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eds. 1977 . Roman Jakobson: Echoes of his scholarship , Lisse/The Netherlands : The Peter de Ridder Press , IX, 533 pp. [ This massive volume in tribute to Jakobson (who celebrated his 80th birthday in 1976) reflects to a large extent the var-igated influence he made on various branches of linguistic, philosophical, psychological, literary, historical, and other studies. The contributors include: Robert Austerlitz, Henrik Birnbaum, Umberto Eco, Tomaz V. Gamkrelidze et al., Morris Halle, Elmar Holenstein, V. V. Ivanov & V. I. Toporov, F. Jacob, Lawrence Gaylord Jones, A. R. Luria, Maria R. Ma-yenova, James D. McCawley, I. Ja. Mel’čuk, Žarko Muljačić, Krystyna Pomorska, R. H. Robins, Sebastian Shaumyan, Edward Stankiewicz, Tzvetan Todorov, E. M. Uhlenbeck, and others. There is no index .]

Ars Semeiotica: International Journal of American Semiotic . Vol. 21 ( 1978 ), 115 pp. [ Cf. HL 4:3.426 (1977), for details.-The present no. contains the following item of particular interest to hist, of linguistics: Manuel Breva-Claramonte, “Padley’s Grammatical Theory’” (59–80), a review article on G. A. Padley’s book of 1976, already reviewed by André Joly in HL 4:3.392–401 (1977) .]

. 1978 . The Tradition of Medieval Logic and Speculative Grammar . (= Subsidia Mediaevalia, 9 .) Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies , IX, 111 pp. Paper , $7.50 . [ The vol., which is subtitled “from Anselm [of Canterbury] to the End of the Seventeenth Century: A bibliography from 1836 onwards” is a bibliographical listing of 880 items that bear on the subject. There are 2 parts, “Anselm to Paul of Venice” (1–71), and “After Paul of Venice” (73–99). The listing is alphabetical by authors; an index of names (101–06), an index of translations (107), and an index of subjects (109–11) facilitate its use .]

, comps. 1977 . Romance Linguistics and the Romance Languages: A bibliography of bibliographies . (= Research Bibliographies & Checklists, 22 .) London : Grant & Cutler, Ltd. , 194 pp. Paper, P.St. 6.40 . [ An annotated and classified listing of some 500 titles, regular bib. as well as ‘hidden bibliographies’, covering the entire Romania (where language study is concerned), beginning with General Romance, and covering, each time subdivided according to subjects, sources, etc., Vulgar Latin, Ibero-Romance, Gallo-Romance, Italo-Romance, Raeto-Romance, Rumanian, but also Dalmatian and, finally, Creoles and pidgins. The actual structuring in depth, namely, distinction between the various types of information sources, the different subjects as well as sub-groups of these branches, is very helpful indeed. Each entry is briefly annotated; there is an index of names (189–94) covering the entire bib .]

eds. 1978 . Readings in Historical Phonology: Chapters in the theory of sound change . University Park, Penn. : The Pennsylvania State Univ. Press , [x], 376 pp. Paper , $10.00 . [ The vol. consists of a collection of 16 articles written between 1885 and 1973 dealing with questions of sound change arranged under three major headings: I, “Nineteenth Century”, II, “Twentieth Century: Structuralism”, and III, “Twentieth Century: Generative theory, sociolinguistics, and other recent contributions”, the latter section consisting of republications of well-known articles by Robert D. King (1967), William S-Y. Wang (1969), Theo Vennemann (1972), William Labov (1974), Henning Andersen (1973), and Raimo Anttila (1974). The 2nd section contains a selection from Saussure’s Cours [Engl, transí, by Wade Baskin, pp. 143–53], followed by almost ‘classic’ papers such as Roman Jakobson’s “Principles of historical phonology” of 1931, and Andre Martinet’s “Function, Structure, and Sound Change” of 1952, and articles by Henry M. Hoenigswald (1964) and Joseph H. Greenberg (1966). Part I consists of the following items: Henry Augustus Strong’s (not always felicitous) transl. of chap. 3 (On sound change) of Hermann Paul’s Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte (2nd ed., 1886), an extract from Georg von der Gabelentz’s Sprachwissenschaft (2nd ed., 1901), Karl Verner’s famous article on the exceptions of Grimm’s Law, which first appeared in 1876 – not 1877 as is commonly assumed – here transl. for a second time into E. – the first E. transl. appeared in W. P. Lehmann’s reader of 1967 – and Robert Austerlitz’s transl. of Mikołaj (not Nikolai) Kruszewski’s famous essay, Ueber die Lautabwechslung (Kazan: Universitätsbuchdruckerei) of 1881 – cf. Jurgen Klausenburger’s recent appraisal in 5:1/2.109–20 (1978). Apart from a “General Introduction” of less than 2 pages, there are only brief introductory comments on each of the 3 sections (1–2, 92–93, and 185–189), and neither a comprehensive bib. nor an index .]

1978 . Foundations of Distinctive Feature Theory . Baltimore, Md. : University Park Press , XX, 219 pp. Cloth , $17.50 . [ This dense study of distinctive feature theory consists of two main portions, I, “The Development of the Conceptual Framework” (3–90), which aims, among other things, “to present a balanced view of Trubetzkoy’s and Jakobson’s contributions to the various aspects of feature development” (Introd., xiv), and II, “A Comparison of the Feature System Developed in [Trubetzkoy’s] Grundzüge with Earlier Classifications and those of [Jakobson – Fant – Halle’s] Preliminaries, [Jakobson & Halle’s] Fundamentals, and [Chomsky & Halle’s] The Sound Pattern of English” (93–180). There are altogether 92 notes (191–96), followed by a detailed list of References (197–209), and concluded by a copious index of terms and subjects (211–19). The Introduction (xiii–xx) offers a historical aperçu of the subject .]

. 1978 . Sprache als ‘fait social’: die linguistische Theorie F. de Saussure’s und ihr Verhältnis zu den positivistischen Sozialwissenschaften . (= Linguistische Arbeiten, 59 .) Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag , VIII, 192 pp. [ Revised and somewhat abridged version of the author’s 1975 doctoral diss., Univ. of Frankfurt, this study is almost exclusively devoted to Saussure’s concepts of language (incl. its varying defintions) and of value, both systematically and historically. An important part plays the understanding of langue as a ‘fait social’, which in B’s view has its origin in Durkheim’s sociological theories. Part II of the investigation, “Die Frage der wissenschaftshistorischen Modelle der Saussureschen Sprachkonzeption” (116–83), is devoted to (a) the question of the various ‘precursors’, including Hegel, Humboldt, von der Gabelentz, and others, and (b) to the substantiation of the author’s claim that Saussure, especially in his third course, shows the clear application (and ‘reflection’) of Durkheimian principles; see particularly chap.9, “Die Durkheimsche Soziologie als Modell der Sprachwissenschaft” (175–83). There is a bib. (188–92), but no index .]

. 1978 . Vostočnoslavjanskie jazykovedy: Bibliografičeskij slovar’ [ East Slavic linguists : A biobibliographical dictionary ]. Tome III : L-Ja. Minsk : Izd. BGU im. V. I. Lenina , 384 pp. Bound , 1 R , 90 kop. [ This is the third and final instalment of Bulaxov’s Dictionary; cf. HL 3.385–86 (1976) and 4.207–08 (1977), for accounts of the first 2 volumes .]

ed. 1972 . Sir Thomas Smith: De recta et emendata linguae Anglicae scriptione dialogus (1568) . (= Studi di filologia inglese, 2 .) Firenze : Valmartina , 129 pp. [ Introd. (5–31), Latin text (33–100), and “Glossario” (101–27) .]

. 1977 . Sensible Words: Linguistic Practice in England, 1640–1785 . Baltimore & London : The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press , XXV, 188 pp. Cloth , $14.95 . [ This important contribution to the history of linguistics in 17th and 18th century England consists of the following major chaps.: (1) “Language and the Grammar of Things” (1–42); (2) “Language and the Grammar of the Mind, 1700–1740”, and (3) “Theories of Language and the Grammar of Sentences” (78–136). There are copious notes (137–78) and a detailed index of authors (179–88). – Cf. Vivian Salmon’s fine assessment of the book’s merits, “Metalinguistic Models”, Times Literary Supplement of 25 Aug. 1978, p. 946 .]

. 1975 . Die Sprachgeographie . (= Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 57 .) Tübingen : TBL Verlag Gunter Narr , VII, 60 pp. [ The study traces the development of linguistic geography, with particular respect to the methods employed by Romance scholars such as Jules Gilliéron, Matteo Bartoli and others. There is a classified bib. (52–54) as well as an index of names, subjects, and lexical items (55–60) .]

. 1978 . La Sémiologie de Leibniz . (= Collection ‘Analyse et Raisons’, 26 .) Paris : Editions Aubier Montaigne , 272 pp. [ This revised version of a 1972 doct. diss, done under the supervision of the late Yehoshua Bar-Hillel consists of the following chaps.: (1) “Introduction” (5–15); (2) “Les semiologies contemporains” (17–61), which includes a section on “Les points de depart de Peirce et de Saussure” (20–24); (3) “La théorie des signes à l’âge classique” (63–75); (4) “La notion générale de signe” (77–102); (5) “Le rapport de signification” (103–34); (6) “Signes et mémoire” (135–71), and (7) “Signes et raisonnement” (173–231). Each chap, has explanatory footnotes appended; there is a detailed bib. (233ff.) of primary sources (233–34), writings on Leibniz (234–39), and tertiary publications (239–51), very few of which are of a post-1971 vintage. A very detailed “Index nominum et rerum” (253–64). and a citation index of Leibniz (265–68) round off the informative study .]

general editor 1978 . Fundamentos metodologicós da linguística . Vol. 11 : Concepções gerais da teoria linguística . Sao Paulo : Global Editora e distribuidora Ltda. , 165 pp. [ The vol., the first of a projected 4-volume series, consists of the following items: Preface (9–13), and introductory essay, “The methodological developments in contemporary linguistics” (17–41), followed by Portuguese translations of the following items: Leonard Bloomfield’s “Postulates” of 1926 (45–60); Noam Chomsky’s “Explanatory Models in Linguistics” of 1962 (61–93); an extract from George Lakoff’s 1971 paper “On Generative Semantics” (94–124), and M. A. K. Halliday’s “The Functional Basis of Language” of 1973 (125–61). There is no bibliography .]

. 1978 . La Linguistique et l’appel de l’histoire (1600–1800): Rationalisrne et révolutions positivistes . (= Langue et Cultures, 10 .) Genève : Librairie Droz S.A. , 455 pp. [ A thorough revision of the author’s 1974 doctoral diss., Univ. of Liège, this detailed contribution to 17th and 18th century linguistic thought consists of 3 major parts, i.e., “Langage et origine”, “Langage et raison”, and “Langage et société”. The introduction (9–32) is devoted to 2 major topics- namely, “Grammaire générale et linguistique cartési-enne: générativisme ou génétisme?” and “Grammaire générale et linguistique saussurienne: arbitraire du signe ou rationalité?”. The central chaps, of the study are in chronological order and carry the following titles: I, “L’origine historique: avatars du premier comparatisme”, consisting of (A) “Où est le mythe de l’hébreu langue-mère?” (35–50); (B) “L’age des espoirs (1550–1675)” (51–118); (C) “Déviations et reconquêtes (1675–1800)” (118–59); II, “L’origine théorique: genèse, histoire, évolution” (160–225). Part II has the following major chaps.: I, “Crise française du logicisme” (227 to 249); II, “Matérialisme et phonétique” (249–75); II, B): “Sentiment du phonème ou diachronie?” (275–85); III, “Immanence et système” (285–326), and Part III contains chaps, like the following: “Socialisation et cultures” (327–53) and “Communication et progrès” (353–85). Brief “Conclusion” (387 to 393); the back matter consitsts of a detailed bib. of (A) “Sources premières” (395–417) and (B) “Sources critiques” (417–30), and a full index of authors and subjects (431–51) .]

. 1977 . Sopostavitel’naja fonologija i morfologija moldavskogo i russkogo jazykov [ Comparative phonology and morphology of the Moldavian and Russian languages ]. Kišinev : Izd. “Stiinca” , 208 pp. Bound , R2 , kop. 20 . [ Includes – as the author has kindly pointed out – several references to Saussure’s Cours (cf. pp. 34–35, 67, 69, 73, 148, 150, 163, 164). There is no comprehensive bib., but an index of technical terms (204–05), and an index of authors (206–07) .]

. 1978 . An Introductory English-Polish Contrastive Grammar . Warszawa : Pańis twowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe , 258 pp. Paper, zł. 321 ,- [ This textbook specifically designed to serve Polish students learning English consists of 12 chaps, devoted to “Basic Syntactic Structures”, “Nouns and Noun Phrases”, “The Verb”, “Complex Sentences”, “Conjunction”, “Questions”, “Negation”, “Passive and Related Constructions”, “Existential Sentences”, “Adverbs” and, finally, to “Segmental” and “Suprasegmental Phonology”. There is a “Selected Bibliography” (251–58), but no other back matter .]

eds. 1977 . Dieci, anni di linguistica italiana (1965–1975) . (= Pubblicazioni della Società di Linguistica Italiana, 12 .) Roma : Bulzoni , X, 461 pp. Paper, L. 10.000 . [ This volume, celebrating the first 10 years of the Italian Linguistic Society (SLI) includes contributions, exclusively by Italian scholars (though many SLI members are in fact foreigners), organized under the following headings: “Storia e situazione attuale della linguistica in Italia” (contributors: A. Stussi, D. Gambarara, L. Rosiello); “Storia e situazione attuale delle lingue ďItalia” (contributors: F. Sabatini, M. Cortelazzo); “Settori della linguistica”, i.e., phonetics & phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, etc. (contributors: A. M. Mioni, R. Ambrosini, G. Cinque, G. Berruto, A. Duro, M. Medici); “Approcci teorici”, dealing with various methods and theories of linguistics (contributors: P. Ramat, L. Coveri, P. Legrenzi, L. Renzi, M.-E. Conté, V. Lo Cascio, R. Titone, F. Lo Piparo, A. Zampolli); “Lingüistica e altre scienze del linguaggi” (contributors: C. Segre, M. Corti, A. Varvaro). This is followed by appendices offering details on organizational matters concerning the SLI, including a list of its members between 1966–1976, and an account of the various SLI meetings and publications. A detailed index of authors (439 to 458) and a list of centres and institutes of linguistic research regarding Italian (most of them Italian) (459–61) round off the informative volume .]

. 1978 . La connotación: Problemas del significado , México : El Colegio de México , IX, 235 pp. [ In this study substantially more ground is covered than the title suggests. Historically, the period between the late Middle Ages (esp. William of Ockham) and mid-20th century linguistic theory (Hjelmslev, Martinet, Greimas, Pottier, Prieto, and others) is treated in the study. Particular chapters are devoted to Port-Royal, James and John Stuart Mill, John Locke and the British tradition (Ogden & Richards, M. Urban), post-Saussurean theories (Kurt Baldinger, Klaus Heger, et al.) as well as those of semioticians such as U. Eco, R. Barthes, etc. There is a bib. (229–35), but no index. – A full review is to appear in HL VI/1979 .]

. 1978 . Lehrgebiet Sprache . Band 11 : Sprachwissenschaftliche Grundbegriffe und Forschungsrichtungen: Orientierungshilfen für Lehrende und Lernende . München : Max Hueber Verlag , 263 pp. Paperbd., DM 251 ,-. [ This textbook has the following major chaps.: (1) “Die Voraussetzungen der sprachwissenschaftlichen Analyse” (17–39); (2) “Die Tragfähigkeit der Grundbegriffe” (40–155), which discusses terms and concepts such as the language sign, system and structure, langue and parole (as well as norm), the linguistic units such as phoneme, morpheme, word, sentence, and text; (3) “Fehlleitende Begriffe und Scheinprobleme” (156–81); (4) “Der Zusammenhang von Mensch, Sprache und Welt” (182–207), and (5) “Die wichtigsten Forschungsrichtungen” (208–34). There is a detailed (though not unbiased) “Literaturverzeichnis” (235–46), an index of names (247–51), and of subjects (252263) .]

. 1977 . The Grammatical Foundations of Rhetoric: Discourse analysis . (= Janua Linguarum; series maior, 51 .) The Hague – Paris – New York : Mouton Publishers [ through W. de Gruyter & Co. , Berlin & New York ], XVII, 357 pp. Cloth, DM 901 ,- [ The vol. consists of 2 major parts, “Semantic Grammar” and “Generative Rhetoric”, and has the following chaps.: (1) “The sentence as dialog” (3–16); (2) “The meaning of assertions” (17–91); (3) “The structure of assertions” (92–121); (4) “The uses of modification” (122–67); (5) “The problem of implication”; (6) “Inter-assertional relations” (pp. 168–89 and 190–209, respectively); (7) “Generating a composition” (213–29); (8) “Integrating a composition” (230–86); (9) “The framework of dialog” (287–311), and (10) “Dialog as a tool of analysis” (312–42). There is an appendix, consisting of (A) “Inflection [tables]”, and (B) “Key to the diagraming symbols” (345–46 and 347, resp.). There is a bib. (348–353) and an index of terms and subjects (355–57) .]

, with the assistance of Hans Basbøll & Jacob Mey eds. 1978 . Papers from the Fourth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (Eindsgavl, 6–8 January 1978) . Odense : Odense Univ. Press , VII, 478 pp. Paper, Dan.kr. 60.00 . [ The vol. prints the papers under the following headings: (1) Women’s Language’, (2) Sociolinguistics, (3) Foreign Language Pedagogy, (4) Philosophy of Language and Speech Acts, (5) Functional Sentence Perspective, (6) Semantics, (7) Lexicon, (8) Syntax, (9) Phonology, and (10) Diachronic Linguistics. An appendix prints papers from a round-table discussion devoted to “Sex discrimination in linguistics”. Most papers are in English, but there are also others in Danish, French, and Norwegian. There is a full list of the conference participants (473–78), but no index .]

ed. 1976 . Die Erforschung arabischer Quellen zur mittelalterliche Geschichte der Slaven und Volgabulga-ren . (= Hamburger Philologische Studien, 38 .) Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag , 9 + 188 (unpaginated) pp. [ Apart from a brief introduction and several bib. references, this volume consists of facsimile reprints of the following 3 studies, which appeared between 1832 and 1836 in the Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg, série VI: Sciences politiques, histoire et philologie, vols.1–3: (1) Christian Martin (Joachim) Fraehn (1782–1851), “Die ältesten arabischen Nachrichten über die Wolga-Bulgharen (sic), aus Ibn-Foszlan’s Reiseberichten”; (2) “Relation des Mas’oudy et d’autres auteurs musulmans sur_les anciens slaves”, and (3) C. M. Fraehn, “Ibn-Abi-Jakub El-Nedim’s Nachricht von der Schrift der Russen im X. Jahrhundert n. Chr.”, the second item being written by the French Arabist François Bernard Charmoy (1793–1869) .]

. 1977 . Prinzipielle Probleme des multilateralen Sprachvergleichs: Anmerkungen zur Methodik und Methodologie . (= Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 83 .) Tübingen : TBL Verlag Gunter Narr , 128 pp. [ Contents: (1) “Sprachsysteme im multilateralen Vergleich” (13–28); (2) “Die Problematik der ‘Typen’ von Sprachtypen” (29–47); (3) “Zur Problematik des Messens des grammatischen Determinismus” (49–82); (4) “Phoneminventar und multilateraler Sprachvergleich” (83–98), and (5) “Prinzipien der Arealtypologie und die Problematik strukturtypischer Konvergenzen in Sprachbünden” (99–119). Bib. (120–28, plus 1 sheet of “Bibliographische Nachträge”); no index .]

. 1978 . Balkanlinguistik (1): Areallinguistik und Lexikostatistik des balkanlateinischen Wortschatzes . (= Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 93 .) Tübingen : TBL Verlag Gunter Narr , 316 pp. Snolin, DM 381 .- [ The vol. contains the following chaps.: (1) “Methodische Probleme der Abgrenzung des balkan-lateinischen Wortschatzes” (15–42); (2) “Lexiko-statistische Elemente einer Areallinguistik des balkanlateinischen Wortschatzes” (43–149); (3) “Die Verankerung des lateinischen Erbwortschatzes im Rumänischen nach quantitativen Gesichtspunkten” (150–97), and (4) “Das Gesamtinventar der lateinischen Wörter im Lexikon des Rumänischen und Albanischen” (199–300), consisting of altogether 4 indices. There is a detailed bib. (301–12), and a list of abbreviations (313–15) .]

. 1978 . Balkanlinguistik (2): Studien zur interlingualen Soziolinguistik des Moldauischen . (= Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 94 .) Ibid. , 350 pp. Snolin, DM 381 ,-. [ The vol. takes an entirely different approach from the preceding vol., dealing with sociolinguistic rather than lexical aspects. It consists of 2 main parts, “Aspekte der Gruppen-mehrsprachigkeit bei der romanischen Bevölkerung in der Sowjetunion” and “Die Produktivität der moldauischen Standardsprache” (247–327), the former being subdivided in 3 major chaps.: (1) “Sprachtheoretische Implikationen der Multilingualismusforschung” (15–61); (2) “Allgemeine Existenzbedingungen des Multilingualismus” (63–110); (3) “Strukturen des Mulitlingualismus” (111–68), and “Multilingualismus und Kommunikationsvolumen” (169–244). Bib. (329–50) .]

. 1978 . The Evolution of French Syntax: A comparative approach . (= Longman Linguistics Library, 22 .) London & New York : Longman , ix, 268 pp. Paperback , & 5.00 . [ The study consists of 12 chaps., from “Methodological preliminaries” (1–17), in which the author indicates his sources of theoretical inspiration, e.g., the writings of Theo Vennemann, W. P. Lehmann, and others on questions of word order, etc., through chaps, on “The simple sentence”, “Noun and Adjective”, “Determiners”, “Personal pronouns”, “The verb”, and others to those dealing with “Complementation” and “Adverbial Clauses”. The back matter consists of a brief “Glossary” (251–58), a select bib. (259–63), and an index (264268) .]

. 1978a . The Theory of English Lexicography, 1530–1791 . (= Studies in the History of Linguistics, 18 .) Amsterdam : John Benjamins B.V. , XII, 168 pp. Bound, Hfl. 451 ,-[ This study traces the evolution of English lexicography and the principles and theories guiding lexicographical work in England from John Palsgrave’s Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) to John Walker’s A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791). The 5 chaps, are entitled: “Theoretical Foundations of Renaissance Bilingual Lexicography” (1–30); “The Beginnings of the Theory of English Lexicography in the Jacobean Period”;. “The Growth of Etymological and Encyclopaedic Principles in the Neo-classical Age” (49–78); “The Establishment of the Theory of Compiling General Standard Dictionaries in the Early Eighteenth Century” (79–105), and “English Lexicography on Orthoepic Principles in the Late Eighteenth Century” (107–131). After a “Conclusion” summarizing the findings of the study (133139), there follow “Notes” to chaps.1–5 (141–44), a thorough bib. consisting of A.“Primary Sources”, arranged in chronological order of their first publication (145–57) and B. “Secondary Literature” (158–60), and both an index of names (161–64) and of subjects (165–68) .]

. 1978b . Eigogakushi Ronko [ Studies in the history of English linguistics ]. Tokyo : Kobian Publishing Company , X, 405 pp. Cloth , ¥ 3,500 . [ A collection of articles originally published between 1954 and 1977, arranged under 4 headings: “Studies in the History of Sounds” (1–111); “Studies in the History of Grammatical Thought” (113–220); “Studies in the History of Dictionaries” (221–51), and “Studies in the History of Linguistics” (253–346), which includes, inter al., an article on the development of the phoneme idea (254–82), the bulk of which is a chronology of bibliographical references and excerpts from Dufriche-Desgenettes (1873) to Trubetzkoy (1939); with this article first published in 1971 compare items 7 and 10 in Koerner 1978b (below). The volume concludes with a full bib. of primary (349–72), arranged chronologucally, and secondary (372–86) sources as well as indices of names (387–95) and of subjects (395–405) .]

. 1977 . Epistemological Writings. The Paul Hertz/Moritz Schlick centenary edition of 1921, with notes and commentary by the editors . Newly translated by Malcolm F. Lowe . Edited, with an introduction and bibliography, by Robert S. Cohen and Yehuda Elkana . (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 37 .) Dordrecht/Holland & Boston : D. Reidel Publishing Co. , XXXVII, 205 pp. Cloth, Dfl. 601 .-. [ E. transl. of the 1921 German anthology of papers by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94), Schriften zur Erkenntnistheorie (Berlin: J. Springer), to which the editors have added an informative introd. article, “Hermann von Helmholtz in the History of Scientific Method” (ix–xxviii) and a substantial bibliography (186–95) classified into: (A) Works by Helmholtz; (B) Biographical Materials; (C) Works on Helmholtz, the latter containing some 120 titles, and (D) an Index to Cited Works (196–99). There is a full index of names (201–205). – Historians of linguistics may remember the impact of Helmholtz’s 1863 work of some 600 pp., Lehre von den Ton-empfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik (Braunschweig: F. Vieweg; 6th ed., 1913), on phonetics. An investigation and appraisal of this impact is still a desideratum .]

. 1977 . Die Kalkülisierung der Grammatik: Philologische Untersuchungen zu Ursprung, Entwicklung und Erfolg der sprachwissenschaftlichen Theorien Noam Chomskys . (= Sammlung Groo s, 2 .) Heidelberg : Julius Groos Verlag , 489 pp. [ Originally a Univ. of Heidelberg dissertation,the study consists of the following chaps.: (1) “Einleitung” (9–13), (2) and (3) “Zur Vorgeschichte der generativen Grammatik” I (Die Reduktion der Grammatik auf die Syntax) and II (Über den sprachphilosophischen Grundgedanken der Theorie dee generativen Grammatik) (16/17–64 and 66/67–89, respectively); (4) “Natürliche als formale Sprachen” (92/93–138); (5) and (6) “Die operative Grammatik” I (Die Grammatik als Kalkül) and II (Die zweigeteilte Grammatik) (140/41–78 and 180/81–222, respectively); (7) “Die Grammatik als Modell” (224/25–278), and (8) “Zum Erfolg der generativen Grammatik” (279–326). Detailed notes to individual chaps. (329–442). Bib. (445489); no index .]

. 1978a . Western Histories of Linguistic Thought: An annotated chronological bibliography 1822–1976 . (= Studies in the History of Linguistics, 11 .) Amsterdam : John Benjamins B.V. , IX, 113 pp. Bound, Hfl. 301 ,-. [ A thorough revision of the instalments published in HL I, nos.1–3 (1974) and II, no.2 (1975), with substantial additions (pp. 66–82, for items published between 1973 and 1976, and pp. 85–103 passim, for 1868/70 through 1972 publications). Detailed index of authors (105–13) .]

. 1978b . Toward a Historiography of Linguistics: Selected Essays . Foreword by R. H. Robins . Amsterdam : John Benjamins B.V. , XX, 222 pp. Bound, Hfl. 551 ,-. [ This volume brings together 12 articles written between 1969 and 1976, arranged under the following headings: I, “Toward a Historiography of Linguistics” (1–69); II, “Appraisals of Individual Scholars [such as Hermann Paul, Baudouin de Courtenay, A. Dufriche-Desgenettes, and G. von der Gabelentz]” (71–152), and III, “Trends and Traditions in Linguistics” (153–216). Index of authors (217–22) .]

Langages: Revue trimestrielle . No. 49 ( mars 1978 ), 121 pp. [ The issue is entitled “Saussure et la linguistique pré-saussurienne” and includes contributions by Pierre Caussat, José Medina, Christian Puech & Annie Radzynski, Jean-Louis Chiss and Isabelle Hombert, all of them associated with the Univ. Paris X – Nanterre. The ed. of the issue, Claudine Normand, contributed a brief introd. (3–4) and an article, “Langue/parole: constitution et enjeu d’une opposition” (66–90), perhaps the most substantial of them all. The Bib. for the issue (120–21) is unreliable and biased; non-French secondary sources are ignored .]

ed. 1978 . Syntactic Typology: Studies in the phenomenology of language . Austin & London : University of Texas Press , XIV, 463 pp. [ The vol. brings together the following original studies: (1) W. P. Lehmann, “The Great Underlying Ground-Plans” (3–55); (2) Susumu Kuno, “Japanese: A characteristic 0V language” (57–138); Paul G. Chapin, “Easter Island: A characteristic VSO language” (139–168); W. P. Lehmann, “English: A characteristic SVO language” (169–222); Charles N. Li & Sandra A. Thompson, “An Exploration of Mandarin Chinese” (223–66); Edward L. Keenan III, “The Syntax of Subject-Final Languages” (267–327); Bernard Comrie, “Ergativity” (329–94), and a concluding chap, by W. P. Lehmann, “Toward an Understanding of the Profound Unity Underlying Languages” (395–432). There is a full list of References (433–50), and a detailed Index of names and terms (451–63) .]

1978 . A Metrical Study of Five Lais of Marie de France . (= De Proprietatibus Litterarum; series practica, 85 .) The Hague : Mouton [ distributed by Walter de Gruyter , Berlin & New York ], X, 202 pp. DM 621 ,-. [ The study carries the following chap, headings: (1) “Background on Marie de France and the Texts being used”;. (2) “Investigation of Stress Patterns”;. (3) “Investigation of Word Length”;. (4) “Sounds and Rhyme”;. (5) “Grammatical Structure”;. (6) “Narrative Structure”;. (7) “The Relationship of Form and Meaning”, and (8) “Conclusions”. There are numerous appendices and a bibliography of primary and secondary literature (199–202) .]

eds. 1977 . La Phonologie: Lectures I. Les écoles et les théories . (= Initiation à la Linguistique; Serie A: Lectures, 7 .) Paris : Editions Klincksieck , XIII, 343 pp. Paper, FF 1201 ,-. [ The vol. of readings prints excerpts from late 19th to present-day scholars arranged under the following headings: “Le structuralisme”, “Le fonctionnalisme”, “L’école de Londres”, “L’école nord-américaine: Sapir et les néo-bloomfieldiens”, and “La phonologie generative”, the latter including texts from Chomsky, Schane, Halle, Vachek, Householder, R. A. Hall and others (the latter 3 figuring under ‘Les générativistes et les autres écoles’). Of historical interest is the first portion, which begins with selections from William Dwight Whitney’s (1827–94) Language and the Study of Language (New York, 1867), and ends with excerpts from Trubetzkoy’s Principes (1939). In between there are excerpts from Saussure’s Cours, Baudouin de Courtenay, and Lev Vladimirovič Sčerba (1880–1944). There are fairly lengthy excerpts from Roman Jakobson, Martinet, Hjelmslev, from Morris Swadesh’ important 1934 essay, and from Halle and Chomsky. There is a bib. (331 to 339), and a brief index of authors (341–43) .]

Linguistische Arbeitsberichte . Leipzig : Sektion Theoretische und angewandte Sprachwissenschaft der Karl-Marx-Univ . Leipzig , No. 151 . Leipzig , 1976 , 100 pp. [ The issue prints papers presented at the colloquium “Progressive Traditionen der Leipziger Sprachwissenschaft” held in Leipzig on 7 May 1976. It includes a paper by Rudolf Růžička on the concepts of history and historicalness in the neogrammarian literature, which has recently been published separately – cf. EL 5.1/2. 216 (1978), for details. Other papers are devoted to Theodor Frings (1886–1968), Franz Dornseiff (1888–1960), Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (1801–88), and other distinguished scholars associated with the Univ. of Leipzig .]

. 1978 . Die romanischen Sprachen im ‘Mithridates’ von Adelung und Vater . (= Lingua et Traditio: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, 4 .) Tübingen : TBL Verlag Gunter Narr , 177 pp. [ This monograph is devoted to the study and place of the Romance languages in Johann Christoph Adelung’s Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde …, ed. (beginning with vol.11) by Johann Severin Vater (1771–1826). The author treats the history of this massive work in great detail (12–19), followed by an analysis of Adelung’s conception of ‘Sprachgeschichte’ (19–27), and an account of the various Romance languages in ‘Mithridates’ (2744). Following the notes (45–53), there are reprints from Part II (1809), 448–67 and 475–91 as well as other places (source not clearly indicated) and Part IV (1817), 407–12. L. has added informative notes to the excerpts (167–74) and a bib. of primary and secondary literature (175–77) .]

. 1975 . Jazyk trubadurov [ The language of the Trubadors ], Moskva : Izd. “Nauka” , 239 pp.

. 1978 . Bibliographie de la recherche en psycho-systématique du langage (1911–1977) . Québec : Univ. Laval, Fonds Gustave Guillaume , 83 pp. [ Part I constitutes a bib. of Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960) of items published between 1911 and 1969 as well as (a) unpublished MSS by Guillaume, (b) a list of the Cahiers de psychomécanique du langage, and (d) “autres publications (bibliographie sélective)”;. Part II lists items published between 1970–1977 that bear or seem to bear on the subject .]

, et al. . Grammatici latini d’età imperiale: Miscellanea filologica . (= Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto di Filologia classica e medievale, 45 .) Tivoli ” Ą.. Picchi , 1976 , 236 pp. [ Papers from the “Giornate Filologiche Genovesi,” held on 21–22 Febr. 1975 devoted to the subject of the title of the vol. It includes articles such as Italo Mariotti, “Note al testo dei grammatici latini” (125–31); Gualtiero Calboli, “Grammatica antica e moderna” (133–68), among other items of interest to the historian of linguistics. No index .]

ed. 1978 . Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the theory and practice of medieval rhetoric . Berkeley -Los Angeles – London : Univ. of California Press , XII, 354 pp. [ Under 2 major headings, namely, “The Theory of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages” an “The Practice …”, the vol. brings together the following original articles: Michael C. Leff, “Boethius’ De differentiis topicis, Book IV” (3–24); John O. Ward, “From Antiquity to the Renaissance: Glosses and commentaries on Cicero’s Rhetorica” (25–67); Ernest Gallo, “The Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf” (68–84); Charles B. Faulhaber, “The Summa dictamimis of Guido Faba”;. Margaret Jennings, C. S. J., “The Ars componendi sermones of Ranulph Higden”, and M. B. Parkes, “Punctuation, or Pause and Effect”, for Part I, followed by Calvin B. Kendall, “Bede’s Historia ecclestica: The rhetoric of faith” (145–72); Jackson J. Campbell, “Adaptation of Classical Rhetoric in Old English Literature” (173–97); James J. Murphy, “Rhetoric and Dialectic in The Owl and the Nightingale”; (198–230); Douglas Kelly, “Topical Invention in Medieval French Literature” (231–51); Aldo Scaglione, “Dante and the Rhetorical Theory of Sentence Structure” (252–69); Robert 0. Payne, “Chaucer’s Realization of Himself as Rhetor” (270–87); Samuel Jaffe, “Gottfried von Strassburg and the Rhetoric of History” (288–318), and Josef Purkart, “Boncompagno of Signa and The Rhetoric of Love” (319–31). There is, apart from the ed.’s introd. (ix–xii), an appendix of Manuscripts Cited (333–34), and a very detailed “Concordant Index” (335–54) .]

1978 . Post-Structural Approaches to Language: Language Theory in a Japanese Context . Tokyo : Univ. of Tokyo Press [ Exclusive North-American distributor: ISBS, Inc., Forest Grove, OR 97116 ], IX, 307 pp. Paperbd. , $9.50 . [ The book, some of whose chaps. have previously appeared in article form, consists of altogether 15 chaps. organized under the following major headings: Introduction (explicating ‘post-structural’ linguistics), Indeterminacy, Variation, Communicative Competence, Language Problems, and an appendix (On Teaching Japanese Communicative Competence: A summary). There is a detailed bib. (285–307) of sources, incl. a large number of Jap. studies, but no index .]

eds. 1977 . Beiträge zur landeskundlich-linguistischen Kenntnis von Québec . (= Trierer Geographische Studien: Sonderheft, 1 .) Trier : Im Selbstverlag der Geographischen Gesellschaft Trier in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fachgruppe Geographie der Universität Trier , 225 pp., plus 4 maps . [ The linguistic portion of the volume contains contributions by Jean-Claude Couture, Hans-Josef Niederehe, Jean-Claude Gaumond, and Heinz Closs, on Quebec French, its history and present outlook, and the legal situation of French in North America .]

Nordic Linguistic Bulletin . Published by the Nordic Association of Linguistics . Vol. 2 , Nos. 1 and 2 ( 1978 ). [ For information write to Docent Stig Eliasson, Nordic Linguistic Bulletin, Institutionen för lingvistik, Box 513, S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden .]

. 1978 . A Study in Generative Historical Linguistics : On language change. Some aspects of Old English nominalizations . (= Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznańiu; seria Filologia Angielska, 9 .) Poznań : Wyd. Naukowe Univ. im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznańiu , 122 pp. Paper, Zł . 351 ,-. [ Part I (7–53) constitutes an account of “generative grammar and theories of language change”;. Part II deals with “Nominal compounds, nominalizations and the lexicon” in particular in Old English (54–87). An appendix (88–113) is devoted to “Word-formation in Old English”. Bib. (114–120). Polish summ. (121–22) .]

Obščestvennye nauki za rubežom . Serija 6: Jazykoznanie , 1978 , Nos. 1–4 . [ Cf. HL 2:3 (1975) and subsequent issues for earlier numbers. – No.1 includes, inter alia, a review of J. L. Subbiondo’s article which appeared in HL 3:3 (15–18), and a review of Roy Andrew Miller, Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet of 1976 (20–23); No.2 includes a review of William E. McMahon, Hans Reichenbach’s Philosophy of Grammar of 1976 (16–20); No. 3 includes reviews of Ricken, ed. (1976) listed in EL 4.446 (9–13) and Ricken’s German transl. of Condillac’s Essai (1977), reviewed in EL 5.328–32, above; No.4 includes a review of Volker Heeschen’s article in EL 4:2 (1977), and various other accounts of interest .]

Obščestvennye nauki v SSSR . Serija 6: Jazykoznanie , 1978 , Nos. 1–4 . [ Cf. earlier issues of EL for further information regarding the series. – No.1 includes a review of the 1977 anthology of Saussure’s writings – cf. EL 4:3, p. 447, for details (9–14) as well as of an article by N. S. Čemodanov on the sociolinguistic conceptions of L. V. Ščerba and Saussure published in 1977 (14–15); No.3 includes a review on the book by 0. I. Bilodid (A. I. Beloded) on Potebnja – cf. EL 5.207 (13–17); No.4 carries, inter alia, reviews of Filosofickie osnovy zarubežnyx navlenij v jazykoznanii (1977) – cf. EL 5.211, for details (9–15), and of M. F. Bulaxov’s Biographical Dictionary, Part II – cf. EL 5.207–08 (15–17) .]

. 1977 . Semantik: Eine Einführung . Aus dem Englischen übertragen und für den deutschen Leser eingerichtet von Christoph Gutknecht . München : C. H. Beck’sehe Verlagsbuchhandlung (Oscar Beck) , 160 pp. Paperbd., DM 19.80 . [ G. transl, of Palmer’s Semantics: A new outline (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976). Revised bibliography (154–60) .]

. 1978 . Geschichte der Grammatik im Grundriß: Sprachdidaktik als angewandte Erkenntnistheorie und Wissenschaftskritik . (= Pragmalinguistik, 14 .) Weinheim & Basel : Beltz Verlag , 591 pp. Cloth, DM 491 ,-. [ The study consists of 3 major parts, of which the central part is of particular interest to historians of linguistics. Part I, “Vom Ursprung der Logik in gesellschaftlicher Praxis” (23–148), constitutes an attempt at the establishment of an epistemological basis, a theory of an overall science (Wissenschaftstheorie), for the subsequent presentation and interpretation of the development of linguistic thought; particular attention is given to ideas proposed by Hegel, Marx, Wittgenstein and Alfred Sohn-Rethel (b.1899). Part II, “Geschichte der Grammatik im Grundriß” (151–471), constitutes a history of linguistics from antiquity (Plato) to modern-day reflections about language (incl. the ‘Erlanger Schule’, esp. Paul Lorenzen). In it there are chaps, on antiquity (155–263), the Middle Ages (265–309), and “Neuzeit” (311–471), which includes sections on the Renaissance, the Enlightenment (including rationalism and empiricism), “Historicismus” (i.e., the 19th century, including the Neogrammarians), and “Strukturalismus”, with sections on European and North American trends. As the “Literaturverzeichnis” suggests the primary and, especially, the secondary sources (583–88) are fairly restricted for a book of the present kind. The main source is Hans Arens’ Sprachwissenschaft of 1969; others are Ivić 1965 (1971) and Robins 1967 and 1973 (cf. Koerner 1978a, for details). Part III is devoted to (a) “Grundlegung der Sprachdidaktik” (475–578), a suject outside the scope of the present journal. The book lacks an index .]

. 1978 . Aphasie: Eine Einführung in die Patholinguistik . (= Patholinguistica, 3 .) München : Wilhelm Fink Verlag , XIV, 511 pp. Paperbd., DM 361 ,- [ This thorough research report consists of the following major chaps.: (1) “Prolegomena zur Patholinguistik” (2–58); (2) “Medizinische Aphasieforschung: Entwicklung und Stand” (59–87); (3) “Zur linguistischen Analyse der Aphasien” (88–278); (4) “Sprachabbau und Sprachkompetenz” (279–316); (5) “Sprachkontakt und Sprachstruktur” (317–64); “Zur Behandlung der Aphasie” (365–99), followed by (7) “Sprachproben” (400–58). There is a very detailed bib. (459–91), followed by an index of authors (492–96), and of terms and subjects (497–506). A glossary of technical terms (507–11) rounds off the instructive vol .]

. 1978 . [ Studies in the Energetic Theory of Language ]. Tbilisi : Izd . “ Ganatleba ”, 230 pp. [ In Georgian; a study delineating the development of an ‘energetic’ conception of language from Humboldt to present-day, largely German, theories. It includes a chap, on F. de Saussure entitled “The problems of an analytical linguistics” (74–106); the bulk of the vol. is, however, devoted to Humboldtian linguistic ideas. Index of names and subjects (224–26) .]

. 1977 . Kleinere Schriften zur allgemeinen und romanischen Sprachwissenschaft , Ausgewählt, eingeleitet und kommentiert von Yakov Malkiel. Mit einer Bibliographie von B. M. Woodbridge, Jr. (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 21 .) Innsbruck : Inst, für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft der Universität , 599 pp. Cloth, öS 9601 .- [ The vol. reproduces the most important articles by E. Richter (1865–1943) written between 1909 and 1936, devoted to the following subjects: (1) General linguistics, in particular semantics and syntax; (2) phonetics and phonology, (3) comparative Romance linguistics, and (4) the history of Romance linguistics, the latter section reprinting R’s memorial on Adolf Mussafia (1835–1905), 2 papers on Hugo Schuchardt, his life and work, and 1 article on Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1866–1936), with whom R. had collaborated for many years. The anthology offers a good overview of the breadth of R’s interests. It has been rounded off by a fine analysis of R’s studies reprinted here, “Anmerkungen zu den ausgewählten Schriften”, by Yakov Malkiel, and “A Bibliography of the Writings of Elise Richter” by Benjamin M. Woodbridge, Jr., actually repr. from Romance Philology 27:2, 1972 .]

1978 . Platon über die Sprache. Ein Kommentar zum Kratylos. Mit einem Anhang über die Quelle der Zeichentheorie Ferdinand de Saussures . Utrecht : Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema , VIII, 350 pp. Cloth, Hfl. 1801 .- [ Note that a detailed review is scheduled to appear in one of the next issues of HL. Next to R’s analysis of Plato’s Cratylus (17–225), the author’s study “Die Quelle der Zeichentheorie Ferdinand de Saussures:Zu der These Saussures, es gebe eine Auffassung, nach der die Sprache eine Nomenklatur sei” (227 to 342) deserves attention, in particular since it proposes a number of other sources of Saussure’s linguistic inspiration than those usually found in the literature. Since this section has a separate index of subjects (337–40) and of authors (340–42), the concluding indices refer to the bulk of the study only (343–46 and 347–49, respectively) .]

. 1978 . “ Deutsch”: Prolegomena zur neueren Wortgeschichte . (= Münchner Germanistische Beiträge, 18 .) München : Wilhelm Fink Verlag , 587 pp. Paper, DM 481 .- [ This study is not an historical investigation of the term indicated in the title but a thorough treatment of (the adjective) ‘deutsch’ in its various political and other uses from around 1900 to the present day, in particular in the Federal Republic of Germany. The well-documented study, which in fact includes a chapter (No.4, “Forschungsstand”) dealing with earlier studies devoted to the meaning and history of the term, prints detailed texts on the topic (437–534) and carries a few hundred notes and, especially, a full bibliography (554–87). However, there is no index .]

eds. 1976 . Grundlagen der Sprachkultur: Beiträge der Prager Linguistik zur Sprachtheorie und Sprachpflege . (= Sprache und Gesellschaft 8/1 .) In Zusammenarbeit mit Karel Horálek und Jaroslav Kuchař herausgegeben von J. Sch. & E. I. Berlin : Akademie-Verlag , 357 pp. Paper, M 281 .- [ This first vol. of transi. of important articles by the ‘first generation of members of the Cercle linguistique de Prague includes, in addition to an introd. by the editors (9–23), a new article by Karel Horalek, “Zur Geschichte der Prager Linguistik und ihrer internationalen Wirkung” (24–42), which unfortunately reports many of the erroneous fables convenues in recent linguistic historiography, and an original article by Jaroslav Kuchař and Alexander Stich, “Theorie und Praxis der Sprachkultur in der Gegenwart” (330–57), the volume brings German translations, often with a number of critical annotations by the eds., of the following items: The Thèses of 1929 (43–73); [Vilém Mathesius & Bohuslav Havránek’s] ‘General principles of language culture’ of 1932 (74–85); ‘On the necessity of stability in literary language’ (1932) by V. Mathesius (86–102); ‘The tasks of literary language and language culture’ (1932) by B. Havránek (103–41); “Zum Problem der Norm in der heutigen Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachkultur” (1932 in German) by B. Havránek (142–49); ‘The functional stratification of literary language’ (1942) by the same (150–61); ‘0n poetic language’ (1940) by Jan Mukařovský (162–228); “Zum Problem der geschriebenen Sprache” (originally published in TCLP 8.94–104, 1939) by Josef Vachek (229–39); ‘Written language: General problems and problems of English’ (1973) by J. Vachek (240–95), actually a transi, of his booklet by the same title (The Hague: Mouton); “The Need for a Linguistics of la parole” (originally published in SS 1.21–38, 1948) by Vladimir Skalička (296–309), and ‘Theoretical and methodological experiences in the development of a Marxist linguistics’ (1960) by B. Havrânek (310–24). There is no index .]

ed. 1976 . Hugo Schuchardt-Brevier: Ein Vademecum der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft . Zusammengestellt und eingeleitet von L. S. Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , 483 pp. in-16° . [ Reprint of 2nd enl. ed. (1st ed., 1922) published in Halle: Niemeyer, 1928. This volume brings together a number of studies, often abridged, and remarks by Schuchardt (1842–1927) concerning the following subjects: Sound change, etymology, language mixture, language relationship and lg. classification, language origin, language and thought, language history and lg. description, linguistics and its relationship with ethnography, anthropology and cultural history, etc. It includes a considerable number of fine observations on linguistic method, general theoretical issues and epistemological questions. Apart from the ed.’s prefaces to the first & second ed. there is in particular a full bibliography of Schuchardt (1864–1927/28) of some 770 items. The vol. also includes a detailed index of authors (456–59) and, especially, a dense index of terms and subjects (460–83). – Cf. also Wolfgang Viereck’s report on a Schuchardt memorial symposium held in Graz in December 1977 in HL 5:1/2.201–04 (1978) .]

Studi italiani di linguistica teorica ed applicata . Anno VI , numero 1–2 ( 1977 ). [ From the contents: Giuseppe Carlo Vincenzi, “‘Quarto proporzionale’ e analogia nel Mémoire saussuriano” (45–58); Enrico Arcaini, “Considerazioni sulla linguistica guillaumiana e chomskiana” (335–43) .]

. 1977 . Das Phänomen der Nasalität: Darstelung der Theorien und Untersuchungen einer Laut- und Klangerscheinung in der Geschichte der Phonetik und Phoniatrie, der Gesangspädagogik und Sprecherziehung . (= Schriften zur Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung, 17 .) Berlin : Akademie-Verlag , 188 pp. Paper, M 241 ,-. [ Of especial interest to historians of phonetics are chaps. 1 and 2 of Part III, “Die Nasalitätsforschung von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts” and “… bis zur Gegenwart” (8–20 and 21–60, respectively, and notes, 131–41). Bib. includes no post-1973 literature (153–72). There are a “Personenregister” (173–79) and a “Sachregister” (180–83). The back matter is particularly informative and thorough .]

ed. 1976 . Friedrich Diez Centennial Lectures (Delivered May 24, 1976) . (= Supplement to Romance Philology 30:2, Nov. 1976 .) Berkeley-London-Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press , 30 pp. [ The bulk of the suppl. is taken up by Yakov Malkiel’s paper, “Friedrich Diez and the Birth Pangs of Romance Linguistics” (1–15), and the one by Peter Hanns Reill, “Philology, Culture, and Politics in Early 19th-century Germany” (18–29) .]

. 1976 . The Renaissance Reform of Latin Grammar . (= Annales Universitatis Turkuensis ; series B, tome 142 .) Turku : Turun Yliopisto , 44 pp. [ See esp. “Sanctius’ Minerva and Modern Theories of Language” (16–19). Bib. (42–44) .]

. 1978 . Istorija russkix lingvističeskix učenij [ History of Russian language instruction ]. Moskva : “ Vysšaja škola ”, 366 pp. [ This volume is in effect a collection of papers, some of them previously unpublished, by the late V. V. Vinogradov (1895–1969), ed. by Ju. A. Bel’čikov; there are articles devoted to the contribution to the field, including the teaching of Russian literature, by F. I. Buslaev, A. A. Potebnja, A. A. Shaxmatov, M. V. Lomonosov, A. I. Efimov, and others. There is a detailed index of authors (359–65), including Western scholars, such as Saussure, to whom V. makes frequent references (cf. pp. 7, 10, 11, 20, 22, 23, 25–29, … 140–43, … 347–49, and 353). The extensive commentary supplied by the editor includes brief biographical sketches of the authors treated or at least frequently mentioned by V. (343–58) .]

. 1977 . Philosophical Papers . Ed. by Brian McGuinness . With an introduction by Anthony Quinton . (= Vienna Circle Collection, 8 .) Dordrecht/Holland & Boston : D. Reidel Publishing Co. , XXII, 190 pp. Cloth, Dfl. 751 .- [ This vol. brings together F. Waismann’s (1896–1959) most important articles, most of them translated for the first time into English. Others published from manuscript, e.g., “The linguistic technique” (150–65), written after the publication of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (1953). Linguists may regret that W’s 1947 paper, “Logische und psychologische Sprachbetrachtung”, Synthese 6.460–75, was not included in the present anthology. An evaluation of W’s life and work (ix–xix) – it should be remembered that he contributed considerably to the development of Wittgenstein’s philosophy – and a full bib. of W. (186–88) round off the vol., which concludes in a brief index of names (189–90) .]

transi, and ed. ( with commentary and notes ). 1978 . Leibniz and Ludolf on Things Linguistic: Excerpts from their correspondence (1688–1703) . (= University of California Publications; Linguistics, 88 .) Berkeley-Los Angeles-London : Univ. of California Press , IX, 91 pp. in-4°. Paper , $6.50 . [ The study consists of the following major parts: An introductory portion, which offers “Biographical Sketches” (3–17) of Hiob (Job) Ludolf (or Leuthoff, 16241704) and Leibniz (1646–1716), followed the actual correspondence between the two men on linguistic subjects, now for the first time translated from the Latin, first published in 1755 (19–56). To these excerpts from the correspondence the ed. has added a Commentary (57–67), and fairly copious notes (68–81). There is a ‘selected bib.’ (83–86), and an index of authors and subjects (87–91) .]

1976 . Roman Jakobson’s Science of Language . Lisse/Netherlands : The Peter de Ridder Press , 115 pp. [ This attempt at a synthesis of Jakobson’s linguistic theory consists of 2 main parts: I, “Some general notions” (13–36), which deals with subjects such as autonomy, teleology, relative efficiency, statics/dynamics, code/message, etc., and II, “Specifics of structure” (37–100), which gives an in-depth analysis of J’s views of the linguistic sign, the concept of relation(ship)s, e.g., part and whole, opposition, (in)variance, markedness, etc. There is a bib. of primary (103–06) and secondary (106–09) literature, and a very useful index of terms, subjects, and authors (110–15).- Cf. also the brief review by E. F. K. Koerner in Germanistik 19:2. 273 (1978) .]

. 1978 . The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages . New ed. with an introd. by Aldo Scaglione . (= Amsterdan Classics in Linguistics, 14 .) Amsterdam : John Benjamins B.V. , XXXIX, 114 pp. Bound, Hfl. 451 ,- [ This reprint of the 1887 English translation of Heinrich (later on Henri) Weil’s famous De l’ordre des mots dans les langues anciennes comparées aux langues modernes (Paris, 1844; 3rd ed., 1879) executed and partly annotated by Charles William Super has the following additions: Introd. by A, Scaglione, in which W’s life and work is sketched (vii–xvii), and reprints of contemporary obituaries and a full bibliography of Weil (xxv–xxxix) by A. Bou-ché-Leclerq, Theodore Reinach, and Gabriel Monod .]

. 1978 . Negationslinguistik: Ansätze zur Beschreibung und Erklärung der Negation im Englischen . München : Wilhelm Fink Verlag , 247 pp. Paper, DM 481 ,-. [ Originally, a 1977 doctoral diss., Univ. of Cologne, this monograph is devoted to the description and explanation of negation in English, a topic treated thoroughly by Jespersen (1917) and much less so in more recent studies (e.g., E. Klima 1964, A. Kraak 1966, et al.). After a discussion of the epistemological bases of his argument, the author offers a linguistic analysis of the subject. A few historical glimpses (esp. pp. 61ff.) are included in which works by 17th, 18th and 19th century E. grammarians (J. Wallis, W. Walker, M. Mattaire, D. Duncan, and others) are referred to. Bib. (236–242); index of names and terms (243–47) .]

. 1978 . Generative Phonology Workbook . Madison, Wis. & London : The Univ. of Wisconsin Press , 125 pp. in 4°. Paper , $5.30 . [ This textbook is supposed to serve as workbook “for introductory and intermediate level courses in generative phonology”. There are examples from scores of languages, from Aguactec to Zulu (cf. Index of Languages, p. 125). Bib. (123–24) lists some 60 items .]