There's a review of Nettle & Romaine's _Vanishing Languages_ in today's Salon: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/08/17/nettles_romaine/index.html Lynne, your local Salon addict Dr M Lynne Murphy Lecturer in Linguistics School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH UK phone +44-(0)1273-678844 fax +44-(0)1273-671320