Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften

, vol. XXV, no. 3 1991 San Sebastián: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, [659-] 1004 pp. [This volume contains papers on Basque linguistics and philology, but it prints a Spanish translation of Chomsky’s recent paper “Some Notes on the Economy of Derivation and Representation” (659–696). Some of the contributors are: José I. Hualde, “Manuel de Larramendi [fl.1929] y el acento vasco” (737–750); Manuel Breva, “Las ideas lingüísticas del siglo XVIII en Lorenzo Hervás: la description de las lenguas del mundo” (769–781). There are other papers on Larramendi by Gidor Bilbao Telletxea (751–768), Ricardo Gómez (783–796) and Blanka Urgell (901–928), and several reviews (977–1004).]

. Vol. I, No. 3. Münster: Nodus Publikationen 1991, [185-] 284 pp. [This issue contains the following two articles on general linguistics by different authors: Pierre Swiggers: “Note sur la linguistique générale en 1921–1922. Avec l’édition de deux lettres de Joseph Vendryes [(1875–1960)] à Edward Sapir [(1884–1939)]”, and Stefano Gensini: “Metaphor and history: Looking for a specific feature of the Italian linguistic thought”. It also contains reports on meetings (207–208); a discussion (209–220); reviews (221–254), and a list of new publications (255–284).]

. Vol. 2, No. 1. Münster: Nodus Publikationen 1992, 284 pp. [This volume contains the following articles: Rüdiger Schreyer, “Not invented by Art: Wilkins and the Chinese language”; Geert R. W. Dibbets, “‘Duits’ und Hochdeutsch bei niederländischen Grammatikern des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts”; Erich Poppe, “Lag es in der Luft? – Johann Kaspar Zeuß und die Konstituierung der Keltologie”; Peter Jaritz, “August Schleicher und Hegel, der vielgeschmähte Meister”. It has a discussion on “Romantikforschung oder neuromantische Bewegung?” by Peter Schmitter (77–83), reports on meetings (85–110), and reviews (111–136).]

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 1991 Pp. lxxviii, 1,239 pp. [The total number of pages and the coverage (21,215 entries) constitutes the largest annual volume of the BL to date, representing an increase of over 60% if compared to volumes appearing as recent as 1983. The History of Linguistics section shows a noticeable augmentation too: 693 (as against 425 in 1985) items in the regular HoL section (pp.66–102) and 540 (compared to some 350 in BL 1985) in the “Biographical Data / Données biographiques” section (pp.102–124). Given the wide areas and periods covered by historiographers, users of the BL will appreciate that the HoL section continues to be subdivided into a variety of subsections from “Western traditions” generally via “Antiquity”, “Middle Ages”, etc. down to “Indian tradition” and “Arab tradition”. However, this should not prevent historians of linguistics to consult other sections in the Bib., such as the “Festschriften/Mélanges in honorem” rubric (17–24), 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. Another recent feature maintained in the HoL section is the addition of life-dates of authors in entries devoted to individual linguists.]

. [7th updated ed.] Compiled under the direction of Margaret Reynolds & Mary Niebuhr. Washington, D.C.: Linguistic Society of America 1992 [actually published late in 1991], xiv, 164 pp. [This volume is an important pool for anyone desiring (fairly) up-to-date information on (almost) all existing linguistics programs in North America, including those found outside the universities and colleges (cf. the section “Research Institutions”, pp. 103–113). It also includes information on the various “Linguistic Societies & Related Organizations” throughout the world (115–164), including those of Australia, India, Korea, etc, but unfortunately not the North American Association on the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), although it has been meeting regularly together with the annual meetings of the LSA during the past few years. For historians of linguistics it is interesting to note that a number of linguistics departments in North America have been reduced to linguistics programs over the past few years and that several new programs and a department or two (e.g., at San José State University) have recently been established. Another feature of interest to HL readers is the indication of the dates at which individual programs were established. The back matter consists of an “Index of Staff” (131–158) and an “Index of Uncommonly Taught Languages” (159–164). – For information on the preceding (1987) and (1990) editions of the Directory, see HL 15:3.462–463 (1988) and HL 17:1/2.251–252 (1990), respectively.]

. William Bright ed.-in-chief (with a host of editorial advisors such as Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, André Haudricourt, Henry M. Hoenigswald, R. H. Robins, and many othes) 1992 New York & Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 4 vols. Pp. xvi + 429; viii + 440; viii, 456, and viii, 482 in-4°, respectively. [This largest encyclopedia of linguistics to date includes many items of interest to readers of HL, not only those which are expressly devoted to the History of Linguistics, which are all chronologically arranged under this heading (in vol.II, 140–175), consisting of individual entries such as “Ancient India” (Rosane Rocher), “Ancient Greece and Rome” (R. H. Robins), “Early Middle Ages” (Vivien Law), “Medieval Scholastic Grammar” (Michael A. Covington), “The Renaissance” (W. Keith Percival), “Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe” (Pierre Swiggers), “Comparative-Historical Linguistics” (Anna Morpurgo Davies), “Early Structuralism” (Giulio C. Lepschy), “The Prague School” (Josef Vachek), “The London School” (Eugénie Henderson & R. H. Robins), and “American Structuralism” (John G. Fought). The Encyclopedia also includes entries such as “Anthropological Linguistics: An overview” by Jane H. Hill (I, 65–69); “Early History [of Anthropological Linguistics] in North America” by Regna Darnell (ibid., 69–71); “Applied Linguistics: History of the field” by Peter Strevens (80–84); a rather short entry on the IPA by Michael K. C. MacMahon II, 226–227); “Phonetics: History of the Field” by John Kelly (III, 198–200), who also authored individual entries on Otto Jespersen, Daniel Jones, Paul Passy, Eduard Sievers, Henry Sweet, and John Wallis. Other greats of linguistic science, such as Bloomfield, Bopp, Grimm, Humboldt, Sir William Jones, Pott, Sapir, and Schleicher have received separate entries as well; however, there are no such entries devoted to Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832), August Leskien (1840–1916), Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), Hermann Paul (1846–1921), Karl Brugmann (1849–1919), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), to mention just the most obvious 19th-century linguists. Vol.IV not only includes an interesting entry by Philip K. Bock on “World View and Language” (248–251), which traces the so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’ back to Aristotle and Vico, before Humboldt’s formulations of the Weltanschauungstheorie, but also informative back matter, namely, a detailed “Glossary” prepared by David Crystal (273–348), which however does not refer to individual entries, a directory of contributors (349–362), a “Synoptic outline of contents” (362–377), which also includes a list of all the “Languages of the world” which are mentioned or described in the Encyclopedia (368–377), and an impressive general index of names, subjects, and terms (379–482).]

1991 Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 329 pp. [The book is organized into three parts: I, “Itinéraire vers Diderot”; II, “Diderot, la philosophie, l’esthétique”; III, “L’Encyclopédie, les Lumières, l’esthétique”. It has a general index (325–329).]

1992 (= NOWELE 19.) Odense: Odense Univ. Press, 107 pp. [This volume contains the following articles:Merja Kytö, “Shall (should) vs. Will (Would) in Early British and American English: A variational study of change”; Kenneth Shields, “On the Origin of the Germanic Decads 70–100”; Frederik Kortland, “The Germanic Fifth Class of Strong Verbs”, among others.]

1992 (= Groupe Aixois de Recherches en Syntaxe, 11.) Marseille: Université de Provence 132 pp. [It contains articles such as “Sujet postposé et double marquage” by Mylène Blasco & Paul Cappeau and “A propos des énoncés sans verbes: les énoncés réponses” by Claire Blanche-Benveniste.]