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1940-1949

  • 1949. Geschichte und Kritik der Lehre von den Satzgliedern in der deutschen Grammatik. By Hans Glinz. Bern: Francke, 1947. Modern Language Journal 33:76-77.
  • 1949. Texte zur Geschichte des deutschen Tageliedes. Compiled by Ernst Scheunemann. Expanded and edited by Friedrich Ranke. (Altdeutsche Übungstexte, 6.) Bern: Francke, 1947. Modern Language Journal 33:160.

1950-1959

  • 1953. Studier og tydninger. By Johs. Brøndum-Nielsen. Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz, 1951. Language 29:541-542.
  • 1954. Die Gliederung des indogermanischen Sprachgebiets. By Walter Porzig. (Indogermanische Bibliothek, 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen.) Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1954. Language 30:461-467.
  • 1954. Studien zur indogermanischen Grundsprache. Ed. by Wilhelm Brandenstein. (Arbeiten aus dem Institut für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 4.) Vienna: Gerold, 1952. Language 30:99-104.
  • 1955. Handbuch des Sanskrit. Vol. 2, Texte und Glossar. By Albert Thumb. Ed. by Richard Hauschild. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1953. Journal of the American Oriental Society 75:135-136.
  • 1955. An Introduction to Modern Faroese. By W. B. Lockwood. (Færoensia: Textus & investigationes, auspiciis Societatis Litterarum Færoensium Hafniensis, 4.) Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1955. Language 31:457-458.
  • 1955. Studier i Codex Regius av Äldre Eddan. By Gustav Lindblad. (Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap, 10.) Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1954. Language 31:456-457.
  • 1955. Studien zum bestimmten Artikel in den germanischen Sprachen. By Heinrich Matthias Heinrichs. (Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie, 1.) Giessen: Wilhelm Schmitz, 1954. Language 31:136-137.
  • 1957. Germanische Sprachwissenschaft. By Hans Krahe. (Sammlung Göschen, 238 & 780.) 3rd ed. 2 vols. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1957. Language 33:606-613.
  • 1958. Essays in Linguistics. By Joseph H. Greenberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957. International Journal of American Linguistics 24:142-145.
  • 1958. Handbuch des Sanskrit. Vol. 1, Grammatik. Part 1, Einleitung und Lautlehre. By Albert Thumb. Ed. by Richard Hauschild. 3rd rev. ed. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1958. Journal of the American Oriental Society 78:212-213.
  • 1958. Die Sprache der Guðbrandsbiblía: Orthographie und Laute, Formen. By Oskar Bandle. (Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana, 17.) Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1956. Language 34:542-543.
  • 1959. Anredeformen: Vergleichende Forschungen zur indirekten Anrede in der dritten Person und zum Nominativ für den Vokativ. By J. Svennung. (Acta Societatis Litterarum Humaniorum Regiae Upsaliensis, 42.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1958. Language 35:556-558.
  • 1959. Etymology, With Especial Reference to English. By Alan S. C. Ross. (The Language Library.) Fair Lawn, NJ: Essential Books, 1958. Language 35:351-353.
  • 1959. Word-Index to Gottfried's Tristan. By Melvin E. Valk. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1958. Monatshefte 51:81-82.

1960-1969

  • 1960. Handbuch des Sanskrit. Vol. 1, Grammatik. Part 2, Formenlehre. By Albert Thumb. Ed. by Richard Hauschild. 3rd rev. ed. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1959. Journal of the American Oriental Society 80:152-153.
  • 1960. The Metre of Beowulf. By A. J. Bliss. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 59:137-142.
  • 1960. Om et norsk skriftlig grunnlag for Edda-diktningen eller deler av den. By Didrik Arup Seip. Maal og Minne 1957:81-207. Oslo: Bymålslagets, 1958. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 59:509-511.
  • 1962. Estructuralismo e historia: Miscelánea homenaje a André Martinet. Ed. by Diego Catalán [Menéndez-Pidal]. 2 vols. Tenerife, Canarias: Biblioteca Filológica, Universidad de La Laguna, 1957-1958. Romance Philology 15:439-442.
  • 1963. Relativsatz, Attribut und Apposition. By Hansjakob Seiler. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1960. Language 39:281-286.
  • 1963. Studia Gratulatoria Dedicated to Alberta Willem de Groot in the Year of His Seventieth Birthday. (Lingua 11.) Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1962. Romance Philology 17:444-449.
  • 1963. A Tentative Typology of Romance Historical Grammars. By Yakov Malkiel. Lingua 9:321-416. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1960. Language 39:286-290.
  • 1963. A Word-Index to the Texts of Steinmeyer Die kleineren althochdeutschen Sprachdenkmäler. By R-M. S. Heffner. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. Monatshefte 55:343-344.
  • 1964. The Aspectual Function of the Rigvedic Present and Aorist. By J. Gonda. The Hague: Mouton, 1962. Journal of the American Oriental Society 84:457-459.
  • 1964. Zur Konstitution einer allgemeinen Grammatik. By Peter Hartmann. (Janua linguarum, series maior, 3.2.) Pp. 137-258. The Hague: Mouton, 1961. Language 40:381-389.
  • 1965. Language in Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology. Ed. by Dell Hymes. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 46:191-192.
  • 1965. Sravnitel'naia grammatika germanskikh iazykov. 3 vols. Moscow: Academy of Sciences, 1962-63. Voprosy Iazykoznaniia 6:122-132. Translated from the English by M. M. Makovskii.
  • 1966. Mediaeval German Studies: Presented to Frederick Norman, Professor of German in the University of London, by His Students, Colleagues and Friends on the Occasion of His Retirement. London: University of London Institute of Germanic Studies, 1965. German Life and Letters 19:292-296.
  • 1966. An Outline of a General Theory of Structural Relations. By Alphonse Juilland. The Hague: Mouton, 1961. Romance Philology 20:218-221.
  • 1967. Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of Language: Selected Articles. By Alf Sommerfelt. (Janua linguarum, series maior, 7.) The Hague: Mouton, 1962. Romance Philology 21:67-75.
  • 1967. A History of the German Language. By John T. Waterman. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966. Glossa 1:75-82.
  • 1967. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Ed. by C. T. Onions, et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. [and] A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Vol. 1, A-K. By Ernest Klein. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1966. College English 28:625-628.
  • 1967. Stand und Aufgabe der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft. By Ernst Otto. With supplements by Ernst Otto and Gerhard Haselbach. 2nd rev. ed. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1965. Zeitschrift für Mundartforschung 34:75-77.
  • 1968. Estructuralismo e historia. Vol. 3, Miscelánea homenaje a André Martinet. Ed. by Diego Catalán [Menéndez-Pidal]. Tenerife, Canarias: Biblioteca Filologica, Universidad de La Laguna, 1962. Romance Philology 21:353-354.
  • 1968. Handbuch der litauischen Sprache. Vol. 1, Grammatik. By Alfred Senn. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1966. Language 44:639-642.
  • 1968. Helhed og Struktur: Udvalgte Sprogvidenskabelige Afhandlinger. Selected Linguistic Papers with Detailed English Summaries. By Paul Diderichsen. Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gads, 1966. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 11:119-122.
  • 1968. Problèmes de linguistique générale. By Émile Benveniste. Paris: Gallimard, 1966. Language 44:91-96.
  • 1968. The System of Sonants and Ablaut in Kartvelian Languages: A Typology of Common Kartvelian Structure. [Title also in Georgian and Russian.] By Th. V. Gamkrelidze and G. I. Machavariani. Tbilisi: Izdatel'stvo 'Metsniyereba', 1965. Language 44:404-407.
  • 1969. The Comparative Method in Historical Linguistics. By Antoine Meillet. Translated by Gordon B. Ford, Jr. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, 1967. Lingua 22:268-275.
  • 1969. The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching. By M. A. K. Halliday, Angus McIntosh, and Peter Strevens. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964. Romance Philology 23:130-131.

1970-1979

  • 1970. Linguistica. By A. Rosetti. (Janua linguarum, series maior, 16.) The Hague: Mouton, 1965. Romance Philology 24:169-173.
  • 1970. Machine Translation. Ed. by A. D. Booth. Amsterdam: North-Holland; New York: J. Wiley, 1967. Computers and the Humanities 4:265-268.
  • 1970. Parametric Linguistics. By Louis G. Heller and James Macris. The Hague: Mouton, 1967. Word 26:139-141.
  • 1971. Relativism in Language and Culture. By Stanley Newman. New Mexico Quarterly 38:196-210. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1967. Romance Philology 24:510-511.
  • 1972. Essays on Linguistic Themes. By Yakov Malkiel. (Language and Style Series, 6.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968. Foundations of Language 8:280-287.
  • 1973. General Characteristics of the Germanic Languages. By Antoine Meillet. Translated by William P. Dismukes. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1970. General Linguistics 12:38-42.
  • 1973. The London School of Linguistics: A Study of the Linguistic Theories of B. Malinowski and J. R. Firth. By D. Terence Langendoen. Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1968. Romance Philology 25:421-427.
  • 1973. Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft und Kulturkunde: Gedenkschrift für Wilhelm Brandenstein. Ed. by Manfred Mayrhofer. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, 14.) Innsbruck: Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, 1968. Language 48:161-165.
  • 1973. Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar. By J. F. Staal. (Foundations of Language, suppl. ser., 5.) Dordrecht: Reidel, 1967. Romance Philology 26:405-407.
  • 1973. Class, Codes and Control. Vol. 1, Theoretical Studies Toward a Sociology of Language. By Basil Bernstein. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. Social Science Quarterly 54:195-196.
  • 1973. Studies in Honor of J. Alexander Kerns. Ed. by Robert C. Lugton and Milton G. Saltzer. (Janua linguarum, series maior, 44.) The Hague: Mouton, 1970. Linguistics 117:112-114.
  • 1974. Antiquitates Indogermanicae: Studien zur Indogermanischen Altertumskunde und zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der indogermanischen Völker. Gedenkschrift für Hermann Güntert. Ed. by Manfred Mayrhofer, Wolfgang Meid, Bernfried Schlerath, and Rüdiger Schmitt. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 12.) Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 1974. Kratylos 19:34-41.
  • 1974. Studies in Formal Historical Linguistics. By Henry M. Hoenigswald. (Formal Linguistics, 3.) Dordrecht: Reidel, 1973. Foundations of Language 12:147-148.
  • 1975. Grundzüge der vergleichenden Syntax der indogermanischen Sprachen. By Hans Krahe. Ed. by Wolfgang Meid and Hans Schmeja. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 1.) Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 1972. Language 51:465-466.
  • 1975. Observations on Trubetzkoy's Contributions to Phonological Studies. Review of Principles of Phonology. By N. S. Trubetzkoy. Translated by Christiane A. M. Baltaxe. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. Romance Philology 29:40-57.
  • 1976. Inside China. By Peter Worsley. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1975. Social Science Quarterly 57:489.
  • 1976. Structural Aspects of Language Change. By James M. Anderson. (Longman Linguistics Library, 13.) London: Longman, 1973. Lingua 38:376-378.
  • 1977. A Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions. By Elmer H. Antonsen. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1975. Colloquia Germanica 4:356-358.
  • 1979. Current Trends in Textlinguistics. Ed. by Wolfgang Dressler. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1978. Michigan Germanic Studies 5, 2:218-221.
  • 1979. German in Contact with Other Languages. Ed. by Carol Molony, Helmut Zobl, and Wilfried Stölting. (Monographien Linguistik und Kommunikations-wissenschaft, 26.) Kronberg: Scriptor, 1977. American Anthropologist 81, 1:141-142.
  • 1979. The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages Compared with That of the Modern Languages. By Henri Weil. New edition with an introduction by Aldo Scaglioni. (Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800-1925, 14.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1978. Historiographia Linguistica 6:403-408.
  • 1979. Problems in General Linguistics. By Émile Benveniste. Translated by Mary E. Meek. (Miami Linguistics Series, 8.) Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971. American Speech 51:157-160.
  • 1979. Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European Linguistics Offered to Leonard R. Palmer on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Ed. by Anna Morpurgo Davies and Wolfgang Meid. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 16.) Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 1976. Language 55, 3:694-697.

1980-1989

  • 1980. Metrische Studien. Vol. 1, Der Alliterationsvers. By Aage Kabell. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1978. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 79, 4:600-602.
  • 1980. The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages. By Henri Weil. New edition with an introduction by Aldo Scaglioni. (Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800-1925, 14.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1978. Historiographia Linguistica 6:403-408.
  • 1980. Universals of Human Language. Vol. 4, Syntax. Ed. by Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles A. Ferguson, and Edith A. Moravcsik. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978. Language 56:838-847.
  • 1981. Evolution of Syntactic Theory in Sanskrit Grammar: Syntax of the Sanskrit Infinitive -tumUN. By Madhav M. Deshpande. (Linguistica Extranea Studia, 10.) Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1980. Word 32, 3:245-249.
  • 1981. Indo-European Linguistics: A New Synthesis. By William R. Schmalstieg. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. General Linguistics 21:220-226.
  • 1981. Linguistic Method: Essays in Honor of Herbert Penzl. Ed. by Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr. The Hague: Mouton, 1979. American Journal of Computational Linguistics 7, 2:120-121.
  • 1981. Optimization of Natural Communication Systems. By Olga Akhmanova. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. Computers and the Humanities 15, 1:45-46.
  • 1983. Grundzüge der Sprachtheorie. Eine linguistische Einführung. By Renate Bartsch and Theo Vennemann. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1983. Colloquia Germanica 16:359-361.
  • 1983. Historische Linguistik: Eine Einführung. By Theodora Bynon. Munich: Beck, 1981. Colloquia Germanica 16, 2/3:217-219.
  • 1983. Language, Society, and Paleoculture: Essays by Edgar C. Polomé. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. Anthropological Linguistics 25, 1:101-103.
  • 1984. Pragmatics. By Stephen C. Levinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. General Linguistics 24, 2:123-128.
  • 1984. Words: The Evolution of Western Languages. Ed. by Victor Stevenson. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983. Verbatim 10, 4:4-5.
  • 1985. Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. By Hadumod Bußman. (Kröners Taschenausgabe, 452.) Stuttgart: Kröner, 1983. Colloquia Germanica 18, 4:344-346.
  • 1985. Papers on Diachronic Syntax: Six Case Studies. Ed. by Hans Heinrich Hock. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1982. Lingua 67, 4:332-334.
  • 1986. Scandinavian Language Structure: A Comparative Historical Survey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1982. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 31:290-91.
  • 1987. Indogermanische Grammatik. by Warren Cowgill and Manfred Mayrhofer. Heidelberg: Winter, 1986. General Linguistics 27, 1:47-58. Trans.; in Voprosy Jazykoznanija 1990.4:131-38.
  • 1987. Machine Translation: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Ed. by Sergei Nirenburg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. The Scientist 27 July:22.
  • 1987. Typology, Relationship, and Time. Ed. and trans. by Vitalij V. Shevoroshkin and T. L. Markey. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1986. Slavic and East European Journal 31, 1:127-129.
  • 1987. Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions. By Paul Kent Andersen. (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science 25.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1983. Lingua 70, 1:200-205.
  • 1987. Grammatische Kategorien: Funktion und Geschichte. Akten der VII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft. Ed. Bernfried Schlerath. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1985. Kratylos 32:25-34.
  • 1988. Scandinavian Language Contacts, ed. P. Sture Ureland and Iain Clarkson. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 33:194-97.
  • 1988. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol I. Theoretical Prerequisites. By Ronald W Langacker. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1987. Pp. x, 516. General Linguistics, Vol. 28: 122-30.
  • 1988. Syntaktische Funktionen und Wortstellungsveränderung. Die Entwicklung subjektloser Konstruktionen in einigen Sprachen. By Ariane von Seefranz-Montag. Munich: Fink, 1983, 288 pp. (Studien zur Theoretischen Linguistik, 3.) Kratylos. 33:44-47.
  • 1988. The Japanese Language Through Time, by Samuel E. Martin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, viii + 961 pp. General Linguistics 28, 4: 289-91.
  • 1988. Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, Vol. 100. Ed. by Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987. Pp.384. Language 64, 4: 813-15.
  • 1988. Untersuchungen zur Hypotaxe im Vedischen. By Heinrich Hettrich. Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture; New Series, 4. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1988. Pp. xix, 862. Diachronica V. 1/2:207-217.
  • 1989. The Typology of Reflexives. By Emma Geniušiene. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1987, xx, 435 pp. Studies in Language 13, 1: 213-221.
  • 1989. Deutsches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Buchstabe A. Lieferung 1-2. By Rolf Hiersche. Heidelberg: Winter, 1986. XXXV, 124 pp. Kratylos 34:142-146.
  • 1989. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, Volume 1, fascicles 1-3. By Manfred Mayrhofer. Heidelberg: Winter, 1986, 1987, 1988, pp.236. General Linguistics 29: 206-209.

1990-1999

  • 1990. Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 6). By Raimo Antilla. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1989, pp. xv+462. Studies In Language 14: 249-251.
  • 1990. In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, archeology and myth. By James P. Mallory. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989, 288 pp. Diachronica VII: 1.101-116.
  • 1990. Abriss der Althochdeutschen Grammatik mit Berücksichtigung des Altsächsischen. 15th ed. By Ernst A. Ebbinghaus. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1989, viii, 65 pp. General Linguistics 30:79-80.
  • 1990. The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. A sourcebook. Ed. by Derek Partridge and Yorick Wilks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xiv, 498 pp. General Linguistics 30. 231-36.
  • 1990. The Saxon Saviour: The transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand. By G. Ronald Murphy, S. J. New York: Oxford University, 1989, pp. xii, 129. Theological Studies 1989: 783-4.
  • 1990. Geschichte der Psychologischen Sprachauffassung in Deutschland von 1820 bis 1920. By Clemens Knobloch. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1988, 564 pp. Colloquia Germanica 23.1:108-10.
  • 1990. Einführung in die Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft. By Oswald Szemerényi. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1989, 3d ed. xxv, 370 pp. General Linguistics 30:239-43. 239-43.
  • 1990. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought. The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure. By Roy Harris and Talbot J. Taylor. London and New York: Routledge, 1989, xviii, 199 pp. Language 66:581-84.
  • 1990. Die Laryngaltheorie und die Rekonstruktion des Indogermanischen Laut- und Formensystems. Ed. by Alfred Bammesberger. (Indogermanische Bibliothek Reihe 3, Untersuchungen). Heidelberg: Winter, 1988. 585, and Introduction to the Laryngeal Theory. By Frederik Otto Lindeman. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1988, 155 pp. General Linguistics 30: 132-141.
  • 1991. Edward Sapir. Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist. By Regna Darnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xix, 480. General Linguistics 31:101-09.
  • 1991. Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. By Friedrich Kluge. 22nd. ed. by Elmar Seebold, et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1989. Pp. lxv, 822. General Linguistics 31:109-17.
  • 1991. Die Morphologie des urgermanischen Nomens. By Alfred Bammesberger. Heidelberg: Winter, 1990, 290 pp. General Linguistics 31:117-20.
  • 1992. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. Ed. Wolfgang Pfeifer. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1989. Pp. xxiv, 2093. General Linguistics 31:213-17 (1991)
  • 1992. Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology. Ed. Philip Baldi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. xii, 752. General Linguistics 31:217-29.
  • 1992. Neuere Forschungen zur historischen Syntax des Deutschen. Referate der Internationalen Fachkonferenz Eichstätt 1989. Ed. Anne Betten et al. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990. Pp. xxix, 452. Diachronica 9:105-10.
  • 1992. Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. By Julius Pokorny. Vol. I, 1183 pp.; Vol. II: Index by Harry B. Partridge, 495 pp. 2nd ed. Bern: Francke, 1989. Diachronica 9:115-18.
  • 1993. Old English and its Closest Relatives. A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages. By Orrin W. Robinson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 290. Michigan Germanic Studies 17.2:146-48 (1991)
  • 1993. Problems in Phonosymbolism. Edita and Inedita, 1979-1988. By Yakov Malkiel. Vol. I. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1990. 274 pp. General Linguistics 32:67-69 (1992).
  • 1993. Perspectives on Indo-European Language, Culture & Religion: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé. (JIES monographs 7 & 9) McLean, VA: Institute for the Study of Man, 1991, 1992. 2 vols., 510 pp. Journal of Indo-European Studies 21:184-89.
  • 1993. Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch. By Rudolf Schützeichel. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1989. Pp. 309. General Linguistics 32.2-3, 169-70 (1992).
  • 1993. Prehistoric Textiles. The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, with Special Reference to the Aegean. By E.J.W. Barber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xxxi, 471. General Linguistics 32, 2-3:171-79 (1992).
  • 1993. The Languages of Paradise, Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century. By Maurice Olender; trans. by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 193. General Linguistics 32, 2-3:179-83 (1992).
  • 1993. Before Writing. Vol. I. From Counting to Cuneiform, Vol. II. Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens, with a foreword by W. H. Hallo. By Denise Schmandt-Besserat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. I, Pp. xv, 169; II, Pp. xii, 416. General Linguistics 32, 2-3:184-92.
  • 1994. The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones. Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics, by Garland Cannon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xix, 409. General Linguistics 32, 4:242-44 (1992).
  • 1994. Typological Discourse Analysis, by John Myhill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Languages of the World 7 (1993, 2):46-49.
  • 1994. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, I, 4-10. By Manfred Mayrhofer. Heidelberg: Winter, 1988-1992. Pp. lxiv, 812. General Linguistics 33 (1993, 1-2):104-07.
  • 1994. Gaulish Inscriptions. Their interpretation in the light of archaeological evidence and their value as a source of linguistic and sociological information. By Wolfgang Meid. (Archaeolingua, Series Minor 1) Budapest: Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1992. Pp. 58. General Linguistics 33 (1993, 1-2): 107-09.
  • 1994. An Introduction to Middle Dutch. By Colette M. van Kerckvoorde. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. Pp. xii, 222. General Linguistics 33 (1993, 1-2)109-11.
  • 1994. Current Trends in West Germanic Etymological Lexicography. Eds. Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. and Jan van den Berg. Leiden: Brill, 1993. Pp. x, 165. General LInguistics 33 (1993, 1-2):111-14.
  • 1994. Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachwissenschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts. Vol. I A-Br. 1992. Vol. II. Bu-E. 1993. Vol. III. 1994. Eds. Herbert E. Brekle, Edeltraut Dobnig-Jülch, Hans Jürgen Höller and Helmut Weiß. Tübingen: Max Niedermeyer Verlag. General Linguistics 34: 246-251.
  • 1995. Case and Gender. Concept Formation between Morphology and Syntax. By W. Andries van Helden. (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Vol. 20). 2 vols. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993. pp. xxv, 1280. General Linguistics 33:243-52.
  • 1995. Deutsche Präpositionen. Studien zu ihrer Bedeutungsform. By Tsugio Sekiguchi. Eds. Kennosuke Ezawa, Wilfried Kürschner and Isao Suwa. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1994. Pp. xiii, 74. General Linguistics 34: 127-128.
  • 1995. Etymology. By Yakov Malkiel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 223. Languages of the World 9 (1995/1): 81-82.
  • 1996. Studies in Brythonic Word Order. Ed. by James Fife and Erich Poppe. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991. Pp. ix, 360. Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 46:314-17 (1994).
  • 1996. Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change. Ed. by Marinel Gerritsen and Dieter Stein. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. Pp. vi, 482. Kratylos 41:85-91 (1996).
  • 1997. Linguistic and Computational Techniques in Machine Translation System Design. Ed. by Peter Whitelock and Kieran Kilby. London: UCI Press, 1995, 2nd ed. Pp. xii, 208. Machine Translation 12:261-69 (1997).
  • 1999. Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology. By Jacek Fisiak (Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs 96). Berlin and New-York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. Lingua 107: 275-278.
  • 1999. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Ed. by James P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams. London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Language 75, 1: 154-158.

2000-2003

  • 2000. UCLA Indo-European Studies. Vol. I. Ed. by Vyacheslav V. Ivanov & Brent Vine. Los Angeles, University of California, 1999. General Linguisitics 37: 218-219.
  • 2001. Syntactic Change in Welsh: a study of the loss of verb-second. By David W.E. Willis. Oxford, Clarendon, 1998. Zeitschrift für Keltische Philologie 52: 318-321.
  • 2001. The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Ed. By Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph & Hans-Josef Niederehe. Vol I: Historigraphical Perspectives; Vol II: Methodological Perspectives and applications. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999. Historiographia Linguistica 28, 3: 429-434.
  • 2002. American Linguistics and Generative Grammar Today. Review of Foundations of Language. Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution, by Ray Jackendoff (Oxford: University Press, 2002. xix, 477), and On Nature and Language, by Noam Chomsky (ed. by Adriana Beletti and Luigi Rizzi. Cambridge University Press 2002 x, 206). General Linguistics 42:61-72.
  • 2002. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, Vol. II & Vol. III, fascicles 21-31. By Manfred Mayrhofer. Heidelberg: Winter, 1996 & 1997-2001. xxxi, 837 & 880. General Linguistics 42:122-124.
  • 2002. Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family. Papers Presented at a Colloquium Hosted by the University of Richmond, March 18-19, 2000. Ed. by Robert Drews. Washington, D.C.: The Institute for the Study of Man, 2001. General Linguistics 42:124-131.
  • 2002. Indefinite Pronouns. By Martin Haspelmath. Oxford: University Press. xii, 364. General Linguistics 42:151-154.
  • 2002. A Short History of Structural Linguistics. By Peter Matthews. Cambridge: University Press, 2001. ix, 162. General Linguistics 42:191-194.
  • 2003. Runes and Germanic Linguistics. By Elmer H. Antonsen. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. xii, 380. General Linguistics 43:155-158.
  • 2003. The History of Linguistics in Europe. From Plato to 1600. By Vivien Law. Cambridge: University Press, 2003. xvii, 307. General Linguistics 43:158-162.
  • 2003. The Amazonian Languages. By Robert M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, eds. Cambridge: University Press, 1999. xxviii, 446. General Linguistics 43:179-182.
  • 2003. The Dravidian Languages. By Bhadriraju Krishnamurti. Cambridge: University Press, 2003. xxvii, 545. General Linguistics 43:201-206.