Publications Received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene Schriften

( sous la direction de ). 2000 . Histoire des idées linguistiques. Tome III: L’hégémonie du comparatisme . Sprimont/Belgium : Pierre Mardaga , 594 pp. [ After many years of delay (cf. p. 61, note 3, which refers to “aujourd’hui (1986)”) – the master list of bibliographical references (533–562) has 1994 as the most recent entry by the chief editor himself, and references to most other scholars in the field end much earlier than that – the publication of the present volume concludes the project. Tome I (1889) was subtitled La naissance des méta-langages en Orient et Occident, and Tome II (1992) Le développement de la grammaire occidentale. The present volume is divided into 8 chapters of unequal length, with the last (on “Les institutions linguistiques internationales” – only the International Phonetic Association and the linguistic congresses organized by the Comité permanent des Linguistes take centre-stage [but see below]) being the shortest (499–528). The others are titled, respectively, 1, “Luttes sociales, dialectes contraintes”, beginning with the French Revolution(!); 2, “Vers le métier de linguiste”; 3, “Le paradigme historique et la grammaire comparée” (53 pages in length only, given the subtitle of the present volume); 4, “Méthodes et domaines [i.e., lexicography, semantics, pragmatics, dialectology, and creolistics] en linguistique” (67 pp.); 5, “Linguistique et anthropologie” by Nélia Dias & Britta Rupp-Eisenreich (279–294); 6, “L’ordre des signes” (essentially on semiotics, logic, analytical philosophy, and ‘universal languages’ from Volapük to BASIC English), and 7, “La linguistique générale”. – The following individual contributions may be of particular interest since one may not find them in traditional histories of linguistics: “Modèles italiens de politique linguistique” by Franco Lo Piparo & Sebastiano Vecchio (35–44); “La naissance de la créolistique” (253–262) by the late Daniel Baggioni (1945–1998); “Le traitement des pathologies verbales et les hypothèses sur le langage humains” by Antonino Pennisi (295–309); “La question de la glossolalie” by Jean-Jacques Courtine (397–408); “Eurasistes et marristes” by Patrick Sériot (473–408), which deals with ideologies of culture and language in Russia of the 1920s through 1940s, and “Les congrès internationaux et la linguistique” by Jean-Claude Chevalier (517–528), which brings together information on efforts of scientific dissemination and exchange in Europe and America between 1837 and 1939. The back matter consists of an “Index nominum” with life-dates of authors (563–573), a subject index (575–581), and language index (583–584), biographical information on the contributors (585–590), and, as is still traditional in French publications, the table of contents (591–594) .]

(ed.) 1999 . Langue and Parole in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective: Selected proceedings of the XXXIst annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, St Andrews [, Scotland, 26–30 August ] 1998 . Oxford-New York [etc.] : Pergamon Press , xi1 , 519 pp. [ This beautifully produced volume – which also reproduces a photograph taken on the campus of the University of St Andrews during the conference which includes the late Robert Henry Robins (1921–2000), Dieter Kastovsky, Matti Rissanen, and other scholars – begins with a section on History of Linguistics covering the following four papers: “Three Saussures – one ‘structuralist’ avant la lettre” by E. F. K. Koerner (19–34); “Gegen die herkömmliche Interpretation von Saussures Langage, Langue und Parole – ein Merkzettel” by Ralph A. Hartmann (34–45); “Eubulides [(c.405–330 B.C.)] as a 20th Century Semanticist” by Pieter A. M. Seuren (47–61), and “Key Dates in Twentieth Century Linguistics” by R. H. Robins (63–72). In accord with the theme chosen by the SLE meeting organizers, the volume contains other sections and papers devoted to the langue/parole dichotomy in one form or another, such as, e.g., “Parole as an Individual Realisation of Langue” by Tadao Shimomiya (99–103), “Langue and Parole in Speech Act Theories: Some considerations and a proposal” by Elisabetta Fava (263–281), or “‘Langue” and ‘Parole’ in Proto-Indo-European Reconstructions” by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (419–422). The breadth of the topics presented at the St Andrews meeting may be gathered from the section headings which include, among others, titles such as “Morphology”, “Semantics”, “Discourse Analysis”, “Sociolinguistics”, and “Historical Linguistics” (the latter subject being represented by 10 articles out of a total of 37 included in the present volume). The back matter consists of a list of addresses of the contributors (509–512), a “Name Index” (513–514), and a “Subject Index” (515–519) .]

Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 1995 et compléments des années précédentes / Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1995 and supplements for previous years Edited by Mark Janse & Sijmen Tol [ with the assistance of a number of international contributors – see pp. v–vi , for their listing ]. Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer Academic Publishers , 1999 , xc1 , 1,647 pp. [ This – extremely massive (exceeding the one for 1994 by close to 350 printed pages!) – volume carries a total of 26,091 (as against 21,412 in 1994) entries, making it the most sizable in the history of this publication, still the most important bibliographical sourcebook in the field, though one cannot but regret the ever increasing delay in publication. The full “Index of names” (1445–1647) also includes references to book reviews, a useful feature introduced recently. (The page references to the latter are given in italics.) Given the breadth of the subjects, areas, and periods covered by historiographers, users of the BL will appreciate that the History of Linguistics section continues to be subdivided into a variety of subsections from “Western traditions” generally via “Antiquity”, “Middle Ages”, etc. down to “Non-Western traditions”, “Indian tradition” as well as “Arab tradition”, areas in which scholarship has continued, hardly less sizable than in previous years. However, the existence of this HoL section should not prevent historians of linguistics from consulting other sections in BL, 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 (pp. 127–151: 652 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 wherever available .]

. 1999 . Le langage et ses disciplines, XIXe–XXe siècles . Publié avec le concours de la Communauté française de Belgique, Service de la langue française . (= Champs linguistiques; Manuels, [unnumbered] .) 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. – John E. Joseph .]

( with the assistance of Elisabeth Lazcano ) ed. 2000 . Corpus représentatif des Grammaires et des traditions linguistiques . Tome II1 (= Histoire Épistémologie Langage; Hors-série No. 3o .) Paris : SHESL [ distributed by Presses Universitaires de France ], 652 pp. [ Tome I, published in 1998, contained altogether 265 extracts from 56 authors; the present one carries 275 from 72 authors. As the editor explains it (Présentation, p. 3), each selection/author (which are regarded as representative for the development of linguistic traditions) is critically presented by a specialist in the field (the list, pp. 13–14, is long and impressive), with the texts situated within their historical context, both with regard to their sources of inspiration and their influence on subsequent developments. The present volume starts with (or, rather, continues from) Section 3, “Tradition occidentale: Grammaire des langues europénnes modernes”, with subsections 3.5 “Grammaires allemandes” 3.6 “Grammaires anglaises”, followed by Section 4, “Traditions nonoccidentales” (159–350) covering selections from the following areas: 4.1 “Grammaires arabes”; 4.2 “Grammaires de l’hébreu et du yiddish”; 4.3 “Grammaires du sanskrit, du moyen-indien et du tamoul”; 4.4 “Idées linguistiques en Chine ancienne”, and 4.5 “Grammaires du japonais”. The final section consists of 5.1 “Compilations”; 5.2 “Linguistique historico-comparative”; 5.3 “Linguistique générale”, and 5.4 “Phonétique et phonologie”. Thus the anthology starts with the work of Valentin Ickelsamer (alias Ickelsheimer vel sim, c.1500–1541) and his Teütsche Grammatica of 1534, and ends with the 1968 edition of Manual of Phonetics by Bertil Malmberg (1913–1994). In between we find – to offer a random sampling only – evaluations of Robert Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar of 1762 (135–138), Ab ZakarryyÇ Yah yÇ ibn ZiyÇd al-FarrÇ’ (144/761–207/822) and his work commenting on difficult aspects of the Quran; a detailed entry on PÇn ini and various works ascribed to him (236–241); a presentation of Conrad Gesner’s Mithridates of 1555 (351–353), and Wilhelm Viëtor’s (1850–1918) work on phonetics (506–508). The back matter consists of ample bibliographies classified in accord with the various sections (541–629), an alphabetical list of all the authors discussed (631–634), a “Liste des titres des ouvrages étudiés” (635–645), and indexes of “des types d’ouvrages” (647–648) and “des langues étudiées” (649–650). All in all, a veritable – and impressive – ‘tour de force’ .]

(eds.) 2000 . Between Grammar and the Lexicon . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 183 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xxxii1 , 365 pp. [ This volume brings together a selection of revised papers originally presented at the theme session on “Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?” organized by the editors at the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference held at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam on 18 July 1997. Contributors include Walter Hirtle, Laura A. Janda, Flora Klein-Andreu, Lori Morris, Bob de Jonge, Dorit Ravid & Yitzhak Shlesinger, and others. Name index (353–359) and subject index (361–365) .]

(eds.) 2000 . Lexical Specification and Insertion . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 197 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xvii1 , 467 pp. [ Although the paper here included go back to a conference on the subject indicated in the title held in December 1990 in Utrecht, the papers have undergone substantive revisions in the mid-1990s and, as the editors state in their Preface (p.v), “the issues dealt with […] are still as topical as they were when submitted”. Contributors include Hans Bennis, Frank Drikoningen, Daniel L. Everett, Jane Grimshaw, Hubert Haider, Lars Hellan, Thomas Roeper, Margaret Speas, Carol L. Tenny, and others. There are indexes of languages and of subjects .]

(ed.) 1999 . Leonard Bloomfield: Critical Assessments of Leading Linguists . 31 vols. London & New York : Routledge , xiii1 , 321 pp. ; vi1 , 344 pp. ; vi1 , 334 pp. [ This is, it appears, the first set of volumes in a series of ‘critical assessments’ of major 20th-century linguists; a 6-volume (!) project, ably edited by Paul J. Thibault of the University of Venice is currently being prepared. The present, devoted to the most important American linguist of the past century, brings together an array of articles, notes, reviews, and accounts dealing with Bloomfield’s (1887–1949) life and work which originally appeared between 1915 (Tobias Diekhoff’s review of Bloomfield’s 1914 Introduction to the Study of Language) and 1995 (an excerpt from the late Francis Patrick Dinneen’s posthumous book General Linguistics). (The original sources are given – not always in a complete fashion, notably where collective volumes or excerpts from books are concerned – in “Appendix: Chronological Table of Reprinted Articles” [I, 22–26].) The volumes are subtitled Part I, “Biographical Sketches”, although the bulk deals with the evaluation, at different points in time, of Bloomfield’s work and scholarly legacy (apart from Bernard Bloch’s obituary [27–35] biographical information is scant, which is at least partly due to Bloomfield’s reticent personality). Volume II, “Reviews and Meaning”, consists of reviews of Bloomfield (1914) and (1933) and a larger section entitled “Meaning; Sources in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics; Tertiary Responses”, which includes, among others, Leo Spitzer’s 1943 note “Why Does Language Change?”, Charles F. Voegelin’s review of Bloomfield’s 1939 essay Linguistic Aspects of Science, John E. Joseph’s 1989 “Bloomfield’s Saussureanism”, Zellig S. Harris’ 1973 review of Charles F. Hockett’s 1970 Leonard Bloomfield Anthology, William Cowan’s 1988 review of the 1987 abridged paperback edition of the latter and of the volume edited by the late Robert A. Hall, Jr., Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life and work (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins), and altogether three pieces by Stephen O. Murray, which had originally been published in Language and Historiographia Linguistica (2 items), two of them critical responses to Hall’s 1990 A Life for Language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield (Benjamins), the other a review of Frederick J. Newmeyer’s 1980 Linguistics in America (Academic Press). Volume III is subtitled “Phonology, Morphology and Syntax”, and includes 4 parts of unequal length: 1, “Bloomfield’s Phonology, Morphology and Syntax”, which begins with Karl V. Teeter’s 1969 paper “Leonard Bloomfield’s Linguistics” and ends with Peter H. Matthews’ 1992 article “Bloom field’s Morphology and its Successors”; 2, “Bloomfield’s Germanic and Indo-European Work”, which consists of only two contributions, of 1970 and 1987 respectively, by the same author (who was one of the very few doctoral students of Bloomfield’s), namely, the late William Gamwell Moulton (1914–2000); 3, “Austronesian and Algonquian”, which apart from a series of reviews of two posthumously published works – both edited by Charles F. Hockett – on Eastern Ojibwa (1957) and Menomini (1962), includest John U. Wolff’s 1987 appraisal of “Bloomfield as an Austronesianist”, Ives Goddard’s 1987 critical analysis of “Leonard Bloomfield’s Descriptive and Comparative Studies of Algonquian”, and William Cowan’s 1990 more general account “Bloomfield, Structuralism, and the Algonquian Languages”, and 4, “Reading and Foreign Languages”, which reproduces three reviews, by Yakov Malkiel (1914–1998), Henry Lee Smith, Jr. (1913–1974), and Hans Kurath (1891–1992), of Bloomfield’s posthumously published 465-page Let’s Read (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1961), edited by the lexicographer Clarence Lewis Barnhart (1900–1993) from a 1940 typescript. – No doubt these three volumes are packed with information on Bloomfield’s oeuvre, and it is doubtful that a comparable undertaking will ever be attempted again. It is for this reason that it is to be regretted that these beautifully produced volumes are anything but ‘user-friendly’. In a work like the present, one would have expected to find a full bibliography of Bloomfield’s writings (which could easily have been obtained from either of the two works edited or authored by Hall mentioned above: 1987:221–233 and 1990:107–117, respectively). It is time-consuming track down the original places of publication of the altogether 82 selections (because neither the acknowledgements (listed vol.I, xi–xii) nor the original locations (listed I, 22–26, chronologically, not alphabetically by author), are given together with the individual selection (where both the source and the original publisher or copyright holder could have been supplied in a footnote). Finally, even though the selections are organized by subject area, any index would have been welcomed by most users of this anthology .]

eds. 1999 . New Italian Studies in Linguistic Historiography . (= Materialien zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der Semiotik, 9 .) Münster : Nodus , 160 pp. [ 10 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. – John E. Joseph .]

. 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 Huellen, 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. – John E. Joseph .]

eds. 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. Keith Percival, Elke Nowak, Stefano Gensini, M. M. Isermann, Marijke J. van der Wal, Udo Hoinkes, L. Jooken & P. Swiggers, Daniel Droixhe, Barbara Kaltz, 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. – John E. Joseph .]

Helmántica: Revista de filología clásica y hebrea, vol.LI: Hebraica Ed. by Santiago GarcíaJalón de la Lama , with the collaboration of Ainhoa Sáenz de Zaitegui Tejero . Salamanca : Universidad Potificia de Salamanca , 2000 , 248 pp. [ Following an Introduction by the editor entitled “El lugar de la Historiografía entre las disciplinas lingüísticas contemporáneas” (7–11), the special issue contains articles such as the following: “Christian Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: Printers, humanism and the impact of the Reformation” by Stephen G. Burnett (13–42); “Deux hébraïsants à Louvain: Jean Campensis et Nicolas Clénard” by Sophie Kessler-Mesguich (43–57); “The Work of Samuel Archivolti (1515–1611) in the Light of the Classical Traditions and Cinquecento Italian Literature” by Ari Schippers (121–138); “Vossius, Spinoza, Schultens: The application of analogia in Hebrew grammar” by A. J. Klijnsmit (139–166), and “Nova et vetera in grammaticae hebraicae, Historia II: La lista de gramáticos hebreos del Sefe Moznayim [of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1092–1167)]” by Carlos de Valle Rodríguez (189–197) .]

(eds.) 1999 . Estudios de Historiografía Lingüística Hispánica ofrecidos a Hans-Josef Niederehe . Vigo : Departamento de Filología Española, Universidade de Vigo , [ 7- ] 152 pp. ; 1 portr. [ This Festschrift in honour of HL’s Associate Editor for almost 25 years adds to the 1997 issues of the journal, which appeared on the occasion of H.-J. Niederehe’s 60th birthday. The present publication lists, after an appraisal of the honoree’s contribution to the history of Spanish linguistics by the second editor (9–10), his 133 publications from 1966 to 1999 (10–21). There follow altogether nine articles by Prof. Niederehe’s colleagues and friends, including a paper each by tghe editors. From the contents: “A Gramática de [António José dos] Reis Lobato (1770) e a Gramática de la Lengua Castellana da RAE (1771): Duas gramáticas do poder” by Carlos Costa Assunção (25–37); “La educación idiomática de los nobles: Antecedentes y continuidad de un pasaje de Alfonso X el Sabio” by F. González Ollé (65–72); “Die Entstehung der romanischen Sprachen bei frühen italienischen und rumänischen Sprachberachtern: Dante, Bruni, Biondo, Cantemir, Maior et tutti quanti …” by Johannes Kramer (97–108); “Un fantasma bibliográfico” by Juan M. Lope Blanch (109–112); “Les lenguas amerindas en ‘De procuranda indorum salute’ [(Salamanca, 1588)] de José de Acosta [(1539–1600)]” by Antonio Quilis (113–121); “Panorama de la lingüística española en Filipinas” by Joaquín Sueiro Justel (123–142), and “Marcas lexicas e jurídico-semântica trecentistas no Testamento de D. Lourenço Vicente [(d.1397)]” by Amadeu Torres (143–152). No index .]

(eds.) 2000 . Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, 4–5 June 1999) . (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph, 35 .) Washington, D.C. : Institute for Study of Man , viii1 , 377 pp. [ This volume brings together an impressive array of 18 papers on wide-ranging subjects in the field of Indo-European, from Hieroglyphic Luwian to “On the possible origins of the Philistines”, by scholars such as Stephanie Jamison, Jorma Koivulehto, Jens Elmegård Rasmusen, Harold Koch, Carol F. Justus, Anatoly Liberman, and Vjaãelav V. Ivanov. General Index (371–377). The book is dedicated to the memory of Terence (Harrison) Wilbur (b.1924) and Edgar (Charles) Polomé (b.1920), who both died this year .]

. 2000 . Grammaticalization: Studies in Latin and Romance morphosyntax . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 193 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiii1 , 183 pp. [ The monograph, “intended as a contribution to a natural morphological analysis of Latin and Romance inflection” (Preface, p.xi) has the following chapters: 1, “Introduction: Theoretical foundations”; 2, “Verbal inflection”; 3, “Grammaticalization processes involving the verb”; 4, “Nominal inflection and grammaticalization”; 5, “Theoretical issues of grammaticalization”, and 6, “Conclusions”. Indexes of subjects and of names round out the study .]

. 1999 . Wolfgang Ratke (Ratichius, 1571–1635): Gesellschaft, Religiosität und Gelehrsamkeit im frühen 17. Jahrhundert . (= Beihefte zum Euphorion: Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, 34 .) Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag C. Winter , [ x1 ], 500 pp. [ This revised version of the author’s 1997 doctoral dissertation (jointly supervised by John Brian Walmley of Bielefeld and Herbert Egerland of Halle-Köthen) promises to be the definitive study of the life and work – the “enzyklopädisch-didatisch[s] Schaffen des Reformpädagogen Wolfgang Ratke” (p. 424). Following an introduction, which deals, among other things, with the available sources (Quellenlage) and maps out the manner in which the author intends to approach his subject, the study consists of the following central parts: “Wolfgang Ratke: eine sozioalhistorische Biographie” (28–151), “Die Lehren im Licht der Gnade: Religion, Theologie und Konfession bei Wolfgang Ratke” (152–216); “Lehren im Licht der Natur und Instrumente: Die Wissenschaftsentwürfe Wolfgang Ratkes und ihre theoretischen Grundlagen” (217–323), and – the chapter which will be of particular interest to HL readers – “Ratkes Grammatiken [of Latin and, especially, of German]: ein Schwerpunkt seines Werkes im Rahmen einer Disziplingeschichte” (334–423). A concluding chapter “Ergebnisse” (424–430) summarizes Ratke’s intentions, achievements, and failures. The back matter consists of a bib. of primary sources (manuscripts, printed texts of Ratke as well as of other authors) and of the critical literature (459–484), and a detailed general index (485–500) .]

(ed.) 2000 . Regimes of Language: Ideologies, polities, and identities . Santa Fe, New Mexico : School of American Research Press [ P. O. Box 2188, Santa Fe, NM 87504 ]; Oxford : James Currey, Ltd. , x, 411 pp. [ “The essays presented in this collection were first written for a School of American[ist] Research advanced seminar, titled ‘Language Ideologies,’ which met in April 1994.” (Acknowledgments, p.x). Following the editor’s intoduction, “Regimenting Languages: Language ideological perspectives” (1–34) which discusses all individual contributions, including his own (“Language Ideologies in the Expression and Representation of Arizona Tewa Ethnic Identity” [329–359]) in some detail, the volume contains the following papers by well-known anthropologists and/or (anthropological) linguists: “Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation” by Judith T. Irvine & Susan Gal (35–83), which touches on m ost interesting 19th-century and early 20th-century arguments about African as well as European languages; “Whorfianism and the Linguisic Imagination of Nationality” by Michael Silverstein (85–138), which is best described as post-modernist drivel; “Language Philosophy as Language Ideology: John Locke and Johann Gottfried Herder” by Richard Baum & Charles L. Briggs (139–204), in which the authors examine “closely the philosophical writings on language of Locke and Herder” in order “to elucidate the ways in which their respective ideologies of language establish a relationship between metadiscursive practices governing the production and operation of structures of authority, legitimacy, and social inequality” (p. 194). These are followed by papers on “Indonesian(’s) Authority” by Joseph Errington (205–227); “Constructing a Tongan Nation-State through Language Ideology in the Courtroom” by Susan T. Philips (229–257); “‘Read My Article’: Ideological Complexity and the Overdetermination of Promising in American Presidential Politics” by Jane H. Hill (259–291), and “Introducing Kaluli Literacy: A chronology of influences” by Bambi B. Schieffelin (293–327), in which the author accounts for the effects of Western missionaries on the “notions of truth, knowledge, and authority” of this small indigenous community of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea from their first contacts in 1935 onwards. The back matter contains a master list of carefully edited references (362–400) and a general index (401–411) .]

(eds.) 2000 . Functional Approaches to Language Culture, and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xxxiv , 656 pp. ; 1 portr. [ This massive volume contains contributions by long-time associates, friends, including many from LACUS, the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States found in the early 1970s, and pupils of the honoree organized under two major headings, “Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language” and “Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics”. In the last-mentioned (sub)section, we find the following contributions of particular interest to HL readers: “Medieval views on the world and nature” (529–543) by the late Edgar C. Polomé; “Linguistics in India: Past and future” (545–554) by Murray B. Emeneau (b.1904); “Some reflections of Vico in semiotics” (555–568) by Thomas A. Sebeok; “The Forerunners of scientific phonology: Diacritical marks and other reforms in orthography” (569–592) by Saul Levin, and “Early MT research at M.I.T.: The search for context” (593–628) by Victor H. Yngve. Other contributors include: William M. Christie, Adam Makkai, William J. Sullivan, Toby D. Griffen, Winfred P. Lehmann, Robert E. Longacre, Yoshihiko Ikegami, M. A. K. Halliday, Katharina Barbe, Peter H. Fries, Dell Hymes, the late Robert Austerlitz, Joseph H. Greenberg, the late Carlton T. Hodge, Merrit Ruhlen, the late Fred W. Householder, and others .]

. 2000 . Das Wörterbuch des Jakob von Melle: Untersuchungen zur niederdeutschen Lexikographie im frühen 18. Jahrhundert . (= Sprachgeschichte, 6 .) Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag C. Winter , 219 pp. ; 21 facs. [ This 1998 University of Kiel dissertation investigates – on the basis of von Melle’s (1659–1743) own handwritten copy of his earlier manuscript – the Low German lexicon, following an introductory chapter on “Die niederdeutsche Lexikographie und das Lexikon von Jakob von Melle” and an account of his life and work in the context of the ‘Polyhistorismus’ in the 18th century, “Jakob von Melle – ein Lebenslauf um 1700” (40–73). The subsequent chapters are devoted to a description of the Lexicon, a quantitative and qualitative evaluation, and an account of its significance in the history of Low German lexicography. Bib. (194–219); no index .]

2000 . Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 181 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins xvi1 , 185 pp. [ The monograph, executed within the framework of Minimalism (Chomsky 1995, Marantz 1995), addresses the related subjects of word order and subject-verb agreement which have “occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eigth century” (Preface, p.xiii). Index (187–189) .]

. 1999 . Vienskata slavistika i ba lgarskoto ezikoznanie (1822–1849–1918) [ La slavistique de Vienne et la linguistique bulgare (1822–1849–1918) ]. Plovdiv : Izdatelstvo “Pygmalion” , 414 pp. [ Dans le passé, l’Université de Vienne a été un des lieux préférés pour plusieurs jeunes Bulgares qui ont fait en entier, commencé ou terminé leurs études en slavistique. L’auteur a dressé la liste de tous les étudiants bulgares à Vienne, depuis le tout premier qui a suivi en 1872–1873 les cours de Franz Miklosich (Fran Miklosic, 1813–1891), jusqu’à la fin de la première guerre mondiale. Après la fin de leurs études ou stages de recherche, un bon nombre de ces Bulgares ont fait une carrière de philologues, linguistes ou professeur de lycée dans leur patrie – pour ne citer que les noms de Benjo Conev (1863–1926) et de Stefan Mladenov (1880–1963). Dans son ouvrage, l’auteur esquisse l’activité scientifique (y compris leur intérêt pour la langue bulgare) des représentants les plus notables de la slavistique de Vienne à partir de Miklosich: Vatroslav Jagiç (1838–1923) et les autres membres de la ‘constellation de Vienne’ comme Constantin Jireãek (1854–1918), Karel ·trekelj (1859–1912) et Franti‰ek Pastrnek (1853–1940); enfin des continuateurs des activités de Jagiç: Václav Vondrák (1859–1925) et Milan Re‰etar (1860–1942). Bibliographie (352–400). Résumés allemand, anglais, russe (401–414). – Jivco Boyadjiev (Sofia) .]

(eds.) 2000 . Evidence for Linguistic Relativity . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 198 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xxi1 , 239 pp. [ This volume contains revised versions of other papers originally presented at the April 1998 symposium “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited: Universal and culture-specific conceptualizations in gramar and lexis” – see Verspoor & Pütz’s volume below. They are organized under two headings “Evidence from Language: Production, interpretation, and change” and “Evidence beyond Language: Cogniion, discourse, and culture”, and preceded by “Introductory comments” (ix–xxi) by John A. Lucy. Contributors include Jan Schroten, Richard A. Rhodes, Dan I. Slobin, Bert Peeters, and others. Indexes of subjects and of languages .]

. 2000 . Taal en Teken: Een historisch-systematische inleiding in de taalfilosofie . (= Wijsgerige Verkenningen, 21 .) Leuven : Universitaire Pers Leuven ; Assen : Van Gorcum , 466 pp. [ This book goes back to a series of lectures given by the first author during the past twenty years (cf. Voorwoord, p. 11) and was eventually prepared for publication by the second author in consultation with the first. It consists of 4 main parts: I, ‘Language philosophy: area(s) and lines of development (15–53), in which the subject matter is given a thorough airing and three posible strains are distinguished: philosophy of linguistics, linguistic philosophy, and philosophy of language, the latter being the subject of this book; II, ‘Semiotics: a historical oveview’ (55–162), under which ‘filosofie van de taal’ from Antiquity (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) to the aftermath of the theories of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) and Charles William Morris (1901–1979) are discussed (with the later Middle Ages, Port-Royal, Locke, and Leibniz being given their due); III, ‘Language and thought: the place of relativity’ (163–259), in which Humboldt takes centre-stage, with Boas, Sapir, and especially Whorf receiving special attention (though John E. Joseph’s 1996 HL paper “The Immediate Sources of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis” is not discussed as it ought to have been [cf. p. 204, n.104]). The 4th and last part is entitled “Taal en werkelijkheid: eigennamen en soortnamen” (263–364) and is devoted to questions more of logic than reality, harking back to the medieval distinction between nomen proprium and nomen appellativum (as the authors explain, p. 261, n.1), and in which John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) and Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) receive chapter-length treatment. The concluding chapter is devoted to ‘language and meaning’ (“Taal en betekenis”) and the ideas of notably Locke, Russell, George Moore, Quine, and Wittgenstein are discussed (365–386). A bib. (387–428), an index of authors (429–443) and a fairly detailed subject index (445–466) round out the volume .]

. 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 Ludwig Reinhold (1758–1823), Georg Michael Roth (1769–1817), and August Friedrich Bernhardi (1769–1820). – John E. Joseph .]

. 1999 . Richard Mulcastes Elementarie: Eine kulturund sprachhistorische Untersuchung . (= Anglistische Forschungen, 274 .) Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag C. Winter , 591 pp. [ This former 1997 University of Munich doctoral dissertation (supervisor: Helmut Gneuss) constitutes a thorough cultural-historical and philological study of Richard Mulcaster’s (1531?–1611) Elementarie – full title: The First Part of the Elementarie which entreateth chefelie of the right writing of our English tung (London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1582 [facs.-repr., Menston: Scolar Press, 1970]) – which contains the first spelling dictionary of early modern English. The volume consists of a description of the work and its extant copies, a biography of Mulcaster and a critical evaluation of his work and its modern (19th and 20th century) editions, an embedding of his work within the context of late English Humanism, and its pedagogical implications, including the influence of Elementarie on late 16th and early 17th century teaching. The bulk of the present study (201–378) deals with the concept of language and the importance of orthography (and phonetics), their traditions and influence on the spelling reform debates of the 17th century. Part II of the study constitutes a running commentary (“Zeilenkommentar”) on the Elementarie, explaining difficult and complex passages, Mulcaster’s terminology, and explaining his references to the work of classical authors (390–524). The back matter contains a glossary of obsolete or unusual lexical items from abaie [cf. French aboyer] “to bark” to ywis [cf. German gewiss] “certain” (526–557) and a bib. of primary (558–568) and secondary (569–591) sources, which, regrettably, omit all references to publishers of these works .]

ed. 2000 . Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe . Oxford : Blackwell Publishers , xvii1 , 499 pp. ; illustr . [ Paperback ed. of a volume first published in 1998. The 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. North-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 .]

. 1999 . Écrits linguistiques et philologiques . Texte manuscrits inédits, édités et commentés par Jacques Bourquin . (= Annales Littéraires, 687 = Série Linguistique et Sémiotique, 32 .) Besançon : Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises , 233 pp. [ A selection of unpublished papers by the French philosopher/socialist Proudhon (1809–1865), who (anonymously) published an Essai de grammaire générale in 1837 for which the Academy of Besançon, his native city, handed him a three-year pension. Most of the other writings, however, remained unpublished, but make for interesting reading, such as his comments on the general grammar of Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), typically identified, wrongly (since Sylvestre was his family name), as S. de Sacy, on the famous exchange between Humboldt and Abel Rémusat on the special nature of the Chinese language (31–45), the work of Friedrich Schlegel, Raynouard, Klaproth (notably as the editor of Principes de l’étude comparatifs de l’études des langues by André-Adolphe, baron de Merian (1772–1828) in Berlin & Leipzig, 1828), Abbé Copineau, and others. There are also selections on theological matters, psychology and philosophy. The back matter consists of an “Index des noms de personnages” (219–229) and a list of “Ouvrages cités” (231–233) .]

ed. 1998 . Language, Identity and Conceptualization among the Khoisan . (= Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung / Research in Khoisan Studies, 15 .) Köln : Rüdiger Koeppe 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. – John E. Joseph .]

(eds.) 2000 . Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1996. Volume I: General issues on non-Germanic languages . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 161 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xi1 , 438 pp. [ This is the complimentary volume of the one devoted to Germanic linguistics ed. by Richard M. Hogg & Linda van Bergen in 1998 – cf. HL 25:3.447–448 (1998), for details. The present one carries contributions by Vit Bubenik, Michela Cennamo, Denis Dumas, Peter Hendriks, Paul M. Lloyd, Marianne Mithun, Nicholas Ostler, Mario Saltarelli, and many others. Detailed general index (423–438) .]

1999 . The Writings of Harold E. Palmer: An overview . Foreword by A. P. R. Howatt . Tokyo : Hon-no-Tomosha , xii1 , 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 greatgranddaughter. – John E. Joseph .]

1999 . Sub-Grammatical Survival: Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic . (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monographs, 34 .) Washington, D.C. : Institute for the Study of Man , iv1 , 394 pp. [ Revised version of the author’s 1997 Princeton University doctoral dissertation (Robert Peter Ebert, supervisor). The work, devoted to the history of what August Friedrich Pott was the first to call ‘s-mobile’ in his Etymologische Forschungen of 1833–1836), consists of the following chapters: 1, “The question”; 2, “Phonological distribution”; 3, “Root-structure, sandhi, morphological & word-boundary issues, phonetics & language acquisition”; 4, “Germanic: Layers of evidence – The continuation of a linguistic process”’ 5, “Cross-linguistic context: Phonetics & phrasal domains, comparative Baltic evidence, implications”, and 6, “Summation”. The back matter consists of an impressive bib. (301–376), a detailed list of abbreviations of periodicals and Festschriften, reference works, “Languages, terms and symbols” (377–394), an abstract (p. 394), but no index .]

ed. 2000 . Old and Middle English: An anthology . Oxford & Malden, Mass. : Blackwell , xxvii1 , 622 pp. [ Following a detailed Introduction (xiii–xxvii), which itself is preceded by other front matter, including a “Chronology of Events and Literary Landmarks” (xi–xii) which situate the selections historically, we find excerpts, with introductions, comments, and Modern English translations, from the Venerable Bede’s (673–735 A.D.) Ecclesiastical History (which included the “arguably the earliest surviving written record of oral Old English poetry” [p. 1]); King Alfred’s (848–899 A.D.) well-known Preface to his translation of Pope Gregory’s Cura pastoralis and of Boethius’ De Consolatione philosophiae into Old West-Saxon; selections from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, poems – and riddles – from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book, others from the so-called Vercelli Book, discovered in the 19th century by the legal scholar Friedrich Blume in the Vercelli Library in Northern Italy. Many other selections follow, from Aelfric’s (955–1020) writings down to the early 14th-century Arthurian Romance of Ywain and Gawain and the somewhat lesser known late 14th-century satyrical text of Wynnere and Wastoure. In between one finds selections or entire editions (when the texts are short) of texts such as The Battle of Maldon, Beowulf, the Orrmulum, Cursor Mundi, and the mystical writings of Richard Rolle of Hampole (c.1290–1349). The Middle English texts were not translated, but only annotated to help the modern reader. The back matter consists of “Textual Emendations” (593–602), a “Select Bibliography” classified into ‘Language’, ‘General’, ‘Cædmon’, ‘Alfred’, etc. in line with individual selections (603–612), a “Glossary of Common Hard Words” (613–615), an “Index of Manuscripts” (616–617), and a “General Index” .]

. 1999 . Logica . Volumes I and II1 , Tractatus I–IV1 . First critical edition from the manuscripts by L. M. de Rijk . (= Grammatica speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters / Theory of Language and Logic in the Middle Ages, 6:1–2 .) Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt : Frommann-Holzboog , 607 pp. in small-4º in 21 vols. [ This critical edition of “Johannes Venator doctor anglicus”, tentatively identified as the British logician, administrator, and churchman John Hunt(e)man (fl.1373–1414), is based on four extant manuscripts, one of them had previously been transcribed by Frances del Punta of Pisa, another by the late Norman Kretzmann (1928–1998), to whose memory the present work is dedicated. According to the editor’s Introduction (7–9), Venator was familiar with the works of Walter Burley (c.1275–c.1345), William Heytesbury, Richard Billingham, and others, and in turn influenced Paul of Venice (c.1369–1429). The back matter of this carefully produced edition consists of an “Index locorum” (581–582), an “Index nominum” (583), an “Index sophismatum et exemplorum” (584–586), and a very detailed “Index rerum notabilium” (587–607) .]

(eds.) 2000 . Explorations in Linguistic Relativity . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 199 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xvi1 , 363 pp. [ This volume contains revised versions of papers originally presented at the symposium “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited: Universal and culture-specific conceptualizations in gramar and lexis”, held at Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg, 1–5 April 1998. Of particular interest to HL readers may be the following contributions: “Towards a “full pedigree” of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’” by E. F. K. Koerner (1–23), “How Relativistic are Humboldt’s ‘Weltansichten’?” by Jürgen Trabant (25–44), “When is ‘linguistic relativity’ Whorf’s linguistic relativity’?” by Penny Lee (45–68), and “Humboldt, Whorf and the Roots of Ecolinguistics” by Peter Mühlhäusler (89–99). Contributors include Wallace Chafe, Sydney M. Lamb, Robert E. MacLaury, Bruce W. Hawkins, and others. Subject index (365–369) .]