From jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu Sun Aug 1 14:53:11 1999 From: jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu (Joseph C. Salmons) Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 10:53:11 EDT Subject: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: Variation & Reconstruction Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- First announcement: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: Variation & Reconstruction October 28-30, 1999 Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street University of Wisconsin, Madison Invited speakers are: James Milroy (Univ. of Michigan) Some Comments on the Role of Speakers in Language Change Paul T. Roberge (Univ. of North Carolina) Reconstructing a Creole Continuum in Early Afrikaans Other speakers include Thomas Cravens, Robert Howell, Ray Harris, Brian D. Joseph, Sergio Meira, Cynthia Miller, Frederick Schwink. A full schedule and subsequent updates will very soon be available on the web at http://www.wisc.edu/mki. Rooms are available at Lowell Hall (610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706) for Friday and Saturday night, single $52, double $62. Reservations must be made by September 30: phone (608)262-2621, fax 262-5445. Please mention the WCL. WCL 8 is co-sponsored by the Departments of German, Hebrew & Semitic, Linguistics, French & Italian, Spanish, and the Max Kade Institute. The Workshop is made possible by generous support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters & Science, UW. From jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net Wed Aug 4 19:18:22 1999 From: jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net (JJB) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:18:22 EDT Subject: New Plain ASCII English Interlingua Glossary 281k in zip file Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- [English Translation Below] ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ iGLOS1ia http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos Nove Glossario Anglese Interlingua pro uso con Processatores de Parolas o Editores de Texto. Nunc disponibile pro discargar sur disco. Iste version, le "Glossario Anglese Interlingua" es alsi un projecto sub construction. E il es offerite como tal. Il pote haber alcun correctiones necessari etiam... Iste revision ha le data de 1999.08.04. - illo contine le terminos in anglese e interlingua, e le listas de {Partes del Phrase} e le (Terminos Alternative). Le file es 900k in ASCII formatto. E in formatto zippate es 281k. Le file es in texto ascii simple pro uso con processatores de parolas o editores de texto. Pro supporto in re accesso al file comprimite o conversion a altere formattos, per favor invia me un message al adresse hic infra. iglos1ia.zip - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.zip Zippate, Anglese - Interlingual Glossary 281k (287050 bytes) iglos1ia.asc - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.asc Texto ASCII, Anglese - Interlingual Glossary 900k (921439 bytes) Pro le version Multilingual International usa le revision de 1999.07.26 - Iste revision include le Terminos Anglese e Interlingua plus incorpora simple traductiones al francese, germano, espaniol, italiano e portugese. IGLOS.ZIP - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/IGLOS.ZIP Zippate, Glossario Multilingual International 700k in formatto delimitate con tabulationes pro le uso con applicationes de calculo e bases de datos. Qualque adjuta o suggestiones son benvenite. Sincermente, Jay Bowks JayBowks at poboxes.com ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ iGLOS1ia http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos New Plain ASCII English Interlingua Glossary for use in Word Processors and Text Editors. Available for download. This version, the "English Interlingua Glossary" is also a project under construction. And it is offered as is. There may be few needed corrections as well... This revision is dated 1999.08.04 - It contains the English and Interlingua terms and meanings, and the {Parts of Speech} and (Alternative Terms) lists. The file is 900k in plain ASCII form. And in zipped up format it is 281k. It is in plain ascii text suitable for word processors or text editors. For support on how to access the compressed file or converting into other formats please send me a message to my address below. iglos1ia.zip - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.zip Zipped up English - Interlingual Glossary 281k (287050 bytes) iglos1ia.asc - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.asc Plain ASCII English - Interlingual Glossary 900k (921439 bytes) For the International Multilingual version use the revision dated 1999.07.26 - This revision includes the English and Interlingua terms and meanings, plus incorporates simple translations into French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. IGLOS.ZIP - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/IGLOS.ZIP Zipped up Multilingual International Glossary 700k in tab delimited format suitable for spreadsheets and database applications. Any help or suggestions are gladly received. Sincerely, Jay Bowks JayBowks at poboxes.com From johanna at uclink.berkeley.edu Sun Aug 8 21:10:43 1999 From: johanna at uclink.berkeley.edu (Johanna Nichols) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:10:43 EDT Subject: Conference announcement Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The second Northwest Conference on Slavic Linguistics will be held March 10-11 (and possibly 12) at the University of California, Berkeley. Invited speakers: Henning Andersen (UCLA) Grev Corbett (Surrey) Topics: We invite papers on all topics in Slavic linguistics and philology. We particularly hope to attract papers in the following three areas and will set up special sessions if possible: Morphology Slavic languages in time and space Lexicon and context Information on local arrangements will be included in our second announcement. Abstracts: Please send a one-page abstract by November 1, 1999 to Johanna Nichols Slavic Department, #2979 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 or johanna at uclink.berkeley.edu Organizers: Alan Timberlake, Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley) ********************************** Johanna Nichols Professor Department of Slavic Languages Mailcode 2979 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Phone: (1) (510) 642-1097 (direct) (1) (510) 642-2979 (messages) Fax: (1) (510) 642-6220 (departmental) http://ingush.berkeley.edu:7012/ ********************************** From VINE at humnet.ucla.edu Thu Aug 12 15:01:32 1999 From: VINE at humnet.ucla.edu (Brent Vine) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:01:32 EDT Subject: "UCLA IE Studies, vol. 1" Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Announcing a collection of papers in Indo-European studies by faculty and students of the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies: UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES, Volume 1 (July, 1999) edited by Vyacheslav V. Ivanov and Brent Vine 331 pages / $12 (including postage) [order form below] - CONTENTS: PHONOLOGY Greek rhiza 'root' and 'Schwa Secundum' Brent Vine MORPHOLOGY A Lexical Analysis of Simple *-r/n- Heteroclisis in Proto-Indo-European Jay Friedman Latin -inare/-inari Brent Vine (MORPHO)SYNTAX Word Order Change in Umbrian: From Postpositions to Prepositions Christopher Wilhelm Indo-European Syntactic Rules and Gothic Morphology Vyacheslav V. Ivanov WURZELN, WORTER UND SACHEN Aggression and Sustenance: Driving (*ag'-) and Beating (*gwhen-) Symbiosis in (Proto-)Indo-European Raimo Anttila Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo-European Vyacheslav V. Ivanov An Ancient Name for the Lyre Vyacheslav V. Ivanov Old Novgorodian Nevide, Russian nevidal' : Greek aide:los Vyacheslav V. Ivanov A Note on the Duenos Inscription Brent Vine BOOK REVIEWS Remarks on a So-Called Encyclopedia of Language (review of David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 2nd ed., 1997) Bengt Lofstedt Recent Work from St. Petersburg, I (Classical and Indo-European Linguistics, Celtic Studies) Brent Vine Recent Work from St. Petersburg, II (Balkan Studies, Slavic Linguistics and Ethnolinguistics) Vyacheslav V. Ivanov ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORDER FORM (please print out, or produce something similar) Name _________________________________ Mailing address ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ No. of copies ordered (@ $12 ea. [or equivalent in foreign currency], incl. postage): _______ I enclose a check (payable to "UCLA FOUNDATION") in the amount of: $ ________ mail orders to: Brent Vine Program in IE Studies, UCLA 100 Dodd Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 / USA (questions: vine at humnet.ucla.edu) From promotion at benjamins.com Mon Aug 16 19:30:08 1999 From: promotion at benjamins.com (Andrew Gallinger) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:30:08 EDT Subject: New Books from John Benjamins Publishing Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- John Benjamins Publishing would like to call your attention to the following new title in the field of Historical Linguistics: COLLOCATIONAL AND IDIOMATIC ASPECTS OF COMPOSITE PREDICATES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH Laurel J. BRINTON and Minoji AKIMOTO (eds.) 1999 x, 280 pp. Studies in Language Companion Series, 47 US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 933 3 Price: USD 89.00 Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 3050 1 Price: NLG 178.00 The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the "take a look" construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to understand the collocational and idiomatic aspects of these structures, as well as of related structures such as complex prepositions (e.g., "on account of") and phrasal verbs (e.g., "look up"), in their earliest manifestations. Moreover, study of these constructions at the individual stages of English leads to diachronic questions concerning their development, raising issues pertaining to grammaticalization, lexicalization, and idiomaticization-processes which are not always clearly differentiated nor fully understood. Contributions by: Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto; Meiko Matsumoto; Risto Hiltunen; Merja Kytø; Elizabeth Closs Traugott. IMAGES OF LANGUAGE: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800. William Jervis JONES 1999 x, 299 pp. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89 US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 633 4 Price: USD 75.00 Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 4577 0 Price: NLG 150.00 This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also shaping and demarcating the identity and image of their native tongue. The first essay outlines and illustrates what European linguists believed, in an age before the advent of comparative philology, about the historical-genetic position of German within the circle of Classical and modern European languages. Three further essays explore the surprisingly rich diversity of approach and method in earlier foreign-word purism, the puristic use of lexis and metaphor (with special reference to gender-specific imagery), and prominent reaction to the intrusive foreign word in German military usage. The last two essays span a wide range of attitudes and reaction to the French language among German speakers, and early German perceptions of that marginal (and in the popular view excessively contaminated) language, English. The work makes frequent reference to contemporary views of other languages, including Hebrew, Greek Latin, Italian and Spanish. Documented with much new material from about 300 original sources, these essays bring to light the ideas aired by many hitherto neglected personalities, whilst also deepening our understanding of better-known figures and their work. BIBLIOGRAFIA NEBRISENSE. Las obras completas del humanista Antonio de Nebrija desde 1481 hasta nuestros días. Miguel Angel ESPARZA TORRES, Hans-Josef NIEDEREHE 1999 374 pp. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90 US/Canada1 55619 634 2 Price: USD 95.00 Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 4578 9 Price: NLG 190.00 The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge. While the languages dealt with by Nebrija include not only Latin and Spanish, but the most prominent Romance languages, his grammatical work focuses on Latin, Castillian, Greek and even Hebrew. Moreover, his (bilingual) lexicographical studies combine Spanish, Latin, French, Catalan and Italian. In addition, there are medical dictionaries, dictionnaries of law, works on the Holy Bible, geographical research, treatises on rhethoric and history as well as on many other areas of contemporary knowledge. Most of these works have been published for allmost five centuries, thus inspiring European and missionary linguistics as well as Western philological traditions. They have served as models and sources for a great number and range of studies conducted and published not only in Spain, but nearly all over the world. Apart from the original version of Nebrija's works, numerous copies, also continuously produced during the past centuries, are accessible in international libraries. Many of these copies possess a great bibliographical value. The Bibliografía Nebrisense is a catalogue, listing the different editions of Nebrija's highly diversified œuvre. It provides information on the technical caracteristics of the individual editions and their respective locations. A complete bio-bibliographical study is added together with an exhaustive listing of secondary sources. -------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Gallinger Tel: (215) 836-1200 Publicity/Marketing Fax: (215) 836-1204 John Benjamins Publishing Co e-mail:promotion at benjamins.com PO Box 27519 Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 John Benjamins web site: http://www.benjamins.com From DUBINSK at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU Tue Aug 31 18:46:07 1999 From: DUBINSK at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU (Stanley Dubinsky) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:46:07 EDT Subject: Open rank position in Linguisitic Variation Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Open Rank search. Tenured or tenure-track. Linguistic Variation. Research interests in Southern regional dialects, AAVE (African- American Vernacular English), and Pidgins & Creoles are particularly desirable. Candidates must have strong teaching abilities in general linguistics and in one or more of the following: general sociolinguistics, varieties of American English, language and gender, discourse analysis, and general morphology. A letter of application, vita, dossier, and writing sample should be sent by November 15 to Stanley Dubinsky, Search Committee Chair, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. The University of South Carolina is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. From jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu Sun Aug 1 14:53:11 1999 From: jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu (Joseph C. Salmons) Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 10:53:11 EDT Subject: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: Variation & Reconstruction Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- First announcement: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: Variation & Reconstruction October 28-30, 1999 Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street University of Wisconsin, Madison Invited speakers are: James Milroy (Univ. of Michigan) Some Comments on the Role of Speakers in Language Change Paul T. Roberge (Univ. of North Carolina) Reconstructing a Creole Continuum in Early Afrikaans Other speakers include Thomas Cravens, Robert Howell, Ray Harris, Brian D. Joseph, Sergio Meira, Cynthia Miller, Frederick Schwink. A full schedule and subsequent updates will very soon be available on the web at http://www.wisc.edu/mki. Rooms are available at Lowell Hall (610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706) for Friday and Saturday night, single $52, double $62. Reservations must be made by September 30: phone (608)262-2621, fax 262-5445. Please mention the WCL. WCL 8 is co-sponsored by the Departments of German, Hebrew & Semitic, Linguistics, French & Italian, Spanish, and the Max Kade Institute. The Workshop is made possible by generous support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters & Science, UW. From jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net Wed Aug 4 19:18:22 1999 From: jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net (JJB) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:18:22 EDT Subject: New Plain ASCII English Interlingua Glossary 281k in zip file Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- [English Translation Below] ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ iGLOS1ia http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos Nove Glossario Anglese Interlingua pro uso con Processatores de Parolas o Editores de Texto. Nunc disponibile pro discargar sur disco. Iste version, le "Glossario Anglese Interlingua" es alsi un projecto sub construction. E il es offerite como tal. Il pote haber alcun correctiones necessari etiam... Iste revision ha le data de 1999.08.04. - illo contine le terminos in anglese e interlingua, e le listas de {Partes del Phrase} e le (Terminos Alternative). Le file es 900k in ASCII formatto. E in formatto zippate es 281k. Le file es in texto ascii simple pro uso con processatores de parolas o editores de texto. Pro supporto in re accesso al file comprimite o conversion a altere formattos, per favor invia me un message al adresse hic infra. iglos1ia.zip - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.zip Zippate, Anglese - Interlingual Glossary 281k (287050 bytes) iglos1ia.asc - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.asc Texto ASCII, Anglese - Interlingual Glossary 900k (921439 bytes) Pro le version Multilingual International usa le revision de 1999.07.26 - Iste revision include le Terminos Anglese e Interlingua plus incorpora simple traductiones al francese, germano, espaniol, italiano e portugese. IGLOS.ZIP - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/IGLOS.ZIP Zippate, Glossario Multilingual International 700k in formatto delimitate con tabulationes pro le uso con applicationes de calculo e bases de datos. Qualque adjuta o suggestiones son benvenite. Sincermente, Jay Bowks JayBowks at poboxes.com ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^ iGLOS1ia http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos New Plain ASCII English Interlingua Glossary for use in Word Processors and Text Editors. Available for download. This version, the "English Interlingua Glossary" is also a project under construction. And it is offered as is. There may be few needed corrections as well... This revision is dated 1999.08.04 - It contains the English and Interlingua terms and meanings, and the {Parts of Speech} and (Alternative Terms) lists. The file is 900k in plain ASCII form. And in zipped up format it is 281k. It is in plain ascii text suitable for word processors or text editors. For support on how to access the compressed file or converting into other formats please send me a message to my address below. iglos1ia.zip - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.zip Zipped up English - Interlingual Glossary 281k (287050 bytes) iglos1ia.asc - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/iglos1ia.asc Plain ASCII English - Interlingual Glossary 900k (921439 bytes) For the International Multilingual version use the revision dated 1999.07.26 - This revision includes the English and Interlingua terms and meanings, plus incorporates simple translations into French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. IGLOS.ZIP - http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/IGLOS.ZIP Zipped up Multilingual International Glossary 700k in tab delimited format suitable for spreadsheets and database applications. Any help or suggestions are gladly received. Sincerely, Jay Bowks JayBowks at poboxes.com From johanna at uclink.berkeley.edu Sun Aug 8 21:10:43 1999 From: johanna at uclink.berkeley.edu (Johanna Nichols) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:10:43 EDT Subject: Conference announcement Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The second Northwest Conference on Slavic Linguistics will be held March 10-11 (and possibly 12) at the University of California, Berkeley. Invited speakers: Henning Andersen (UCLA) Grev Corbett (Surrey) Topics: We invite papers on all topics in Slavic linguistics and philology. We particularly hope to attract papers in the following three areas and will set up special sessions if possible: Morphology Slavic languages in time and space Lexicon and context Information on local arrangements will be included in our second announcement. Abstracts: Please send a one-page abstract by November 1, 1999 to Johanna Nichols Slavic Department, #2979 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 or johanna at uclink.berkeley.edu Organizers: Alan Timberlake, Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley) ********************************** Johanna Nichols Professor Department of Slavic Languages Mailcode 2979 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Phone: (1) (510) 642-1097 (direct) (1) (510) 642-2979 (messages) Fax: (1) (510) 642-6220 (departmental) http://ingush.berkeley.edu:7012/ ********************************** From VINE at humnet.ucla.edu Thu Aug 12 15:01:32 1999 From: VINE at humnet.ucla.edu (Brent Vine) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:01:32 EDT Subject: "UCLA IE Studies, vol. 1" Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Announcing a collection of papers in Indo-European studies by faculty and students of the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies: UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES, Volume 1 (July, 1999) edited by Vyacheslav V. Ivanov and Brent Vine 331 pages / $12 (including postage) [order form below] - CONTENTS: PHONOLOGY Greek rhiza 'root' and 'Schwa Secundum' Brent Vine MORPHOLOGY A Lexical Analysis of Simple *-r/n- Heteroclisis in Proto-Indo-European Jay Friedman Latin -inare/-inari Brent Vine (MORPHO)SYNTAX Word Order Change in Umbrian: From Postpositions to Prepositions Christopher Wilhelm Indo-European Syntactic Rules and Gothic Morphology Vyacheslav V. Ivanov WURZELN, WORTER UND SACHEN Aggression and Sustenance: Driving (*ag'-) and Beating (*gwhen-) Symbiosis in (Proto-)Indo-European Raimo Anttila Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo-European Vyacheslav V. Ivanov An Ancient Name for the Lyre Vyacheslav V. Ivanov Old Novgorodian Nevide, Russian nevidal' : Greek aide:los Vyacheslav V. Ivanov A Note on the Duenos Inscription Brent Vine BOOK REVIEWS Remarks on a So-Called Encyclopedia of Language (review of David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 2nd ed., 1997) Bengt Lofstedt Recent Work from St. Petersburg, I (Classical and Indo-European Linguistics, Celtic Studies) Brent Vine Recent Work from St. Petersburg, II (Balkan Studies, Slavic Linguistics and Ethnolinguistics) Vyacheslav V. Ivanov ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORDER FORM (please print out, or produce something similar) Name _________________________________ Mailing address ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ No. of copies ordered (@ $12 ea. [or equivalent in foreign currency], incl. postage): _______ I enclose a check (payable to "UCLA FOUNDATION") in the amount of: $ ________ mail orders to: Brent Vine Program in IE Studies, UCLA 100 Dodd Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 / USA (questions: vine at humnet.ucla.edu) From promotion at benjamins.com Mon Aug 16 19:30:08 1999 From: promotion at benjamins.com (Andrew Gallinger) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:30:08 EDT Subject: New Books from John Benjamins Publishing Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- John Benjamins Publishing would like to call your attention to the following new title in the field of Historical Linguistics: COLLOCATIONAL AND IDIOMATIC ASPECTS OF COMPOSITE PREDICATES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH Laurel J. BRINTON and Minoji AKIMOTO (eds.) 1999 x, 280 pp. Studies in Language Companion Series, 47 US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 933 3 Price: USD 89.00 Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 3050 1 Price: NLG 178.00 The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the "take a look" construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to understand the collocational and idiomatic aspects of these structures, as well as of related structures such as complex prepositions (e.g., "on account of") and phrasal verbs (e.g., "look up"), in their earliest manifestations. Moreover, study of these constructions at the individual stages of English leads to diachronic questions concerning their development, raising issues pertaining to grammaticalization, lexicalization, and idiomaticization-processes which are not always clearly differentiated nor fully understood. Contributions by: Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto; Meiko Matsumoto; Risto Hiltunen; Merja Kyt?; Elizabeth Closs Traugott. IMAGES OF LANGUAGE: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800. William Jervis JONES 1999 x, 299 pp. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89 US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 633 4 Price: USD 75.00 Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 4577 0 Price: NLG 150.00 This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also shaping and demarcating the identity and image of their native tongue. The first essay outlines and illustrates what European linguists believed, in an age before the advent of comparative philology, about the historical-genetic position of German within the circle of Classical and modern European languages. Three further essays explore the surprisingly rich diversity of approach and method in earlier foreign-word purism, the puristic use of lexis and metaphor (with special reference to gender-specific imagery), and prominent reaction to the intrusive foreign word in German military usage. The last two essays span a wide range of attitudes and reaction to the French language among German speakers, and early German perceptions of that marginal (and in the popular view excessively contaminated) language, English. The work makes frequent reference to contemporary views of other languages, including Hebrew, Greek Latin, Italian and Spanish. Documented with much new material from about 300 original sources, these essays bring to light the ideas aired by many hitherto neglected personalities, whilst also deepening our understanding of better-known figures and their work. BIBLIOGRAFIA NEBRISENSE. Las obras completas del humanista Antonio de Nebrija desde 1481 hasta nuestros d?as. Miguel Angel ESPARZA TORRES, Hans-Josef NIEDEREHE 1999 374 pp. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 90 US/Canada1 55619 634 2 Price: USD 95.00 Rest of the World: Cloth: 90 272 4578 9 Price: NLG 190.00 The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge. While the languages dealt with by Nebrija include not only Latin and Spanish, but the most prominent Romance languages, his grammatical work focuses on Latin, Castillian, Greek and even Hebrew. Moreover, his (bilingual) lexicographical studies combine Spanish, Latin, French, Catalan and Italian. In addition, there are medical dictionaries, dictionnaries of law, works on the Holy Bible, geographical research, treatises on rhethoric and history as well as on many other areas of contemporary knowledge. Most of these works have been published for allmost five centuries, thus inspiring European and missionary linguistics as well as Western philological traditions. They have served as models and sources for a great number and range of studies conducted and published not only in Spain, but nearly all over the world. Apart from the original version of Nebrija's works, numerous copies, also continuously produced during the past centuries, are accessible in international libraries. Many of these copies possess a great bibliographical value. The Bibliograf?a Nebrisense is a catalogue, listing the different editions of Nebrija's highly diversified ?uvre. It provides information on the technical caracteristics of the individual editions and their respective locations. A complete bio-bibliographical study is added together with an exhaustive listing of secondary sources. -------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Gallinger Tel: (215) 836-1200 Publicity/Marketing Fax: (215) 836-1204 John Benjamins Publishing Co e-mail:promotion at benjamins.com PO Box 27519 Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 John Benjamins web site: http://www.benjamins.com From DUBINSK at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU Tue Aug 31 18:46:07 1999 From: DUBINSK at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU (Stanley Dubinsky) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:46:07 EDT Subject: Open rank position in Linguisitic Variation Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Open Rank search. Tenured or tenure-track. Linguistic Variation. Research interests in Southern regional dialects, AAVE (African- American Vernacular English), and Pidgins & Creoles are particularly desirable. Candidates must have strong teaching abilities in general linguistics and in one or more of the following: general sociolinguistics, varieties of American English, language and gender, discourse analysis, and general morphology. A letter of application, vita, dossier, and writing sample should be sent by November 15 to Stanley Dubinsky, Search Committee Chair, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. The University of South Carolina is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.