Bulletin 31, November 1998

Full issue.

Contents:

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

• John Considine, ‘John Milton and the Uses of Etymology’ (pp. 5-13)

• Nicola McLelland, ‘Of Lunaries and Linguists. Fifteenth Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society, Amsterdam, 16-19 September 1998: Conference Report’ (pp. 14-16)

• The Fifteenth HSS Colloquium 1998: Abstracts of Papers (pp. 17-36)

• REVIEWS:

  • Jochen Hafner, Review of Hans-Dieter Dräxler, Die ldéologie in Deutschland. Versuch der Rekonstruktion der Rezeption einer französischen wissenschaftlichen Theorie im Deutschland des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Münster: Nodus Publikationen. 1996 (pp. 37-39)

  • Mark Atherton, Review of Kenzo Kihara (ed.), with the assistance of Keiko Takeuchi and with an Introduction by Ko Miyake, Henry Sweet: A Handbook of Phonetics. Tokyo: Sanseido, 1998 (pp. 40-42)

  • Bruce C. Johnson, Review of Joyce M. Morris (ed.), Controversial Issues in English. Proceedings of the Queen's English Society's Silver Jubilee Conference 18th October, 1997. London: The Queen's English Society, 1998 (pp. 43-45)

  • Pieter A. M. Seuren, Review of Jan Noordegraaf, The Dutch Pendulum. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1740-1900. Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 1996 (pp. 46-50)

  • Dirk M. Schenkeveld, Review of Raffaella Petrilli, Temps et détermination dans Ia grammaire et Ia philosophie ancienne. Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 1997 (pp. 51-52)

  • Mark Atherton, Review of Rob Pope, Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. London & New York: Routledge, 1995 (pp. 53-54)

  • Ann Wehmeyer, Review of Wout van Bekkum, Jan Houben, Ineke Sluiter, Kees Versteegh, The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions: Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997 (pp. 55-58)

• Publications Received (pp. 59-64)

• Jochen Hafner and Brigitte Schlieben-Lange, ‘The Formation of Discourse: The Grammaire Générale at the Ecoles Centrales (1795-1803)’ (pp. 65-69)

• NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • The Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher (p. 70)

  • Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Henry Sweet Society held on Friday, 18 September 1998 at the University of Amsterdam (pp. 71-73)

  • The Henry Sweet Society: Colloquium and Annual General Meeting, Monday, 22nd March 1999, Regent’s Park College Oxford (p. 76)

  • A New Society for the History of Linguistics: Society for the History of Hebrew Linguistics (p. 77)