates and revises the actantial model and the narrative schema, and from this emerges a methodology of textual analysis the scope of which extends to include hermeneutics and interpretation. The author places emphasis on the social and interactional nature of discourse, and thereby integrates the basics of narrative within the framework of law and society and justice. It has an appendix (220–221), and a bib. (223–230) .]

Bulletin d’Études Orientales, Tome XLIII: De la Grammaire de l’arabe aux grammaires des arabes . Damas : Institut Français de Damas , 1991 , xi, 236 pp. [ The volume, organized by Pierre Larcher, contains articles on Arabie linguistics by various authors. The languages used are French and English. Some of the articles are: Jean-Michel Tarrier, “A propos de la sociolin-guistique de l’arabe: Présentation de quelques difficultés” (1–15); Yannick LeFranc & Samir Tahhan, “Comment le langage ordinaire joue avec le métalangage des grammairiens” (47–75), and Kees Versteegh, “Two Conceptions of Irreality in Arabie Grammar: Ibn Hišām and Ibn al-Hâgib on the Particle law”(77–92). There is an English and a French summary at the end of each article .]

. 1993 . Syntactic Change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch . (= Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 89 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vi, 287 pp. [ This is a thoroughly revised verson of a thesis originally submitted at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London (thesis director: Thea Bynon). It examines certain features of Dutch syntax between 1300 and 1650. The author explores the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar. It has the following chapters: 1, “Background Information”; 2, “Results”; 3, “Exbraciation in Middle Dutch”; 4, “Topic-Prominence in Middle Dutch”; 5, “The Development of Negation”; 6, “Concluding Remarks”. It has appendixes of a sketch grammar of Middle Dutch (240–262) and of texts (263–268), a bib. (269–283), and a general index (284–287) .]

eds. 1993 . Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization. Selected Papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics . (= Creole Language Library, 11 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , v, 465 pp. [ The papers in this volume deal with different aspects of pidginization and creolization and were the result of two meetings of the new Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in December 1989 and January 1991. After the introduction “Perspectives on the Atlantic and Pacific … and Beyond” by the editors (1–22), the book is divided into six main sections, viz: 1, “Phonology”; 2, “Morphology and Syntax”; 3, “Social Concerns”; 4, “Pidgins and Pidginization”; 5, “Creoles and Creolization”, and 6, “Other Contact-Induced Phenomena”. Some of the papers are: Charles Gilman, “A Bantu Model for the Seychellois pour-dire Complementizer” (49–55); Guy Carden, “The Mauritian Creole lekor Reflexive: Substrate influence on the target-location parameter” (105–117); Donald Winford, “Directional Serial Verb Constructions in Carribean English Creoles” (183–203); Stephen Matthews “Creole Aspect and Morphological Typology” (233–241); Gerardo A. Lorenzino, “African vs. Austronesian Substrate Influence on the Spanish-Based Creoles” (399–408) .]

ed. 1992 . The Biblioteca Vallicelliana Regole Per La Lingua Maltese . Valletta : Said International , v, 190 pp. [ This book is an edition of the oldest extant grammar and dictionary of the Maltese language. It sheds light on the state of the language in the late 17th and early 18th century and it should be of help to linguists interested in the historical development of Arabic, Italian and Sicilian. It has an introduction on the early Maltese grammarians and lexicographers (ix–xlviii) written by the editor .]

. 1991 . Sémiosis – Signes – Symboles: Introduction aux théories du signe linguistique de Platon et d’Aristote . (= Publications Universitaires Européennes/European Univ. Studies, Series XX, vol. 340 .) Frankfurt am Main-Bern-New York : Peter Lang , 370 pp. [ This volume constitutes a revised version of a doctoral dissertation originally submitted at the Univ. of Geneva in 1984 (thesis director: †Henri Joly). Inspired by the work of Saussure, Peirce, and Jakobson, the author analyzes the work of Platon and Aristotle. It is divided into three main parts: I, “Des signes anciens: Du sème archaïque au sêmeion linguistique”; II, “Les noms, les signes et les images: La théorie platonicienne du nom comme signe mimétique”, and III, “Les signes et les symboles: La théorie aristotélicienne de la signification linguistique”. It has a conclusion (331–345), notes (349–358), and a bib. (361–370), but no index .]

eds. 1992 . Explanation in Historical Linguistics . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 238 pp. [ This volume contains several articles on historical linguistics by various authors. Some of the articles are: Werner Abraham, “Event Structure Accounting for the Emerging Periphrastic Tenses and the Passive Voice in German” (1–16); Raimo Antilla, “Historical Explanation and Historical Linguistics” (17–39); Hans Henrich Hock, “Reconstruction and Syntactic Typology: A plea for a different approach” (105–121). Other contributors are: Joseph Clancy Clements (4158); Alice Faber (59–75); Monika Forner, Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan & Gerald Sanders (77–93); Eric P. Hamp (95–103); Brian D. Joseph (123–144); Suzanne Kemmer (145–166); Flora Klein-Andreu (167178); Carol Lynn Moder (179–191); Mary Niepokuj (193–206), and Joe Salmons (207–228). It has indexes of authors (229–232), of subject (233235), and of languages (237–238) .]

Directory of Programs in Linguistics in the United States & Canada . [ 8th updated ed. ] Compiled under the direction of Margaret Reynolds & Mary Niebuhr . Washington, D.C. : Linguistic Society of America , 1993 [ actually published late in 1992], xiv, 176 pp. [This volume continues to be an important pool for anyone desiring (fairly) up-to-date information on (almost) all existing linguistics programs in North America, including those found (often) outside the universities and colleges (cf. the section “Research Institutions”, pp. 115–124). It also includes information on the various “Linguistic Societies & Related Organizations” throughout the world (125–139), including those of Australia, India, Korea, etc., and now for the first time also the North American Association on the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), which has been meeting regularly together with the annual meetings of the LS A since December 1987, first informally, and since 1989 officially. For historians of linguistics it is interesting to note that a number of linguistics departments in North America have been reduced to linguistics programs over the past few years and that several new programs and a department or two (e.g., University of Rochester, which had a linguistics department for a few years in the early 1970s) have recently been established. Another feature of interest to HL readers is the indication of the dates at which individual programs were established. A new feature is the listing of graduate and undergraduate enrolments as well as an indication of the number of graduates supported (one wonders to what extent). The back matter consists of an “Index of Staff (141–169) and an “Index of Uncommonly Taught Languages” (171–176), which looks more impressive than it really is (just try to find who in North America is competent in Yiddish!). – For information on the preceding (1987, 1990, and 1992) editions of the Directory, see HL 15:3.462–463 (1988), 17:1/2.251–252 (1990) and 19:1.206 (1992) .]

eds. 1992 . The Linguistics of Literacy . (= Typological Studies in Language, 21 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 334 pp. [ The papers in this volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin Linguistics Symposium, held in Milwaukee on April 8–10, 1988. The central theme is the relationship between linguistics and literacy. The book is divided into three main parts: I, “Written Language and Spoken Language Compared”; II, “Orthographic Systems”; III, “The Psychology of Orthography”, and IV, “Consequences of Literacy”. A solicited paper, “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought”, is written by Walter Ong (293–319). Other contributors are: Cecilia E. Ford (3–16); Wallace Chafe (17–29); Deborah Tannen (31–46); Eleanor Berry (47–67); Mark Aronoff (71–82); Peter T. Daniels (83110); Alice Faber (111–134); Janine Scancarelli (135–151); Ronald P. Schae-fer (153–166); James D. McCawley (169–190); Bruce L. Derwing (193210); John J. Ohalla (211–237); Laurie B. Feldman (239–254); Ram Frost (255–274), and J. Ronanyne Cowan (275–290). It has indexes of language (321–322), author (323–329), and subject (331–334) .]

. 1992 . One Parent One Language: An interactional approach . (= Studies in Bilingualism, 3 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi, 231 pp. [ This book examines the relationship between the degrees of bilingualism in young children and the features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. It has endnotes (201), a bib. (203213), an appendix of transcription symbols (215–216), and a general index (217–231) .]

. 1992 . From Old English to Standard English: A course book in language variation across time . Ottawa : Univ. of Ottawa Press , ix, 218 pp. [ The book provides a linguistically based account of the development of the English language from the dialects of Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of standard English in the 18th century. It has the following chapters: 1, “The English Language is Brought to Britain”; 2, “Old English”; 3, “From Old English to Middle English”; 4, “Middle English I: Southern and Kentish dialects”; 5, “Middle English II: Northern dialects”; 6, “Middle English III: West Midlands dialects”; 7, “Middle English IV: East Midlands and London dialects”; 8, “Early Modern English I: The fifteenth century”; 9, “Early Modern English II: The sixteenth century”; 10, “Early Modern English III: The seventeenth century”; 11, “Modern English: The eighteenth century”, and 12, “Postscript: To the present day”. It has a series of illustrative texts and facsimilies (passim), a bib. (208–210), and a general index (211–218) .]

. 1992 . Les Linguistiques Contemporaines: Repères théoriques . Paris : Hachette Supérieur , 158 pp. [ This text is, according to the imprint on the title page, a “[n]ouvelle édition entièrement remise à jour par les soins de C. Fuchs”. Earlier versions had appeared in 1975 and in 1985 (Avant-propos, p. 5), but I’ve never seen either (they are not listed in the Bibliographie linguistique either). The present book presents developments in contemporary linguistic theory by means of individual introductions to the theories of Saussure, Martinet, Tesnière, Guillaume and Pottier, Zellig Harris and Maurice Gross, Chomsky (in two versions, followed by post-Chomskyan proposals), Igor Mel’čuk, Antoine Culioli, and others. These selections are organized under three main headings: I, “Courants structuralistes”; II, “Grammaires formelles”, and III, “Théories sémantiques de l’activité de langage”. It has indexes of terms (155–156) and of names (157–158) .]

eds. 1992 . Language Transfer in Language Learning . [ Revised edition .] (= Language Acquisition & Language Disorders, vol. 5 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 236 pp. [ This volume contains a mix of reprinted papers from an earlier edition and new papers which present an array of approaches to the subject of language transfer, a subarea of language acquisition. Some of the papers are: S. Pit Corder, “A Role for the Mother Tongue” (18–31); Jacquelyn Schachter, “A New Account of Language Transfer” (32–46), and Jeanette K. Gundel & Elaine E. Tarone, “Language Transfer and the Acquisition of Pronominal Anaphora” (87–100). It has an “Introduction” and an “Afterword” written by the editors .]

. 1992 . From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction: On left-dislocation in English . (= Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 1 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 181 pp. [ This study provides a corpus-based functional analysis of left-dislocation in English, and investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection of communicative function. It has the following chapters: 1, “Theoretical Preliminaries”; 2, “Referent-Introduction (1): Interaction”; 3, “Referent-Introduction (2): Recoverability”; 4, “Referent-Introduction (3): Topicality”; 5, “Other Fuctions of LD”; 6, “Prosodie Aspects of LD”; 7, “LD in Other Discourse Types”; 8, “A Broader Perspective”; 9, “General Conclusion”. It has notes (161–164); appendices (165–169); a bib. (171–180), and author index (181) .]

. 1992 . Sprache und Denken in Sprachwissenchaftlicher und Sprachphilosophischer Sicht . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 300 pp. [ This vol. brings together 13 previously published papers, beginning with his 1961 Antrittsvorlesung, University of Bonn, “Muttersprachliche Wirkungen auf die wissenschaftliche Begriffsbildung und ihre Folgen” (11–28), and ending with several papers devoted to the Weltansichtshypothese in the post-Humboldtian tradition, whether Marxist in orientation (when discussing the work of the Polish language philosopher Adam Schaff) or of the American ethnolinguistic mould (Sapir and Whorf). The most recent paper, “Wahrheit als Sprachproblem” (171–197), dates from 1988. The vol. is rounded off by a bib. (273–292) and an index of names (293–300) .]

. 1992 . The Origins of the Slavs: A linguist’s view . Columbus, Ohio : Slavica Publishers , 454 pp . [ The book studies the historical origins of the Slavic people by looking at the genetic relationship between the present-day Slavic languages. It has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction”; 2, “Slavic (Proto-Slavic) within the Indo-European Linguistic Family”; 3, “The Stratification of Proto-Slavic Vocabulary”; 4, “The Problem of the Primary Habitat of the Indo-Europeans”; 5, “The Primary Habitat of the Slavs: The testimony of hydronomy, dendronymy, and ethnonymy”; 6, “The Slavs and the Neighboring Peoples (the Problem of Foreign Loanwords in Proto-Slavic)”; 7, “Conclusions”. It has endnotes (420–438) and a bib. (439454) .]

. 1992 . Semantics: A bibliography, 1986–1991 . Metu-chen, N. J. & London : The Scarecrow Press , ix, 280 pp. [ This bib. is the third of a ‘trilogy’ (the first volume, covering the 1965–1978 period was published in 1980). It lists works on twenty-one major topics in semantics. These include reference, pragmatics, ambiguity, indeterminacy, generic meaning, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, morphosemantics, associative series in the lexicon, semantics fields and componential analysis, case grammar, comparative semantics, semantic universals, and so on. It updates the author’s volume II (1979–1985) to the end of 1991. Entries are arranged by topic, except for Section 1, which deals with books (including Festschriften and collections in which articles from subsequent sections appear), and section 2, “Survey of Semantics”. The language scope of this bib. is English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. It has a lexical index (265–267) and an author index (268–280) .]

. 1992 . Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel im Baskenland: Die Einflüsse des Gaskognischen und Französischen auf das Baskische . Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag , 194 pp. [ This 1991 dissertation, Univ. of Cologne (Hans-Jürgen Sasse, supervisor) is based on field work undertaken by the author on a variety of Basque of lower north-eastern Navarra which until now had not been described in any detail. The study consists of the following chaps.: 1, “Einleitung”; 2, “Soziolinguistischer Rahmen des Sprachkontakts”; 3, “Morphophonologisches, Lehnwortintegration”; 4, “Nominale Morphosyntax”; 5, “Verbale Morphosyntax”; 6, “Der einfache Satz”; 7, “Komplexe Sätze”; 8, “Konvergenz und Entlehnung”. It has an appendix consisting of a list of abbreviations, a list of his close to 50 informants, and a description of the places investigated (178–185), maps plus description, and a bib. (190–194), but no index .]

. 1992 . The Key to Technical Translation: Concept and specification . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 230 pp. [ This volume – the first of two meant for German/English/German technical translators – presents a comprehensive and systematic description of the basic concepts underlying all branches of technology: Eletrical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Aereonautics, Computers, and other fields. It provides German/English translations of some of the terms and concepts used in those fields. It has a term index, English/German (163–189); a global index (191–218); a bib. (220), and an appendix (221–230) .]

. 1992 . The Key to Technical Translation: Terminology / Lexicography . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 248 pp. [ The second of two volumes for German/English/German technical translators, this book covers the root terminologies of the spectrum of scientific and engineering fields. The terminology in vol. I is expanded with the aid of a Technical Thesaurus and a set of structured bilingual dictionaries which draw attention to specific English/German errors, usage of technical vocabulary, and collocations of general vocabulary in engineering contexts. It has a bib. (241–244) and an appendix (245–248) .]

eds. 1992 . Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Papers from the 20th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XX) Ottawa, 10–14 April 1990 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 91 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , v, 416 pp. [ The papers in this volume cover a wide range of topics in Romance linguistics. Some of the papers are: Alexandra Alvarez: “Creole Interference in Venezuelan Spanish: The absence of ser/estar”(1–10); Denis Bouchard, “Psych Constructions and Linking to Conceptual Structures” (25–44); Donka F. Farkas: “On the Semantics of Subjunctive Complements” (69–104); Lisa Reed, “On Clitic Case Alternations in French Causatives” (205–223); Esthela Treviño, “Subjects in Spanish Causative Constructions” (309–324); Karen Zagona, “Tense, V-Movement, and WH-in-situ” (389–401), and many more. It has indexes of authors (403–408), subjects and terms (409–413), and of language and language families (415–416) .]

Journal of Chinese Linguistics . 20 : 1 . 1992 , 190 pp. [ The present volume contains papers on different aspects of Chinese linguistics. Some of the papers are: Mantaro Hashimoto, “Hakka in Wellentheorie Perspective”, and Arienne Dwyer, “Altaic Elements in the Linxia Dialect”. It has a miscellaneous section containing announcements of meetings and programs (180–183), book notices (184–190), and corrigenda (p. 191) .]

. 1992 . Working with Foreign Languages and Characters in Wordperfect: Wordperfect 5.1 & Wordperfect for windows . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi, 218 pp. 1 disk . [ This English translation of the original Dutch version deals with the linguistic aspects of Wordperfect. It explains how to type about 1,893 characters in WP using the Compose key; how keyboard layouts can be designed in order to type specific characters; how to display foreign characters on screen and how to print them; among other things. The accompanying disc contains the many clever macros and keyboard definitions described in the book; a key macro to switch from one keyboard to another, a keyboard layout for typing Japanese, both hiragana and katakana, and so on. It has appendices (175–212), references (213–214), and an index (215–218) .]

. 1992 . The Semantic Structure of Spanish . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 90 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 303 pp. [ This author examines the problem of linguistic form and its meaning by reconsidering certain issues pertaining to semantic analysis. He identifies seven semantic notions for Spanish that are defined on the basis of speaker viewpoint (perspective) on real world phenomena. For each semantic notion, features that represent invariant meanings are delineated. It has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction”; 2, “The Verb”; 3, “Tense”; 4, “Orientation”; 5, “Aspect”; 6, “Mood”; 7, “Partitivity and Deixis”; 8, “Status”; 9, “The Comparative Semantics of Spanish and English”, and 10, “Conclusion”. It has a bib. (285–292), indexes of authors (293–294), and of subjects and terms (295–303) .]

. 1992 . Utterance Structure: Developing grammars again . (= Studies in Bilingualism, 5 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi, 354 pp. [ This volume is based on a much longer report to the European Science Foundation on second language acquisition by adult immigrants. It has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction”; 2, “Framework”; 3, “The Acquisition of English”; “The Acquisition of German”; 5, “The Acquisition of Dutch”; 6, “The Acquisition of French”, and 7, “Conclusions”. It has a glossary (339–342), a bib. (343–347), an author index (349–350) and subject index (351–354) .]

1992 . Balmesian Linguistics: A chapter in the history of pre-rationalist thought . (= Cahiers voor Taalkunde, 7 .) Amsterdam : Stichting Neerlanddistiek VU , 501 pp. [ The volume provides an overview of the contents of Rabbi Abraham ben Meir de Balmes’ (c. 1440–1523) bilingual grammar of Hebrew and Latin published in 1523. The author discusses the con-trastive-grammatical analysis, the Aristotelian character, and the phonetics of De Balmes’ work. Bib. (48–50) .]

. 1992 . Niederlandbild und deutsche Germanistik 1800–1933: Ein Beitrag zur komparatistischen Imagologie . (= Studia Imagologica, 4 .) Amsterdm & Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi , 2811 pp. [ This 1991 Aachen Inst, of Technology dissertation (supervisor: Hugo Dyserinck) investigates the ideological (incl. cultural and political) treatment of the Dutch (and Flamish) speaking linguistic area by German Germanists from 1806 to 1945, from Jacob Grimm (b.1785) to Arthur Hübner (d.1936) The book is divided into the following parts: I, “Die Behandlung des Niederländischen Sprachgebiets durch die Germanistik nach dem Zerbrechen des Alten Reichs [1806] bis zur 48er Revolution (1806–1848)”; II, “Die Behandlung des Niederländischen Sprachgebiets durch die Germanistik in der Zeit der Konstituierung der Deutschen Einheit (1848–1871)”; III, “Die Behandlung des Niederländischen Sprachgebiets durch die Germanistik zwischen Reichsgründung und Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs (1871–1914)”; IV, “Die Behandlung des Niederländischen Sprachgebiets durch die Germanistik im Ersten Weltkrieg und in der Weimarer Republik (1914–1933)”. It has altogether 1875(!) endnotes (209–257) and a bib. (259–281), but no index and no indication of life-dates of her many dramatis personae .]

. 1991 . The Savage Within: The social history of British anthropology, 1885–1945 . Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, & Sydney : Cambridge Univ. Press , vii, 325 pp.; illustr. ). [ The author examines the anthropological ideas of Britain between 1885 and 1945 and explores the relationship between social scientific ideas and behavior. She also shows how the descriptions of peoples of exotic culture by British anthropologists in the period covered by the book can be translated into commentaries on their own society. It has the following appendices: 1, “Statistical Analysis of the Membership of the Royal Anthropological Institute” (296–300), and 2, “Selected Brief Biographies of British anthropologists” (301–320), arranged in chronological order, from Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers (1820–1900) to Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), and an index (321–325). – Page 51 contains an interesting detail, namely, that Thomas Callan Hodson (1871–1953), the perhaps first user of the term ‘sociolinguistics’ (see HL XIX: 1.138, for the relevant bib. reference), was the first incumbant of the William Wyse chair in Anthropology at Cambridge in 1932; he was not academically trained, but a retired member of the Indian Civil Service .]

eds. 1992 . Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Nineteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XIX), The Ohio State University, 21–23 April 1989 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 74 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamin , vii, 515 pp. [ This volume is divided into three main parts: I, “Phonology”; II, “Morphology”; III, “Syntax and Semantics”. Some of the papers are: Emmanuel Nikiema, “More than Cod Conditions in Italian Phonology” (3–18); Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil, “An Underspecification Analysis of Two French Vowel Systems” (115–127); Joseph Clancey Clements, “Lexical Category Hierarchy and ‘Head of Compound’ in Spanish” (151–166); Soledad Varela, “Verbal and Adjectival Participles in Spanish” (219–234); Shana Poplack, “The Inherent Variability of the French Subjuntive” (235–263); José Lema & María-Luisa Rivero, “Inverted Conjugations and V-Second Effects in Romance” (311–328); Karen Zagona, “Tense-Binding and Construal of Present Tense” (385–398). It has indices of language and language families (497–499), names (500–506), and of concepts (507–515) .]

eds. 1990 . Wapapi Akonutomakonoll The Wampum Records: Wabanaki traditional laws . Fredericton, N.B. : Univ. of New Brunswick , v, 68 pp. [ The book contains an original Passamaquoddy account of how the Wabanaki Confederacy originated and how it was maintained. This edition is intended for use by those interested in the social and political institutions of the Passamaquoddy people and their neighbours during the colonial period. It has an annotated version of the Confederacy section of the Wampum Records (50–61), the 1902, 1921, and 1990 versions compared (62–65), and some additional Wampum studies (66–68) .]

. 1992 . Entstehung und Wandel der evolutionären Sprachauffassung in England und Deutschland . (= Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies, series XXI, 110 .) Frankfurt am Main-Bern-New York : Peter Lang , 245 pp. [ This 1991 Univ. of Düsseldorf consists of two main parts: A, “Theoretischer Teil”, which has the following sections: I, “Der Mechanismus der Evolution”, and II, “Evolution in der Sprache”. This much shorter part (7–71) deals first with the evolutionist theories of Lamarck and Darwin and then investigates the parallelisms between evolution in nature and in language. Part B “Geschichtlicher Teil” (73–228) is devoted to the treatment of ‘evolutionist’ ideas in British and German linguistic thought; on the British side beginning with Bernard de Mandeville (1670–1733), on the German with Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) and his main source of inspiration in this subject, Lord Monboddo (1714–1799). This part has the following main sections: I, “Ansätze der kulturellen Evolutionstheorie in England”, and II, “Der Wandel des evolutionären Denkens”. This last section has a chapter on “Die historische Rechtsschule [notably the work of Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861)]” and a concluding chapter devoted to Jacob Grimm (193–228). The book has a bib. (233–245), but no index .]

ed. 1992 , The Beginning of the Scientific Study of Minor Slavic Languages: The correspondence between Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929) and Vatroslav Oblak (1864–1896) . (= Geschichte, Kultur und Geisteswelt der Südslaven, Neue Serie, 3 .) München : Slavica Verlag Dr. Anton Kovač , 400 pp.; 2 portrs . [ The book provides a collection of letter exchanges between Baudouin de Courtenay and Vatroslav Oblak which indicate the former’s interest in the smaller Slavic languages and culture. The letters are a treasurehouse of raw material which will be of interest to the historical linguist, and those interested in the evolution of the Slovene scholarly language. It has a bib. (379–384), indexes of names (386–387), and of subjects (389–390), and a bib of Vatroslav Oblak’s linguistic works (391–400) .]

1992 . Intonation française: Enseignement et apprentissage . (= Etudes phonétiques / Studies in Phonetics, 1 .) Toronto : Canadian Scholar’s Press [339 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ont.M5S 1W7 , 113 pp. [ The book discusses research and theories in the teaching and learning of French intonation. After the initial chapter, “Phonétique et enseignement des langues vivantes étrangères”, the book has two main parts: I, “Enseignement de l’Intonation française: Pratiques”, and II, “Apprentissage de l’Intonation française: Recherches et théories”. There is a bib. after each part (63–65) and (109113), respectively, but there is no index .]

ed. 1992 . Prospects for a New Structuralism . (= Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 96 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , v, 276 pp. [ Some of the papers in this volume go back to the Fourteenth International Congress of Linguists, held in Berlin in 1987, in what was then called the German Democratic Republic. After the introduction by the editor (1–13), the papers are grouped into three main sections: I, “Philosophical Issues”; II, “Frameworks”, and III, “Areas”. Some of the papers are: Hans-Heinrich Lieb, “The Case for a New Structuralism” (33–72); Petr Sgall, “Classical Structuralism and Present-day Praguian Linguistics” (75–90); Wolfgang U. Wurzel, “The Structuralist Heritage in Natural Morphology” (225–241), and others. It has an index of names (273–276) .]

. 1991 . Indianersprache, Sprachvergleich und Klassifizierung : Eine ethnolinguistische Einführung in die Grundlagen und Methoden . Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag , 161 pp. [ This book constitutes a revised version of a thesis submitted at the Univ. of Munich in 1990, directed by Matthias Laubscher, with Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Cologne) as external examiner. It has the following chapters: 1, “Die Entwicklung der morphologischen Typologie und die typologische Einordnung der Indianersprachen”; 2, “Historischer Überblick über die ersten Klassifikationsversuche und über frühe methodische Ansätze beim Sprachvergleich”; 3, “Tendenzen nach [John Wesley] Powells (1839–1902) famous 1891 classification of the American Indian languages]”; 4, “Erklärung der verschiedenen Arten der Klassifikation und der taxonomischen Schemata”; 5, “Der genetische Vergleich”; 6, “Der areale Vergleich”; 7, “Erforschung lexikalischer Diffusion”; 8, “Der typologische Vergleich”. It has endnotes (134–137), a bib. (138153), and an index (154–161) .]

ed. Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 93 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 163 pp. [ This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Second Annual Michigan/Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable hosted by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Michigan from April 12 through 14, 1991. The papers include: Stephen Barbour, “The Role of Language in European Nationalisms: A comparative study with particular reference to the German-speaking area” (1–9); Thomas W. Juntune, “Subject and Reflexive in Old Icelandic” (69–79); Joe Salmons, “The Evolution of Gender Assignment from OHG to NHG” (81–95); Monika R. Dressier, “Relativization Strategies in Early New High German: An empirical approach” (141–156). It has a list of contributors (xi–xii), an index of names and authors (157–159), and an index of subjects (161–163) .]

1992 . Language Diversity and Thought: A reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis . (= Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 12 .) Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press , x, 328 pp. [ The book examines the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis which proposes that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author provides a historical review of the empirical studies generated by the works of Sapir and Whorf and proposes a new line of approach to future empirical research. After the introduction, the book has the following chapters: 1, “Development of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis in America: Boas and Sapir”; 2, “Development of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis in America: Whorf; 3, “Approaches in Anthropological Linguistics: Typical ethnographic case studies”; 4, “Approaches in Anthropological Linguistics: Theoretical and methodological advances”; 5, “Approaches in Comparative Psycholinguistics: Experimental studies on the lexical coding of color”; 6, “Approaches in Comparative Psycholinguistics: Experimantal studies on grammatical categories”; 7, “Overview and Assessment of Previous Empirical Research”. It has endnotes (277–307), a bib. (308–321), and a general index (322–328) .]

1992 . Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A case study of the linguistic relativity hypothesis . (= Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 13 .) Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press , xiii, 211 pp. [ This volume, a companion to his Language Diversity and Thought: A reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, uses original data to examine the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The author focuses on the differences in a number of marking patterns in the grammars of American English and Yucatec Maya (an indigenous language of southeastern Mexico) and shows the distinctive patterns of thought relating to these differences. After the introduction, the book is divided into the following chapters: 1, “Background of the Comparative Research in Yucatan, Mexico”; 2, “Comparison of Grammatical Categories: Nominal number in English and Yucatec”; 3, “Cognitive Assessment”; 4, “Conclusions”. It has appendices: A, “Constructions of Picture Stimuli” (162–178), B, “Administration of Task Series” (179–184), and C, “Scoring Convention and Summary Data for Verbal Tasks” (185–197), notes (198–203), a bib. (204–207), and an index (208–211) .]

eds. 1992 . English in Its Social Contexts: Essays in historical sociolinguistics . (= Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics .) New York & Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press , v, 268 pp. [ The book contains essays by authors from different parts of the English-speaking world on the social aspects of English. The essays demonstrate the ways in which the specific varieties of the English language have been used by specific individuals and/or groups for specific purposes. The book is aimed at the new student of linguistics in general and the history of English in particular. Some of the essays are: Charles T. Scott & Tim W. Machan, “Introduction: Sociolinguistics, language change, and the history of English” (3–27); Thomas E. Toon, “The Social and Political Contexts of Language Change in Anglo-Saxon England” (28–46); Craig M. Carver, “The Mayflower to the Model-T: The development of American English” (131–154); John Algeo, “Sociolinguistic Attitudes and Issues in Contemporary Britain” (155–177); John Gunn, “Social Contexts in the History of Australian English” (204–229). It has an index (261–268) .]

. 1992 . De la Préhistoire des peuples indo-européens . (= Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego MXLVIII; Prace Językoznawcze, 110 .) Kraków : Uniwersytet Jagielloński , 119 pp. [ This monograph addressing the perennial question of the IE Urheimat has the following chaps.: “Problème fondamental de la linguistique: critères de vérité” (7–21); “La nature de la parenté” (22–41); “L’habitat primitif des Goths” (42–63); “L’habitat primitif des Slaves” (64–69); “L’habitat primitif des Indo-Européens” (70–107), with a long list of cognates (77–96), and a “Conclusion” (108–111). It has a bib. (112–117) and a summary in Polish (118–119) .]

1992 . English Text: System and Structure . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiii, 620 pp. [ The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the text forming resources in English, and practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. The analyses are presented within the contexts of educational, critical and computational linguistics. It will be of great help to undergraduate students in theoretical linguistics and post-graduate students in applied linguistics. It has a bib. (591–612) and an index (613–620) .]

1992 . Logical Semiotics and Mereology . (= Foundations of Semiotics, 16 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi, 282 pp. [ This collection of papers by the author deals with philosophic logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of science, and the application of modern logic to wider philosophical problems, all of which make use of logical semiotics. The papers include: “On the Positive Power of Negation” 1–14); “On Carnap and the Origins of Systematic Pragmatics” (33–51); “On Relational Couples and Ordinal Individuals: Peirce and Russell (103–114), and others. It has an appendix (263–267) and notes (269–282), but no index .]

eds. 1992 . Zum Umgang mit fremden Sprachen in der griechisch-römischen Antike: Kolloquium der Fachrichtungen Klassische Philologie des Universitäten Leipzig und Saarbrücken am 21. und 22. November 1989 in Saarbrücken . (= Palingenesia, 36 .) Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag , 252 pp. [ From the 15 articles in this volume the following may be of particular interest to HL readers: Jürgen Werner, “Zur Fremdsprachenproblematik in der griechischen-römischen Antike” (1–20); Rüdiger Schmitt, “Assyria grammata und ähnliche: Was wußten die Griechen von Keilschrift und Keilinschriften?” (21–35); Klaus Schöpsdau, “Vergleiche zwischen Lateinisch und Griechisch in der. antiken Sprachwissenschaft” (115–136); Christian Mueller-Goldingen, “Cicero als Übersetzer Piatons” (173–187). A special bib. on the problematics of foreign languages in antiquity closes the volume (235–252) .]

( a cura di ). 1991 . Regole della Traduzione: Testi inediti di Port-Roy al e del ‘Cercle’ di Miramion (metà del XVII secolo) . (= Istituto Italiano per Gli Studi Filosofici, 11 .) Napoli : Bibliopolis [via Arangio Ruiz 83, Napoli] , 243 pp.; 5 facs., 3 portr . [ The book constitutes an edition of manuscript texts by four authors that are of distinct interest to the history of 17th-century French linguistics, each provided with a biographical and historical introduction. (The texts themselves are in French.) The first, provided by the editor, is “Règles de la Traduction” by Antoine Le Maistre (de Sacy, 1608–1658) written between 1648 and 1655 (31–47); the second, provided by Loredana Linguiti, “Remarques sur la traduction francoise” by Robert Arnauld d’Andilly (1588–1674), eldest of the twenty children of ‘le Grand Arnauld’, apparently written after Le Maistre’s treatise (59–72). While these two authors and texts are associated with Port-Royal, the next main section, “Testi Inediti del ‘Cercle’ di Miramion” (73–198), brings editions of “Discours de l’usage et des regles de la bonne traduction” by a certain “M^r T.B”, provided by Patrizia Minocchi (91–120), which prompted at least two reactions, namely, Aignan de Beauharnais, Sieur de Miramion’s (d.1652) “Discours de la Traduction. De son utilité et des Regles pour la bien faire” (129–162) and André Berruyer’s “Discours de la traduction”, prepared by Flavia Mariotti (179–198). There is an appendix reproducing a variety of selections from 17th-century French writings dealing with the subject of translation in one form or another, by Louis-Issac Le Maistre de Sacy, Gaspard de Tende, and others (199–243). There is no index .]

. 1992 . Naming and Reference: The link of word to object . (= The Problems of Philosophy: Their past and present, [unnumbered] .) London & New York : Routledge , x, 297 pp. [ The book surveys the history of the study of the problem of reference within a historical and critical setting from Locke, Brentano, Peirce, Frege, Russell, Strawson, Tarski, Carnap and Quine up to Kripke and Fodor. The author presents his own solution to the problem of naming and referring. It has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction”, 2, “Natural Signs”; 3, “Sense and Reference”; 4, “Naming and Describing”; 5, “Truth Without Reference”; 6, “Reference and Speech Act”; 7, “Steps Toward Naturalism”; 8, “Cause and Function”; 9, “Mechanism”; 10, “Direct Reference”; 11, “Mind and Semantics”. It has an appendix (260–266), notes (267–281), bib. (282–290), and an index (291297) .]

. 1991 . Linguaggio e Mental Imagery: Dall’ ipotesi della relatività linguistica alla teoria del doppio codice . Prefazione di Tullio De Mauro . (= Studi di Semiotica e Filosofia del Linguaggio, 1 .) Chieti : Métis [address: via Delle Clarissse 14, CHIETI, Italy] , 123 pp. [ The author starts from a discussion of the ‘strong’ and ‘mild’ forms of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to move to mainly psychological but also philosophical writings on ‘mental imagery’, attempting some sort of bridge in the closing chapter, where he offers ‘una nuova perspettiva’ informed by work in ‘psychophysics’. The back matter consists of endnotes (112–113), a rather incomplete bib. (115120), and a table of contents (122–123), but no index .]

eds. 1992 . The History of Linguistics in the Low Countries . (= Studies in the History of Language Sciences, 64 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , v, 400 pp.; illustrations ( 383 – 331 ). [ This volume builds on a previous special issue of HL published in 1988; it reprints the bulk of these articles devoted to various aspects of the history of linguistics of the Low Countries, to which several new articles and detailed indexes of names (383–391) and of terms & subjects (393–400) have been added. Some of the articles are: Henrik Schul-tink, “The History of Dutch Linguistics: An introduction” (1–15); Geert R. W. Dibbets, “Dutch Philology in the 16th and 17th Century” (39–61); Vivian Salmon, “Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship: A survey of 17th-century achievements” (129–153); Anthony J. Klijnsmit, “Spinoza and the Grammarians of the Bible” (155–200), and Gerrit H. Jongeneelen, “Lambert ten Kate and the Origins of 19th-century Historical Linguistics” (201–219) .]

NOWELE: North-Western European Languages Evolution . Vol. 201 , 1992 . Odense : Odense Univ. Press , 142 pp. [ This volume contains the following articles: Dirk Boutkan, “Old English -ur/-or in the r-and s-Stems” (3–26); Frederik Kortland, “The Old Norse i-Umlaut” (27–31); Janet Grijzenhout, “The Change of Relative that to who and which in Late Seventeenth-Century Comedies” (33–52); Paul Christophersen, “The Spoken Word in International Contacts in Carolingean Europe” (53–64); Eric P. Hamp, “Eng. boar, OHG bêr"(65); Anatoly Liberman, “A Bird’s-Eye View of Open Syllable Lengthening in English and in the Other Germanic Languages” (67–87), and Hans Peters, “Zur Entwicklung der englischen Relativpronomina: Typologische und soziolinguistische Aspekte” (89–135) .

. 1992 . The Study of Names: A guide to the principles and topics . Westport, Connecticut & London : Greenwood Press , xiii, 152 pp. [ The book provides a scholarly and readable examination of names. It has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction”; 2, “Anthroponyms”; 3, “Toponyms”; 4, “Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations”; 5, “Brand Names, Trade Names, Trademarks, and Common Nouns Derived from Proper Names”; 6, “Other Names”, and 7, “Concluding Remarks”. It has appendixes (127–137); a bib. (139–147), and an index(149–152) .]

ed. 1992 . Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility . (= Typological Studies in Language, 22 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 320 pp. [ The papers in this volume explore the three domains necessary for the understanding of word order variations in languages. These domains are syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The introduction is written by Doris L. Payne. Some of the papers are: Marianne Mithun, “Is Word Order Universal?” (15–61); Ken Hale, “Basic Word Order in Two ‘Free Word Order’ Languages” (63–82); John Myhill, “Word Order and Temporal Sequencing” (265–278); T[almy] Givón, “On Interpreting Text-Distributional Correlations: Some methodological issues” (305–320). Other contributors are: Morton Ann Gernsbacher & David Hargreaves (83–116); Russell S. Tomlin & Richard Rhodes (117–135); Karen Sundberg Meyer (167–191); Noel Rude (193–208); Barbara Jacennik & Matthew S. Dryer (209–241); Ann Cooreman & Stephen Quakenbush (279–303) .]

1992 . Deixis Grammar and Culture . (= Typological Studies in Language, 24 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 245 pp. [ This study examines the belief by many linguists that there is no connection between culture and language structures. Using a functional view of language and grammaticization principles, an association between culture and the grammatical coding of deities is tested and statistically found to be corroborated to a very significant extent from a world-wide probability sample of forty-nine languages. It has appendixes (196–227), a bib. (229–235), and an index (237–245) .]

ed. 1992 . Between Signs and Non-Signs: Ferruccio Rossi-Landi . (= Critical Theory, 10 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 322 pp. [ This collection of 14 articles by the Italian philosopher, Rossi-Landi, written between 1952 and 1984, gives an overview of the author’s research in language and ideology in relation to sign production processes and the process of social reproduction. The papers reflect Rossi-Landi’s readings of Charles Morris, Wittgenstein, Marx and others. After the introduction by the editor (ix–xxix), the book is divided into the following sections: I, “Signs and Masters in Semiotic History”; II, “Signs as Cognitive and Evaluative Instruments”; III, “Signs, Linguistic Alienation and Social Reproduction”, and IV, “Signs and Material Reality”. It has a list of writings by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (301–309), an index of authors (311–316), and an index of terms and concepts (317–322) .]

[ Plank, Frans ]. 1992 . Wohl-geschliffener Tugenspiegel des Sprachforschers; demselben vorgehalten von einer Societät zur Beförderung der praktisch reinen Vernunftmoral . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , xii, 160 pp.; many illustrations . [ A humorous booklet which especially those familiar with late 18th and 19th-century history German linguistics will enjoy reading. Tous ces gars of the period that had any stature are given a chance to be the butt of the author’s pranks, from Herder to Benfey to Brugmann. A couple of foreign scholars, such as Antoine Léonard de Chézy, Saussure, Karl Verner, and Dr Samuel Johnson, do not escape unharmed either. (Only Hermann Paul could not be found as a source for humoristic exploitation.) An index or “Namen-Verzeichnis derjenigen Personen, deren in diesem Spiegel, vorzüglich in Hinsicht ihrer Tugend, Erwähung geschieht” (157–160) rounds off the entertaining Lektüre. – A ditty that didn’t make it into the book can be found in Linguistische Berichte No. 142.495–496 (1992) .]

. 1992 . Sémantique Générale . Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 237 pp. [ The author defines “sémantique générale” as the subject which “se préoccupe des mécanismes et opérations concernant le sens, à travers le fonctionnement des langues naturelles” (Avant-propos, p. 11). His book – the third of the author’s ‘trilogy’ (beginning with his 1955 Systématique des éléments de relations) – is divided into four main parts: I, “Les sémantiques et la linguistique”; II, “Conceptualisation et universaux”; III, “La mise en schemes”, and IV, “Les visées enonciatives”. It has a conclusion (224–227), a bib. (228–231), and index of terms and concepts (233–237) .]

ed. 1992 . Advances in Nonverbal Communication: Socio-cultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 412 pp.; picts. & illustrs . [ This multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to the field of Nonverbal Communication Studies contains twenty articles which include the most recent theoretical and empirical crosscultural studies of gestures from historical, communicative and sociopsychological perspectives. A section of the book is also devoted to nonverbal communication in literature and literary translation. It also presents new psychological and clinical studies of nonverbal behaviors. The last section, written by the editor, discusses Nonverbal Communication as an academic area and it includes an extensive bib. and an appendix of Nonverbal Communication courses taught by him (363–397). Some of the contributors are: Jürgen Streeck & Mark L. Knapp, Roger W. Wescot, Uri Hadar, Francis Lowenthal, Paul McDonnel, and Hans J. Vermeer. It has indexes of names (400–408), and of subjects (409–412) .]

ed. 1992 . Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honor of René Dirven on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xix, 632 pp. 2 pics . [ This Festschrift for René Dirven (b.1932) contains contributions by thirty authors on wide-ranging topics. It is divided into the following sections: 1, “General Linguistics”; 2, “Applied Linguistics”; 3, “Grammar and Discourse Analysis”; 4, “Semantics”; 5, ““Morphology”; 6, “Historical Linguistics”; 7, “Functionalism in Linguistics”; 8, “Sociolinguistics and Languages in Contact”; 9, “Cognitive Linguistics”; 10, “Cognitive Psychology”; 11, “Philosophical Linguistics”; 12, “Linguistics and Anthropology”, and 13, “Computational Linguistics”. Some of the contributions are: Noam Chomsky, “On the Nature, Use and Acquisition of Language” (3–29); Derek Bickerton, “The Creole Key to the Black Box of Language” (97–108); George Lakoff, “Metaphors and War: The metaphor system used to justify the war in the gulf” (463481). It has a biographical sketch (xxiii–xxix), and a bibliography of Dirven (xxxi–xxxvii), an introduction written by Martin Pütz (xxxix–lvii), and an index (625–632) .]

. 1992[1990] . The Making of Johnson s Dictionary 17461773 . (= Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History, [unnumbered] .) Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press , ix, 249 pp.; illustrations ( between pp. 114 – 115 ). [ This reprint of the 1990 book details the conception, composition, and writing of the first great English dictionary between the years 1746–1773. The author relies on Johnson’s recently discovered manuscript materials for the Dictionary, unpublished manuscripts, working papers for later revisions, the great revision of 1771–1773, among other things, to show that the Dictionary does not reflect Johnson’s final thoughts on a fixed language. It has the following appendixes: “Description of the Sneyd-Gimble materials” (179–189); “Description of the British Library Copy” (190–191); “Provenance and History of the Sneyd-Gimble and British Library Copies” (192–194). It has endnotes (195–237) and an index (239–249) .]

eds. 1991 . Canada on the Threshhold of the 21st Century: European reflections upon the future of Canada/ Le Canada au seuil du 21 ème Siecle: Réflexions Européennes sur l’avenir du Canada . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 565 pp. [ The book contains selected papers presented at the first all-European Canadian Studies Conference held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 24–27 October, 1990. It stresses European perspectives on a number of interlocking issues such as the demography, environment, economics, spatial organization, identity, native issues, domestic and foreign policies of Canada. It has a list of contributors (561–565), but no index .]

. 1991 . Abriß der japanischen Lautgeschichte . Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag , 100 pp.; 1 folding table [ This primer of the historical phonology of Japanese is organized under the following main sections: 1, “Einleitung”; 2, “Altjapanisch: Yamato-Zeita” (ca. 630–710); 3, “Klassischjapanisch: Heian-Zeit” (794–1185); 4, “Mitteljapanisch: Kamakura-Zeit (1185–1333) und Muromachi-Zeit (1333–1568)”; 5, “Neujapanisch: Edo-Zeit (1600–1868)”; 6, “Gegenwartsjapanisch: Meiji-Zeit (1868–1912), Tai-shoo-Zeit (1912–1926), Shoowa-Zeit (1926–1989)”, and 7, “Diachrone Zusammenfassung” (85–87). It has a glossary of terms (88–91), followed by the same list in Japanese script (92–94), a bib. of secondary sources (95100), and a graphic depiction of the main sound changes of Japanese .]

. 1992 . Accentual Change & Language Contact: Comparative survey and a case study of early Northern Europe . Stanford : Stanford Univ. Press , vii, 240 pp.; maps . [ This book, which grew out of a 1984 Univ. of Texas at Austin dissertation (thesis director: Edgar C. Polomé), demonstrates that accentual phenomena are particularly vulnerable to a language-contact change. It presents a survey of the typological and comparative literature on areal and language-contact aspects of accentuation and accentual change. It has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction”; 2, “Comparative Data on Accentual Change and Language Contact”; 3, “Language Contact and Areal Phenomena in Prehistoric Northwestern Europe”; 4, “Areal Aspects of Early Northwestern European Accentuation”, and 5, “Summary, Conclusions, and Some Implications”. It has a bib (187–216) and an index (217–240) .]

et al. eds. 1992 . Europäische Sprachwissenschaft um 1800: Methodologische und historiographische Beiträge zum Umkreis der “idéologie” Band 3: Eine Vortragsreihe im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts “Ideologenrezeption” Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 274 pp. [ The volume contains a collection of papers by various authors organized under two headings: 1, “Theoretische und methodologische Überlegungen [to the historical treatment of the idéologues and the conduct of historiographical work in general, e.g., Peter Schmitter’s invitation to a debate that, in his view, has thus far failed to materialize, “‘Narrativität’ als metahistoriographischer Begriff (41–61)], and 2, “Die Idéologie in Frankreich”, with altogether 9 contributions, including “Zeichentheoretische und sprachpsychologische Ansätze in Frankreich und Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert” by Joachim Gessinger (109–122) and “La question de l’histoire des langues et du comparatisme” by Sylvain Auroux, Claude Désirat & Tristan Horde (123–133). It has an index of names (263274) .]

. 1992 . Kurs po obšta lingvistika [ Course of general linguistics ]. Ed. by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye with the collaboration of Albert Riedlinger . Transl, from the French by živko Bojadžiev [= Jivco Boyadjiev] & Petja Asenova . With an introduction, ‘Ferdinand de Sausure and modern linguistics’ by Jivco Boyadjiev . Sofija : Nauka i Izkustvo , 276 pp.; 1 portr . [ This is the first transl, of the Cours into Bulgarian, to which the first translator has added a valuable introduction surveying the scholarship on Saussurean linguistics up to 1990, when the work had been completed (cf. HL XIX.441 (1992) for a note referring to the delay). The back matter consists of a select bib. of Saussure’s writings (p. 264), a bib. of secondary sources addressing the post-Sausurean debate (265–274), and a Bulgarian-French glossary of the most important Saussurean terms .]

. 1992 . Quantitative Linguistics . (= Linguistics & Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 37 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 253 pp. [ This book examines the application of quantitative methods to language and its phenomena. It has the following main parts: I, “Quantitative Linguistics”; II, “Methods of Research”; III, “The Main Areas of Quantitative Linguistics”; IV, “Other Domains of Quantitative Linguistics”; V, “The Application of the Results of Quantitative Linguistics”; VI, “Quantitative Linguistics and Computers”, and VII, “Perspectives of Quantitative Linguistics”. The back matter consists of notes (p. 208), bib. (209–238), a list of abbreviations of analysed texts and other language materials (239–240), a list of other abbreviations (241–242), a name index (243–247), and a subject index (248–253) .]

ed. 1992 . Language, Text and Context: Essays in stylistics . (= Interface series .) London & New York : Routledge , vii, 320 pp. [ The collection of essays in this volume focuses on the principle of contextualization as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorizing and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The book is organized into four main parts: I, “Situated Fashions of Speaking and Writing: From nonsense to comon sense”; II, “Strategic Styles”; III, “Positioning Styles: Framing women language”, and IV, “Styles of Incongruity: The pragmatics of Oddness and daftness”. Some of the contributors are: Brian McHale (6–35); George Dillon (39–52); Gill Francis & Anneliese Kramer-Dahl (56–90); Geoffrey Leech (259–278). Each essay is preceded by an editor’s preface. It has a bib. (306316) and an index (317–320) .]

UNESCO . 1991 . World List of Social Science Periodicals / Liste Mondial des Périodiques Spécilisés dans les Sciences Sociales / Lista Mundial de Revistas Especailizads en Ciencias Sociales . (= World Social Science Directory, 1 .) Paris : UNESCO , x, 1264 pp. [ This directory lists only titles known to be current as of 31 March 1991, but it does not include any periodical for which no information has been received during the last five years. It has the following contents: “Introduction” (X–XI) in English; (XII–XIII) in French, and (XIV–XV) in Spanish; “Index of Countries (XVII–XVII); Section I, “Index of Titles” (1–87); Section II, “List of Entries: Periodicals from international, regional and non-governmental organizations” (89–122); “Other periodicals by country of publication (123–1108); Section III, “Subject Index” (1109–1245); Section IV, “Index of Bibliographic and Abstracting Periodicals” (12471255); Annex I, “List of Abstracting and Indexing Services” (1257–1264) .]

, compiler . 1993 . Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological Texts, 1440–1900: Inventory of the Cordell collection, Indiana State University . (= Bibliographies and Indexes in Library and Information Science, 7 .) Westport, Connecticut & London : Greenwood Press , ix, 397 pp. [ This catalog contains an inventory of 5,046 pre-1901 titles, including copies received by the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries as of December 1991. It contains both English and foreign-language materials. The main entries section is organized alphabetically by author or by title (for main-entry titles). It has a date index (285–320), a language index (321–356), and a subject guide (357–397) .]

eds. 1992 . The Construct of Language Proficiency: Applications of psychological models to language assessment . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 212 pp. [ This volume contains papers on the operationalization of the psychological construct of language proficiency by a selected group of Dutch scholars with a common interest in language related studies. The papers were first discussed at the First European Congress of Psychology held in Amsterdam in July 1989. It is divided into two main sections: 1, “First Language Proficiency”, and 2, “Multilingual Proficiency”. It has a subject index (207–209), and a list of contributors (211–212) .]

. 1992 . Carnet: Des notes Montagnais-Naskapi, 1947–1992 . Sidney, B.C. : Les Editiones Laplante-Agnew , 219 pp.; photographs and illustrations ( 59 – 71 ). [ This book prints for the first time fieldnotes made by the author (b.1910) during 1947–48 of two dialects of an Algonquian language, for which he retains ‘Montagnais’ and ‘Naskapi’ respectively. They form the centre piece of the book (75–177). The rest is taken up by the following main sections: “Remarques liminaires” (13–38); “Commentaires linguistiques” (39–57), and an “Annexe: La vie au Mistassini [i.e., the area where Naskapi is spoken]” (179–204). There are a number of photographs and reproductions of sketches of persons (especially of his informants) and objects. The back matter consists of an index of (French) words referring to the items identifided and transcribed in Part II (205–219) .]

ed. 1992 . Franciscus Junius: Observationes in Willerami Abbaus Francicam Paraphraasin Cantici Canticorum . (= Early Studies in Germanic Philology, 1 .) Amsterdam & Atlanta : Rodopi , xxxiii, 311 pp. [ This volume contains the first philological work of the Dutch scholar Franciscus Junius F. F. (1591–1677), first published in 1655. It is one of the greatest works in the historiography of Germanic studies and exhibits Junius’ great knowledge of Old German and Old English, Gothic, Old High German, Dutch, Frisian, English, and Welsh. It has a bib. (xxviii–xxxiii) .]

1991 . Explorations in Language . Tapei : Pyramid Press , v, 444 pp. [ The book contains some of the work of the author in the areas of language change, tones, and written language. The papers are arranged thematically and correspond to the four major parts of the book: I, “Language Change”; II, “Tones”; III, “Written Language”, and IV, “Other Studies”. It has a bib. (413–444) but no index .]

. 1992 . The Phonetics of Finger Spelling . (= Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 4 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 108 pp. [ This book studies different aspects of fingerspelling. It has the following chapters: 1, “A Linguistic Approach to Fingerspeling”; 2, “Learning to Fingerspell”; 3, “The Measurement of Fingerspelling Movement”; 4, “Targets and Transitions”; 5, “Towards a Dynamics of Fingerspelling”, and 6, “Future Directions in Signed Language Research”. It has endnotes (93–95); bib. (97–106), and an index (107–108) .]

. 1992 . Sociolinguistics: A sociological critique . London & New York : Routledge , vii, 278 pp. [ The book emphasizes the sociological rather than the linguistic aspect of sociolinguistics. The author calls for a critical analysis of all the philosophical assumptions on which sociolinguistics has been based. He challenges the leading figures in the field – Labov, Fishman, Hymes, Gumperz and Milroy, among others – for their unequivocal acceptance of the sociological theory they draw on. It will be an essential reading for advanced students of sociolinguistics and people interested in researching language in society. It has a foreword by Joshua Fishman (vii–xv), a bib. (259–268), and an index (269–278) .]

. 1992 . Social and Regional Factors in Canadian English: A study of phonological variables and grammatical items in Ottawa and Vancouver . Toronto : Canadian Scholar’s Press , x, 184 pp. [ The book, according to the preface, investigates a limited number of phonological and grammatical items in Canadian English for overall patterns of usage, and according to sex, age, socioeconomic status and location, and probable directions of linguistic change, while considering possible associations in phonological variable use. It has endnotes (153–160) and a selected bib. (161–184) .]

ed. 1992 . New Departures in Linguistes . New York & London : Garland Publishing , vii, 266 pp. [ The chapters in this book are written by various authors and they cover topics in general linguistics, phonetics, and social anthropology. They include: Roy Harris, “On Scientific Method in Linguistics” (1–26); Caroline Henton, “The Abnormality of Male Speech” (27–59); Nigel Love, “On the Need for a New Departure in Phonology” (6089); Hayley G. Davis, “Drawing the Morphological Line” (90–115); George Wolf, “First Steps in Syntax” (116–134); Steve Farrow, “Irony and the Theories of Meaning” (135–145); Deborah Cameron, “New Arrivals: The feminist challenge in language study” (213–235). It has a list of Contibutors (p. 260), and a general index (261–266) .]

. 1992 . The Focusing Hypothesis: The theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined . (= Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 3 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi, 207 pp. [ The book examines the issue of whether it would be noticed if the right hemisphere of the brain, instead of the left, as everyone has supposed, were to be the one normally active in routine language processing. The back matter consists of an appendix (167–173), a bib. (175–201), and a general index (203–207) .]