Publications Received/Ouvrages Reçus/Eingegangene Schriften

. 1994 . The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole . (= Language Acquisition & Language Disorders, 9 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi, 167 pp. [ The present volume offers a revised version of the author’s doctoral thesis in 1990 at the University of Düsseldorf and examines children’s acquisition of Mauritian Creole syntactic rules from the perspective of a Government & Binding framework. The author demonstrates that some of the predictions which have been made by scholars such as Derek Bickerton about pidgin and creole languages reflecting the underlying principles of Universal Grammar can indeed be observed in the data from this particular case study .]

AIΩN (= Annali del Dipartmento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico; Sezione linguistica, 14 .) Napoli : Istituto Universitario Orientale , 1992 , 323 pp. [ This volume contains articles in historical linguistics by various authors such as: “Sumerian: The decendant of a Proto-Historical Creole? An alternative approach to the ‘Sumerian Problem’”, by Jens Høyrup (21–72); “Toponimi metrici ed ametrici”, by Nicholas Horsfall (173–177); “Un graffito etrusco dalla Campania”, by Luigi Pedroni (203–206), and “La posizione linguistica delle lingue amerindiane: Rapporti esterni al continente americano”, by Anna De Meo (297–315). It is preceded by a discussion paper by Witold Mańczak, “Argument contre la conception de [Colin] Renfrew [concerning the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans]” (11–18) .]

. 1992 . Estudios Léxicos . Segunda serie . Madison : The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies , [ iv], 151 pp. [ El libro contiene artículos etimológicos sobre: Campiña, montiña, cantiña; catarata ‘rápido de un río’; escudero; explotar – explosionar; aceña y otros nombres de máquinas; armella, argolla; alaju(r), alfajor; galleta; gótico, románico; πηλα-μύς, σkόρπατυα en el romance; jarcia y gánguil. – HJN* .]

ed. 1994 . Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth [International] Conference [Chicago, 1985] . Columbus, Ohio : Slavica Publishers , 309 pp. [ This book is dedicated to the memory of Akaki šanije (1887–1987), to whom the papers dealing with the languages of Caucasia at the conference were supposed to be dedicated on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Some articles icluded in this volume are: “On the history of relative clauses in Georgian”, by Alice C. Harris (130–142), which concludes that Georgian is unusually rich in changes of strategy in relative clause formation; “Notes on auxiliary verbs in Tsova-Tush (Batsbi)”, by Dee Ann Holisky (143–159); “The structure of the Nakh-Daghestanian verb root and verb stem”, by Johanna Nichols (160–179) and “Class inflection and related categories in the Caucasus”, by Karl H. Schmidt (185–192), which considers typological contrasts between East, West and South Caucasian languages. No index .]

. 1993 . Anagrammes et allitérations . (= Orbis: Supplementa, 1 .) Paris & Louvain : Peeters , 89 pp. [ The booklet analyzes anagrammes and alliterations in ancient Indo-European poetry. The author examines a number of Latin and Homeric examples taken from Ferdinand de Saussure, as well as other sources and languages. Appendix (7383) .]

ed. 1994 . Langues indo-européennes . (= Sciences du Langage, [unnumbered] .) Paris : CNRS Éditions , 330 pp. [ The book is a collection of original articles which present analyses of many ancient Indo-European languages in Asia and Europe, languages which we know only by written texts. The articles consider archaeological evidence and written texts in order to study the ancient languages in relation to the culture of the time. Contributors include the late Enrico Campanile, Manfred Mayrhofer, Craig Melchert, Claude Brixhe, Jay Jasanoff, among others. No index .]

1994 . The Adjectival Category: Criteria for differentiation and identification . (= Studies in Language Companion Series, 24 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xii, 295 pp. [ The author establishes a typology of adjectives, focussing primarily on the Indian languages. The book is divided into two parts. The first part, “Adjectives as a Distinct Category”, deals with the idealized language type in which adjectives form a distinct category. The second part, “Adjectives as Parts of Other Categories”, discusses three distinct idealized language types which have the common property that they do not have a distinct adjectival category. Languages form a gradation as which type they belong to. The author argues against the X-bar Theory, whereby lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives have the same kind of base structure. Subject index (287–292) and index of names (293–295) .]

ed. 1993 . Sprachpolitik in der Romania: Zur Geschichte sprachpolitischen Denkens und Handelns von der Französischen Revolution bis zur Gegenwart. Eine Gemeinschaftsarbeit der Leipziger Forschungsgruppe “Soziolinguistik” . Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , xvi, 528 pp. [ Diese hochinteressante Neuerscheinung ist noch “vor der Wende” entstanden, aber jetzt erst im Druck erschienen. Sie büßt dadurch keinesfalls an Aktualität und Informativität ein. – Nach einer ausführlichen, lesenswerten Darlegung des dem Buch zugrunde liegenden (weiten) Begriffs der Sprachpolitik werden nacheinander die “Sprachpolitik in der Großen Französischen Revolution und im napoleonischen Empire”, “Die sprachpolitische Ausstrahlung der Französischen Revolution auf die romanischen Nachbarländer”, die “Sprachpolitik im 19. Jahrhundert”, “Repressive Sprachpolitik [im 19. und namentlich im 20. Jhdt., z.B. italienischer Faschismus und Franco-Ära]” und schließlich “Demokratische Alternativen in der Gegenwart [mit ausführlichen Analysen der Situation in Spanien und Frankreich]”. Die Tatsache, daß es sich bei diesem Buch um das Werk eines “Autorenkollektivs” handelt, spürt man nirgends: Es ist im Aufbau und Inhalt homogen, in sich geschlossen, kurz: lesenswert. – FUN .]

eds. 1994 . Nauwe Betrekkingen: Voor Theo Janssen bij zijn vijftigste verjaardag . Amsterdam : Stichting Neerlandistiek ; Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 315 pp. [ This publication brings together more than 30 papers in honour of Theo A.J.M. Janssen and his important contribution to the study of Dutch. Papers include “Modaliteit in 16de- en 17de-eeuws Hollands: Voor wie de nuance waandeert” by Arjan van Leuvensteijn & David Stalpers (145–154), and “Some observations on the nature and historical development of the English perfect” by Wim van der Wurff (291–300). There is a bib. of Janssen’s work spanning from 1970 to 1994 (311–315) .]

eds. 1994 . Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachwissenschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Grammatiker, Lexikographen und Sprachtheoretiker des deutschsprachigen Raums mit Beschreibungen ihrer Werke , Vol. 31 : F-G . Tübingen : Max Niemeyer , xvi, 411 pp. [ This is the third in a series of volumes providing (in fact rather detailed) biobibliographical information on 18th-century authors in German-speaking lands. – For an early presentation of this ongoing research project, see Herbert E. Brekle & Hans-Jürgen Höller, “Biobibliographical handbook of 18th-century scholars in the language-sciences in German-speaking countries”, HL8:1.171–190 (1981), with a preliminary list of authors (175–188). Well-researched information (biographical data, analysis of scholarly output, bibliography, and references to secondary sources) is provided for each entry from “Andrzej Faber” to “Sámuel Gyarmathi” in the present volume (1–404). The front matter provides a list of abbreviations (vii–xii), and an index of authors (xiii–xvi). An appendix (405–411) lists authors who have been excluded from extensive treatment for a variety of reasons, such as the fact that their work appeared after the 1800 cut-off date, or that it is only indirectly relevant to the field of linguistics .]

Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure: Revue suisse de linguistique générale 47 , 1993 . Genève : Libraire Droz , 249 pp ; 11 portr . [ Some of the articles featured in this volume are: “De quelques candidatures et affinités électives de 1904 à 1908, à travers un fragment de correspondance: le fonds Michel Bréal (Lettres d’O. Jespersen, A. Barth, V. Henry, G. Maspéro, A. Meillet, F. de Saussure et Ch. Bally)” by Marc Décimo (37–60), “Modélisation, langage et langue chez Saussure” by Béatrice Turpin (159–178), and “Les manuscrits saus-suriens de Harvard” by Herman Parret (179–234) .]

Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa . No. 21 , May/Mai 1994 . Ottawa : Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Ottawa , 121 pp. [ This issue features the following articles: John Stonham, “All moras are not created equal” (1–26); Shahla Raghibdoust, “Multiple WH-fronting in Persian” (2758); Kathleen Brannen, Stephanie Burnett, Amy Chang, Terri Duncan, Darin Howe, Margarete Ling & Helen Goodluck, “The status of gap searches in relative vs. NP-complement clauses” (59–76); and Henrietta J. Hung, “Iambicity, rhythm, and weak parsing” (77–102) .]

Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa . No. 22 , October/Octobre 1994 . Ottawa : Univ. of Ottawa, Dept. of Linguistics , 120 pp. [ This number features articles which deal with the phenomenon of ‘scrambling’, or word-order variability in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, German, and Farsi. All of them consider scrambling from the perspective of current generative theory. The articles by Budzak-Jones and Stojanovic argue that scrambling is an instance of A’-movement, whereas Ling and Vahedi argue that scrambling exhibits mixed properties (i.e., A- and A’-properties). Also included are abstracts of recent theses from submitted at the University of Ottawa .]

. 1994 . Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations: A comprehensive bibliography . (= Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, 1 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 645 pp. [ As the title suggests, the book is a comprehensive reference list of the main areas on which case research has been concentrated: morphology, syntax and semantics. From a syntactic point of view, case is subsumed under grammatical relations; the semantic perspective concentrates on categories such as agent, patient and other thematic roles; while the morphological perspective concentrates on morphosyntactic processes such as passivization, reflexivization and compound formation. Also included are references concerning pragmatic and contextual considerations and applicability of case research to other disciplines. The book consists of an alphabetical author index, a subject index and a language index and guide .]

. 1994 . Petit traité de rhétorique saussurienne . (= Publications du Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure, 2 .) Genève : Librairie Droz , 166 pp. [ In this short study, the author first discusses the fundamental concepts of Saussurean linguistics, in particular the ‘arbitraire du signe’ and ‘connotation’. She proposes a distinction between rhetoric and poetics in Saussure’s work. Next, she defines the object of structural rhetoric in terms of semiotic operations, and examines the particularities of some rhetorical models in order to show how they relate to the act of linguistic communication in general. Finally, the author focuses on the field of poetics, with special attention to metaphor and oxymoron .]

. 1994 . Anthologie I: À l’ombre de Quintilien (= La Didactique des Langues .) Montréal : Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal ; Tübingen : Gunter Narr , x, 274 pp. [ This book, along with Précis d’Histoire I 1450–1700, represent the first part of a trilogy which traces the evolution of language teaching from its origins to the present day. This volume covers the same time period as Précis d’Histoire. The historical documents presented in this book are grouped by category. Their exerpts are representative of how historians of the Renaissance responded to questions throughout the ages concerning the teaching and learning of language. The back matter consists of an index of names (271274) .]

. 1994 . Précis d’Histoire I: 1450–1700 (= La Didactique des Langues .) Montréal : Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal ; Tübingen : Gunter Narr , xii, 432 pp. [ This book presents the situation within historical linguistics in Europe during the Renaissance, or more precisely 1450–1700. The first chapter surveys the origins of the discipline from the earliest attempts in Mesopotamia to the invention of the printing press. The following seven chapters concentrate on the individual contributions of various European countries to the advancement of language teaching. The ninth chapter reports on the efforts of the Jesuits, and the tenth chapter on the contribution of Jan Amos Comenius (Komensky), the first theoretician of language teaching. The back matter consists of an index of names (423–432) .]

Cercle Linguistique d’Aix-en-Provence . 1993 . Langues et cultures . (= Travaux, 11 .) Aix-en-Provence : Publications de l’Université de Provence, Centre des Sciences du Langage , 202 pp. [ This issue deals with the relationship between language and culture by exploring how one may shape the other in terms of passing on a general ideology or Weltanschauung. Following an introductory section by co-editor Christian Touratier, “Langue, culture et pensée” (9–18), eleven individual contributions are divided under 4 headings: I, “Cuture et langue” (19–52); II, “Langue et culture”, including “Que penser de l’hypothèse Sapir-Whorf?” by Touratier (65–74); III, “Langue et identité” which includes Jean-Philippe Wat-bled, “Le parler noir américain: Essai de description et hypothèses” (125–152); and IV, “Linguistique nationalité et culture” including Max Caisson, “Aux origines de l’ethnologie d’aujourd’hui: La linguistique comparée” (191–202) .]

eds. 1993 . Studies in Functional Stylistics (= Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 36 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 293 pp. [ This book is freely linked to the Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics (Prague: Academia, 1986; Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1987). The contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Contributions directly following up the main principles of functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School (1926–1939); (2) Contributions concerning the problems of style in a wider communicative arena. These contributions are closely related to contemporary text linguistics and also deal with problems involving psy-cholinguistics, sociolinguistics and semiotics, and (3) Contributions having a pronounced historiographie character. These contributions reflect the fact contemporary Czech linguistic research is firmly anchored in the Prague linguistic tradition. Although the authors’ frame of reference is mainly the Czech language, the majority of contributions are intended to have a more general linguistic application .]

. 1988 . The Early Career of Daniel Jones; with a survey of his later life and work . [ This doctoral dissertation submitted at the Univ. of Utrecht covers in detail the early life and career of Daniel Jones (1881–1967), up to the year 1921. The remaining years of his life, are dealt with more briefly in Chapter 10. The book includes summaries of the main trends in the history of phonetics, a review of Jones’s published work, and the author’s estimate of the importance of Jones’s organizational, practical and theoretical contributions .]

ed. 1993 . Papers of the Twenty-Fourth Algonquian Conference . Ottawa : Carleton Production Centre , 430 pp. [ The twenty-fourth Algonquian Conference was held at Carleton University in Ottawa 23–25 October 1992. Its international character was highlighted by speakers from France and Mexico, as well as from Canada and the United States. Topics included were language, war, fishing, land claims and others that are the perennial concern of the Algonquians. Of the 39 papers presented at the conference, 28 are published here .]

eds. 1993 . Das Französische in den deutschsprachigen Ländern. Romanistisches Kolloquium VII (= Tübinger Linguistische Beiträge; 371 .) Tübingen : Gunter Narr , viii, 277 pp. [ Der Band gliedert sich in 4 Abschnitte: (1) “Erscheinungsformen des französischen Einflusses auf das Deutsche” (mit Beiträgen von Johannes Thiele, Sabine Kowallik und Rainer Schlösser); (2) “Geschichte und Sprache der Glaubensflüchtlinge” (mit Beiträgen von Theo Kiefner, Hans Joachim Schmitt, Carla Lichtenthal-Milléquant und Wolfgang Bergerfurth); (3) “Das Französische an deutschen Höfen” (mit Beiträgen von Günter Berger und Günter Holtus); (4) “Das Französische im Rheinland (mit Beiträgen von Wolfgang Dahmen, Artur Greive (« Französische Sprachlehre und Grammatik in Köln um 1600 »), Edgar Radtke & Christel Schiindwein, Johannes Kramer und Christoph Platen). Der Band enthält einen « Personenindex », einen « Sachindex » und einen « Wortindex ». – HJN .]

. 1994 . Language Planning in Multilingual Contexts: Policies, communities, and schools in Luxembourg . (= Studies in Bilingualism, 8 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xx, 220 pp. [ This book examines the multiple factors which affect language choices and uses within communities in the multilingual country of Luxembourg. This study is based on the assumption that individual and national goals associated with language use are interdependent of government policies and the ways in which these policies are implemented. For this reason, patterns of language use within and across communities in Luxembourg are viewed here in terms of interrelationships among language policy intent, implementation, and experience. The book is organized into seven chapters: 1, “Economic transition and language status change”; 2, “Political, socioeconomic, and language development”; 3, “Language use and social interaction”; 4, “Language use and schooling”; 5, “Learning about and teaching languages: Upper and middle class communities”; 6, “Valuing Lëtzebuergesch: The working class”; 7, “Language policy and planning”. The book also provides an exhaustive list of maps, tables, and data to supplement details in the text .]

eds. 1994 . Florilegium Historiographiae Linguisticae: Études d’historiographie de la linguistique et de grammaire comparée à la mémoire de Maurice Leroy . (= Bibliothèque des cahiers de l’Institut de linguistique de Louvain, 75 .) Louvain-la-Neuve : Peeters , 512 pp. [ This volume is a compilation of some thirty articles honoring the late Belgian historiographer of linguistics and comparative grammarian Maurice Leroy (1909–1990). The contributions range from historical-comparative to historiographical studies and their topics encompass 25 centuries of history; they include: Daniel Droixhe & Pierre S Wiggers, “Maurice Leroy, historien de la linguistique” (19–28); Françoise Bader, “Fonctions, catégories et sémantisme des pronoms” (29–78); Haiim B. Rosén, “Aristotle’s thoughts on language – An outgrowth of an intellectual climate” (87–96); Jean Lallot, “Le problème des fonctions syntaxiques chez Apollonius Dyscole” (131–142); Edgar C. Polomé, “The treatment of morphology in the Twe-spraack and its impact on Dutch grammars in the XVIIth century” (203–216), and Georges Mounin†, “Quelques réflections à propos de la linguistique de Leibniz” (239–246) .]

eds. 1994 . Italian Studies in Linguistic Historiography . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 295 pp. [ This volume is a collection of papers from the international commemorative symposium held in Rome to honor the legacy of Antonino Pagliaro (1989–1973), a scholar of Greek, Iranian, Romance linguistics, Italian dialectology and comparative philology all at the same time. The papers in this volume into two parts: I, Antonino Pagliaro: Theory and History and II, Italian Studies 1970–1990. Some of the papers are listed below: “Antonino Pagliaro’s comparative linguistics” by Walter Belardi; ‘“My’ Pagliaro” by Eugenio Coseriu; “The institutions of Italian linguistics historiography” by Daniele Gambarara, and “Renaissance linguistics” by Mirko Tavoni. A brief foreword by the editors precedes the articles (5–10), while the culmination of the collection of articles is marked by an elaborate index of names (277–295) .]

Directory of Programs in Linguistics in the United States & Canada . [ 9th updated ed. ] Compiled under the direction of Margaret Reynolds & Mary Niebuhr . Washington, D.C. : Linguistic Society of America , 1994 , xiv, 184 pp. [ This volume continues to be an important tool 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. 121–131). It also includes information on the various “Linguistic Societies & Related Organizations” throughout the world (133147), including those of Australia, India, Korea, etc., and for the second 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 LSA since December 1987, first informally, and since 1989 officially. Included is a listing of graduate and undergraduate enrolments as well as an indication of the number of graduates supported. The back matter consists of an “Index of Staff (149–178) and an “Index of Uncommonly Taught Languages” (179–184). – For information on the preceding (1987, 1990, 1992 and 1993) editions of the Directory, see HL 15:3.462–463 (1988), 17:1/2.251–252 (1990), 19: 1.206 (1992), and 20:1.239 (1993) .]

. 1994 . From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic anthropology in a western Samoan village . Berkeley-Los Angeles-London : Univ. of California Press , xiii, 208 pp. [ In this anthropological-linguistic study, the author proposes a “moral flow hypothesis” to describe the relationship between political discourse and the variations in grammar he witnessed among a group of Samoan villagers. References (193–202), and general index (203208) .]

eds. 1994 . Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VI . (= Current issues in Linguistic Theory, 115 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 235 pp. [ This volume is a collection of articles that were read at the Sixth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics which was held at The Ohio State Univ. in Columbus in 1993. The papers are arranged under three main headings: I, “Arabic in Contact: The Hispano-Arabic connection”; II, “Arabic in Contact: Other connections”, and III, “Phonological Perspectives”. Some of the papers that appear under these headings are listed below: “Aljamiado and the Moriscos’ Islamicization of Spanish” by Consuelo López Morilla (17–24), “Elements of Romance prosody in the poetry of Ibn Quzman” by James Munroe (63–90), “On the development of the Arabic subjunctive” by David Testen (151168), and “On emphasis and /r/ in Arabic” by Munther Younes (215–236). Index of subjects (237–238) .]

ed. 1994 . Reader in the History of Aphasia: From [Franz] Gall to [Norman] Geschwind . (= Classics in Psycholinguistics, 4 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xvi, 392 pp. ; 12 portraits; various illustr . [ Following an Introduction by the ed. (xi–xvi) this volume brings together selections from the works of the most influential 19th and early 20th century aphasiologists, each proceded by a biographical sketch of the author and introduced by a modern-day specialist in the field. Whenever the selections were not originally in English (which was true for most selections) translations have been provided, thus permitting the modern reader to study the observations and conmtriubutions made by these scientists in something very close to the original. Selections are made from the works of Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), Paul Broca (1824–1880), Carl Wernicke (18481905), Henry Charlton Bastian (1837–1915), John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911), Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Jules Dejerine (1849–1917), Pierre Marie (1853–1940), Arnold Pick (1851–1924), Henry Head (1861–1940), Kurt Goldstein (1878–1965), and Norman Geschwind (1926–1984). Introducers include Claus Heeschen, Antoine Keyser, John C. Marshall, Yvon Lebrun, Angela Friederici, and Marie-Louise Kean. Index of terms and concepts (389–392) .]

. 1994 . Dravidian Studies: Selected papers. (M.L.B.D. Series in Linguistics, 7 .) Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers , xxxi, 464 pp. [ In the present volume, Emeneau, a former student of Edward Sapir – to whose memory this book is dedicated –, brings together 27 seven of his own prevously-published articles covering various topics in Dravidian linguistics and Toda studies. Following an introduction by Bh. Krishnamurti (xv–xxvii) and a complete bibliography of Emeneau’s publications (xxix–xxxi), papers include: “North Dravidian Velar Stops” (1–16); “Some South Dravidian Noun Formatives” (163–170); “Proto-Dravidian *c- and its developments” (339–386); and “Toda Verbal Art and Sanskritization” (423–430). General index (457–462) .]

eds. N.d. [ 1994 ]. Actas del Congreso Internacional de Historiografía Lingüística Nebrija V Centenario, 1492–1992 . 31 vols. Murcia : Secretariado de publicaciones e intercambio científico, Universidad de Murcia . [ These massive and carefully edited proceedings from the international conference held in Murcia, Spain, 1–4 April 1992, have been divided up into three volumes of unequal length by subject. Vol.1: La obra de Nebrija (xxiv, [5-] 545 pp.) brings together all papers directly related to the work of Nebrija, whose Gramática de la lengua castellana of 1492 had been the focus of the conference; they are 44 in number and include such regular ‘suspects’ as W. Keith Percival, Guillermo L. Guitarte, Steven N. Dworkin, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Emilio Ridruejo. Vol.11: Nebrija y las lenguas amerindias (vii, 189 pp.) contains 13 papers by Manuel Alvar, María Luisa Calero Vaquera, Julio Calvo Pérez, Sabina Cololet Sedola, Gerda Haßler, Ángel López García, and others devoted to particular aspects of the study of Amerindian languages from the 16th century to the present in Central and South America. Vol.III: Nebrija y otros temas de historiografía lingüística (viii, 672 pp.) is somewhat more heterogeneous, but is held together by the authors’ commitment to linguistic historiography. Still a number of the papers touch upon or deal quite directly with the work of Nebrija and its reception on the Iberian peninsula. It includes contributions, inter alia, by María Helena Fernández Prat, Eulalia Hernández Sánchez, Brigitte Lépinette, Margarita Lliteras, M^a Dolores Martínez Gavilán, Francis Tollis, and Juan C. Zamora. – These 1,400 printed pages of the Actas pay tribute to the considerable interest in the history of linguistics in Spain and, of course, to the tremendous effors of the editors. My sole regret is that no regular indexes have been added to these volumes which would have made them more ‘user-friendly’, allowing for their easy use as reference tools .]

eds. 1994 . English Historical Linguistics 1992 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 113 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 388 pp. [ This volume contains a selection of papers read during the Seventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held in Valencia, Spain. While some papers concentrate on general issues, others focus on aspects which appear under the headings of Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics and finally Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts. Some of the papers are: “Linguistics and philosophy, chicken and eggs” by Richard Hogg (3–16); “Linguistic reality of Middle English” by Jacek Fisiak (47–64); “The Great Vowel Shift revisited” by Trinidad Guzman (81–90); “Infinitive marking in Early Modern English” by Teresa Fanego (191–206), and “Multiple authorship of the OE Orosius” by Sakari Louhivaara (343–352). The back matter consists of detailed indexes of names and subjects .]

. 1994 . Stability and Change in the Pennsylvania German Dialect of an Old Order Amish Community in Lancaster County . Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag , xi, 132 pp. [ The aim of this investigation is to find (1) aspects of native Pennsylvania German which have remained stable over the centuries and could possibly be linked to a dialect in Germany from which its speakers came, and (2) aspects which have changed under the various kinds of linguistic influence to which the dialect has been subjected in the course of time. Since the results of such research may change from community to community, the research for this project has been mostly confined to members of an Old Order Amish community in Lancaster county, all committed speakers of the dialect in question. By examining a small, select group of speakers, it should be possible to demonstrate some of the linguistic influences which have affected the speakers’ dialect of today. The back matter contains an appendix of English loan words and another of sentences used for elicitation and a bibliography .]

. 1994 . Sociolinguistic Metatheory (= Language and Communication Library, 14 .) Oxford & New York : Pergamon , ix, 204 pp. [ The book is concerned with two metatheoretical problems in sociolinguistics: what defines it as a field within or apart from linguistics, and how would such a definition relates to the development and application of sociolinguistic models. The author examines in detail the work of such sociolinguistic researchers as Dell Hymes, William Labov and John Gumperz, focussing in particular on how they have defined the field, and how they compare their approach with that of other researchers. The book is divided into three parts: I, “Paradigms: The Metaphysical Level”; II, “Paradigms: Disciplinary Matrix Level Sociolinguistic Disciplinary Matrix”; and III, “Paradigms: The Construct Level”. General index (201–204) .]

. 1993 . Ökolinguistik. Eine Einführung . Tübingen : Gunter Narr , x, 151 pp. [ Fill versucht, eine größere Zahl neuer (und alter) Forschungsrichtungen unter dem Stichwort ‘Ökolinguistik’ zu einer einheitlichen (?) neuen Disziplin zusammenzuführen. Hierunter fielen demnach Themen wie “[Kap.] 2. Ökologie der Sprachen” mit Unterkapiteln zur “Psycholinguistischen Ökologie der Sprachen”, “Soziolinguistische Ökologie der Sprachen” [’Kleinere Sprachen’, ‘Große Sprachen: Das Englische’, ‘Hochsprache und Dialekt’, …], “[Kap.] 3. Etholinguistik” [u.a. ‘Bandstiftendes Sprechen’, …], “[Kap.] 4. Sprache und Konflikt” [besser wohl: ‘konfliktives Sprechen’, “[Kap.] 5. Sprache und Gruppe” [u.a. ‘Sprache, Frauen und Männer’.] und schließlich “[Kap.] 6. Sprache, Mensch, Tier und Pflanze” [u.a. mit ‘Political Correctness’, …]. Die teils hochinteressanten, teils hochmodischen Themen und Problembereiche werden kurz (manchmal zu kurz) skizziert und jeweils mit “Zusammenfassung, Forschungsbedarf und Lektüreempfehlung” präsentiert. Die [u.a.] für die Reihe ‘Narr Studienbücher’ versprochene “Erfolgskontrolle durch Arbeitsaufgaben” fehlt; die neue Forschungsrichtung scheint dazu noch nicht konkret genug geworden zu sein. Interessant ist der hier präsentierte Problemkatalog jedoch allemal. Sachindex (149–151). -HJN .]

ed. 1990 . Historical Linguistics and Philology . (= Trends in Linguistics’, Studies and Monographs, 46 .) Berlin & New York : Mouton de Gruyter , xi, 401 pp. [ This selection of papers derived from the International Conference on Historical Linguistics and Philology in 1988, represents a wide range of subjects from general to language and topic specific ones. Some of the articles in this volume are listed below. “The missing link: The role of the lexicon” by Jean Aitchison (11–28); “Unhistorical features in Massachusett orthography” by Ives Goddard (227–244); “On the happy reunion of English philology and historical linguistics” by Matti Rissanen (353–369). The back matter contains an index of authors (393–398) and an index of languages (399–401) .]

. 1994 . La Sémiotique empiriste face au kantisme . (= Philosophie et langage, [unnumbered] .) Traduit par Mathilde Anquetil . Liège : Pierre Mardaga , [ 7- ] 216 pp. [ This work investigates to what extent Kantian ideas had an impact on late 18th and early 19th century linguiste thought, and why they did not influence much of 19th-century linguistic research. It has the following chapters: 1, “La notion kantienne de représentation et les théories sémantiques”; 2, “Le dernier Popular philo soph, Johann Gottfried Herder, critique de Kant”; 3, “Épistémologie et langage sous l’Aufklärung: L’analyse des signes comme fondement des procédures scientifiques dans la Sémiotique de Johann Heinrich Lambert”; 4, “Le laboratoire de l’âme: Psychologie empirique et théorie du langage [notamment chez Johann Georg Sulzer]”, and 5, “Pensée et langage sur la scène de la philosophie [chez Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Friedrich Eduard Beneke, Ludwig Feuerbach, Johann Friedrich Herbart et al]”. Bib. (199–208); index of authors (209–211) and index of subjects (213–214) .]

Fortunatae: Revista Canaria de Filología, Cultura y Humanidades Clásicas . Vol. 51 , 1993 . La Laguna : Univ. de La Laguna , 353 pp. [ The present issue features, among others, articles by Beatriz Antón Martínez & Ricardo Martínez-Ortega, “Los Vocablos para traducir a Salustio de José de Acosta” (185–192), and by José González Luis, “Anchieta y los Indios del Brasil” (267–282). Book reviews (311–353) .]

. 1994 . Albert Sechehaye et la syntaxe imaginative: Contribution à l’histoire de la linguistique saussurienne . (= Publications du Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure, 3 .) Genève : Librairie Droz , 239 pp. [ The present volume is dedicated to the rarely-discussed original work of Charles-Albert Sechehaye (1870–1946), disciple of Saussure and co-editor, along with Charles Bally, of his Cours de linguistique générale. In particular, the author focuses on Sechehaye’s syntactic theory as described in his Essai sur la structure logique de la phrase of 1926, and in other publications. Following an “Introduction” (11–26), the author has divided her study into three main sections: I, “Exposition: le problème grammatical” (27–62); II, “Exploration: le disque lumineux et la pénombre” (63–137); and III, “Expansion: les principes de logique et de psychologie” (139–174). “Conclusion” (175–180), “Dossier” (181–216), “Abréviations” (217–218), “Bibliographie” (219230), and “Index” (231–234) .]

. 1992 . Akzent und Lautwandel in der Romania . (= Romanica Monacensia, 38 .) Tübingen : Gunter Narr , viii, 217 pp. , ISBN 3-8233-4305-X . [ Änderungen des Akzentdrucks haben Einflüsse auf die Silbenstruktur [nicht nur.] der romanischen Sprachen. Sie sind Ursache vieler Lautveränderungen, welche damit nicht mehr als isolierte ‘Lautgesetze’ beschrieben werden brauchen, sondern als Auswirkung generellerer Prinzipien verstanden werden können. Im Einzelnen wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Synkope, die Entwicklung von lat. A und die Reflexe von K eingehend und unter Auswertung umfangreicher Dialektmaterialien (namentlich des galloromanischen Bereichs) untersucht. Methode und Ergebnis dieser, in gekürzter Form publizierten, Habilitationsschrift sind anregend und weiterführend. Der umfangreiche Kartenteil (p. 185–217) illustriert datailliert Dialektmaterialien und Ergebnisse (z.B. “Synkope: m-t (gallorom.)”, “A-Entwicklung: Norm-á/primär (gallorom.)”, “Palatalisierung: k-i,e (gallorom.)” … – HJN .]

eds. 1993 . Le lingue indoeuropee . (= Strumenti: Lingüistica e critica letteraria series, [unnumbered] .) Bologna : II Mulino , 546 pp. [ This book surveys the origins and history of Indo-European languages by retracing their respective evolutions through time from a phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical point of view. Following an introduction by the editors (11–18), there are 16 chapters, each one contributed by a different, well-known Indo-Europeanist: I, Enrico Campanile on the reconstruction of IE culture (19–44); II, Calvert Watkins on the recontruction of Proto-IE (45–94); III, Bernard Comrie on genetic and typological perspectives on language affiliation (95–122); IV, Romano Lazzeroni on Sanskrit (123–150); V, Nicholas Sims-Williams on Iranian (151–180); VI, Werner Winter on Tocharian (181–196); VII, Silvia Luraghi on Anatolian (197–224); VIII, Roberto Ajello on Armenian (225–254); IX, Henry M. Hoenigswald on Greek (255–288); X, Edoardo Vineis specifically on Latin (289–348); XI, Domenico Silvestri on Italic as a whole (349–372); XII, Patrick Sims-Williams on Celtic (373–408); XIII, P. Ramat on Germanic (409–440); XIV, Henning Andersen on Slavic (441–480); XV, William R. Schmalstieg on Baltic (481–507), and XVI, Shaban Demiraj on Albanian (507–532). Index of subjects (533–539) and index of names (541–544) .]

. 1994 . Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects . (= NOW-ELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, Supplement, 10 .) Odense : Odense Univ. Press , vi, 127 pp. [ This book is a revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation. The author seeks to define the strong/weak, or fortis/lenis, consonant distinction in terms of phonemic opposition. Of particular importance is the problem of strength in Upper German dialects. The author argues that length or duration is the most workable basis of strength in Upper German .]

eds. 1994 . Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings . (= Studies in Language Companion Series, 25 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 510 pp. [ The objective of the present volume is to shed new light on whether or not there exists a universal conceptual foundation which is shared by all peoples of the world. The research presented here was specifically undertaken for this purpose; it has resulted in a compilation of 17 papers by different authors dealing with the topic of semantic and lexical theory, and applying it to a variety of languages .]

. 1994 . Leonard Bloomfield’s Fox Lexicon . Critical edition . (= Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics; Memoir, 12 .) Winnipeg, Manitoba : Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Univ. of Manitoba , 296 pp. [ This edition reproduces the complete wordlist from Fox (more precisely, the dialect spoken by the Mesquakies of Tama County, Iowa) as entered in Leonard Bloomfield’s personal notebook. Additions from Bloomfield’s slip file, on which his notebook is based, are also provided here. Following the “Introduction” (1–8), the body of this volume consists of the actual “Lexicon” (9–186); it is complemented by an “Appendix: Verbal inflections” (187–208) and a very detailed “Index” (209–296) .]

eds. 1994 . Die Indogermanen und das Pferd: Akten des Internationalen interdisziplinären Kolloquiums, Freie Universität Berlin, 1–3. Juli 1992. Festschrift für Bernfried Schlerath . (= Archaeolingua, 4 .) Budapest : Archaeolingua Alapít-vány , 277 pp. [ This nicely illustrated volume is a collection of original papers which cover various issues pertaining to the Indo-European ‘horse’, its importance in religion, mythology, warfare, and other uses. Authors and their contributions include: Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, “PIE ‘horse’ and ‘cart’ in light of the hypothesis of Asiatic homeland of the IndoEuropeans: Indo-European – Caucasian aspects” (37–42); Edgar C. Polomé, “Das Pferd in der Religion der eurasischen Völker” (43–52); Wolfgang Meid, “Die Terminologie von Pferd und Wagen im Indogermanischen” (53–66); Sándor Bökönyi, “Das domestizierte Pferd in den asiatischen Steppen” (115–122), and David W. Anthony, “The Earliest Horseback Riders and Indo-European Origins: New evidence from the steppes” (185–196). No index .]

. 1994 . Der unbekannte Malherbe. Untersuchungen zur Übersetzung des 33. Buches des Titus Livius . (= Abhandlungen zur Sprache und Literatur, 69 .) Bonn : Romanistischer Verlag , x, 331 pp. , DM 42.00 , ISDN 3-86143-020-7 . [ Diese Aachener Dissertation von 1993 versucht (erfolgreich) den Nachweis dafür zu bringen, daß Malherbe (1555–1628), der als der Sprachkritiker par excellence in keiner frz. Sprach- oder Literaturgeschichte fehlt, bei seiner (weitgehend nicht zur Kenntnis genommenen) Übersetzung von Livius’ Buch 33 seine stilistischen Postulate selbst streng beachtete. Eine sehr detaillierte Gliederung hilft, sich rasch über die behandelten Einzelaspekte zu informieren. Kein Index. – HJN .]

. 1994 . Johan Nicolai Madvig: The language theory of a classical philologist . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 225 pp. [ The purpose of this book is to discuss the language theory of Danish philologist Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804–1886), who is perhaps best remembered as one of the founders of the critical method in philological text analysis, and as the author of the Latin Grammar for Schools. Interestingly, Madvig’s theoretical approach to language, which has been largely overlooked by the English-speaking world, contrasted with the approach of his contemporaries in that it was a rather non-historical, structuralistic one, foreshadowing that of much later scholars. Following “Introduction: The linguist as outsider” (9–18), there are 6 main sections: I, “Biographical Framework” (19–30); II, “Classical Philology, Comparative Linguistics, and the Idea of Science” (3172); III, “Madvig’s Language Theory” (73–148); IV, “Madvig and his Contemporaries” (149–180); V, “The Footnote Syndrome: The reception of Madvig’s theory” (181–194); and VI, “Concluding Remarks” (195–198). Appendices (199–204), bib. (205–216), index nomi-num (217–220), and index rerum (221–225) .]

ed. 1994 . Edward Sapir: The Psychology of Culture; A course of lectures . Berlin & New York : Mouton de Gruyter , ix, 266 pp. [ The present work is the result of an attempt to fulfill the hope that Sapir’s students, colleagues and family have expressed over the years: that a set of lectures making a major contribution to anthropology and culture should be made public. This book affors us a glimpse of how Sapir would have sketched a broad vista of antropological and psychological issues. The work is not only a document of historical interest, but a contribution to contemporary culture theory and psychological anthropology. The book is organised into three parts: Part I, “The Concept of Culture”, Part II, “The Individual’s Place in Culture” and Part III, “Symbolic Structures and Experience (1933–34)”. References (247–253) and index (255–266) .]

1994 . Fonetiek en Verlichting: De Redeneringh over de talen van Jan Trioen (1692) . (= Cahiers voor Taalkunde, 12 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 33 pp. [ The author of this little ‘cahier’ examines the work Dutch apothecary and phonetician Jan Trioen (1657–1721), whose influences seem to have included the phonetic studies of Johann Conrad Amman (1669–1724), Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (1614–1699) and Lambert ten Kate (1674–1731), as well as the epistemology of Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), and the Humanistic historiography of P. C. Hooft (1581–1647) .]

eds. 1994 . Typological Studies in Negation . (= Typological Studies in Language, 29 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 385 pp. [ This book is a collection of articles that offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. The primary aim of this book is to provide data on various aspects on negation. Most work on this subject deals with syntactic aspects of negation, this volume attempts to include pragmatic and semantic issues as well, such as the expression of negative indefinites, interaction of negation and quantifiers, the scope of negation, and the choice of a particular form of negation in cases where there are several ways to express this. Since most of the languages presented in this volume are relatively less-known, their descriptions provide a wealth of data. A few articles about well-studied languages (e.g., Turkish, Mandarin and Hungarian), new data and analyses of more complicated issues are provided. The back matter has a list of the genetic affiliations of the languages and regions and number of speakers of the languages .]

. 1994 . English Words . London & New York : Routledge , xxi, 282 pp. [ This book provides a basic, lay-person’s introduction to the study of language in general, and of the English language in particular. The author addresses everything from morphology to spelling to etymology to psycholinguistics. Following the Introductory chapter (1–9), there are 10 main chapters: 2, “What is a word?” (10–29); 3, “Close encounters of a morphemic kind” (30–53); 4, “Building words” (54–81); 5, “Masquerading allomorphs” (82–97); 6, “A lexicon with layers” (98–120); 7, Should English be spelt as she is spoke?” (121–148); 8, “Word manufacture” (149–165); 9, “Words galore” (166–190); 10, “A lexical mosaic: Sources of English vocabulary” (191–222); and 11, “The mental lexicon” (223261). “Abbreviations” (xvii–xviii), “Key to symbols used” (xix–xxi), “Glossary” (262268), “References” (269–275), and “Indexes” (276–282) .]

. 1991 . Grammaticae Germanicae Synopsis von Johannes Gezelius dem Älteren (Turku 1667) und ihre Vorlage: Ein Beitrag zur Lehrbuchgeschichte des Deutschunterrichts in Finnland . (= Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 545 .) Göppingen : Kümmerle , 162 pp. [ This book is a synopsis of contributions to the textbook tradition of German instruction in Finland. The book includes a detailed discussion and complete reproduction of one of the oldest German grammar texts in Finland and northern Europe, that of Johannes Gezelius dem Älteren (Turku 1667) which goes back to the 8the edition of Johannes Claius Grammaticae Germanicae Synopsis of 1651.Cf. the review by Ulrich Gronte in Germanistik 34 (1993) p. 480 .]

. 1994 . Japanese Psycholinguistics. A classified and annotated research bibliography . (= Library and information Sources in Linguistics, 24 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xii, 357 pp. [ This book provides an exhaustive inventory of work done in or about Japanese, which is psycholinguistic in nature. The bibliography supports a broad view of psycholinguistics, which reaches beyond the traditional roots in the two disciplines of psychology and linguistics. The book covers both intended readings of the term Japanese Psycholinguistics, the first referring to the discipline of psycholinguistics as pursued within Japan itself, and the second referring to international research in modern psycholinguistics which focusses on Japanese. General Index (349–357) .]

. 1994 . Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-based creole language of Guinea-Bissau (= Creole Language Library, 14 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 310 pp. [ This book includes a history of the language contact situation which resulted in the evolution of the creole. The author considers Kriyol as a representative of the natural class ‘human language’. The book is not a sociolinguistic study and leaves aside such issues as geographical and social variation, decreolization or diglossia. It analyzes instead the syntax of a single variety of Kriyol, which the author refers to as ‘central’. The author works within the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG). The book includes an alphabetical index of terms (307–310) .]

. 1994 . Time in Language . London & New York : Routledge , x, 243 pp. [ In this book, the author explores the notion of temporality in language, particularly the interaction of verbal tense and aspect with temporal adverbials. The book is divided as follows: 1, “Introduction” (1–13); 2, “Tense, aspect, and Aktionsart: The conventional picture” (1435); 3, “Topic time” (36–58); 4, “Time structure” (59–71); 5, “Inherent temporal features of the lexical content” (72–98); 6, “Aspect” (99–119); 7, “Tense” (120–141); 8, “Temporal adverbials and their meaning” (142–158); 9, “The function of positional adverbials in the utterance” (159–183); 10, “Adverbials of duration and of frequency” (184–214); 11, “Non-declarative clauses, subordinate clauses, noun phrases” (215–224). Endnotes (225–234), references (235–239), index (240–243) .]

. 1994 . Englischlernen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Die Geschichte der Lehrbücher und Unterrichtsmethoden . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 522 pp. [ This publication is a historical study of the textbooks and pedagogical methods used for the teaching of English as a second language in Germany during the 18th and 19th centuries. Following a preface (p. 13) and an introductory section (15–36), there are three, chronologically progressive main sections: 1, “Die Frühphase des englischen Sprachunterrichts bis ca. 1770” (37–90); II, “Die Zeit des Aufbruchs: Englischlehrbücher und Fremdsprachendidaktik von ca.1770 bis 1840” (91–284); III, “Die Zeit der Konsolidierung: Englisch als Schulfach von ca. 1840 bis zur neusprachlichen Reformbewegung” (285–455). Each section is accompanied by a table in the appendix (457–467) which lists the German institutions where ESL was being offered at a given period. Bib. (469–503) and index nominum (505–522) .]

ed. 1994 . Linguisten Handbuch . 21 vols. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag , xvii, 1066 pp. [ This carefully edited and beautifully produced handbook comprises biographical and bibliographical data of more than 1600 German speaking linguists who publish primarily in German, work on German, or are of German background. Most of the individual entries are accompanied by photographs (some 100 declined to send in pictures, others submitted fairly dated ones). Volume 1, which contains an introduction by the editor in which he sets forth the origin and genesis of this tremendous undertaking, includes linguists whose last names begin with the letters A through L; volume II contains the remaining names, but also an index of places (1067–1090), an index of languages (10911119), and listing of main areas of work (1120–1191). The vols, also include a number of scholars who had died well before the publication date, a decision historians of linguistics will appreciate. They include – to mention just a few – Siegfried Blum (1930–1991), Broder Carstensen (1925–1992), Hellmuth Dempe (1904–1990), Agnija Desnickaja (19121992), Georg Friedrich Meier (1919–1992), Rudolf Meyer (1909–1991), Gemot Schmidt (1931–1991), Ludwig Erich Schmitt (1908–1994), Leslie Seiffert (1934–1990). Others died in the meantime, including Johannes Bechert (1931–14 July 1994, or earlier, e.g., Günter Johannes Stipa (1907–1993). Apart from being a ‘vanity fair’ of sorts (cf. the entry covering pages 359–361, as an extreme example), the entries have already proven particularly useful to editors and students wishing to inform themselves about a certain person’s scholarly output .]