Publications Received / Ouvrages Reçus / Eingegangene Schriften

, eds. 1997 . Al limiti del linguaggio: Vaghezza, significato e storia . (= Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna, 1133 .) Rome : Gius . Laterza , 437 pp. [ The 23 papers, brought together in honour of Tullio De Mauro (b.1932) are organized in line with the honoree’s distinct areas of research under the following three headings: I, “Teoria del linguaggio”; II, “Storia del pensiero linguistico”, and III, “Il Patrimonio linguistico italia-no”. Among others the reader can find articles like the following: “Operazioni mentali e ‘rerum discrimina’ nella teoria varroniana dei casi” by René Amacker; “Humboldt, Saus-surte e 1’ ‘arbitraire du signe”’ by Donatella Di Cesare”; “Filosofia e semantica: Il caso Steinthal” by Lia Foirmigari, and “Il silenzio sull’ornitorinco” by Umberto Eco. Each essay carries its own bibliography. There is no index, but a list of the contributors .]

. 1998 . A pesquisa lingüístico. no Brasil (1968–1988) . São Paulo : ‘Humanitas’ Publicaçôes, Universidade de São Paulo , 379 pp. ; 27 illustr . ISBN 85-86087-27-0 . [ The book offers a comprehensive survey of Brazilian linguistic research during a crucial period of its development, by tracing its relationship with the philological, dialectological and grammatical Portuguese traditions, their institutionalization, conceptions of linguistic theory, and descriptive practices. Chapter 2 (67–87) presents the pre-1968 era which sets the stage for the rapid development of linguistics in Brazil of the next two decades. At the same time, the intellectual and organizational processes are mapped out which informed the field of ‘modern’ linguistics’ at the leading academic institutions in Brazil of the period, i.e., Universities of São Paulo (the oldest of the country, established in 1934), Rio de Janeiro (created in 1935), Campinas and Belo Horizonte (both opened in the late 1960s), and the main trends of research which emerged in these contexts are treated in 9 chapters, not counting the engaging methodological introduction (23–66) and the concluding chapter, in which the author asks herself about “continuidades e descontinuidades da lingüística brasileira” (295–307). The present study goes back to the author’s 1993 Univ. of São Paulo doctoral dissertation carried out under the direction of Geraldina Porto Witter (São Paulo) and Pierre Swiggers (Leuven), with the distinguished specialist of the indigenous Ianguages of Brazil Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues from the University of Brasilia (where he had created the first graduate research program in linguistics of the country) serving as external examiner. The author based her research on considerable source materials beyond what was published in the linguistic journals in the period and monographs and the literature about them, i.e., reviews, comments, prefaces, namely unpublished papers, correspondences and other archival documents as well as data obtained on the basis of questionnaires and personal interviews. The result is a detailed map of Brazilian linguistic research focussing on the period 1968–1988, describing the main centers of interest and the organizational structures of the active academic groups of the period. The book reproduces a variety of portraits of Brazilian scholars, both of the old generation of philologists, among others, Manuel Said Ali (1861–1953), Mansur Guirios (1907–1987), Álvaro Ferdinando Sousa da Silveira (1883–1967), Theodoro Henrique Maurer (1906–1979), and of the ‘revolutionary’ generations of the pioneers like Joaquim Mattoso Câmara (1904–1970) and Aryon Rodrigues (b.1925). The back matter presents useful tables of reference of the research articles published in Brazilian journals within the period (332–360), a detailed index of names (361–369), and of index of subjects and terms (371–379) .]

Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 1994 et compléments des années précédentes / Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1994 and supplements for previous years . Edited by Mark Janse & Sijmen Toi [ with the assistance of a number of international contributors — see pp.v-vi, for their listing]. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, lxxxvi, 1,312 pp. [The total number of pages and the coverage (21,412 entries) makes this volume of the size users of BL, the most important bibliographical sourcebook in the field, have gotten to expect. The detailed “Index of names” (1146–1312) now includes references to book reviews, a useful addition indeed. (The page references to these are given in italics.) It would be great of this innovation was to encourage more scholars to undertake writing reviews — and deans to recognize them as bona-fide academic research work. Given the wide areas and periods covered by historiographers, users of the BL will appreciate that the HoL section continues to be subdivided into a variety of subsections from “Western traditions” generally via “Antiquity”, “Middle Ages”, etc. down to “Indian tradition” and “Arab tradition”. However, this should not prevent historians of linguistics from consulting other sections in the Bib., such as the “Festschriften/Mélanges in honorem” rubric, congress reports, and the general subsections in sections devoted to specific language fields or preceding (or sometimes even dispersed in) those devoted to general linguistic theory and philosophy of language, not to mention the “Biographical data” section (98–124: 864 entries altogether) which carries accounts of scholars in the language sciences, obituaries, testimonials, Grußadressen, and the like. Another recent — and welcome — feature maintained in the HoL section is the regular addition of life-dates of authors in entries on individual authors .]

, eds. 1997 . Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachwissenschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Grammatiker, Lexikographen und Sprachtheoretiker des deutschsprachigen Raums mit Beschreibungen ihrer Werke , Vol. 51 : J-L . Tübingen : Max Niemeyer , xviii, 412 pp. in 4Ɔ . [ This is the fifth in a series of volumes providing (in fact rather detailed) biobibliographi-cal information on 18th-century authors in German-speaking lands. The front matter provides a list of abbreviations (vii-xii), and an index of authors (xiii-xviii).— For an early presentation of the scope and the philosophy behind 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”, HL 8:1.171–190 (1981), which included a rather preliminary list of authors (175–188) as has become obvious from the subsequent publication of these volumes. Well-researched information (biographical data, analysis of scholarly output, bibliography, and references to secondary sources) is here provided for each entry from Paul Ernst Jablonski (1693–1757), a theologian and orientalist, to Joseph Anton Lu(t)z (1731–1799), an Austrian grammar school teacher with several books on Latin to his credit, in the present volume (1–397). The Anhang (399–412) provides biographical entries on so-called ‘Irrelevante’, several of which are indeed of interest in the history of linguistics, such as Ludwig Heinrich von Jacob (1759–1827) Johann Arnold Kanne (1773–1824), and Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846). It 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 in the editors’ view are only indirectly relevant to the field of linguistics. The central part includes detailed entries on such varied characters as Daniel Jenisch (1762–1804), Johann Friedrich Kleuker (1749–1827), Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (1723–1795), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), and many others. – Notices on earlier volumes of this Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch have been printed in HL 20:2/3.528 (1993) on volume I, 21.239, and 21.479 (1994) on vols. II and III, respectively, and HL 23:1/2.256–257 (1996) on vol. IV .]

, eds. 1998 . Essays on the Arts of Discourse: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetics/Aldo Scaglione . New York-Washington, D.C.-Baltimore-Bern-Frankfurt am Main, [etc.] : Lang , xxii, 392 pp. [ This Festschrift for Aldo Scaglione (b.1925) consists of a collection of 25 essays by him. His papers cover various topics, such as literary, linguistic, and historical subjects. The Tabula Gratulatoria, editor’s foreword and a note of Scaglione himself, commenting on the selection of papers, is followed by a detailed curriculum vitae and bibliography of the honoree .]

, eds. Sprachphilosophie / Philosophy of Language / La philosophie du langage . (= Handbücher zur Sprach-und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 7.1–2 .) Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , 1992 , xxxv, 872 pp. in – 4Ɔ ; 1996 , xi, [873-] 2088 pp. in-4^Q . [ These massive — and impressive — volumes appear in a series of ‘manuals’, indeed reference tools of a broad scope, which recall the famous Grundrisse of the late 19th century that scholars associated with illustrious names like Hermann Paul (1846–1921) and Gustav Gröber (1844–1911), have appeared in regular succession since the early 1980s. Only those actively involved in the editing of any of these volumes can have a full appreciation of the time and effort it takes to put any such volume together. The present volume is of particular interest to HL readers as the coverage includes such articles as “Sprachphilosophie in der Aufklärung” (Gerda Haßler). “The empiricist tradition in the philosophy of language” (Lia Formigari), “La tradition rationaliste dans la philosophie du langage” (Sylvain Auroux), “Sprachphilosophie in der Romantik” (Helmut Gipper), to mention just a few ‘suspects’ from Section 1 (“Spatiotemporal surveys”). This section also carries a number of lesser known traditions such as “Chinese philosophy of language” (Angus C. Graham) or “Historisch orientierte Sprachphilosophie im 19. Jahrhundert” (Hermann J. Cloeren) framed between Kant late 18th and Fritz Mau-thner (1849–1923) in the early 20th century, and populated by writers like Otto Friedrich Gruppe (1804–1876), Gustav Gerber (1820–1901), and Ludwig Noire (1829–1889). Section II is inscribed “Persons” and consists of 26 articles devoted to individual thinkers from Plato to Wittgenstein; apart from the ‘regular’ candidates Locke, Leibniz, Vico, and Hamann), there are also entries on Herder, Humboldt, Saussure and Bühler, on the one hand, and on William of Occam, Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), Wilhelm Wundt, and Anton Marty, on the other, next to John Stuart Mill, Peirce, and Frege. Section III (“Positionen”) presents 21 articles on subjects such as “Die Lehre der Modisten” (Gereon Wolters), “Apohavāda in Buddhist logic” (Victor van Bijlert), “The structuralist approaches” (Axel Bühler), “Die sprachphilosophischen Annahmen der formalen Semantik” (Helmut Schnelle), “Die philosophischen Grundlagen der Sprachinhaltsforschung” (Hans Glinz), and “Philosophical foundations of psychology of language and psycholinguistics” (Jan Sleutels). The much larger Tome II (1996) consists of three central sections: IV, “Kontroversen / Disputes / Controverses”; V, “Begriffe / Concepts”), and VI, “Sprachphilosophische Aspekte in anderen Bereichen / Aspects of philosophy of language in other fields / […]”. The back matter consists of an alphabetical list of contributors (1761–1762), “Sigla”, i.e., various abbreviations employed in the two volumes (1763–1767), including for major works and periodicals; the full bibliography of all items referred to in abbreviated form in the 120 articles (1768–2028), an index of names (2029–2051) and an index of subjects and terms (2052–2088). The ‘controversies’ section contains articles like the following of particular interest to historians of linguistics: “The universal language problem [notably on Wilkins, Mersenne, Dalgarno, Kircher, and others]” by Vivian Salmon (916928); “Disputes on the origin of language” by Gordon W. Hewes (929–943), and “Der arisch-semitische Streit zu Beginn der modernen Sprachwissenschaft [and indeed down to a few present-day pro-⁴Arian’ ideologues like Michel Poniatowski and Jean Haudry]” by Maurice Orlender (943–952). Others include “The dispute over innate ideas” by Stephen P. Stich (1041–1050) and “Pro and contra [post-Whorfian] relativism [especially in philosophy]” (1057–1068). Section 5 carries 12 articles devoted to concepts such as ‘predication’ (by Kuno Lorenz), ‘sense and reference’ (Michael Dummet), ‘possible worlds’ (Jaako Hinttika), ‘metaphor’ (Umberto Eco), and ‘intentionality’ (John R. Searle). The last section, which extends philosophy (of language) to other domains, contains articles like “Philosophy of language and psychology” (Joseph Margolis), “Sprachphilosophie und Rhetorik” (Michal Astroh), and “Philosophy of language and linguistics” (Alice ter Meulen). — For a detailed review of tome I (1992), by András Kértesz, see Journal of Pragmatics 25.723–728 (1996). Shorter reviews of both volumes have appeared in Germanistik 38:1.31–32 (1997), authored by Volker Heeschen, and in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Nr. 49 (27 Feb. 1997), p.15, under the title “Die polyglotte Herberge am Fuß der babylonischen Ruine” (Franziska Augstein) .]

1998 . Luigi Ceci (1859–1927) e la linguistica del suo tempo . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 179 pp. [ The volume about the early Italian neogrammarian Luigi Ceci is divided into four chapters. Chap,l, “Luigi Ceci: La vita e le opere”; Chap.2 “Ceci e la nuova scuola dei neogrammatici”; Chap.3. “L’intéresse per lo studio del signifi-cato”, and Chap.4. “Il pensiero scientifico di Ceci tra ‘vecchio’ e ‘nuovo’”. The bibliography is divided in three parts. Part A shows articles and books of Luigi Ceci and related work in chronological order from 1880 to 1927 plus a description of two of his books; Part B gives libraries and archives where the writings of Luigi Ceci can be found, and Part C constitutes the general bibliography of the volume. At the end there is an index of names; an index of subjects would have been helpful .]

. 1998 . Die Grammatik von Johann Christian Heyse: Kontinuität und Wandel im Verhältnis von Allgemeiner Grammatik und Schulgrammatik (1814–1914) . (= Studia Linguistica Grammatica, 45 .) Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , 354 pp. [ This volume is a translation of parts of E’s doctoral thesis Un siècle de pensée grammaticale et syntaxique: la grammaire de Johann Christian Hey se (1814–1914). Chap.l deals with Heyse’s (1764–1829) life and work and his reviewers; Chap.2 covers various influences on Heyse’s grammar theory and his reflections on syntax; Chap.3 shows the way to a theoretical basis of grammar writing. The appendix consists of hitherto unpublished correspondence and short biographies of important grammarians of the period covered in the study. The bibliography contains manuscript sources, Heyse’s publications, other primary publications as well as secondary texts. An index of names and pictures closes the book .]

, eds. 1998 . The Limits of Grammaticalization: Chiefly papers presented at a symposium held during the 28th annual meeting of the Soci-etas Linguistics Europea which was held Aug. 1995, Leiden, Netherlands . (= Typological Studies in Language, 37 ) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vi, 302 pp. [ The 11 contributions, organized in alphabetical order, follow an introduction by the editors. Contributions among others: “Testing the Boundaries of Grammaticalization” by Anna Gia-calome Ramat, “The Paradigm at the End of the Universe” by Paul Hopper, “On the Relationships Between Grammaticalization and Lexicalization” by Juan C. Moreno Cabrera, “On the Application of the Notion of Grammaticalization to West African Pidgin English” by Barbara Turchetta. Full indices of languages mentioned in the contributions (289–290), of names (291–295), and of subjects (297–302) are provided .]

. 1998 . Les voyelles nasales du français parisien moderne: Aspects linguistiques, et perceptuels des changements en cours . (= Études Romanes, 40 ). Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press , 373 pp. [ The volume is a shorter version of the author’s doctoral thesis, submitted at the University of Copenhagen in 1996. After a general introduction, the first chapter is headlined “Les mécanismes du changement linguistique”; Chap.2 is titled “Préliminaires linguistiques et historiques”; Chap.3: deals with “La méthodologie de l’enquête”, and Chap.4 presents “Analyse et resultats”. The book is summarized in “Résumé des résultats et discussion finale”. The volume contains a bibliography, a list of all tables and illustrations, but no index .]

1998 . Language and Logic in Traditional China . (= Science and Civilization in China by Joseph Needham, vol. VII, ed. by Kenneth Robinson, 1 .) Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , xvi, 480 pp. in small-4^Q . [ In this beautifully produced volume Harbsmeier discusses the basic features of the classical Chinese language and gives a most interesting presentation of the development of logical terminology and language philosophy in ancient China. The study is divided into eight chapters: (a) “Method”; (b) “The language”; (c) “Logical features of the classical Chinese language”; (d) “Logical concepts”; (e) “Logical practice”; (f) “Logical theory”; (g) “Chinese Buddhist logic”, and (h) “Concluding reflections”. The bibliography is divided into Chinese and Japanese books before 1800, Chinese and Japanese books and journal articles since 1800, and books and journal articles in Western languages. A general index, a list of abbreviations, and a table of Chinese Dynasties is given as well and adds to the book’s image of a carefully designed and edited volume .]

, eds. Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1996 . Volume II1 : Germanic linguistics . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 162 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , x, 360 pp. [ The volume contains 23 papers including two which deal with less widely studied Germanic languages: “From modal auxiliary to lexical verb: The curious case of Pennsylvania German wotte” by Kate Burridge and Edith Raidt’s analysis of morphological erosion in Dutch, spoken by emigrates in South Africa. Other topics discussed are: loss of prototypical meanings, constraints on syntactic changes, stress shifts in English, morphological restructuring, phonological changes, including Sharon Millar’s curious “Language prescription: A success in failure’s clothing?”. Full indices of subjects (345–356) and names (357–360) .]

, eds. 1998 . Themes in Greek Linguistics II . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 159 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , x, 335 pp. [ The 11 contributions are organized under four headings: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax/Semantics, and Diachrony. The topics cover lexical marking, inflectional features, a discussion of the Projection Principle, derived nominals, wh- and direct object clitics, small clauses, individual and functional readings for focus, wh- and negative operators, clause structure and word order, all considering material of Modern Greek from a synchronic point of view: Two contributions deal with morphological and syntactic problems from a diachronic standpoint. There is a helpful list of contributors with their addresses. A general index rounds out the volume (325–335) .]

, ed. 1998 . Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 1996 . (= Impact: Studies in Language and Society, 2 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vii, 415 pp. [ The 22 contributions deal with a wide variety of aspect of the rights and problems of linguistic minorities, language policy in the United States, the European Union, Russia, Quebec, Great Britain, Sri Lanka, South Africa and other African countries as well as Brazil. Among the contributions are: “On the eleven-official languages policy in South Africa”, “The case for Brazilian sign language”, and “Quebec’s charter of the French language: Twenty years after”. It contains a bibliography of court decisions (363–364), indices of personal names (395–398), of languages (399–402), and a general index (403–415) .]

, eds. 1997 . F. de Saussure: Deuxième cours de linguistique générale (1908–1909) – d’après les cahiers d’Albert Riedlinger et Charles Patois. Saussure’s Second Course of Lectures on General Linguistics (1908–1909) – from the notebooks of Albert Riedlinger and Charles Patois . (= Languages and Communication Library, 16 .) Oxford-New York-Tokyo : Pergamon – Elsevier Science , xvi, 192 pp. [ The book reproduces the extensive notes of Albert Riedlinger (1883–1978) from the second series of lectures given by Saussure during the academic year 1908–1909, which formed an important part of the ‘vulgata’ text compiled by Bally and Sechehaye during 1913–1915 and published in 1916, exactly 100 years after Bopp’s Conjugations system, and others by a certain Charles Patois are reproduced separately from each other. It begins with Riedlinger’s notes, the original French version (edited by Komatsu) on the left pages, the English translation (provided by Wolf) on facing pages. Patois’ much more redimentary notes are published for the first time, treated in the same way as Riedlinger’ s. The index consists of selected French terms, referring to both Riedlinger’s and Patois’ notes .]

, eds. Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March 1996 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 157 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , viii, 379 , pp. [ Organized in alphabetical order by author, most of the 18 contributions deal with different grammatical aspects in the framework of the Minimalist Program, Distributed Morphology and Optimality Theory. Analyses of the folowing languages are offered: Spanish, French, Catalan, Italian, Latin, Aromanian and Portuguese. Topics range from word order, case systems, relatives, null categories, spirantization, clitics, sonority to first language acquisition. Full indices of authors (367372), terms and concepts (373–377), and languages and language families (378–379 .]

, ed. 1998 . Renaissance- and Early Modern Linguistics . (= History of Linguistics, 3 .) London & New York : Longman , xxiii, 263 pp. [ The editor gives an introduction setting out the main goals of the 5-volume series, which is a translation of an earlier Italien edition, outlining the contents of the other volumes and also referring to related series dealing with the history of linguistics. This is followed by a list of all contributors to the series with short curriculum vitae. Chapter 1, “Renaissance Linguistics”, is divided in linguistic-geographic areas such as: “Western Europe”, “Roman Slavdom”, and “Orthodox Slavdom”. Chapter 2, “The Early Modern Period”, by Raffaele Simone deals with the in- terdependencies of language and theology, knowledge, education, animals and machines. It has a short look at the question of the origin of language, there are sections for the important linguists and philosophers (Bacon, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Condillac). Simone describes the different approaches to linguistic data and grammar writing. Both chapters provide bibliographies, the index for the whole volume is rather insufficient. — For biographical notices on volumes I (The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics) and II (Classical and Medieval Linguistics) of the History of Linguistics series edited by Lepschy, see HL XXII: 1/2.261 (1995) .]

. 1998 . Nineteenth-Century Linguistics . (= History of Linguistics ed. by Giulio Lepschy, 4 .). London & New York : Longman , xxvi, 434 pp. [ In ten chapters the author deals with the following topics: “Historiography and Linguistics”, “Linguistics becomes scientific”, “The old and the new: Data collection and data comparison”, “Linguistics in Europe: Philosophical grammar vs. data-oriented linguistics”, “Friedrich Schlegel and the discovery of Sanskrit”, “A new approach to the origin of language”, “Historicism, organicism and the scientific model” – influence of biological classification models, “Wilhelm von Humboldt, general linguistics and linguistic typology” — the diversion in typology and the general approach, “Comparative and historical grammar: Rask, Bopp and Grimm”, “Comparative studies and the diffusion of linguistics” — the reconstruction of the Indo-European family tree, “Theoretical discussions of the mid century” — morphological classifications and psychological approaches, “The neogrammarians and the new beginnings” — influences of the neogrammarians, “The end of the century: General perspectives” — development of linguistic core and periphery. The detailed general index (410–434) contains names, subjects, and languages .]

1998 . Statistics for Corpus Linguistics . (= Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics edited by Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson, [unnumbered ]. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 287 pp. [ As the author states, this volume can be used as a reference book and gives an overview of all the techniques which are used in the field. Each chapter contains both an introduction, a summary, and exercises. Solutions for the exercises are given in the end of the book. The five chapters are outlined as followed: 1) Basic statistics; 2) Information theory; 3) Clustering, and 4) Concordancing, collocations and dictionaries. Finally, Chap.5 on “Literary detective work”. The appendices give examples of various tests. It is followed by a good bibliography and index .]

, ed. 1998 . Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe . Oxford & Maiden : Blackwell Publishers , xvii, 499 pp. [ In this attractively produyced volumethe front matter consists of a list of maps, figures and contributors, followed by the editor’s preface, which defines the term “Europe” and “language” appropriate to the present encyclopedia. The volume includes both existent as extinct languages in Europe. The entries ranhe from entries like “Abaza (see under Caucasian languages II. Nrth-West Caucasian family (p.3) and almost article-length entries on “Anglo-Norman” (8–10) detailed entries on “Welsh” (488–495) and 3 lines on “Zemgalian: An extinct *Baltic language […]” (p.499). The more than 50 contributors include scholars such as William Gillies, Ian Hancock, Geoffrey C. Horrocks, Martin Maiden, Gerald Newton, Ralph Penny, Gerald Stone, and Max W. Wheeler. The entries give surveys of origin, historical development, contemporary position, in some cases bibliographical appendices for further reading .]

. 1998 . Texts and Contexts: Selected papers on the history of linguistics . Edited by Vivian Law . (= Henry Sweet Society Studies in the History of Linguistics, 5 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 341 pp. [ This volume is mainly a republication of selected papers of Robert H. Robins. It contains 21 chapters, divided in three sections: Section 1, “Historiography of Linguistics” (2 papers from 1978 and 1990, respectively), section 2: “Historical Studies” (8 papers), section 3: “Prosographical Studies” (11 papers), all of them recast as chapters, at times slightly updated, and often prefaced by a new introductory note probaly written by the editor. It contains such classic statements as “Theory-orientation versus data-orientation: A recurrent theme in linguistics”, which first appeared in the inaugural issue of HL 1:1.11–26 (1973) and “Duponceau and early nineteenth-century linguistics”, originally published in Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of […] (ICHoLS III), 435–446. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1987. The concluding chapter is a fine portrait (with a photograph!) of the distinguished phonetician at the University of London, “Eugénie Jane Andrina Hendersen (1914–1989)”. A general index (327–341) is provided which is in fact almost exclusively an index auctorum .].

. 1998 . Dictionnaire Républicain et Révolutionnaire (1793/94). Anecdotes Curieuses et Républicaines (1795). Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Ilona Pabst & Brigitte Schlieben-Lange . (= Lexicographica, 87 .) Tübingen : Max Niemeyer , ix, 256 pp. [ The editors’ exhaustive notes and introductions to the edition from manuscript, discovered by Schlieben-Lange in the Archives Nationales (Paris) in 1978, cover: Rodoni’s biography — his real name was Giovanni Battista Rodoni (1741–1806), his sources, the structure of the ‘dictionnaire’, and an illustration of the work in its philosophical context. Rodoni’s dictionary is one of a series known as revolutionary dictionaries and was never published. The publications gives a survey of the genesis of the Dictionnaire. It includes indices of names, subjects, and institutions .]

, ed. 1998 . Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on al-Khalil ibn Ahmad . Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press , 144 pp. [ This volume was brought together in order to commemorate the achievements of al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, who lived in Basra in the eighth century. He was a lexicographer, phonologist, grammarian, and educator. The book contains a thorough introduction and 4 contributions: “Another Khalil: Courtier, teacher, and sage” by Michael G. Carter; “Kitab al-’ayn and Jamharat al-lugha” by Ramzi Baal-baki; “Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad and Music” by Eckhard Neubauer, and “Aspects of the Genitive: Taxonomy in al-Jumal fi al-nahw” by Karin C. Ryding. The volume contains a list of contributors, but no index .]

, eds. 1998 . Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 158 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , viii, 347 , pp. [ This selection is based on presentations at the VIIth International Systemic Functional Workshop held in Valencia, Spain, July 1995. The volume reflects current work on the social dynamics which influence linguistic practices. The notion ‘Language as choice’ implies a set of alternatives for individual, social and cultural expression in modern society. 16 contributions, divided into ‘Written’ and ‘Spoken Genres’, deal with a large variety of topics, for example: resonance, limitations of choice, functional variations, choices in academic work or in computer science in written genres; and quality choice, therapeutic dialogue, emergency calls, swearing, intonation choices of non-native speakers in spoken genres. It contains an indexes both of subjects (337–342) and names (343–347) .]

. 1998 . Einführung in die Indogermanistik . (= UTB für Wissenschaft, 1506 .) Tübingen & Basel : A. Francke Verlag , xx, 322 pp. [ This introduction is mainly destined for students in the first year of studying Indo-European languages. Chapter 1 is a short introduction and gives a historical overview of Indogermanistik. Chapter 2 offers an introduction to linguistics generally and to the study of Indo-European languages. Chapter 3 shows how Indo-European protoforms are being reconstructed. Chapters 4 and 5 give some geographical and historical insights into the world of the Indo-European peoples. A bibliography of related literature is given at the end of each chapter; students will miss an index. — A detailed review by Michael Job is to appear in Diachronica 16:1 (Spring 1999) .]

, eds. 1998 . Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives: Selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVII), Irvine, 20–22 February, 1997 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 160 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vi, 349 pp. [ 22 contributions in alphabetical order deal mostly from a synchronic point of view with different aspects of romance syntax, morphology and phonology. Among the topics discussed are: “On Null Objects in Old French” by Deborah Artega; “Spanish Codas and Overapplica-tion’*by Eric Bakovic; “Enclitic -n in Spanish” by James Harris; “Mood Phrase, Case Checking and Obviation” by Paula Kempchinsky; “On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change” by Carmen Silva-Corvalán; “Definite / Zero Alternations in Portuguese: Towards a unification of topic constructions” by Eduardo Raposo, “From Being to Having: Questions about ontology from a Kayne/Szabolsci syntax” by Juan Uriagereka. Author index (333–336), language index (337–339), and subject index (340–349) .]

, ed. 1998 . The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 1998 . New Delhi-Thousand Oaks-London : Sage Publications , 274 pp. [ The volume is divided into 5 sections: Section A: “Invited Contributions” contains 3 articles, one of them, “Aspect and Event Structure in Vedic”, is by Paul Kiparsky. Section B: “Open Submissions contains 3 articles, one of them, “Form and Function in Urdu-Hindi Verb Inflection”, is by Asif Agha. Section C: “Regional Reports, Reviews and Abstracts” shows reports from Africa, Europe, North America, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia, four reviews of articles and books, abstracts of recently completed doctoral dissertations. Section D: “Dialogue” prints articles by Bernard Comrie and Probal Dasgupta. Section E: “Announcements” informs about the next section of The Yearbook and an award for students contributions. It also provides a list of the contributors with short curriculum vitae. No index .]

, eds. 1998 . The Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts. Papers in memory of Thomas Frank . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 87 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 232 pp. [ The first part of this volume consists of the editors’ appraisals of Thomas Frank (19251990). Part II covers studies in the history of the English language, such as “Relative sentences in late Middle English: The Paston and the Cely letters” by Dieter Stein. Part III shows three contributions on the history of language and linguistics, such as “The ‘new science’ and the New Language in Seventeenth Century England” by Gabriella Di Martino and “Otto Jespersen as a Reader of the Cours de linguistique générale” by Konrad Ko-erner. Part IV covers artides about history in literary texts, such as “Macbeth and the Implied Director” by Stefano Manferlotti. There is a general index (229–232) .]

, eds. 1998 . De Tékhne Grammatike van Dionysius Thrax: De oudste Spraakkunst in het Westen. Studie en vertaling; Duitse vertaling door Wilfried Kürschner . (= Orbis Linguarum, 2 .) Leuven & Paris : Peeters , xl, 102 pp. [ This volume provides the reader with the more or less original text of Dionysius Thrax’s influential grammar in Greek together with both a Dutch and German translation. The introduction covers the following topics: origin of the text, identity of the author, discussion about the authenticity of the text as well as the background and influence of the grammar. The editors provide the terminology in Greek, Dutch and German, which can serve as an index to the text. The bibliography gives a list of related works concerrning the Tékhne .]

. 1998 . Language and its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp . Translated by Paul Salmon in consultation with Anthony J. Klijnsmit . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 84 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xxxiii, 577 pp. ; 1 portr. [ This volume is a translation — indeed, a considerable reworking — of the Verburg’s (1905–1989) original Taal en Func-tionaliteit first published in 1952. The impressive volume provides an overview of the development of linguistic thought from Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Humanism and Renaissance down to 18th-century ideas on axiomatic and pragmatic rationalism with regard to the relationship between Linguistics and the Humanities at large and, finally, comparative-historical grammar as ushered in by Bopp. The front matter includes an appreciative Foreword by Jan Noordegraaf (vii-xiv), followed by a list of references (xiv-xvi) and a bib. of Verburg’s published works (xvi-xx), and a “Translator’s Introduction” (xxi-xxix), in which the late Paul [Bernard] Salmon (1921–1997) sets forth the difficulties in rendering Verburg’s somewhat old-fashioned scholarly prose into modern English. The chronological table in the back matter of the volume (526–527) gives a condensed picture of the evolution important views of language from the 12th century to the death of Franz Bopp (1791–1867). Appendix A (463–469) gives the draft of a revised opening of Chap.5 on ‘Humanism’, which the author had made during the 1970s; Appendix B gives the original texts of the many German, Latin, Dutch, Italian, and French quotations which were translated in the body of the text (470–502). Bib. (503–524). The “Index Nominum” (529–541) supplies life-dates of authors whose work is discussed in the book; a detailed index of subjects and terms rounds out this informative work (542–577) .]