New Books: Indo-European: Smith, Sihler

[John Benjamins Publishing Co.]

John Benjamins Publishing announces the availability of the following new
works:

Historical Linguistics 1995.
Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.
Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical
Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995.
John Charles SMITH and Delia BENTLEY (eds.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 161
US & Canada: 1 55619 877 9 / USD 100.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of World: 90 272 3666 6 / NLG 200.00 (Hardcover)

This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well
as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic,
Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume,
edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, will contain papers on
Germanic.
Contributions by: Jean-Luc Azra; Vit Bubeník; Michela Cennamo; Alan Dench;
Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis & Mireille Tremblay; Denis Dumas; Anthony
Fox; Bjarke Frellesvig; Anna Giacalone Ramat; Peter Hendriks; Alan Hyun-Oak
Kim; Leonid I. Kulikov; Paul M. Lloyd; Christopher Lyons; Maria M. Manoliu;
Marianne Mithun; Nicholas Ostler; Christopher J. Pountain; Tim Pulju;
Pieter van Reenen & Lene Schøsler; Mario Saltarelli; Anju Saxena; Anna
Siewierska; Ann Taylor, Tandy Warnow & Don Ringe; Margaret E. Winters &
Geoffrey S. Nathan.

Language History.
An introduction.
Andrew L. SIHLER
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 191
US & Canada: 1 55619 968 6 / USD 70.00 (Hardcover)
US & Canada: 1 55619 969 4 / USD 29.95 (Paperback)
Rest of World: 90 272 3697 6 / NLG 140.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of World: 90 272 3698 4 / NLG 60.00 (Paperback)

This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and
factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history.
Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should
help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the
contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries.
This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with (historical)
linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and also for those
who are enrolled in courses devoted to reading texts in old languages.
Contents: Introduction; Changes in Pronunciation; Sound Laws; Analogy;
Semantic Change; Reconstruction; External Aspects of Language; The
Interpretation of Written Records; Appendix: Phonetics - the mechanisms of
speech and the classifications of speech sounds; Glossary; Glossary of
Terms in German; Bibliography; Index.

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