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The term ‘word order studies’ designates an area of syntax which has become an increasingly central theme in linguistic research. Since in at least a narrow sense syntax is the study of how meaningful elements are put together to form sentences a preoccupation with word order would seem inherent in any syntactic study. However the focus implied by ‘word order studies’ is anything but trivial going as it does to the heart of two vital areas of linguistic theory: language universals and the form of linguistic models. The present collection of papers offers the reader an opportunity to examine some of the more recent ideas in this broad area concentrating on some of the more controversial issues within the generative-transformational model.

The essays in this two-volume anthology provide the reader with an overview of current Czech Polish and Hungarian research in language literature and meaning as well as some new perspectives on the major theoretical contributions of Roman Ingarden Georg Lukács and Jan Mukařovský. For the most part the emphasis is on Poetics and Literary Theory; however in some of the essays the focus shifts to such related disciplines as Aesthetics Linguistics and Semiotics. The heterogeneity of this collection reflects the broad spectrum of interests and approaches to problems of theory being pursued at present in Poland Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Much of the work being done in these countries remains relatively unknown outside of Eastern Europe. This anthology is an attempt to rectify this situation and make better known the nature and extent of research which promises new insights into a whole range of phenomena in language literature and culture.

The purpose of this study is to apply experimentally the principles of recent grammatical theories to the facts of the Basque language. This study aims to test out those principles and endeavours to discover the best form for a grammar of Basque.

This volume contains 18 papers derived from presentations by Dutch linguists at the Eighth International Congress of Slavists.

Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history ethnography geography sociology etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues especially those relating to pidgin language formation and expansion. Part two deals with those pidgins and creoles lexically related to indigenous African languages and with incipient features of creolization in African languages themselves; part three with those related to Romance languages and part four with those related to English. Throughout the volume several current debates are taken up including the still unsettled issues of creole language origins and classification.

This is a reprint of the third edition of Tytler’s Principles of Translation originally published in 1791 and this edition was published in 1813. The ideas of Tytler can give inspiration to modern TS scholars particularly his open-mindedness on quality assessment and his ideas on linguistic and cultural aspects in translations which are illustrated with many examples.

In the Introduction Jeffrey Huntsman sets Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee and his ideas in a historical context.

As the original preface states: “It will serve to demonstrate that the Art of Translation is of more dignity and importance than has generally been imagined.” (p. ix)

Der von Kürenberg was one of the first named poets to write in Middle High German language. This study presents a modified diplomatic edition of the fifteen strophes text by Der von Kürenberg. It offers a commentary on the original text and discusses the literary and interpretative problems connected with the poet’s work.

The selection of entries in this bibliography reflects the following definition of pragmatics: The study (i) of the use and extra-linguistic function(s) of language and (ii) of the relation between such uses or functions and the structure of language i.e. the contextual appropriateness conditions on the use of language. This bibliography does not only cover purely theoretical works but also includes applications of pragmatic theory in language teaching language acquisition discourse analysis literary studies etc. To augment the usefulness of the bibliography which is arranged alphabetically a subject and a language index have been added.

Fac simile edition with a Foreword by E. F. K. Koerner and an Introduction by David J. Murray. The appendix contains Erwin A. Esper’s A Contribution to the Experimental Study of Analogy (1918).

The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives provides a necessary link for decoding and encoding grammatical relations and is an important requisite for the evaluation of formal languages for the purpose of describing and explaining phenomena of natural language. The second group of papers concerns the notion of (deep) case and the implications of tracing a grammatical theory on semantic case. The final series of papers is distinguished by the degree of accent it puts on the link between linguistic surface phenomena including semantic case and grammatical relations in the sense that it has been postulated by Universal Grammar.