Book review
Language and Its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp By Pieter A. VerburgPaul Salmon. in consultation with Anthony J. Klijnsmit. in consultation with Jan Noor-degraaf ( Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science; Series III: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 84).
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998. xxxiv, 582 pp.

Reviewed by Paul T. Roberge
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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