Bulletin 26, May 1996

Full issue.

Contents:

• 1997 Annual Colloquium, University of Luton (p. 2)

• Abstracts of Papers Read at the Spring Colloquium, 1996 (pp. 3-6)

• NOTES AND ARTICLES:

  • John Considine, ‘Call for Research Materials for the OED’ (pp. 7-8)

  • Christopher Stray, ‘Notions’ (pp. 9-11)

  • Mark Atherton, ‘The Origin of Sweet’s Term “Synthetic Method”’ (pp. 12-15)

  • Andreas Gardt, ‘Language Theory in the Age of Baroque and Enlightenment. An Encyclopaedic Dictionary’ (pp. 16-18)

• REVIEWS:

  • L. G. Kelly, Review of Bernard Colombat, Les figures de construction dans la syntaxe latine (1500-1780). Louvain: Peelers 1993 (pp. 19-20)

  • Herman Bell, Review of Florian Coulmas, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996 (pp. 21-25)

  • Pietro Bortone, Review of Wolf Dietrich, Griechisch und Romanisch. Parallelen und Divergenzen in Entwicklung, Variation und Strukturen. Münster: Nodus, 1995 (pp. 26-27)

  • Paul Salmon, Review of Robert Lowth (1710-1781), The Major Works. With new introductions by David A. Reibel. 8 Vols. London: Routledge, 1995 (pp. 27-31)

  • Vivian Salmon, Review of G. J. Toomer, Eastern Wisedome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966 (pp. 31-34)

  • Terry Hoad, Review of Beatrice [C.] Warren, Sense Developments. A Contrastive Study of the Development of Slang Senses and Novel Standard Senses in English. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1992 (pp. 34-38)

• Publications Received (pp. 39-49)

• News and Announcements (pp. 50-51)

• Editorial Matters (p. 52)