Publications Received / Ouvrages Reçus / Eingegangene Scheriften

AION: Annali del Dipartimento del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico; Sezione Linguistica , vol. 191 . Napoli : Istituto Universitario Orientale Napoli , 1997 , 327 pp. [ This annual volume carries a number of discussion notes, regular articles, and reviews in the field of historical-comparative philology and linguistics, including this time a paper of interest to HL readers: “Le parole di significato opposto prima di Carl Abel [(1827–1906)]” as put forward in his Über den Gegensinn der Urworte of 1884 by Grazia Basile (29–60). It also includes such works as Marcello Cherchi’s “Verbal tmesis in Georgian”, Jochen Knobloch’s “Un mot énigmatique chez Pétrone”, and a review by Witold Mańczak of Winfred P. Lehmann’s Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics (London & New York: Routledge, 1996[1993]) .]

eds. 1999 . Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from LSRL 28 (University Park, Penn., April 1998) . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 185 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xii, 333 pp. [ The volume prints 18 papers arranged in alphabetical order by author from the one of the first editor down to Karen Zagona, covering subjects like “Assibilation in Ecuadorian Spanish” (Travis G. Bradle), “Deriving Heavy NP-Shift in French” (J. Maarten de Wind), and “Positional Faithfulness versus Cue Preservation: The case of nasal resolution in Gallo-Romance” (Randall Gess) to “Minimalist Access to UG in L2 French” (Julia Herschensohn), Lexical Conservatism in French Adjectival Liaison” (Donca Steriade), and “Optimal Schwa Deletion: On syllable economy in French” (Bernard Tranel). Concise “Index of terms & concepts” (329–333) .]

eds. 1999 . Les intellectuels européens et la campagne d’ltalie, 1796–1798 . Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 236 pp. [ This book brings together papers presented at a colloquium (the editors do not supply any specifics as to when and where exactly) emanating from the Centre de Recherches sur les Identités nationales et d’interculturalité (CRINI) in Nantes. It deals with Napolean’s so-called Italian Campaign (1796–1801) and its reception, for instance in Germany; cf. Alain Ruiz’s paper on “1796–1797: Bonparte en Italic vu par un périodique allemand de l’époque, les Europäische An-nalen d’Ernst Ludwig Posselt [(b.1763)]”; that the reception in Britain was quite different becomes evident from Pascal Dupuy’s “La campagne d’ltalie dans les gravures anglaises sous le Directoire”. No index .]

. 1999 . Sprachpolitik und Sprachbewusstsein in Frankreich heute . (= Romanistische Arbeitshefte, 43 .) Tübingen : Max Niemeyer , x, 162 pp. [ This workbook consists of two main parts, I, ‘French language polities’ and II, ‘Data’. Part one contains chapters dealing with the background and actual practice of French ‘Sprachpolitik’, notably the repercussions, linguistic and otherwise, of the ‘Loi Toubon’ of 1994; Part two analyzes, from a variety of angles (including juridical), the Dictionnaire des termes officiels de la langue française (1994) .]

. 1999 . Le langage et ses disciplines, XIXe–XXe siècks . Publié avec le concours de la Communauté française de Belgique, Service de la langue française . (= Champs linguistiques, Manuels .) Paris & Bruxelles : Duculot , 231 pp. [ This book is organised around the notion of the discipline as it functions both within the scholarly invention of knowledge and its transmission. The research included here derives from 14 articles published by the authors and their associates between 1988 and 1997, exploring the metamorphoses of the foundational discourses and the dialectic of continuities and breaks without which no disciplinary consistency is conceivable. Part One is on structural linguistics: from foundational discourse to diciplinary emergence. Part Two is on the construction of the object between memory and projection, and contains chapters on Saussure, the sign, and “enunciation, interaction, conversation”. Part Three is on the extension of the field and disciplinary boundaries. Not the ‘textbook’ one would expect given the name of the series in which it appears, but an original and rich piece of scholarship of the sort one has come to expect from the authors. – JEJ ]

. 1999 . La grammaire latine en France à la Renaissance et à l’Age classique: Théories et pédagogic Grenoble : Ellug [= Éditions littéraires et linguistiques de l’Université de Grenoble ], 1999 , 724 pp. [ This massive – and impressive – work devoted to the fate of Latin in France during the 16th and 17th centuries was first motivated by the author’s wonderment about the fact that Claude Lancelot’s celebrated Nouvelle me’thode de la grammaire latine of 1650 amounted to 900 pages whereas traditional grammars of Latin were so much shorter. The volume consists of 3 major parts, I, “Les ouvrages”, in which the different approaches in the works of Guarino Veronese (1374–1460), Giovanni Sulpizio Verulano (1445/50–1513), Aldo Manuzio (1449–1515), Jan de Spauter (Despauterius, c. 1460–1520), and many others are presented; II, “Parties du discours, ‘accidents’ et morphologic”, in which the various aspects of the treatment of morphology in these grammars are analyzed, and III, “Questions syntaxiques”, in which subjects such as the treatment of agreement, government, relative pronouns, etc. are systematically investigated. The back matter consists of 5 annexes (in which the author presents excerpts from Latin grammars from Donatus of the 4th cent. A.D. till the Dictionnaire universel françois-latin of 1785 by the brothers Nicolas (1739–1829) and Richard-Gontrand Conteray de Lallement (1726– 1807)), a bib. of primary (669–679) and secondary (679–696) sources, an index of “Auteurs anciens”, with life-dates, and “Auteurs modernes”, and an index of subjects and terms .]

eds. 1999 . The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E. F. K. Koerner, vol.I: Historiographical Perspectives . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , lv, 311 pp. [ Apart from a lengthy “Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings)” by the editors (ix-xxviii) and a detailed bib. of the honoree’s writings (xxix-iv), there are altogther 20 articles by specialists in the field organized under 3 headings: I, “Before Saussure”; II, “Saussure”, “After Saussure”. Contributors include Jan Noordegraaf, Kurt R. Jankowsky, Douglas A. Kibbee, George Wolf, W. Terrence Gordon & Henri Schogt, Brigitte Neriich, Anders Ahlqvist, Jivco Boyadjiev, Emilio Ridruejo, Joseph L. Subbiondo, Cristina Altman, Stephen O. Murray, and others. Contributions include topics like “Grammar and philosophy in the age of comparativism” by Lia Formigari; “Samuel Kleinschmidt [(1814–1886)] as syntactitian” by D. Gary Miller; “[A.] Dufriche-Desgenettes [(1804–1878)] and the birth of the phoneme” by John E. Joseph; “ ‘Das Glockenspiel des Ablauts’: National tones in German linguistic publications between 1914 and 1945” by Werner Hüllen, “How the anti-mentalist skeletons in Chomsky’s make psychological fictions of his grammars” by Danny D. Steinberg, and “The origins of modern Japanese psycholinguistics within the Japaners psychological tradition” by Joseph F. Kess & Tadao Miyamoto, to mention just a few. The volume is rounded out by a tabula gratulatoria and indexes of names and subjects .]

eds. 1999 . The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics. In honour of E. F. K. Koerner, vol.11: Methodological perspectives and applications . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , lv, 331 pp. [ As the two volumes of the Festschrift, while complementary, are treated as separate books, the front matter of this one, apart from the table of contents, is identical to the one in volume I. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the contributions to the present volume come from the field of historical comparative linguistics – mostly representing contributors to Diachronica, not HL; they include such emiment scholars as Saul Levin, Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Vit Bubenik, Helena Kurzová, Brian D. Joseph, Carol F. Justus, Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Philip Baldi, Bernard Comrie, Alexander Vovin, Roger Wright, and others. The 22 contributions include papers like “Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s distant genetic relationships” by Regna Darnell, “The Auronomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyond” by Ranko Bugarski, “‘God’s Truth and Structuralism: A new look at an old controversy” by Gary D. Prideau, “From ordered rules to ranked constraints” by John T. Jensen, “Next of kin: The search for relative of Indo-Eu-ropean” by Allan R. Bomhard, “Toward ‘a complete analysis of the reesidues’: On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut” by David J. Holsinger & Joseph C. Salmons, “The compound gerund in Early Modern English” by Matsuji Tajima, and “The role of historiography in evaluating the result of comparative linguistic work: A case study” by Paul Sidwell. The back matter is very similar to the one of volume I. – A further article dedicated to the honoree, not included in the present volume, appeared in Journal of Indo-European Studies 27:1/2.1–13 (Spring/Summer 1999): Winfred P. Lehmann, “The structural approach of Jacob Grimm and his contemporaries” .]

eds. 1999 . New Italian Studies in Linguistic Historiography . (= Materialien zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der Semiotik, 9 .) Münster : Nodus , 160 pp. [ Ten studies, all in English, summarising or developing the themes of doctoral dissertations written from 1994 onwards. Résumés in French follow. Four of the papers deal with ancient Greek linguistic thought, five with the late 18th to early 19th century, and one with the late 19th century. Although short, the studies are well structured and present an impressive picture of ‘third generation’ Italian history of linguistics. A foreword by the editors is followed by a brief introduction in French by Jean-Claude Chevalier. – JEJ ]

ed. 1999 . Text and Context in Functional Linguistics . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 169 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xvii, 340 pp. [ This volume brings together studies by the originator of the systemic-functional approach to language, Michael A. K. Halliday, and arguably its best interpreter, Ruqaiya Hasan, whose article “Speaking with reference to context” closes the book. In his opening contribution, “The notion of ‘context’ in language education”, Halliday discusses the notion with reference to Malinowski and Firth as well as Sapir and Whorf. The other contributors, apart from the editor, are James R. Martin, Michael O’Donnell, Geoff Thompson, Wendy L. Bowcher, and Carmel Goran. Indexes of names and subjects .]

ed. 1999 . Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 175 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 225 pp. [ Apart from the paper by the second ed., “From linguistic to conceptual metaphor in five steps”, all contributions go back to the ICLC 5 meeting. They include Olaf Jäkel’s “Kant, [Hans] Blumenberg, [Harald] Weinrich: Some forgotten contributions to the cognitive theory of metaphor”, the first editor’s “Taking metaphor out of our heads and puttig it into the cultural world”, and Alan Cienki’s “Metaphors and cultural models as profiles and bases”, among others. Subject and name indexes .]

. 1999 . Die Tradition der Universalgrammatik im England des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts . Münster : Nodus , 377 pp. [ This monograph derives from the author’s 1998 University of Essen doctoral dissertation, directed by Werner Hüllen, and traces the development of the idea of universal grammar not only through works directly on that topic but also in 18th-century grammars of English. As the principal figures treated include Lord Monboddo and James Beattie, ‘England’ is a surprising choice for the title, but this is a small quibble concerning a book that attempts encyclopaedic coverage of its topic, and offers as a bonus a very full bibliography of primary literature with complete titles running in some cases to nearly half a page. – JEJ

ed. 1999 . Studies on the Phonological Word (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 174 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vi, 297 pp. [ The book brings together papers first presented at a conference on the subject held in Berlin in 1997, such as “The role of the prosodic word in phonotactic generalizations” by Geert Booij, “The ‘word’ in two polysynthetic laguages” by Kevin Russell, and “Prosodic stem ≠ prosodic word in Bantu” by Laura J. Downing. Index of subjects .]

Hrsg. 1999 . Sprachdiskussion und Beschreibung von Sprachen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert . (= Studium Sprachwissenschaft, 32 .) Münster : Nodus , 502 pp. [ 30 papers in German, English, French and Italian from an international conference held on 18–21 June 1997 at the University of Potsdam. The authors include many of the best known names in the field, among them W. K. Percival, Elke Nowak, Stefano Gensini, M. M. Isermann, Marijke J. van der Wal, Ulrich Hoinkes, L. Jooken & P. Swiggers, Daniel Droixhe, Barbara Kaitz, David Cram, Joan Leopold, Sylvie Archaimbault and Jean Rousseau. There is a brief foreword by the editors and Nodus’s usual good Index Nominum with life-dates. – JEJ ]

ed. 1999 . Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 176 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vi, 187 pp. [ This book contains 8 papers organized under 3 headings: I, ‘Reference in Discourse’; II, ‘Information Structuring in Discourse’, and ‘Discourse Markers’. Brief index .]

eds. 1999 . Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, May 21–23, 1998 . (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, 32 .) Washington, D.C. : Institute for the Study of Man , vi, 289 pp. [ This volume prints 14 papers organized under 3 headings: ‘Linguistic Investigtions’, ‘Studies in Poetic Diction’, and ‘IndoEuropean Expansion’. They include such papers as “Palatalization and labiovelars in Luwian” by Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov; “The arrival of Italic and Germanic ‘have’ in Late Indo-European” by Carol F. Justus; “The Indo-Aryan invasion debate: The logic of the response” by Edwin F. Bryant, and “Echoes of the Big Bang: The historical context of language dispersal” by Andrew Sherratt. general index (283–289) .]

. 1998 . Kommunikationssemantik . (= Signifikation, 3 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 224 pp. [ This monograph, apart from a brief introduction and a longer conclusion (“Ausblick: Sie können es nicht lassen!”) has three main chapters: 1, “Mikroskopische Betrachtungen: Der konstruierte Konstrukteur”; 2, “Mikroskopische Betrachtungen: Die Konstruktion der Bedeutung”, and 3, “Mikro- und makroskopische Betrachtungen: Identitätskonstruktion”. Index of names .]

eds. 1999 . Language Change and Typological Variation: In honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 83 rd birthday. Volume II: Grammatical Universals and Typology . (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, 31 .) Washington, D.C. : Institute for the Study of Man , [ vi1 ], [321–] 641 pp. [ Cf. Polomé & Justus (eds.) 1999, for the companion volume. The present volume prints contributions by Paolo Ramat, Pieter A. M. Seuren, Robert E. Longacre, Francisco R. Adrados, Henrik Birnbaum, Anthony Aristar, Subhadra Kumar Sen, Douglas Mitchell, Bridget Drinka, Helena Kurzová, the late Georgij A. Klimov, Karl Horst Schmidt, László Desz, Bernard Comrie & Maria Polinsky, Brigitte Bauer, and Carol Justus (in that order) arranged under headings like ‘Universal Issues’, ‘Typological Issues’, ‘Constituent Order’, and ‘Alignment and Contentive Type’. Of particular histori(ographi)cal interest is Theodora Bynon’s contribution, “Schleicher’s reconstruction of a sentence: Back to pre-pre-Indo-Eu-ropean” (382–387) .]

1999 . Linguistic Historiography: Projects & prospects . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 92 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , ix, 236 pp. ; portraits and illustr . [ The volume consists of two parts, titled, respectively, ‘Topics in the Historiography of Linguistics’ and ‘Historical Perspectives on Individual Scholars’, with a lengthy ‘Introduction: On the uses of the history of linguistics” and a Concluion, in which the author reflects on his 30-year involvement in the field, as author and as editor. The ten chapters include, apart from several methodological chapters, “Immediate and not so immediate sources of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’”, ‘The idea of reconstuction in comparative linguistics”, “J. R. Firth’s musings on Saussurean tenets”, and “The authors of the idea of language as a system où tout se tient”, among others. An addendum relates “An hour with Noam Chomsky, Cambridge, Mass., March 1978” which the author had in part discussing issues in the history of linguistics and several personages involved in its historiography. Indexes of authors and of subjects .]

eds. 1998 . Perspektiven einer Kommunikationswissenschaft. Internationales Gerold Ungeheuer-Symposium, Essen 6.–8.7.1995 . Vols. I and II1 (= Signifikation, 1:1,2 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , viii, 326 pp. ; viii1 , [ 329 –] 557 pp. [ These two volumes, derived from a symposium in honour of the Bonn phonetician and communication theorist Gerold Ungeheuer (1930–1982), demonstrates the legacy left by the honoree. Following personal reminiscences from Göran Hammarström and José Antonio Barbón Rodríguez, there are testimonials like “Ungeheuers Einfluß in der modernen experimentellen Phonetik Kolumbiens” by Alvaro Calderón Rivera or “Ungeheuers Vokalartikulationstheorie und deren implizite Deutung als ‘quantal nature of speech’”, but in the majority contributions go beyond Ungeheuer’s work, such as “Kruziale und nichtkruziale Kommunikation im Softwareentwicklungsprozeß” (Nile Lenke), “Aufdecken von Alltagswissen in Sprachhandlungen” (Magdalene Lutz-Hensel), “Der Deduktionshintergrund der ‘Botschaft’:Situationstheorie und Welttheorie” (Helmut Richter), but also a historical paper on “Gerold Ungeheuers Bühlerstudien” (Achim Eschbach). Index nominum (537– 557), but no index rerum .]

eds. 1999 . The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Oxford & Maiden, Mass. : Blackwell , xviii, 537 pp. ; illustr . [ This handsomely produced volume responds to the situation “[t]he time has long passed when a professional scholar, let alone layman, could expect to control the whole field of Anglo-Saxon studies” (first editor’s preface, p.xii). Some 150 contributors produced entries beginning with Abbo of Flerury (d.1004) and ending with “Yeavering”, a Nurthumbrian site of the earliest Anglo-Saxon royal residence, and “York”, the Romano-British fortress, provincial capital and seat of bishops, and an imporant place in various phases in Anglo-Saxon history. The ‘Classified index of head-words’ has entries on persons (royalty, shipos, abbesses, scholars, antiquaries, etc.), peoples and places (minsters, churches, towns, etc.), subjects (archaeology, art, architecture, etc.), historical subjects, languages, learning & literature, manuscripts & libraries, poetry & prose, and various other items. Typical entries are “Coenwulf, king of the Mercians (796–821)”, “Kemble, J. M. (1807–57)”, the Anglo-Saxon scholar (and ardent follower of Jacob Grimm, a fact not mentioned), “Leland, John (1503?–1552), who reorganized Henry VIII’s libraries, “Missionaries” who started their work in the year 597, “Place-names, Scandinavian” (with a map illustrating their distribution), “Script, Anglo-Saxon” and its development, “Wanley, Humfrey (1672–1726)” .]

ed. 1999 . Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 180 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii, 312 pp. [ A selection of papers derived from a colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre on 25–27 October 1997, organized under three headings, I, ‘Morphological Phenomena and their Boundaries’; II, ‘Morpho-Syntax and Pragmatics’, and III, ‘Morpho-Syntax and Semantics’. Contributors inckude Paola Benincà, Marianne Mithun, Christoph Schwartze, Johan van der Auwera, Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Katalin Kiss, and Rosanna Sornicola. General index .]

ed. & introd. 1999 . Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883–1884: Journals and letters . Transl. by William Barr . Toronto-Buffalo-London : University of Toronto Press , xvi, 298 pp. ; photos & illstr. [ English transl. of Franz Boas: Bei den Inuit in Baffinland 1883–1884: Tagebücher und Briefe (Berlin: Reinhold Schletzer Verlag, 1994), this book documents the preparation and carrying out of Franz Boas’ (1858– 1942) one-year sojourn among the Eskimos on the basis of a selection of the detailed journals that Boas kept during this time, supplemented by excerpts from his letters home and, in particular, his fiancée living in New York, Marie Krackowizer (1861–1929), and also excerpts from his servant Wilhelm Weike (1859–1917), who had been his family’s handyman in Boas’ home town Minden, and later in Berlin, after the family had moved there. These letters – one of them dating back to May 1882 – demonstrate the determination of Boas to establish himself as an ethnologist and make a career for himself. Already in November 1882 he defined his project as “to establish a precise interconnection between the population of tribes, the distribution of food resources and the nature of the physical environment” (p.3). The back matter consists of a glossary of terms, a bib. of secondary sources, and a detailed index. Most of the materials on which this book is based are deposited in the archives of the Library of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia .]

. 1999 . Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramáticay la lexicografía del español (BICRES): Vol. II: Desde el año 1601 hasta el año 1700 . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 91 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , vi, 472 pp. [ Sequel to BICRES I, published in 1994 – see HL 22:1/2.264–265 (1995), for details – this volume, covering just one century, is even slightly larger than its predecessor. It is divided into two major parts: the first part consists of a chronological listing of linguistic texts dealing with Spanish in the 17th century (7–284), with exact description and location as well as references to the critical literature; the second part is an alphabetical listing of some 350 secondary sources and studies (285–316). This important reference tool for the study of Spanish linguistics is rounded of by a series of indexes: manuscript and/or book titles and variants (317–347), places of publication (349–371), scribes, printers, and editors (373–380), locations of copies of the books described in Part I (381–440), and authors with their works listed below their names (441–472) .]

ed. 1999 . Languages Different in All Their Sounds …: Descriptive approaches to indigenous languages of the Americas 1500 to 1850 . (= Studium Sprachwissenschaften, Beiheft 31 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 181 pp. [ In addition of an introduction by the editor, the book contains seven papers, including “Tradition and innovation in sixteenth century grammars of New Spain [i.e., Mexico]” by Cristina Monzón, “Gabriel Sagard’s Dictionary of the Huron Tongue (1632)” by Rüdiger Schreyer, and “Eighteenth century descriptions of Arawak by Moravian missionaries” by Peter van Baarle. In the “Index nominum” (175–181) the following details can be completed: Bertonio, Lodovico (fl 1603– 1612) —> Bertonio, Lodovico, S.J. (1532–1625); Reichard, Gladys A. (fl 1933–1938) —> (1893–1955), and Staden, [?] (fl 1557) —> Staden, Hans (c. 1525–1578) .]

. 1999 . Kantian Linguistics: Theories of mental representation and the linguistic transformation of Kantism . English translation by Laura Brownrigg . (= Materialien zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der Semiotik, 10 .) Münster : Nodus , 170 pp. [ The title is purposely calqued upon Chomsky’s Cartesian Linguistics. Chapter One, “Kant and Language”, points out that “there are only the premises of a theory of language in Kant’s work, which however is never developed”. The Kantian linguistics treated here derives instead from how “Kant’s reflections are taken by some language theorists of the first post-Kantian generation as a basis for a linguistic theory inspired by critical philosophy”. A chapter each is devoted to Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1758–1823), Georg Michael Roth (1769–1817), and August Ferdinand Bernhardi (1769–1820). – JEJ ]

eds. 1999 . Language Change and Typological Variation: In honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 83rd birthday. Volume I: Language Change and Phonology . (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, 30 .) Washington, D.C. : Institute for the Study of Man , [vi], 319 pp. [ Following an impressive list of the honoree’s publications down to 1997 and a laudatio by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, the volume includes contributions on subjects like ‘Early Europe’, ‘Grammatical Change’, ‘Germanic Data’, ‘Numerals’, and various kinds of issues in phonology like the subjects of ‘Universals’ and ‘Typology’ by a veritable who’s who in Indo-European linguistics (Wolfgang Meid, Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov, Edgar C. Polomé, Onofrio Carruba, Francisco Villar, Henry M. Hoenigswald, Frans van Coetsam, Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Frederik Kortlandt, Ladislav Zgusta, Anatoly Liberman, Françoise Bader, and others). – See also Justus & Polomé (eds.) 1999, for the companion volume .]

eds. 1999 . Übersetzung, Adaption und Akkulturation im insularen Mittelalter . (= Studien und Texte zur Keltologie, 4 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 346 pp. [ This collection of articles is dedicated to Gearóid Mac Eoin (b.1929) on the 70th anniversary of his birthday and includes, in addition to a foreword by the 2nd editor commenting on invididual papers and a ‘prologue’ by the first “Zu einigen Formern textueller Aneignungsprozesse im insularem Mittelalter”, altogether 19 articles, including one each by the editors. The following may be of particular interest to readers of HL: “Die grammatische Tradition des insularem Mittelalters in Island: Spuren insularer Einflüsse im Dritten Grammatischen Traktat” (215–229) by Valeria Micillo, and “Frühe walisische Sprachmittler und ihr Handwerkszeug im multikulturellen Spannungsfeld” (231– 258) by Sabine Heinz. No index .]

. 1999 . Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics. With a section on comparative Eskimo linguistics . (= Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European, 1 .) 21 vols. Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen [ Njalsgade 92, DK-Copenhagen S], viii, 364 pp.; v, [365-]708 pp. [These beautifully produced volumes reprint the bulk of the author’s articles in the field of Indo-European “from the last two decades” and, “to a modest degree, Eskimo” (Preface, p.vii). It does however not “contain papers that have appeared in mainstream Indo-Europeanist fora such as the congress volumes of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft and easily accessible collective volumes” (ibid.). Apart from the opening article, “Zur Morphophonematik des Urindogermanischen: Die Erklärung qualitativer, quantitativer und akzentueller Alternationen durch voruindogermanische Lautgesetze” (1–66), evidently the author’s first major piece of scholarship (first draft dating from 1975), only a fairly small number of other, often minor papers are in German. The remaining articles, at times miscellaneous pieces devoted to particular etymolgies, are in English. They are all organized chronologically (1978–1996). From the contents: “Determining proto-phonetics by circumstantial evidence: The case of the Indo-European laryngeals” (1983); “On [Herman] Hirt’s Law and laryngeal vocalization” (1986); “The makeup of Indo-European morphology” (1987); “The ablaut resistency of the ‘thematic vowel’: A Balto-Fennic parallel” (1988); “Zur Herkunft des slavischen Imperfekts” (1988); “Germanic Verschärfung: Tying up loose ends” (1990); “Trubetzkoy’s thoughts on Indo-European: A myth come into fashion” (1991); “Die Vorgeschichte der baltoslavischen Akzentuierug – Beiträge zu eine vereinfachten Lösung” (1992); “Winter’s Law of Balto-Slavic lengthenig – an unnatural fact?” (1992); “Szemerényi’s theory of Indo-European i- and u-stems” (1996); “The accentuation of the Slavic nasal presents” (1996). – From the author’s writings on Inuktitut: “Zur Typologie der Eskimosprachen” (1987) and “Eskimo gemination and Sirenik vowel reduction” (1994). No index .]

. [ ©1996–1998 ]. Curs de iingvistica generala . Traducere, note, index de termeni, index de nume şi fişă biografică de Laura şi Radu Daniliuc . Introducere de John Holm . Suceava [northeastern Rumania] : Editura “Cuvântul Nostru” , xi, 182 pp. [ This Rumanian translation of the Cours finds itself in a long line of translations since 1928 (Japanese), German (1931), and Russian (1933) to the much more recent translation into Bulgarian (by Jivco Boyadjiev & Petia Asenova, 1992). Compared with the latter, the Rumanian edition falls somewhat short; the ‘introduction’ is slightly longer than one page and makes intriguing references to “(Joseph 1994:3664)” and “(Joseph 1994:3669)”, which only few readers would be able to identify since no bibliography of modern Saussure scholarship is provided; it is John E. Joseph’s Encyclopedia entry “Saussurean tradition in twentieth-century linguistics”, which has been republished in Concise History of the Language Sciences ed. by E. F. K. Koerner & R. E. Asher (Oxford: Pergamon, 1995), pp.233–239. However, given that the translation was produced at a time the translators were still undergraduates, they must be thanked for their efforts in making the Cours available to a wider readership in their own country .]

ed. 1998 . Language, Identity and Conceptualization among the Khoisan . (= Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung / Research in Khoisan Studies, 15 .) Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag , 503 pp. [ 20 papers presented at an international symposium entitled “Hunter-gatherers in Transition: Language, identity, and conceptualization among the Khoisan”, held at St Augustin, Germany, in January 1997, and organised by the special research unit on Cultural and Environmental Change in Arid Africa at the University of Cologne. While most of the papers are descriptive accounts of particular features of members of this large and important African linguistic family, at least a few address the issues of identity and conceptualization; and throughout one finds a more consistent attempt at dialogue with a tradition of analysis dating back to the 19th century and beyond than is common in the more highly populated fields of European linguistics. – JEJ ]

ed. 1998 . Vom Sprecher zum Hörer: Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Gesprächsanalyse . (= Signifikation, 2 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , vi, 260 pp. [ A selection of papers going back to earlier drafts dating from 19931994 devoted to various approaches to discourse analysis, half of which written by the author himself; the remaining ones were authored by Diana Ingenhoff, Ingvil Schirling, and Stefanie Schwakenberg, including one entitled “Dier bezaubernde Sprache der Augen: Zur Funktion visuellen Verhaltens im Drei-Personen-Gespräch”. Indexes of names and subjects .]

. 1999 . Structural Studies in Modern Welsh Syntax: Aspects of the grammar of Kate Roberts . (= Studien und Texte zur Keltologie, 2 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 268 pp. [ A monographic study of the “grammatical usage” in the work of Kate Roberts (1891–1985), the ‘Queen of Welsh Literature’ consisting of three main parts analyzing “[s]ome grammemic function of gwneud in literary modern Welsh”, providing a ‘structural sketch’ of the syntax of un’, and a typology of ‘nominal sentence’ patterns, respectively. “Selective index of subjects, concepts and elements discussed” (262–268) .]

1999 . The Writings of Harold E. Palmer: An overview . Foreword by A. P. R. Howatt . Tokyo : Hon-no-Tomosha , xii, 218 pp. [ Published as a companion volume to The Selected Writings of Harold E. Palmer ed. by the Institute for Research in Language Teaching, Tokyo, facsimile ed., 2nd ed., 10 vols., Tokyo: Hon-no-Tomosha, 1999. A thoroughly researched account of the career and voluminous output, year-by-year, of Harold Edward Palmer (1877–1949), a key figure of applied linguistics in the first half of the 20th century. The author has made use of archival materials newly discovered in family papers and provincial libraries of towns in which Palmer lived and taught early in his career. An appendix summarizes four of Palmer’s works available only in Japanese, providing full English texts of some sections where these have survived. The book also includes six previously unpublished photographs obtained from Palmer’s great-granddaughter. – JEJ ]

ed. 1999 . E. F. K. Koerner: A Biobibliography . (= Biobibliographies et Exposés, 7 .) Leuven : Centre international de Diabetologie générale (Peeters, Publisher) , v, 195 pp. ; 1 portr . [ This book brings together, following a Foreword by the editor, the following items: “E. F. K. Koerner: Biographical sketch” by P. Swiggers (7–19); “E. F. K. Koerner: Bibliography, 1968–1999” (23–143), classified according to 1, books; 2, articles; 3, reviews & review articles; 4, miscellaneous items (bibliographies, obituaries, forewords, etc.), and 5, papers presented at scholarly meetings. These are followed by an up-to-date listing of Koerner’s work as editor of HL and Diachronica and the various volumes in monograph series, notably “Studies in the History of the Language Sciences” (92 volumes published) and “Current Issues in Linguistic Theory” (189 volumes published), all published with the imprint of John Benjamins of Amsterdam & Philadelphia. The book is rounded out by two representative papers, “Historiography of Linguistics: Retrospect and prospects” (147–165) and “Ideology in 19th- and 20th-century Comparative-Historical Linguistics, notably in Germany” (169–194) .]

. 1999 . Zur deutschen Lexikographie bis Jacob Grimm: Wörterbuchprogramme, Wörterbücher und Wörterbuchkritik . Bern-Frankfurt/M.-New York, [etc] : Peter Lang , 589 pp. [ This major piece of scholarship – essentially the author’s Habilitationsschrift, University of Bern, 1996 – consists of two main parts, a (in the author’s opinion, p.9) ‘Vorarbeit’ to a history of German lexicography from the early beginnings (Ratke 1630) to Grimm (1852–) and a documentation from 17th and 18th century lexicographers such as Ratke, Harsdörffer (1644), and Schottel (1663), to Grimm’s preface to the second volume (1860) of his and his brother Wilhelm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch. Individual chapters of Part I are devoted, following a survey in Chap. 1 (“Grundzüge der lexikographischen Entwicklung zu Beginn de Neuzeit”), to a discussion of a series of proposals and actual dictionaries – Chap.2, “Programme der Stamm- und der Gesamtwörterbuch-Diskussion”, Chap.3, “Adelungs und Campes Wörterbücher”, and Chap.4, “Synonymik in Wörterbüchern” – and, as the centre piece of Szlęk’s book (123–223), Jacob Grimm’s program and actual treatment of German words. The “Literaturverzeichnis” is divided into dictionaries (225–237) and other, both primary and secondary literature (238–287). Unfortunately, there is no index that would have made this massive book rich in information a useful reference tool .]

comp. 1999 . A Biliography of English Languge Studies in Japan 1900– 1996 . Tokyo : Nan’un-do Publishing Co. , xvii + 1195 pp. [ This huge bibliography lists virtually all books, translations, articles, and notes (11,276 items in all, with full bibliographical details) published in Japan for the past 100 years. The 100-page-long “Introduction”, by Matsuji Tajima (Kyushu University) is a historical survey of the discipline in Japan. The “Bibliography” is rounded off with a full index of authors, editors, and translators. (ISBN 4–523–31040–8) .]

1999 . Aryans and British India . Berkeley-Los Angeles-London : University of California Press , xiv, 260 pp. [ It is the author’s thesis that the idea of ‘Aryan’ or Indo-European acted “as a sign of the kinship of Britons and Indians. It is an idea that created the history of India while it revolutionized European notions of universal history and ethnology. Taken as a whole, the Aryan idea in European thought was productive of much that is false and evil, but also of much that is good and of lasting value.” (xiii). The book has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction”; 2, “The mosaic ethnology of Asiatic [Sir William] Jones [(1746–17940)]”; 3, “British Indomania”; 4, “British Indo-phobia”; 5, “Philology and ethnology”; 6, “Race science versus Sanskrit”; 7, “The racial theory of Indian civilization”, and 8, “Epilogue”. Bib. (229–251); general index (253–260) .]

eds. 1999 . Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 173 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1999 , viii, 309 pp. [ A selection of papers first presented at the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 26) held in Mexico City in Spring 1996. Contributors include: Carlo Cecchetto. Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, Javier Gutiérrez Rexach, Julia Herschensohn, Pierre Pica & Johan Rooryck, Yves Roberge, and others. Indexes of authors and of terms & concepts .]

. 1998 . Brieven aan H. J. Koenen . Ingeleid en bezorgt dor Sigrid de Jong, Mimi Lakeman, Jan Nordegraaf, Suzanne Pijnacker & Eva Wildes . (= Cahiers voor Taal-kunde, 17 .) Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 96 pp. ; 2 portr . [ This booklet presents, after various front matters (preface, introduction carrying biobibliographical information on the two Dutch scholars) the correspondence on essentially linguistic matters, between Matthias de Vries (1820–1892), professor of Dutch and “vaderlands geschiedenis” in Groningen, later at the University of Leiden, and Hendrik Jacob Koenen (1809–1889), curator of the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam. The back matter contains biographical information on persons mentioned in these letters (whose originals are deposited in the Réveil Archief of the Library of the University of Amsterdam), bibliographical references, and. in a appendix a letter from a Dutch literary historian, by the name of W. J. A. Jonckbloet (1817–1885) to Koenen .]