Bulletin 32, May 1999

Full issue.

Contents:

• David Cram and Andrew Linn, Editorial (pp. 3-4)

• Ernst Håkon Jahr, ‘Clara Holst (1868-1935): Norwegian Historical Linguist and Woman Pioneer’ (pp. 5-12)

• Bernard Jones, ‘William Barnes (1801-86), the Philological Society, the English Dialect Society, and the Dictionaries’ (pp. 13-24)

• Robin Alston, ‘What Mad Pursuit?’ (pp. 25-30)

• Sixteenth Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 22 March 1999: Conference Report (pp. 31-39)

• REVIEWS:

  • Cristina Altman, Review of Maria Filomena Gonçalves, Madureira Feijó, Ortografista do século XVIII: para uma história da ortografia portuguesa. Lisboa: Ministério da Educação. Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, 1992 (pp. 40-41)

  • Jon Mills, Review of R .R. K. Hartmann and Gregory James, Dictionary of Lexicography. London & New York: Routledge, 1998 (pp. 42-44)

  • N. Guryanova, Review of A. A. Kibrik, I. M. Koboseva and I. A. Sekerina (eds), Fundamental Trends of Modern American Linguistics. Moscow: MSU Press, 1997 (pp. 45-46)

  • Werner Hüllen, Review of Andreas Kilcher, Die Sprachtheorie der Kabbala als ästhetisches Paradigma. Die Konstruktion einer ästhetischen Kabbala seit der frühen Neuzeit. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzeler, 1998 (pp. 47-52)

  • Hiroyuki Eto, Review of Friedrich Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, bearbeitet von Elmar Seebold. 23. erweiterte Auflage. Berlin & New York: Waiter de Gruyter, 1995 (pp. 53-59)

  • Joseph L. Subbiondo, Review of Charles Monaghan, The Murrays of Murray Hill. New York: Urban History Press, 1998 (pp. 60-62)

  • John E. Joseph, Review of Stephen O. Murray, American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and Theory Groups. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998 (pp. 63-66)

• Publications Received (pp. 67-81)

• R. C. Alston, A Bibliography of the English Language From the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800. A Systematic Record of Writings on English, Based on the Collections of the Principal Libraries of the World (p. 82)

• Paul Foulkes, ‘David Abercrombie's Papers’ (p. 83)

• Peter R. Frank and Murray G. Hall, ‘Researching the History of the Book in Central Europe, Austria’ (pp. 84-86)

• VIIIth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14-19 September 1999 (p. 86)