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This fascinating lexicon presents a compilation of approximately a thousand labels with which man has referred to himself in literary history. This is an indispensible reference tool for anyone interested in the accomplishments of Homo.

Sir William Jones (1746 –1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (1786) is often cited as the beginning of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies. Jones’ interdisciplinary scholarship innovatively combined language and linguistic study with the traditional subjects of research to throw light on transcending questions like the origins of man and culture. This bibliography aims to provide an overview of the full width of his writings and secondary scholarship.

These papers from the IPS-77 Congress held in Miami Beach Florida in 1977 present the state-of-the-art in phonetic science. The volume is subdivided into twelve sections: History of Phonetics Issues of Method and Theory in Phonetics Laryngeal Function Temporal Factors and Intonation Physiological and Acoustic Phonetics Speech Production Neurophonetics and Psychopathology Speech Perception Speech and Speaker Recognition Teaching Phonetics Children’s Speech and Language Acquisition and Special Issues in Phonetics.

The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract morphological forms. One of the basic premises of this book is that the French superficial phonetic forms are not derived from the Latin superficial phonetic forms but that both are derived from abstract etymological forms.

The characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys to listeners a wealth of information about his physical psychological and social attributes. For this reason voice quality is of interest to a wide range of disciplines including linguistics phonetics and speech science speech pathology sociology psychology medicine and communication engineering. Literature on voice quality is consequently scattered through a correspondingly wide range of publications. While this bibliography is unlikely to be exhaustive it aims to be comprehensive. Exceptions to this are purely medical literature and literature on speech pathology; also although a number of different languages are represented works in English received the principal coverage.

These acts of the 1974 Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza (Naples) were co-published by John Benjamins Publishing Company and Gaetano Macchiaroli. The five volumes are subdivided into sections by linguistic sub-fields. Vol. 1 contains the plenary papers and papers from the round tables. Volume 2 contains sections on I. General problems II. Geographical linguistics and sociolinguistics and III. Languages in contact. Volume 3 contains section IV. Grammar subdivided into Phonology and phonetics Morphology and Syntax. Volume 4 contains sections V. Lexicology VI. Semantics and VII. Texts and languages. Volume 5 continues section VII. Texts and languages and further includes sections VIII. Problems of philology and IX. History of Romance Philology. The papers are written in Italian French and Spanish.

New edition of a pioneering work on word order which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed. 1879) with an index.

In this book the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical but a normative science comparable to logic and philosophy characterized by the use of the method of explication.

The present bibliography suggests that there has been a constant flow of publications which survey the discipline of linguistics in its various stages of development. It attempts to offer a comprehensive coverage of general accounts of the history of linguistic thought in the western world over the last 150 years.

Versprechen und Verlesen (1895) is distinguished more by observational accuracy than by theoretical sophistication; but it is exactly this characteristic which has proved its lasting value. It is a scrupulously collected usefully organized and very large corpus of errors providing material on which hypotheses can be tested and generalisations made. Others before Meringer had speculated about what speech errors might demonstrate; he was the first to attempt to find out. In this Meringer made a worthy and lasting contribution to linguistic and psychological study.This fac simile edition is preceded by an Introductory article by Anne Cutler and David Fay.

How characteristic were the elements used in Theodor Storm’s (1817–1888) fiction? What were the rich fund of symbols and myths that he used? Few Storm interpreters have addressed themselves seriously to these questions. This study tries to fill this gap.

This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1755 by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process Professor Hayashi focuses on issues of method and theory starting with John Palsgrave’s Lesclarissement de la langue francoyse (1530) to John Walker’s A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791). This book also includes a detailed discussion of Dr. Johnson’s influential Dictionary of the English Language (1755).

The essays reproduced in this volume represent the major and characteristic documents in that flood of literature that was produced during the neogrammarian controversy. At that time the entire community of linguists came face to face with the most profound problems of its theory and practice; it was a true crisis of empirical interpretation. Therefore these essays are of much more than ‘mere’ historical interest: each one of them plunges directly into the central issues of the science of historical linguistics.

Curtius’ Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung (January 1885) was the initial polemic. Delbrück’s reply Die neueste Sprachforschung Betrachtungen über George Curtius’Schrift ‘Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung’ and Brugmann’s retort Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft appeared soon thereafter. Later that year appeared Schuchardt’s attack Über die Lautgesetze: Gegen die Junggrammatiker. Collitz’article Die neueste Sprachforschung und die Erklärung des indogermanischen Ablautes did not appear until 1886 followed soon by Osthoff’s reply Die neueste Sprachforschung und die Erklärung des indogermanischen Ablautes: Antwort auf die gleichnamige Schrift von Dr. Hermann Collitz. Jespersen’s criticism of the neogrammarians appeared in German translation as Zur Lautgesetzfrage in1887.

The volume provides an Introduction and Select Bibliography.

Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo’s Dissertatio historico-critica in linguam Samscrdamicam (1790) serves as an introduction to his Sidharubam the first Sanskrit grammar published in Europe. The Dissertatio is also important for another reason: it is concerned with speculations about the nature and origin of Sanskrit and the other Indian Languages. It raises questions about their relation to each other and to languages outside India. It bears witness to the fact that Paulinus was on of those few who heralded the era of comparative philology long before its official consecration. In addition it offers an opportunity to study the range of working instruments available to Indic scholarship at the end of the 18th century.

This volume contains a fac simile edition of the Latin original an English translation an introductory article and an index of sources.

There are indications that interest in the study of adverbs has been growing steadily in recent years largely due to the so-called Chomskyan revolution in linguistics which put much emphasis on the study of syntax but probably also because of the position these adverbs and other particles take within a syntactic string has proved to be much more difficult to determine than had previously been thought. Still another reason for the increase of interest in this topic may be found in the recent trend in linguistics which focusses on communicative competence and actual language use in daily discourse. Although this bibliography has no claim to exhaustiveness it should nonetheless be useful to researchers working on adverbs and comparatives. The titles selected relate in one way or another to the problems the linguist faces with respect to the adverb.

The writings of Siger of Courtrai were first edited by Gaston Wallerand in 1913. This new edition on the basis of Wallerand's editio prima with additions critical notes and an introduction by Jan Pinborg reprints the two works from that edition that have an immediate relevance for the study of medieval grammar i.e. the Summa modorum significandi and the Sophismata. To this have been added some critical notes correcting the text of Wallerand where his readings were faulty and supplying references of the sources. Finally three more Sophismata which have recently been recovered are here edited for the first time.

The Summa is a compendium which closely follows Priscian’s Institutiones but puts the doctrinal elements from Priscian into the frame of reference characteristic of Modistic literature. The importance of Siger’s Sophismata in the context of this volume is that they offer a more thorough discussion of the fundamental logico-epistemological tenets presupposed in his linguistic theory.

This basic bibliography of analogy aims to be a useful tool for linguistic research. The compilers have emphasized the years from 1868 onwards starting with Scherer’s statement but a few important premonitory works have been included as well.

This volume investigates Heinrich Wittenwiler’s famous poem Ring. Main focus is the relation of the narrative to the traditional topoi of marriage folly and play.

This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neglected genre of black fiction. In contrast to the black novel the short story has hardly been given extensive criticism let alone serious attention. The individual essays of this collection aim at presenting new points of critical orientation in the hope of reviving and fostering further discussions. They provide a variety of approaches and a great diversity of critical points of view.

Der Stricker war ein deutscher Fabeldichter der in der ersten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts lebte. In dieser Publikation wird versucht der harrenden Frage “welche Stellenwert der Stricker in der nachklassischen Romantradition genau eingenommen hat” eine Lösung zu liefern; besonders wird Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal behandelt.

The first 'Kolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Romanistik' (Trier 1975) was held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Friedrich Diez the founder of Romance philology. The colloquium offered Romanists and historians of linguistics the opportunity for intense discussion which is continued in the papers in this volume.

This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition with an added bio-bibliography of Rask should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this important 19th-century scholar who together with Bopp and Grimm has justly been ranked among the founding fathers of the comparative-historical study of Indo-European languages.

Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist but also with language as a system based on a notion of structure comprised of three key ideas: the idea of wholeness the idea of transformation (derivation and composition) and the idea of self-regulation. He formulated theoretical and practical premises for the composition of grammars and in this he was far ahead of his time and in closer proximity to the linguistic concerns and problems of our era. From both theoretical and pedagogical points of view Rask’s grammar of Icelandic remains a most remarkable work.

When criticized about the lack of architecture in Anna Karenina connecting the themes of Levin and Anna Karenina Tolstoj disagreed: “The arches of the vault are brought together in such a way that it is even impossible to notice where the keystone is.” This book explores the architecture attempting to trace the pattern of the invisible pillars that support the ‘arches’ on both side of the ‘vault’ leading to the discovery of the ‘keystone’ which Tolstoj tried so hard to keep invisible.

This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern of English. The aim in compiling this collection has been to bring together new papers and papers that were previously only available in informal duplicated form or in comparatively inaccessible publications. This collection is of value to anyone teaching or studying English or general linguistics who wishes to make a serious study of current phonological theory and serves as a reference anthology of permanent value to the specialist.