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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.