Book review
The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages. New edition with an introduction by Henri WeilAldo Scaglioni ( Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics 1800–1925, 14).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1978. XXXIX, 114 pp.

Reviewed by W. P. Lehmann
The University of Texas at Austin
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