Publications Received / Ouvrages Reçus / Eingegangene Schriften

AION: Annali del Dipartimento del Mondo Classico e del Mediterráneo Antic o; Sezione Lingüistica, vols. 17–18 . Napoli : Istituto Universitario Orientale Napoli , 1995 , 392 pp. ; 1996 , 272 pp. [ Vol.17 consists of fifteen papers presented at the conference on “Numeri e istanze di numerazione tra preistoria e protostoria Lingüistica del mondo antico” held in Naples in December 1995, covering different aspects of number, such as structural, psychological, etc. Vol.18 prints a dozen papers organized under two major headings, “Per una atlante generale delľ alimentazione mediterránea” and “Primi esperimenti di analisi per viaggio ipertestuale”, which includes, among others, articles on Turkish, Arab, and Hebrew food and gastronomic terminology .]

1999 . Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, race, and natural theology in the nineteenth century . Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press , xiii , 193 pp. [ The author describes the early post-Darwinian debates about the parallelisms between biological evolution and that of languages. He starts out with a survey of European linguistics before Darwin. After the publication of The Origin of Species (1859), the debate shifted from having both a biological and linguistic perspective to the debates from a solely linguistic point of view. These latter publications provoked Darwin to answer in his Descent of Man (1871). Chap.5 (“A convergence of ‘scientific’ disciplines [essentially comparative Indo-European philology and biology]” is particularly interesting as it develops ideas, advanced by Koerner some twenty years ago, of the mutual influence of these two fields upon one another as exemplified in the work of August Schleicher and Ernst Haeckel. A. admittedly speculates in the last chapter about the concept of genealogy as a central imaginative idea in the biological sciences and humanities, especially linguistics. This beautifully produced monograph – apart from the annoying habit of publishers to insist on the use of endnotes (149–183) instead of footnotes – provokes more speculation in the reader’s mind about post-Darwinian science beyond what the author himself attempted .]

. 1998 . La raison, le langage et les normes . Paris : Presses Universitäres de France , xii , 337 pp. [ The author provides a thorough discussion about the status of linguistics as a science, the language and the paradox of linguistics. The introduction outlines the direction of the discussion, dubbed as the philosophy of linguistics. Chapter one attempts to capture the rationalism and the means of analyzing language in lingusitics. Chapter two raises the subject of lingustics as an empiric research field. Chapter three discusses the arguments for lingustics as a normative science. Chapter four concludes and closes the book, not without emphasizing the vast enterprise one undertakes when exploring language and languages. Indexes of subjects and names as well as a detailed bibliography (307–324) are provided. ]

1999 . Sprachreflexion der deutschen Frühromantik: Konzepte zwischen Universalpoesie und grammatischem Kosmopolitismus . (= Studia Lingüistica Germanica, 50 ). Berlin-New York : Walter de Gruyter , ix , 582 pp. [ Bär attempts to find a unification between the early romantic terms of grammatical cosmopolitism and universal poetry. These seemingly disparate concepts are at the core of the early German Romantic period. In six main chapters and five appendices the German language theories of that period are discussed, especially those of August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854). He points out that the reader should bear in mind that we probably will never fully understand the Romantic period, not that we are supposed to .]

. 1998 . Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XI: Papers from the 11th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , viii , 228 pp. [ The nine contributions cover a wide range of areas in Arabic Linguistics. They are organized in “Syntactic Perspectives”, “Phonological Perspectives”, “Perspectives on Variation”. The introduction by the editors gives a brief outlook on the contents of the contributions. Abdelkader Fassi Fehri’s “Layers in the distribution of Arabic adverbs and adjectives and their licensing” is an analysis in the spirit of the Minimalist program. “The article “Optimized postvelar harmony in Palestinian Arabic” by Kimary N. Shahin is an approach within the framework of Optimality Theory. “Gender in linguistic variation: The variable (q) in Damascus Arabic” by Jamil Daher describes the Interesting results of a quantitative study of linguistic variation in the speech of Damascene men and women. The index of subjects in this volume is rather short .]

. 1999 . The Origin of the Romance Languages. Stages in the Development of Latin . Edited by Larissa Bonfante . Heidelberg : Carl Winter , xxxiii , 153 pp. [ This small book is based on a manuscript first drafted by the author during his exile in Princeton during World War II, and which has ben brought up-to-date by the author (b.1904) and edited by his daughter in the 1990s. Its central thesis is that the break-up of Latin into the Romance languages began during Roman times, due to the fact that spoken Latin was transplanted from Rome to the various provinces at different periods. This thesis had been first proposed by the German scholar Gustav Gröber (1844–1911) at the turn of this century, and Bonfante believes it to be essentially correct, bearing in mind the fact that many subsequent innovations radiated out of Italy to at least some of the provinces. Along with an introduction by the Editor of Carl Winter (in German) and another by Edward F. Tuttle, a preface by the author and another by the editor, a list of abbreviations and three maps (one of the Romance languages, two of the Roman Empire), the book consists of two chapters: the first (1–82) examines the traits differenciating the Romance languages from one another which go back to differences in the development of Latin during Imperial times, and the second (83–142) examines the traits differenciating the Romance languages from one another which are due to the subsequent diffusion of innovations from Italy to various provinces. Both chapters organize the material in the same order: Vowels, Consonants, Morphology and Syntax. In addition, we find Vocabulary discussed in the second chapter. Bib. (143–153), no index. – Stéphane Goyette .]

eds. 1997 . The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections . (= Publications in Sociolinguistics, 2 .) Dallas, Tex. : The Summer Institute of Linguistics , 1997 , xii , 362 pp. [ The study of the relation between language and society is a relatively recent field within the various areas of linguistics with a much longer history. With this volume the editors and the numerous contributors of the articles try to catch the starting point in time when sociolinguistics became a main concern within linguistics. The contributions are divided into six main thematic fields: “Sociolinguistics: A Personal View” by Basil Bernstein (b.1924) is one of the contributions to the chapter “Pioneers”. Other articles in this chapter are by William Labov, Joshua Fishman (who also contributes to the chapter titled “Journal Editors”, Wallace E. Lambert, Carol Myers-Scot-ten among others. The chapter “Early Institutional Supporters for the New Field” consists of an interview with Rudolph C. Troike, formerly of the Center for Applied Linguistics, by Christina Bratt Paulson among others. She also remembers Einar Haugen in the “Remembrances” section. The most substantive contribution to this volume is Roger W. Shuy’s article, “A Brief History of American Sociolinguistics, 1949–1989” (11–32). which previously appeared in HL 17:1/2.183–209 (1990). Unfortunately the book does not contain an index, but at least a useful combined reference list (325–362). – A detailed review of the volume, by Stephem O. Murray, is to appear in Word .]

eds. 1997 . Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachwissenschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Grammatiker, Lexikographen und Sprachtheoretiker des deutschsprachigen Raums mit Beschreibungen ihrer Werke , Vol. 6 : M-Pa . Tübingen : Max Niemeyer , xvii , 425 pp. in 4^o . [ This new instalment in a series of volumes providing (rather detailed) biobibliographical information on 18th-century authors in German-speaking lands follows the five previous volumes in the established format and rigor. Well-researched information (biographical data, analysis of scholarly output, bibliography, and references to secondary sources) is here provided for each entry from Wilhelm Friedrich August Mackensen (1768–1798), who in his short life-time produced enough scholarship to warrant an entry of three full-pages, to August Friedrich Pauly (1756–1818), a theologian and classicist who established a legacy for himself by initiating the Real-Encyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaften which is still updated and used today (410–415). The Anhang (417–425) provides biographical entries on so-called ‘Irrelevante’, several of which are indeed of interest in the history of linguistics, such as Franciszek Meninski (alias Franz a Mesgnien, 16281698), best known for his 4-volume Thesaurus linguarum turcicae, arabicae, persicae (1680), the bibliographer Johann Georg Meusel (1743–1820), and the Hebraist Johann

( 1668–1738 ). It lists authors who have been excluded from extensive treatment for a variety of reasons, such as the fact that their work appeared after the 1800 cut-off date, or that in the editors’ view are only indirectly relevant to the field of linguistics . The central part includes detailed entries on such varied characters as Moses Mendelssohn ( 1729–1786 ), Johann David Michaelis ( 1717–1791 ), Karl Philipp Moritz ( 17561793 ), ( Christoph ) Friedrich Nicolai ( 1733–1811 ), and many others. – Notices on earlier volumes of this Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch have been printed in HL 20 : 2/3 . 528 ( 1993 ) on volume I , 21 . 239 , and 21 . 479 ( 1994 ) on vols. II and III , respectively , 23 : 1/2 . 256 – 257 ( 1996 ) on vol. IV1 , and 251 : 31 . 444 – 445 ( 1998 ) on vol. V1 .]

eds. 1999 . Language Encounters across Time and Space: Studies in language contact . Oslo : Novus Press , 378 pp. [ The research program at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Oslo “Language Encounters” has comprised scholars working on projects regarding language contact. This volume is a compilation of papers from this work; it is organized in four main sections which contain 21 papers in total. The four sections are outlined as “Some theoretical perspectives and models”, “Perspectives from migration and language contact”, “High Variety in contact with a low variety”, “Language encounters from a historical perspective”. Papers are by Pieter Muysken, Ad Backus, Carol Myers-Scotton, Ulrike Kindl, Bernt Brendemoen, among many others. The papers were presented at two different meetings, held in Oslo in 1997 and Rome in 1996. No index .]

. 1998 . A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhramśa ). (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , xxiv , 267 pp. [ The volume consists of the following parts and chapters. Part I, “Methodology, Sociolinguistic Background and Apabhramsa Literary Corpus”, is subdivided in four chapters and gives the theoretical approach and the linguistic location of the language in question. Part II deals with the following topics: “Restructuring of the Nominal Phrase and the Evolution of the Phrasal Case”, “Restructuring of the Pronominal System and the Evolution of the Phrasal Case”, “Evolution of Grammatical and Lexical Aspect”, “The Old Synthetic and the New Analytic Passive”, “The Emergence and Development of the Ergative Construction”, “The Scope of the Causative’, “Mood and Modality”, “Absolute Constructions”, “Complementation and Relativization”. The reader gets a more than thorough insight of the syntactic patterns of Apabhramśa. There are indices of “Primary literature”, “Ancient and Medieval Grammarians”, “Modern Authors”, “Quoted Passages”, “Languages and Dialects”, and “Subjects” .]

. 1998 . Opuscula Lithuanica . ed. by Woiciech Smoczyński . Warsaw : Univer-sytet Warszawski, Katedra Językoznawstwa Ogólnego i Baltystyki , viii , 381 pp. [ The monograph is a collection of articles by the late Tamary Buch (1923–1970). The reader can find papers on Lithunian and German (in their original English, French, German, Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian versions), classified in eight main sections in terms of subjects like phonolohy, accentology, grammatical or language area as well as the work of particular scholars of the past, such as Daniel Klein, author of a Grammatica Litvanica (Königsberg, 1653), and Christian Donelaitis (1714–1780). The book closes with a short obituary, a bibliography of Tamary Buch’s publications, subject index, and index of names and proper names of the Sejny-Suwalki region, the latter being a main area of her scholarly interest and field work .]

Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure: Revue Suisse de linguistique générale , volume 511 [ 1998 ]. Geneva : Librairie Droz ( for the Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure ), 1999 , 300 pp. [ This most recent volume of the “Cahiers” publishes, among others, the following papers presented at the conference ‘Épistémologie historique de la Linguistique’, held in Sion, 4–5 September 1997: Dubravko Skilijan, “La pensée linguistique Grecque avant Socrate”; R. H. Robins, “The Byzantine Grammarians”; René Amacker, “Le Rôle du sujet parlant dans le De Lingua Latina de Varron”; Jürgen Trabant, “Midridates: de Gesner jusqu’ä Adelung et Vater”; Gabriel Bergounioux, “La langue et le cervaux: Esquisse d’une histoire de l’aphasiologie d’un point de vue linguistique (XIX^e-XX^e siècle)”. The regular article section includes “Les deux paradigmes éditoriaux” by Simon Bouquet and “Noch einmal on the history of the concept of language as a ‘systéme oü tout se tient’” by E. F. K. Koerner. Announcements, corrections of volume 50, further bibliographical notes regarding Saussure, and the table of contents close this volume .]

. 1998 . Historia de la Lingüística . Cáceres : Universidad de Extremadura , 532 pp. [ This is the Spanish translation of the Czech original (Olomouc: Votbia, 1996), provided by the author himself. After an Introduction (15–43), in which the author circumscribes the subject matter of the study of language and the history of linguistics, there follow fairly brief (and derivative) chapters covering the ‘prehistoric period’ (from Mesopotamia to pre-Columbian America), classical antiquity, the Middle Ages down to the end of the 18th century (in less than 20 pages), 19th-century comparative-historical and general (2 pages on Humboldt!) linguistics, and an extra one pre-Saussurean theories (Schuchardt, Gilliéron, Vossler, Fortunatov, Whitney and other ‘suspects’). The next chapters are devoted to Saussure, the Prague School, the Copenhagen School, European structuralism (outside of these two ‘schools’), the ‘American variant’ of structuralism (which covers the ideas of Sapir, Bloomfield, Harris and Pike) before the author comes (229–484) to his coverage of Generative Grammar, Stratificational Grammar, and chapters dealing with mathematical and technical issues and frameworks that have contributed in one way or another to modern linguistics, especially computational linguistics and experimental phonetics. Chapters 17 and 18 are dedicated to Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics, respectively; chapter 19 considers Semantics and Semiotics, and the concluding chapter 20 returns to issues in the philosophy of language and linguistics. The ‘epilogue’ is titled “Crisis actual de la lingüística” (485–488). The back matter consists of a bib. (the author largely ignores the scholarship in ‘historiografía lingüística’ [p.42] of the past twenty years) and indexes of names and subjects .]

( con la colaboración de Lucino García ). 1998 . Letras sobre voces: Multil-ingüismo a través de la historia . (= Historia de Los Pueblos Indígenas de México, [unnumbered] .) Tlalpan : Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social ; [ Mexico ]: Instituto Nacional Indigenista , 340 pp. ; illustr. [ The volume provides a thorough description of the situation of multilingualism in Mexico. After a general introduction, the author describes the overall situation, gives distributional numbers and demonstrates in an understandable way how scholarship can be illustrative without being redundant or banal. Chapter 2 discusses the situation in colonial times, chapter 3 illustrates the relations between native Mexican languages and Spanish, and chapter 4 discusses how school and academia approach the topic. Cifuentes’ “Conclusiones” provides a view into the future of further research. The appendices contain indices, bibliography, and maps .]

. 1999 . La idea del límite en filología . (= Analecta Malacitana, Anejo 22 .) Malaga : Universidad de Málaga , 385 pp . [ This collection of the fruits of the author’s 25 years of university life brings together eleven major research papers in the area of a broadly understood philology, which touches upon philosophical as well as linguistic questions. Only the first article, “El problema de la interpretación filológica” (15–53), is entirely new. In them Crespillo explores the limitations of modern philology and argues for a holistic approach in the field of philology. Among the articles (between 23 and 60 pages in length) we find studies such as “La actividad de la filología a la luz de la experiencia de Nietzsche” (55–88); “¿Para que Schopenhauer, hoy?” (151–189); “Replica a ‘Discorsos de método’ [in literary analysis, including ‘deconstruction’]” (261–283), and “La imagen de la comunicación en el estructuralismo lingüístico” (311–343). One regrets the absence of a general bib. and any kind of index .]

. 1998 . And along came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 86 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xviii , 331 pp. ; illustr. [ This very detailed volume is about the paradigm shift associated with the work of Franz Boas (1858–1942) and its impact on subsequent anthropology in America. It is divided into four main sections: I, “The Bureau of American Ethnology”; II, “The Development of Institutional Alternatives”; III, “Continued Mapping of North America”, and IV, “Boasian Hegemony Consolidated”. The preface and the introduction makes the reader familiar with the main focus of the study. It follows the work of Boas, pre-Boas research and his tremendous influence on North American ethnology. The index of names and subjects is very useful. – A full review is to appear in the next issue of HL. ]

ed. 1998 . Wilhelm von Humboldt , Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues . (= UTB für Wissenschaft, 2019 .) Paderborn-München-Wien-Zürich : Ferdinand Schoeningh , 556 pp. [ This volume provides the reader with a very thorough introduction which deals with a lot of aspects of Humboldt’s famous Einleitung to his 3-volume work on the Kawi language of Java (or at least one of the three existing versions of the text). In 21 chapters the editor gives an explanation of Humboldt’s thinking and helps even the non-linguist to understand the importance of Humboldt’s work. After reading the original text the reader gets an temporal insight of Humboldt’s life. Indexes of names and subjects and a bibliography of Humboldt’s work round out the book .]

. 1998 . Serendipities: Language and lunacy . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 , xii , 130 pp. [ This beautifully produced volume consists of five essays regarding the relation between language and the sanity of those who attend to work on the subject, especially how beliefs and ideas were mistaken. Eco leads the reader in “The Force of Falsity”, “Languages in Paradise”, “From Marco Polo to Leibnitz”, and “The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre [(1754/55–1821)]” through centuries of efforts and errors of Unguistic research. This volume will certainly amuse everyone who has an interest in the history of linguistic ideas .]

. 1999 . Bibliografía Nebrisense: Las obras completas del humanista Antonio de Nebrija. Desda 1481 hasta nuestros días . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 374 pp. [ The editors provide a detailed bibliography of the work of Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522), on whom the compilers have produced a detailed “estudio bio-bibli-ográfico” (11–39) preceding the main part of the impressive volume (45–264), the detailed accounting of all known editions and adaptations of his works. At the end of this bibliography, the reader is provided with “Fuentes bibliográficas y estudios” (265–295) and indices of abbreviated titles, of places of publication, of names of editors and publishers, locations of individual copies/editions, and of authors and editors (with life-dates supplied where available). The usefulness of a reference tool like the present cannot be overestimated for anyone wishing to start his or her own search for original documents regarding Nebrija’s legacy .]

. 1998 . La gramática hebrea en Europa en el siglo XVI: Guía de lectura de las obras impresas . (= Bibliotheca Salmanticensis, 204 .) Salamanca : Publicaciones Universidad Pontificia . [ Two main parts divide the volume: the first part is dedicated to historical aspects of the study of Hebrew in the 16th century; important grammarians of Hebrew and their works are discussed. The second part contains four main chapters, each dealing with another structural aspect of Hebrew. The index section is very detailed, subdivided into general, cited Hebrew titles, cited Latin titles, and names of persons and institutions. – A review is to appear in a future issue of HL. ]

. 1999 . Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft in Deutschland: Vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert . Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , x , 409 pp . [ The author emphasizes in the introduction that he is not discussing the history of the subject but all kinds of aspects that are related to the topics of language, including philosophical questions, applied linguistics, grammar theories, etc. The volume is divided into chapters devoted to the Middle Ages (early reflexions on German as well as the ‘grammatica specula-tiva’ of Thomas of Erfurt), the 16th century (Ickelsheimer, Claius, Luther, and others), the 17th century (notably the efforts of the ‘Sprachgesellschaften’, grammarians like Schot-telius and Kaspar Stieler, as well as ‘universal language’ ideas of Leibniz and J. J. Becher), followed by chapters on the 18th (German grammar as well as universal grammar), the 19th (philosophy of language, the lexicon of German, and historical-comparative linguistics), and the 20th century, covering the most influental thinkers: Saussure, Wittgenstein, Chomsky (fairly critically on his general ideas about linguistic theory), concluding with a section on “Pragmatik” from Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) to Eugenio Coseriu (b.1921). There is no concluding chapter. Bib. of primary (357–371) sources, which unfortunately leaves out the names of publishers, and secondary literature (371–392), which in addition dores not write out authors’ first names. Index of names of authors cum life-dates – by the way: Jost Winteler lived 1846–1929 – whose work is discussed (393–398) and index of subjects (399–409). – A detailed review is to appear in a future issue of HL. ]

ed. 1998 . Joan Petit i Aguilar , Gramàtica catalana. Edició i estudio. Premi Nicolau d’Olwer 1992 . (= Institut d’Estudis Catalans; Biblioteca filològica, 35 .) Barcelona : Institut d’Estudis Catalans , 749 pp. [ This excellent edition of the Catalan grammar of Joan Petit i Aguilar (1752–1829) has been written (and rewritten several times) in the years 1796–1829. Until now, it could be consulted only in manuscript form in the Biblioteca de Catalunya (Barcelona), ms. 1128. The subtitle of the work informs about one of its striking characteristics, the way of presenting the material in form of questions and answers (of a father who wants to teach his sons in Catalan): “Predispositiva Per la mès fácil Inteligéncia de la Española y Liatina. Disposta En forma de Pregunta, y Reposta, Per un Pare que desidja enseñar a sos filis el modo de pronunciar en escrits lo Idiome Catalá […]”. The present edition offers the original page numbers of the manuscript. It is preceded by a detailed study (pp. 15–105) on the life and work of the author, the general traits of the grammar and its theoretical sources, its structure, the characteristics of Catalan according to Joan Petit and also the text corpus used in both his grammar and syntax. The new introductory matter also offer a detailed bibliography. No index. – Hans-Josef Niederehe .]

. 1998 . An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English . (= Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 26 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , x , 395 pp. [ This very thorough and comprehensive bibliography begins with a brief foreword by Ian Michael which gives the reader a rough picture about the wide range of grammars for English, from school grammars to linguistic analyses. Goerlach introduces the scholar carefully into his book. He describes the history of the project, gives an detailed study of the aims of the bibliography, and points out the most important titles. Very helpful is the part “How to read the annotated bibliography”. The bibliography itself is in alphabetical order by authors. The appendix contains various titles, which are not included in the bibliography but could be seen as somehow related. An index of names (authors, second authors, editors) and places of publications (in Britain, U.S.A., and Continental Europe) makes this informative and detailed volume a very helpful research tool for the interested scholar .]

Homenagem a Ataliba T[eixeira] de Castilho (= Revistd de Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, Vol. 14, N° Especial, 1998 .) São Paulo : Pontifica Univer-sidade Católica de Sao Paulo , [ viii ], 276 pp. [ This special number of the prime Brazilian linguistics journal D.E.L.TA., founded by Mary A. Kato of the State University of Campinas some fifteen years ago, is dedicated to Teixeira de Castilho on the occasion of his 60th birthday (which was in 1997 actually). It contains 17 contributions (all in Portuguese, but each with a brief English summary) by one through four authors per article devoted to mostly grammatical subjects (word classes, syntax/semantics, morphology, grammatical-ization, impersonal constructions) and discourse analysis (referential processes, discoursive processing, etc.), but there are two on phonetic/phonological subjects. The papers are preceded by an encomium on Teixeira de Castilho (1–6, list of publications, 6–14) by Adair Palacio & Denilda Moura. Among the many contributors one recognizes names like Mary Kato, Ingedore Villana Koch, Luiz Antônio Marcuschi, and Carlos Franchi .]

1999 . Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother tongue fascism, race and the science of language . London & New York . Routledge . x , 416 pp. [ This book is a thorough study of the impact of ideologies of Indo-European superiority and the identification of a particular language with a given people, often tacitly assumed to be self-evident, and how it produced a dangerous mix of serious scholarship and political expediency. This subject is exemplified especially with reference to the ideology of ‘mother tongue’, but by no means exclusively. Chapters on “Yiddish linguistics and National Socialism” and on “Vitalist linguistics, linguistics as theosophy and characterology” illustrate the complexity of the subject. It demonstrates, quite convincingly, that what happened in Nazi Germany during 1933 and 1945 was, where linguistic scholarship is concerned, not much different from what was said and done before (and largely after too). Hutton provides the reader with a good insight into the workings of (linguistic) academia in Nazi Germany and analyzes, among others, the scholarly production of some of the most influential German linguists of this century such as Jost Trier (1894–1970), Heinz Kloss (1904–1987), and Leo Weisgerber (1899–1985) who all, in one way or another, ended up supporting Nazy ideology of language. The book is divided into 9 main chapters, provides the reader with copious notes and detailed bibliographical references (one regrets the publisher’s insistance on the use of endnotes and the reduction of first names of authors to initials, which both hamper the pleasure of the reader and the work of the serious researcher), and a general index (which unfortunately does not cover the notes where, for instance, biographical information can be found which is not supplied in the regular text) .]

ed. 1999 . Language Change. Advances in historical sociolinguistics . (= Trends in Linguistics::Studies and Monographs, 114 .) Berlin & New York : Mouton de Gruyter , viii , 308 pp. [ The volume contains 15 papers, some of them being presented at the Twelfth International Troms0 Symposium on Language in 1994. They are organized in five sections. The first section, headed “Historical sociolinguistics – theories and methods” contains, to name just one, “Toward a speaker-based account of language change” by James Milroy. The second section deals with dead languages and their treatment in the area of historical sociolinguistics. Section three consists of three contributions, one of them is the editor’s “Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: The Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period”. Section three is dedicated to Code-Switching and bilingualism phenomena. The biggest section, considering the number of contributions, deals with varieties in English. Among them are Laura Wright’s “Middle English variation: The London English guild certificates of 1388/89” and Raymond Hickey’s “Development and Change in Dublin English”. The last section consists of two contributions, which discuss sociolinguistic studies of medieval and post-medieval Norwegian. The reader is provided with only a short subject index, but for this collection it is sufficient .]

Jazyk i rečevaja dejateľ nost ‘98: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg ed. by Vadim B. Kasevič et al. St. Petersburg : University of St. Petersburg Press , 1998 , 248 pp. [ This is the first issue/volume of a new journal, published by the Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg, which announces itself as the theoretical linguistics journal for the St. Petersburg area. Its editorial statement solicits contributions from scholars working in all areas of linguistics and closely related fields (it also carries reports on conferences and re-views, as well as in memoriam pieces). This issue includes contributions by several eminent scholars, both inside and outside Russia. Most of the articles are in Russian with English abstracts, although two contributions are in English (by Björn Wiemer on Polish and German ‘narrative units’, and by René Gsell on verb serialization in Standard Thai). The abstracts are quite clear, and whet the reader’s appetite for more detail, although sometimes the translations are not as felicitous as they might be; e.g., pace L. V. Saxarnyj, the (Praguean) theme/rheme distinction may not be identical to (American) Topic/Comment usage. There is truly something for everyone, with data from a wide variety of languages being utilised. The articles (most of them in Russian with brief English summaries) are grouped under the headings such as ‘Linguistic Theory and Synchronic Analysis’ and ‘Diachronie Linguistics’. No abstracts are provided for the reports, reviews, or obituaries. The following items might be of interest more to Diachronica than to H L readers: ‘Semantics and Deep Level Indo-European Reconstruction’ by N. L. Suxačev & N. N. Kazanskij; ‘External Connections of the Sumerian Language’ by I. M. Diakonoff; ‘A New Etymological Dictionary of Modern English’ by A. S. Liberman. Under the rubric of ‘Schools and Trends in Linguistics / History of Linguistics’ (127–196), we find ‘Russian Linguistics in St. Petersburg: Methodological foundations’ by V. V. Kolesov; ‘A. S. Šiskov & A. X. Vostokov [(alias Osteneck), Aleksandr Xristoforovič (1781–1864)]: The Relation between Traditionalism and innovations in the history of Russian philology’ by D. M. Čerdakov; ‘The [Aleksandr Aleksandrovič] Xolodovič [(1906–1977)] School’ by Viktor S. Xrakovskij & Aleksandr K. Ogloblin; ‘Phonetics and Linguistics (on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the chair of phonetics [established in 1932 by Lev Vladimirovič Ščerba (1880–1944)]’ by Lija V. Bondarko, and ‘V. M. Žirmunskij [(18911971)] and Inseldialektologie’ by the late Lev Rafajlovič Zinder. There are two further items dealing with Ščerba’s legacy: an article ‘The Story of a Polemic [initiated by his 1928 paper on ‘parts of speech’]’ by A. V. Zimmerling (63–87) and a note, apparently dating back to 1975, ‘Ščerba as an Examiner’ by M. I. Steblin-Kamenskij (194–196). The journal includes reviews, e.g., of the Kurylowicz Memorial Volume (brief discussions of individual articles),and of ‘The Russian Language of Late 20th Century’. Finally, there are conference reports such as on ‘Classical Languages and Indo-European Linguistics: I[osif] M. Tronskij [(1897–1970)] Memorial Conference’ (St. Petersburg, June 1997); the 16th International Congress of Linguists’ (Paris, July 1997); and 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997). The concluding pages print the statutes of the Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg (243–248). – Robert A. Orr (extended and edited by E.F.K. Koerner) .]

Jewish Studies: Journal of the World Union of Jewish Studies , volume 381 . Ron Margolin editor Jerusalem : The Hebrew University , 1998 , 470 pp. [ in Hebrew ], [ viii ], 95 pp. [ in English ]. [ Contributions are categorized in the following sections. “English Section: Union News”, “The Centennial of the First Zionist Congress [1897]”, “Computers in Jewish Studies”, “Book Review”. Hebrew Section, among others: “The Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies”, “The History of Jewish Studies and the Ideologies of its Founders”, “Myth in Jewish Studies”, “The Centennial of the Cairo Geniza”, “In Memoriam”, and “Book Reviews”. The volume closes with a list of periodicals and books on Jewish Studies, dissertations in Jewish studies in Israel, and a list of contributors .]

. 1999 . Images of Language: Six Essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800 . (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , x, 297 pp. [ As the title announces, the six essays discuss the role and standpoint of German in the mentioned time period. The first essay discusses the historical position, which was assigned to German during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. The second, third and forth essays deal with earlier German word-purism, especially the attempts to isolate German from the strong Latin, French, and Italian influences. The last two essays cover attitudes of Germans against French and – later – English. A very detailed bibliography as well as the indices of names, subjects, languages, and words tempt to further reading .]

. 1998 . Indian Semantic Analysis: The ‘nirvacana’ tradition . (= Cambridge University Oriental Publications, 55 .) Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , xv , 302 pp. [ The volume provides a detailed description of the Indian ‘nirvacana’ analysis, a herm-eneutic method for transmission of old texts in Sanskrit. Based on an analysis of Sanskrit texts, the author argues that the model provides successful means for reinterpretation. The books consist of five chapters, a detailed bibliography and indices .]

. 1998 . La grammaire de Deny s le Thrace . (= Sciences du Langage, [unnumbered] .). Paris : Éditions CNRS , 1998 , 308 pp. [ This is the second and revised edition of Lalliot’s publication of Dionysos Thrax’ grammar. After a Foreword and a list of abbreviations used in the book, Lalliot gives an introduction which places the grammar and its importance within its time and tradition, and illustrates its value for for linguistic research. The original Greek text and a translation in French follow. The notes considering every single chapter are copious. Index (French and Greek as well as an index of ancient texts) and bibliography could hardly have been more thorough and helpful .]

ed. 1998 . Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language . Oxford-New York-Tokyo : Pergamon Press , xix , 599 pp. [ This volume, culled from the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics of 1994, presents a broad approach on different aspects of the philosophy of language. As the editor points out, there is no sharp line between theoretical linguists and language philosophers. However, the only linguists mentioned in the last section of key figures are Noam Chomsky and Ferdinand de Saussure. The first section provides the reader with an introduction of the editor, where he gives the main interest and goals of the book. Section two is called “Language, Metaphysics and Ontology” and deals with topics like ‘deconstruction’, ‘methodological solipsism’, etc. The section “Language and Mind” covers the never-ending topic about the connection between thoughts and expression in various articles, where no important approach appears to be forgotten. Section IV “Truth and Meaning” includes, besides the regular gambit of theories, an article on “Indian theories of meaning”, a refreshing contribution of a non-Western point of view. The remaining sections are devoted to “Reference”, “Language and Logic”, “Formal Semantics” and “Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory”. The volume furthermore contains a useful name index and an elaborate subject index .]

1998 . Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xii , 416 pp. [ This volume provides the reader with a very interesting account on how our brain or our mind is organized in terms of language processing and producing. Lamb develops a model, called ‘relational network’ that seeks to explain the workings of the human brain. The book is divided into 18 chapters, each a step on a way to lead the reader along its argument. Lamb does not by any means provide a ready-made, closed theoretical framework, but emphasizes that science is not even near a model of how the brain is processing information and reacting to the world .]

. 1998 . Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative Constructions in English . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , xii , 268 pp. [ In this volume the author presents a general theoretical assumption that there is a close interaction between verbal and constructional semantics. Causative verbs in English are not only an exception from the pattern but provide an alternative pattern. Therefore the following main question arises: “How does the lexical content of a verb influence constructional variability?” It is furthermore assumed that the constructional behavior of a verb (e.g., ergative or transitive) depends on specific usage events. The book is divided into two parts which are further subdivided into eight chapters. The reader is provided with all data material which has been used, an index of names and an index of subjects .]

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998 ed. by Renée van Bezooijen & René Kager . (= AVT Publications, 15 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xii , 212 pp. [ This volume is a selection of 16 papers, presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands in Utrecht on 17 January 1998. The contributions give an overview of research in various fields of linguistics in The Netherlands. Contributions cover formal syntax: “Subject-Verb-Inversion in Spanish Wh-Questions: Movement as Symmetry Breaker” by Sergio Baauw; Sociolinguistic areas like Monique Biemans’ “The Effect of Biological Gender (Sex) and Social Gender (Gender Identity) on Three Pitch Measures”; Phonology by Paula Fikkert, “Foot Structure and Word Stress in Middle Dutch: Evidence from ‘Lutgart’”. Fleur van der Houwen discusses “Direct and Indirect Speech in Mexican Spanish”, and Irene Krämer contributes to First Language Acquisition with her paper “Children’s Interpretations of Indefinite Object Noun Phrases: Evidence from the Scope of Negation”. Without listing all the contributions, it is obvious that the volume presents a very broad overview of recent linguistic research .]

ed. 1998 . Giovanni Miranda: Osservationi della Lingua Cas-tigliana . Mexico : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , xlii , 440 pp. [ This volume constitutes a facsimile edition of the above mentioned grammar of Castilian by Giovanni Miranda, which appeared in Venice in 1569, together with an informative “Prólogo” by the editor. The introduction contains a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Little biographical information on Miranda is available. For further details, consult Lope Blanch’s paper, “Las Osservationi de Giovanni Miranda” in HL 24:1/2.29–40 (1997) .]

1998 . American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and Theory Groups . Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , x , 339 pp. [ This book constitutes a much reduced and revised version of his 600-page Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1994). It consists of the following 12 chapters plus an appendix, bibliography, and index. The Introduction gives a short overview of the volume. Chapter two “Theory Groups in Science” deals with the impact of small groups on scientific change, considering Kuhn’s approach of scientific revolutions. Chapters 3–10 consider leading theories about the place of language in society, focusing on different groups of theorists from Whorf, Lieberson, Haugen, Hymes, Bernstein, Labov to Ethno-science, Ethnolinguistics to Midwestern Semiotics. – Cf. the review by John E. Joseph in Henry Sweet Society Bulletin No.32 (May 1999), 63–66, comparing the two books .]

. 1998 . Neighborhood and Ancestry. Variation in the Spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria . (= Impact. Studies in Language and Society, 4 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , xiv , 396 pp. [ The volume is a partial culmination of a research project, begun in 1989. It provides a large-scale, quantitative, corpus-based soci-olinguistic study of Arabic in a minority context, focusing on linguistic variation where thirteen sociolinguistic variables are described, linking them to attitudinal and socio-political behavior among the community. Conclusions, based on the study here presented go beyond and attempt to implement results, drawn from small minority groups to larger scale Arabic language communities. It is divided into thirteen chapters; it has an index of subjects and an index of names .]

as exective editor ) eds. 1997 . Tocharian and Indo-European Studies . Volume VII1 . Copenhagen : C. A Reitzels Forlag iv , 266 pp. [ This volume consists for the most part of fourteen papers presented at the Colloquim “100 Jahre Tocharologie” held in October 1995 in Saarbrücken. Contributions include papers such as Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “Aus der Problematik der Stammbildung des Tocharischen”; Jost Gipper, “Tocharisch mit dem Computer: Ziele und Verfahren”, and Klaus T. Schmidt, “Interdisziplinaere Zentralasienforschung: Kontakte von Sprachen, Kulturen und Religionen an der Seidenstrasse”. The volume provides five additional pieces, three by Václav Blažek alone. Announcements of new projects such as the digitilization of manuscripts and a chronical bibliography for the next volume close the volume .]

ed. 1998 . Dámaso Alonso, Motivación y arbitrariedad del signo lingüístico: Introducción a la ciencia de la literatura . (= Materiales de Archivo de Dámaso Alonso, 1 .) Málaga : Analecta Malacitana , 133 pp. [ The edition provides the reader with a thorough application of the theory of the ‘signifié’ and ‘signifianť to the poetry of Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990). The book consists of 21 small chapters, divided into preliminaries, 3 main parts, a summary, and an index of material, authors, and keywords .]

. 1998 . En torno a la obra Científica de Salvador Fernández Ramírez (1896–1983): Methodología y gramática . Cáceres : Universidad de Extremadura , 186 pp. [ The author presents material discussed at two colloquia held in Almeria and Granada. The material is on the work of Spanish linguist Salvador Fernández Ramírez, notably the second edition of his grammar of Spanish, comments on the drafts, the influence of previous grammarians on Ramirez’ work, and the legacy of his work .]

1998 . The ‘Broken’ Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , xi , 261 pp. [ Ratcliffe tries to solve the long outstanding problem of the noun plural in Arabic by analyzing comparative data from Semitic languages. The monograph is the first volume of a doctoral thesis, written in 1992. It consists of six main chapters. Chapter 1 sketches the method and aims of diachronic linguistics; chapter 2 provides the reader with a short morphological analysis of Arabic. The important chapter 3 develops the Arabic noun plural system on a first level. Chapter 4 goes back to the major theories and attempts regarding the Arabic noun plural. In chapter 5, the evidence of the Semitic languages is being brought into focus, while the last chapter, finally, reconstructs and sub-classifies the Arabic plural, providing something like a system. The volume is rounded off by a general index .]

eds. 1999 . Actas del I Congreso International de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística . Madrid : Arco Libros , 750 pp. [ The beautifully produced volume contains some 50 papers, presented at the conference, held in La Coruña, Galicia, northeastern Spain, on 18–20 February 1997, including five plenary papers addressing broader themes such as the place of Spanish linguistics within an international context (by Hans-Josef Niederehe). The regular papers cover many areas and aspects of the history of the language sciences, but also more specific subjects in the field, especially regarding Spanish linguistics and scholar-ship. The proceedings begin with E.F.K. Koerner’s programmatic “History of Linguistics: Attainments and Challenges” (15–29) from the plenary papers, the only article published in English (though a Spanish translation by the first editor was circulated at the meeting). A selection from the regular ‘comunicaciones’: Cristina Altman, “As gramáticas das ‘linguas gerais’ sul-americanas como um capítulo da historiografía linguistics ocidental”; Manuel Breva Claramonte, “El análisis de lenguas indígenas en Lorenzo Hervás (1735–1809) y sus repercusiones en Europa”; Ricardo Escavy Zamora, “La teoría del pronombre en Jaime Balmes [(1810–1848)]”; Carlos Hernández Sacristán, “Wilhelm von Humboldt y su gramática mexicana”; Mercedes Suárez Fernández, “La Formación de palabras en algunas gramáticas del español de 1492–1771”; Barry L. Velleman, “Abril Pedro-Simón [(1530– 1600)], el princopio de ‘contextualización’ y el estudio del latín en Chile”; Miguel Casas Gómez: “De la semasiología a la semántica: Breve panorama historiográfico”. Given the richness of the contributions, one regrets the absence of any index .]

eds. 1995 . The Kenkyusha Biographical Dictionary of Linguistics and Philology . Tokyo : Kenkyusha , xiv , 430 pp. [ This volume, though started in collaboration with the first editor, Tatsu Sasaki (1904–1986) – see biographical entry on him on page 405 – was in fact compiled by his former student Kenzo Kihara (b.1919) alone. It contains detailed entries of some 700 entries on past and present scholars notably in the area of English linguistics and philology, from a certain Edwin Abbott (1838–1926) to the great Dutch Anglist Reinard Willem Zandvoort (1894–1990), in a great number of instances together with a portrait, some of them quite interesting, e.g., those of Bernard Bloch (1907–1965), Eli Fischer-j0rgensen (b.1911), Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), Alan H. Gardiner (1879–1963), Friedrich (alias Frederick) Klaeber (1863–1954), Eric Heinz Lenneberg (1924–1975), Hans Marchand (1907–1978), James D. McCawley (1938–1999), Richard Montague (1930–1971), Georges Mounin (1910–1993), Paul Passy (1859–1940), Sever Pop (1901–1961), Mildred K. Pope (1872–1956), Louise Pound (1872–1958), Alan S. C. Ross (1907–1980), Margaret Schlauch (1898–1986), B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), Stephen Ullmann (1914–1976), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941), and Anna Wierzbicka (b.1938) mention just a few. Although the narrative is in Japanese, the rich bibliographies (and of course the dates and pictures) make it of interest to Westerners as well .]

eds. 1998 . Language Ideologies: Practice and theory . (= Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 16 .) New York & Oxford : Oxford University Press , xiii , 338 pp. [ This volume addresses the correlation between various sorts of ideology and language. The introduction by the second editor roughly defines linguistic or language ideology as shared knowledge or common sense about aspects of language in the world. Indeed, it offers a valuable discussion of the various definitions and uses of ‘ideology’ and is very instructive indeed. Accordingly, the contributions are organized under main headings given the differing treatment of the subject. Part I discusses “Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language”: Part II deals with “Language Ideology in Institutions of Power”, and Part III contributes to the subject of “Multiplicity and Contention among Ideologies”. The papers cover topics in the areas of historical linguistics, gender linguistics, language planning, etc. Contributors include, in addition to the editors, Charles Briggs, Susan Gal, Jane H. Hill, Judith T. Irvine, Elizabeth Merz, Susan U. Philips, Michael Silverstein, and Jef Verschueren. The volume contains a mixed subject/name index; each paper has its own bibliographical references .]

eds. 1998 . Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, August 1997 . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , ix , 409 pp. [ As the editors point out, the contributions to this volume were rigorously reviewed; the remaining papers present an impressive list of 25 contributors who cover various topics. Among others is to mention “How a historical linguist and a native speaker understand a complex morphology” by Wallace Chafe, and “The sequencing of grammaticization effects: A twist from North America” by Marianne Mithun. The reader is provided with both a language and a subject index .]

. 1998 . Žemaičiu bendrinés kalbos idéjos . Vilnius : Mokslo ir Encikloediju Leidybos Instituías , 489 pp. [’ Ideas about Standard Lowland Lithuanian’ (a detailed English summary is provided on pp.442–463) addresses the question of standardaziation of Lithuanian. The author cagtegorizes languages according to the time when the dialect was chosen that later became standard. In the case of Lowland Lithuanian, one can distinguish between three major dialect groups, whereas the Highland dialect groups are now considered as the standard. However, the abandonement of Lowland Lithunian as the written variant happened not earlier than in the 19th century. The author emphasizes parameters of standardization rather than structural features to describe Lowland Lithunian. The back matter (464–479) combines bib. references and a terminologoical index, followed by various other indexes, including a name index .]

ed. 1998 . The Kyushu Review . Volume 31 . Fukuoka City : Kyushu University , 65 pp. [ Despite its English title, contributions to this journal are regularly in Japanese; an exception is E.F.K. Koerner’s contribution,. “Jespersen as a Reader of Saussure” (1–16). Another article discusses Jane Austen’s use of the auxiliaries need, dare, and ought.] van Driel, L. & J[an] Noordegraaf, eds. 1998. De Vries en Te Winkel: Een duografie. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers; Antwerpen: Standaard Uitgeverij, 269 pp. [This ‘duography’ intends to make the reader more familiar with the work of the two men – Matthias de Vries (1820–1892) and Jan te Winkel (1847–1927) – more or less responsible for Dutch spelling conventions. Probably every Dutch person knows their names but little of what lies behind those names, something this volume tries to remedy. In sixteen chapters, the authors describe the life and work of the two scholars, not only for the linguist but also for every interested reader. A very detailed index of names and life-dates (which, ironically, leaves out the name of Matthias de Vries, whereas most of his kin are listed) closes the book; an index of subjects would have been good to have, too .]

Voortgang: Jaarboek voor de Neerlandistiek , XVII , 1997/1998 . (=). Münster : Nodus Publikationen , 227 pp. [ This latest volume contains ten contributions. To name just a few: Petra Beij-Sutmuller, “G[erard] C[hristiaan] Mulder [(1810–1859)], een schrijvende onderwi-jzer”, and Lida Zutt, “J[ustus] H[iddes] Halbertsma [(1789–1868)] en de taalkundige op-vattingen van Willem Bilderdijk [(1756–1831)] en Jacob Grimm” .]

eds. 1998 . Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 112 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , xxvii , 263 pp. [ The editors give a sort introduction to the main syntactic properties of the clause in the South Slavic language group, which consists of Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian and standard literary Macedonian. Some of those languages are also counted as belonging to the Balkan languages. Although the title announces topics in Syntax and Semantics, the reader receives a selection of mainly Syntax oriented papers, such as “Against Long Head Movement: Lexical insertion and the Bulgarian auxiliary BE” by Andrew Caink. On the Semantic side the reader finds “Tense, Aspect, and Aspectual Composition” by Henk Verkuyl. Indexes of names, languages, and subjects are provided .]

ed. 1998 . Contrastive Lexical Semantics . (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168 .) Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins , 1998 , ix , 270 pp. [ This volume gives the most papers presented at the International Workshop on (Contrastive Lexical Semantics, held at the University of Münster in May 1997. Some papers were added to round out the volume. The introduction by the editor is followed by 13 papers about the aforementioned topic. Weigand herself contributes two papers, “Contrastive Lexical Semantics” and “The Vocabulary of Emotion: A contrastive analysis of ANGER in German, English, and Italian”. The other papers cover the topic in more general terms like Henning Westheide’s “Equivalence in contrastive Semantics: The effect of cultural differences” or more specific like “Composition Principles within the Word and within Ways of Use of Words.” by Claude Gruaz. Besides the general index, the reader can find a list of contributors with affiliation and address at the end of the book .]

1998 . Geschichte und Systematik des adverbalen Dativs im Deutschen: Eine funktional-linguistische Analyse des morphologischen Kasus . (= Studia Lingüistica Germanica, 49 .) Berlin & New York : Walter de Gruyter , xiv , 671 pp. [ The authors give a very detailed overview of the interesting behaviour of the dative case in German. Especially, they discuss verbs that select the dative for their direct object. The book provides the reader with the necessary historical background and the various trials to explain dative case from 19th century linguistics to different approaches in modern 20th-century theories. The second and main part of the book follows the development of individual verbs and their selectional behaviour regarding the dative case, subdivided into five groups of verbs plus one group that could only be named ‘Exceptions’. Part three gives a summary of the research results. There is no index but the detailed structure of the book makes up for this to a large extent. The bibliographical references are divided into primary and secondary sources .]