(From the UCLA Indo-European Studies Bulletin, Vol. 10, Number 2, June-July 2003. For subscription information to the full hardcopy version, click here.)
(Updated 4. October 2003)
NEW BOOKS LISTINGS
Note: Abbreviations used: IBS = Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; IBS-V = Vorträge und kleinere Schriften, a subseries of IBS; IBK = Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft; Inst. für Sprach. = Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität. Information is now available on the WWW for IBS, IBK, and Archaeolingua at: http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c604/verlage.html. Links to websites have been made active if they were working when this page was uploaded, 4. October 2003.
Books available for review (as of May 2003) in the journal Language are marked with an asterisk (*). Please refer to the website http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/, and click on "Language Book Review" for more information.
*Adams, J. N. Bilingualism and the Latin Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 864 pp.; hb; $140. [This book concerns communication problems in the Roman world where languages (apart from Greek and Latin) were spoken. How did the Romans communicate with their subjects in the remoter parts of the Roman Empire and what language policies did the Romans pursue? —From the publisher’s circular]
*Adams, J. N., Mark Janse, and Simon Swain, eds. Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language contact and the written text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 483 pp.
Adrados, Francisco Rodríguez. History of the Graeco-Latin Fable. III: Inventory and Documentation of the Graeco-Latin Fable. Originally published in Spanish. Supplemented with new references and fables by Gert-Jan van Dijk. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 236. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xlviii + 1168 pp.; EUR 240.
Andersen, Henning, ed. Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in stratigraphy. Papers from the workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 239. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. viii + 292 pp.; hb; $95 / EUR 95. [This volume discusses past problems and current advances in the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, Japanese, and Meso-American languages. —From the publisher’s circular]
Antonsen, Elmer H. Runes and Germanic Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2002. 380 pp.; hb; $108.99. [This work is a detailed and practical guide to the history and interpretation of the runes, meant for those who already have a prior knowledge of the subject. It presents a development of runic writing, and suggests ways in which runes should be read and how to date them. The last section of the book gives a typology of runes and examines their phonology, grammar, syntax, and presentation. —From the publisher’s circular]
Aravantinos, V.L., L. Godart, and A. Sacconi. Thèbes: Fouilles de la Cadmée. III: Corpus des Documents d’Archives en linéaire B de Thèbes (1–433). Biblioteca di "Pasiphae." Collana di filologia e antichità egee, 3. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2002. 328 pp.; hb: EUR 160; pb: EUR 125.
*Ball, Martin J., and James Fife, eds. The Celtic Languages. London: Routledge, 2002. 682 pp.
Bammesberger, Alfred, and Theo Vennemann, eds. Languages in Prehistoric Europe. In collaboration with Markus Bieswanger and Joachim Grzega. Indogermanische Bibliothek, 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. 364 pp.; EUR 48. [This volume investigates the linguistic situation in Europe before the advent of writing, and examines the influences of prehistoric languages on individual Indo-European languages. Except for two papers on archaeology, the essays deal with linguistic problems. Authors include Robert Beekes, Dirk Boutkan, Ivo Hajnal, Alexander Häusler, Petri Kallio, Jorma Koivulehto, Thomas Lindner, Frederik Kortlandt, Norbert Oettinger, Oswald Panagl, Colin Renfrew, Helmut Rix, William R. Schmalstieg, Peter Schrijver, Klaus Strunk, Jürgen Untermann, and Theo Vennemann. —From the publisher’s circular]
Bandle, Oskar, Kurt Braunmüller, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Allan Karker, Hans-Peter Naumann, and Ulf Teleman, eds. The Nordic Languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages. In cooperation with Gun Widmark and Lennart Elmevik. Vol I. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2002. xxvii + 1057 pp.; hb; EUR 498 / approx. $498. [This two-volume set, with volume two scheduled to appear later in 2003, was conceived of as a comprehensive history of the North Germanic languages. The Nordic languages are described individually and in relation to the neighboring non-Nordic languages. The work combines diachronic with synchronic-systematic aspects. It is composed of over two hundred articles written by various authors. Theory and methodology are discussed in volume one, followed by chapters on the early chronological developments (i.e., "Nordic as a Part of Old Germanic," "Proto-Nordic," "From Proto-Nordic to Old Norse," and three chapters on aspects of "Old Norse"). The second volume continues the chronological treatment of the languages until the present, and concludes with several chapters on special topics in Nordic language history (including typology, social stratification, special languages, language contacts, and language planning). —From the publisher’s circular]
Bartonek, Antonin. Handbuch des mykenischen Griechisch. Indogermanische Bibliothek, 1. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. vi + 676 pp.; hb; EUR 74. [This is an impressive hardbound 676 pp. work, with a large introduction, about not only Linear B (hereafter: LB), but also the other Aegean scripts of the Bronze Age and their context (7–49), a section about the decipherment of LB (51–69), a description of the LB documents (70–95), of the LB script (97–130), and, then, the grammar itself: phonetics (131–148), morphology (149–350), vocabulary (351–438), syntax (439–445), the dialectal position of Mycenaean Greek (446–497), a Mycenaean anthology of fifty-two texts (500–532), an index of the appellatives (533–620) and a bibliography (621–676). There is an unusual (for a grammar) number of illustrations. "Nobody is perfect," of course, but this book is obviously a major reference in the field of Mycenaean language and should be on the shelves of every good library. —Yves Duhoux.]
Bevan, Gareth A., and P. J. Donovan, eds. Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru = A Dictionary of the Welsh Language. Volume 4: S–Zwinglïaidd. Caerdydd : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2002. xvi + 748 pp.; £45. [The final volume was published in late 2002. The complete set may be purchased for £190.00. To keep informed on the revisions to A–B, which are currently being revised, please see the information contained in "Electronic Update."]
Bryce, Trevor. Life and Society in the Hittite World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 312 pp.; hb; $72.
Cancik, Hubert, Helmut Schneider, and Manfred Landfester, eds. Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the ancient world. Antiquity. Volume 1: A–Ari. Vol. 2: Ark-Ci. Leiden: Brill, 2002 (vol. 1), 2003 (vol. 2). lxi + 579 pp. (vol. 1), xviii + 596 pp. (vol. 2); hb; $186 / EUR 160 (price per volume). [This is an English translation of Der neue Pauly. Fifteen volumes comprise the "Antiquity" portion of this work; five volumes will be devoted to the "Classical Tradition" part, which discusses the aftermath of antiquity and its continuous reinterpretation and revaluation. The English New Pauly will contain updated bibliographic references, the "Classical Tradition" portion will have new entries. Volume 3 (Cat–Epi) should appear later this year. Under the current plan, three volumes are scheduled to be published every year, with the entire series to be published by 2008. —From the publisher’s circular]
Carpelan, Christian, Asko Parpola, and Petteri Koskikallio, eds. Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and archaeological considerations. Papers presented at an international symposium held at the Tvärminne Research Station of the University of Helsinki 8–10 January, 1999. Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 242. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society, 2002. 456 pp.; EUR 35. [Numerous papers discuss Uralic and IE contacts, with papers by David Anthony, Christian Carpelan and Asko Parpola, H.-P. Francfort, Eugene Helimski, Petri Kallio, Jorma Koivulehto, E. E. Kuzmina, Alexander Lubotsky, J. Makkay, J. P. Mallory, Vladimir Napol’skikh (on Tocharian-Uralic contacts in language and archaeology), Pekka Sammallahti, and Peter Schrijver ("Lost Languages of Northern Europe"). Abstracts from a number of the archaeological papers are also included. For a full listing of the contents, see http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/julkaisut/sust/sust242.html.]
Cavoto, Fabrice, ed. The Linguist’s Linguist: A collection of papers in honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer. 2 vols. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2002. vol. 1: vi +1–246 pp., vol. 2: 247–475 pp.; $68 / EUR 68 / £45 (cost per volume). [For a list of the contents, see Lincom Europa website, http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/4269.htm. The two volumes, dedicated to Alexis Manaster Ramer, include a collection of over forty papers by scholars writing from a wide variety of areas of linguistics. Papers on Indo-European and comparative linguistics are well-represented, with submissions from P. Baldi, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal, B. Darden, H. Craig Melchert, B. Olsen, V. Blažek, J. E. Rasmussen, V. Shevoroshkin, B. Vine, and G. Windfuhr.]
Cheung, Johnny. Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002. 364 pp., 2 maps; hb; EUR 82. [This book discusses developments in the phonology of Ossetic, including apocope, syncope, aphaeresis, i-epenthesis and palatalization, *u, and the accent, with commentary on etymologies from Abaev’s Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetic language. An extensive appendix is included, which treats several nominal suffixes and verbal endings. —From the publisher’s circular]
Christensen, Arne Søby. Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths: Studies in a migration myth. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002. 391 pp.; Dkr. 298 / £27 / $38 / EUR 43. [This study demonstrates that the myth of the origins and early Goths as reflected in the Getica of Jordanes (ad 551) ought to be reconsidered.—From the publisher’s circular]
Clackson, James, and Birgit Olsen, eds. Indo-European Word Formation: Proceedings from the international conference in Copenhagen 20.–22 October 2000. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003. 424 pp.; Dkr. 448 / £41 / $56 / EUR 64. [Contributions by: Fabrice Cavoto, Paul S. Cohen, George Dunkel, Adam Hyllested, Britta Irslinger, Folke Josephson, Konstantin Krasukhin, Martin Kümmel, Jenny Larsson, Rosemarie Lühr, Michael Meier-Brügger, Benedicte Nielsen, Alan Nussbaum, Birgit Olsen, Natalia Pimenova, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, Elisabeth Rieken, Velizar Sadovski, Woiciech Smoczyński, Brent Vine, and Gordon Whittaker.]
*Comrie, Bernard, and Greville G. Corbett, eds. The Slavonic Languages. London: Routledge, 2002. 1078 pp.; pb; $39.95. [This paperback version of the hardback edition ($185) "provides chapter-length descriptions of each of the modern Slavonic languages and the attested extinct Slavonic languages. Individual chapters discuss the various alphabets that have been used to write Slavonic languages, in particular, Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, the relationship to one another through their common ancestor, Proto Slavonic, and the extent to which various Slavonic languages have survived in emigration." —From the publisher’s circular]
Das, Rahul Peter, and Gerhard Meiser, eds. Geregeltes Ungestüm: Bruderschaften und Jugendbünde bei indogermanischen Völkern. Veröffentlichungen zur Indogermanistik und Anthropologie, 1. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2002. xxvi + 170 pp.; pb; EUR 28. [The papers in this volume were taken from a series of lectures sponsored by the Institut für Indologie und Südostasienwissenschaften and the Institut für Indogermanistik, Allgemeine und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft der Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle. Gerhard Meiser’s paper starts the volume with "Indogermanische Jugendbünde (oder: Probleme bei der Rekonstruktuion sozialer Strukturen)," and papers by seven other scholars address the topic from the viewpoint of India, Islamic Orient, Greek-Roman antiquity, and Celtic perspectives. —From the publisher’s circular]
*Dauses, August. Universalien der Grammatik und der Indogermanische Sprachbau. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. 128 pp.
Davis, Daniel R., ed. Development of Celtic Linguistics. 6 vols. Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2001. 3304 pp.; hb; $985. [Many important works are reproduced in this multivolume set, including J. Zeuss, Grammatica Celtica (1853), John Rhys, Lectures on Welsh Philology (1877), Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, D’Etudes grammaticales sur les langues celtiques (1881), Whitley Stokes, Celtic Declension (1885), Thomas de Courcy Atkins, The Kelt or Gael (1892), John Jones Thomas, Britannia Antiquissima (1860), and John Williams, Gomer (1854).]
Day, John V. Indo-European Origins: The anthropological evidence. JIES Monograph. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2001. xxvi + 546 pp.; pb; $68.[Based on the author’s Ph.D. thesis, this book surveys the evidence from biological anthropology for Indo-European origins. Over 2,600 books and articles are listed in the bibliography. —From the publisher’s circular]
de la Vaissière, E. Histoire des Marchands Sogdiens. Bibliothèque de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, 32. Paris: Collège de France, 2002. 413 pp.; EUR 35 / approx. $25 + shipping. [This book is a social and economic historical inquiry on the Sogdian traders, utilizing available texts and archaeological data. Evidence from linguistic borrowing is used as evidence. The book includes eight plates, six maps, two folded maps (of the Zerafshan valley and Sogdian trade in China), four indexes (proper names, geographical names, subjects, sources), and a bibliography. Orders: Librairie de Boccard, 11 rue de Medicis 75006 Paris France; phone: 33 1 43 26 00 37; fax: 33 1 43 54 85 83, WWW: http://www.deboccard.com/.]
de Simone, Carlo, ed. Monumenta Linguae Messapicae. Unter Mitarbeit von Simona Marchesini. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002. 2 vols. 956 pp. in 2 vols. with CD-ROM (Power Mac 7.1+); EUR 280. [Volume 1 includes a brief introduction to the corpus, a twelve page introduction to the alphabet, directions for using the text, and the complete corpus of known Messapic inscriptions. The second volume lists the Messapic words alphabetically, with morphological and, where possible, semantic identifications, as well as bibliographic references. Concordances, a chart illustrating the chronological development of the alphabet, a map of Puglia, and CD-ROM are found at the end of volume two. —Rex Wallace]
Falk, Harry, ed. Vom Herrscher zur Dynastie: Zum Wesen kontinuierlicher Zeitrechnung in Antike und Gegenwart. Vergleichende Studien zu Antike und Orient, 1. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2002. 288 pp.; pb; EUR 39. [This volume comprises a series of twelve essays (with an introduction by Harry Falk) that focus on time reckoning in various civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Iran, India, Islam, Japan, and China. Articles include "Ären im alten Iran" by W. Sundermann and "Frühe Zeitrechnung in Indien" by Harry Falk. —From the publisher’s circular]
Forssman, Berthold. Das baltische Adverb: Morphosemantik und Diachronie. Indogermanische Bibliothek, 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. 458 pp.; EUR 58.
Francia, Rita. Le funzioni sintattiche degli Elementi Avverbiali di Luogo Ittiti. anda(n), appa(n), katta(n), katti-, peran, papa, ser, sara. Studia Asiana, 1. Herder: Roma, 2002. 245 pp.; EUR 40. [This is the first book in a new series. It is available from Herder Editrice e Libreria, Piazza Montecitorio 117-120, 00186 Roma; phone: 06/6794628, 6795304; fax: 06/6784751; email: distr@herder.it or bookcenter@herder.it; WWW: http://www.herder.it/.]
Franklin, Simon. Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950–1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 325 pp.; hb; $65.
Green, Alberto R.W. The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East. Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego, 8. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003. xviii + 363 pp.; hb; $42.50. [This book covers the Storm-God in pictorial representation, in myth, religion, and texts from Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Syria and Canaan. One chapter (chapter two) is devoted to the evidence from Anatolia, including the Storm-God in written sources, in Hittite mythology, as represented on rock carvings, orthostats, and temples, and in archaeological pictorial representations generally.]
*Greenberg, Joseph H. Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic family. Volume 2: Lexicon. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. hb; $49.50. [Volume one, which appeared in 2000, was on grammar.]
Grigoriev, Stanislav A. Ancient Indo-Europeans. Eurasian Ancient History, 1. Chelyabinsk, Russia: Institute of History and Archaeology, 2002. 496 pp.; hb; $67 / EUR 67 for individuals or $77 / EUR 77 for organizations. [This is the first volume of a new series. Grigoriev’s book discusses the origins of the IE-speaking peoples based on archaeological evidence, drawing mainly on material from northern Eurasia. The book suggests a theory that corresponds to that of Gamkrelidze and Ivanov. Part one focuses on the Sintashta culture and its origins and connections with the Near East. Part two is on the origins of the southern Indo-Iranian cultures and cultural processes in northern Eurasia in the late Bronze Age. It deals with the problems of the archaeological cultures in Bactria, Margiana, Iran and India, the origins of the southern Indo-Iranian tribes, and the migrations of the Tocharians, the Scythians, and other ancient Europeans (the Balts, Slavs, Germans, Celts, and the Italic-speakers). Part three discusses the history of other Indo-European groups (Greeks, Anatolians, Thracians) and offers a general picture of IE origins and migrations. Chapters in this last section include: "Expansions of the Nostratic Languages and the First IEs," "Migrations of the IEs Within the Circumpontic Zone," "Cultural Transformations in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe in the Early and Middle Bronze Age," "IEs in the Near East," "Causes of the Migrations, their Geographic Conditionality and Forms," and an overview of the origins and migrations of the IEs. A fuller description and table of contents is accessible from the website http://www.eah.uu.ru:8101/books.htm. —From the publisher’s circular. Note: Orders may be sent to: 454000, Kommuni 68, Institute of History and Archaeology, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Email orders are also possible, with directions available on the website: http://www.eah.uu.ru.]
Groddek, Detlev. Hethitische Texte in Transkription: KBo 30. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 2. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2002. xiv + 275 pp.; pb; EUR 20. [This book is from a new series of books on Hittite from the Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Germanistik, Technische Universität Dresden.Volumes may be purchased directly from dbh@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de, but it is recommended that overseas orders be handled via Amazon. For a full listing of volumes, see http://www.tu-dresden.de/slk/dbh/gesamt.htm.]
———. Hethitische Texte in Transkription: KUB 55. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 4. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2002. 146 pp.; pb; EUR 13. [See note above.]
———. Konkordanz zu den Grabungsnummern. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 5. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2003. x + 254 pp.; pb; EUR 20. [See note above.]
Groddek, Detlev, A. Hagenbuchner, and I. Hoffmann. Hethitische Texte in Transcription: VS NF 12. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 6. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2003. xi + 221 pp.; pb; EUR 18. [See note above.]
Hackstein, Olav. Die Sprachform der homerischen Epen: Faktoren morphologischer Variabilität in literarischen Frühformen: Tradition – Sprachwandel – Sprachliche Anachronismen. Serta Graeca, Beiträge zur Erforschung griechischer Texte, 15. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002. 356 pp.; hb; EUR 58. [This book investigates the potential of the Homeric language to preserve both archaisms and linguistic innovation. It provides an assessment of many difficult Homeric verbal forms, and hence provides a supplement to Chantraine’s treatment in Grammaire homérique (vol. 1, 5th ed., 1973). It also presents a typology of the interrelationship between social change and language change. —From the publisher’s circular]
Hagenbuchner-Dresel, Albertine. Massangaben bei Hethitischen Backwaren. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 1. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2002. xii + 197 pp.; pb; EUR 16. [For ordering information, see entry above under Groddek, Detlev, Hethitische Texte in Transkription: KBo 30.]
Haug, Dag. Les phases de l’évolution de la langue épique. Trois études de linguistique homérique. Hypomnemata, Band 142. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2002. 176 pp.; hb; EUR 42. [This book investigates the Greek epic language from its supposedly Mycenaean origins to the Ionic Iliad and Odyssey.]
Hazenbos, Joost. The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults during the Thirteenth Century BC: An appraisal of the Hittite cult inventories. Cuneiform Monographs, 21. Leiden: Brill-Styx, 2003. x + 358 pp.; hb; $91. [This study contains a text edition of many important cult inventories, mainly connected with the Hittite thirteenth-century cult reorganization. It uses these and other texts to sketch the background and the administrative and geographic aspects of this operation.—From the publisher’s circular. Note: This title is also available from Eisenbrauns.]
*Heinz, Sabine. Welsh Dictionaries in the Twentieth Century: A critical analysis. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2002. 536 pp. [This book is an investigation of Welsh dictionaries in their socio-linguistic context.—From the publisher’s circular]
Hettrich, Heinrich, ed. Indogermanische Syntax – Fragen und Perspektiven. Unter Mitarbeit von Jeong-Soo Kim. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002. 364 pp.; hb; EUR 52.
*Hovdhaugen, Even, Fred Karlsson, Carol Henriksen, and Bengt Sigurd. The History of Linguistics in the Nordic Countries. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarium Fennica, 2000. 672 pp.
Hrozný, Friedrich. Die Sprache der Hethiter. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 3. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2002. 297 pp.; pb; EUR 20. [This reprint of the 1916 edition includes the article by F. Hrozný, "Die Lösung des hethitischen Problems" from Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 56, 1915. For ordering information, see entry above under Groddek, Detlev, Hethitische Texte in Transkription: KBo 30.]
Ivanov, Vyacheslav. Xettskij jazyk [The Hittite Language]. 2nd ed. Moscow: Editorial URSS, 2001. 294 pp.; pb. [Besides providing, in soft-cover format, a reprint of Ivanov’s classic 1963 monograph on Hittite, this edition includes the following enhancements: a new introduction, setting the original work in its historical context and outlining the rationale and goals of this edition; an updated annotated bibliography (with well over one hundred new items); ten pages of additions and corrections (pp. 231–240); full indexes of names, subjects, and morphs/words; and a substantial English summary (281–292). —Brent Vine. Publisher’s address: 113208 Moscow, ul. Chertanovskaja, d. 2/11; email: urss@urss.ru; WWW: http://urss.ru/; phone/fax: (095) 135-44-23 or (095) 135-42-46.]
Jasanoff, Jay. Hittite and the Indo-European Verb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 300 pp, 6 figs.; hb; £50.00 / $74.
Jones-Bley, Karlene, and D.G. Zdanovich, eds. Complex Societies of Central Eurasia from the Third to the First Millennium BC: Regional specifics in the light of global models. JIES Monograph, 45 and 46. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2002. vol 1: xxxviii + 364 pp., vol 2: xxxviii + 289 pp.; pb; $52 per volume. Volumes may be purchased separately. [The Complex Societies of Central Eurasia conference, held at Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and Arkaim between 25 August and 2 September, 1999, brought together over one hundred scholars from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Kazakhstan, Sweden, England, and the United States for the first time in a unique setting. Arkaim is one of twenty sites found in an area that covers approximately 400 x 200 km on the Eurasian steppe east of the Southern Urals. The sites date to c. 2300–1600 bc. One of these sites, Sintashta, was excavated in the 1970s by V.V. Gening, but it was not until the discovery and excavation of Arkaim by G. Zdanovich that it became clear that these were not just isolated sites and that they were of great significance. Subsequent aerial survey located additional sites.The papers in this volume are divided into seven sections, each concentrating on a different aspect of complex societies. While the conference centered on Arkaim and its related sites, numerous papers cast a larger net covering not only the interpretation of the sites but also their mythological and linguistic relationships. Section 1 provides papers that deal with the large issues of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian, and Section 2 presents a theoretical view of complex societies. Section 3 deals with specifically Sintashta-type site problems, and Section 4 looks at the Eneolithic and Bronze Age backgrounds of these sites. Section 5 (in volume 2) presents some interpretations of the Iron Age and Section 6 provides papers devoted to the natural sciences that fill out the picture of the Steppe during the Bronze Age. Section 7 takes us beyond Central Eurasia, but shows how it influenced areas other than the Steppe. Kathryn Linduff even shows Steppe connections with China and Hjartner-Holdar and Risberg discuss the surprisingly early use of iron in Sweden and its relationship with Russia. These volumes provide, for the first time in English, a variety of studies concentrating on the Arkaim phenomenon and the problems connected with it. While this subject is not well known outside Eastern Europe, it is a subject that reflects not only on Central Asia but also on Eurasian studies in general and specifically on Indo-European Studies.—K. Jones-Bley. For the contents of each volume, see: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/monographs/mono45.html and http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/monographs/mono46.html]
Jones-Bley, Karlene, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, November 9–10, 2001. JIES Monograph, 44. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2002. x + 191 pp.; pb; $46. [A listing of the contents is available at: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/monographs/mono44.html]
Joseph, Brian D., and Richard D. Janda, eds. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 872 pp.; hb; $139.95. [This volume provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics concerned with language change, as well as past language states. Brian Joseph and Richard Janda have written an extensive introduction, entitled "On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics." Twenty-five articles, written by specialists, are included. For a list of the chapters and the authors, see the "Detailed contents" option on this title off Blackwell website, http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ .]
Joseph, John E. From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the history of American linguistics. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. viii + 240 pp.; pb: $39.95 / EUR 40; hb: $85 / EUR 85.
Kassian, Alexei, Andrej Korolev, and Andrej Sidel’tsev. Hittite Funeral Ritual: šalliš waštaiš. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 288. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2002. ix + 973 pp.; hb; $104. [This is a new edition of the Hittite funerary texts, with a transliteration and English and Russian translation. A comprehensive glossary of Hittite, Sumerian, and Akkadian words and a catalog of divine and geographical names are included. Note: This title is also available from Eisenbrauns.]
Kassian, Alexei, and Andrej Sidel’tsev, eds. Studia Linguarum 3/1 and 3/2: De omnibus linguae rebus scibilibus et quibusdam aliis. Memoriae A. A. Korolev dicata. 2 volume set. Studia Linguarum, 3. Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2002. 548 pp.; pb; $39.95 [The present volume, written in English, is dedicated to the memory of Dr. A. A. Korolev, whose expertise covered Anatolian, Celtic, and other IE languages. Contributors include: A. S. Kassian, A. V. Sidel’tsev, D. Groddek, M. Starostin, I. Yakubovich, V. Shevoroshkin, A. Kossian, N. Harouthiounyan, M. Puturidze, and others.—From the publisher’s circular. Note: This title is available from Eisenbrauns]
Katz, Hartmut. Studien zu den älteren indoiranischen Lehnwörtern in den uralischen Sprachen. Aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Anna Widmer, Paul Widmer, und Gerson Klumpp. Indogermanische Bibliothek. 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. xvi + 354 pp.; EUR 43.
König, Ekkehard, and Johan van der Auwera, eds. The Germanic Languages. London: Routledge, 2002. 648 pp.; pb; $39.95. [This is a paperback version of the 1994 hardback ($185).]
Kuzmina, Elena E. Mythology and Art of the Scythians and Bactrians. Moscow: Russian Institute for Cultural Research, 2002 [2003]. 288 pp.; hb; $45 / EUR 45 + postage. [This book includes sixteen color plates with representations from the Ukraine, the Urals and Siberia, as well as items from the Moscow Historical Museum and the Hermitage. For further information and the table of contents, please see http://www.riku.ru/cvKuzmina.htm. Three articles are in English. Ordering information: Bank account N 1755405, sorting code 30-90-73 Branch SMITH ST GUERNSEY at Lloyds TSB Alex Kuzmin; e-mail: riku@dol.ru; fax: (095) 959-10-17 Kuzmina]
Lambert, Pierre-Yves. Recueil des inscriptions gauloises ii/2, Textes gallo-latins sur instrumentum. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2003. 432 pp.; EUR 75 / $71.
Law, Vivien. The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 325 pp.; hb: $70; pb: $25.
*Levin, Saul. Semitic and Indo-European. Volume 2: Comparative Morphology, Syntax and Phonetics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 226. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. xviii + 592 pp.; hb; $110 / EUR 110. [The first volume, entitled The Principal Etymologies: With observations on Afro-Asiatic, appeared in 1995. Volumes can also be purchased as a set for $227 / EUR 227.]
Lucchesi, Elisa, and Elisabetta Magni. Vecchie e nuove (in)certezze sul Lapis Satricanus. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2002. 104 pp.; pb; EUR 8. [Order information: info@edizioniets.com, WWW: http://www.edizioniets.com/ ]
Marangozis, John. A Short Grammar of Hieroglyphic Luwian. LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Lingustics, 24. Munich: Lincom, 2003. 60 pp.; $30 / EUR 30 / £21.
Marshak, Boris. Legends, Tales, and Fables in the Art of Sogdiana. New York: Bibliotheca Persica, 2002. xi + 187 pp.; hb; $65. [This book surveys over forty illustrated murals that have been excavated over the past fifty-four years in Panjikent, a fifth–eighth century ce town in the Zerafshan Valley in Tajikistan. The excavation teams have found on the walls of the houses of Panjikent dozens of pictorial representations of parables, fables, fairy tales, and anecdotes. In several compositions the author has recognized scenes from Aesop’s Fables, the Panchatantra and the Sindbad-nameh and compared these subjects with those of the fragmentary Sogdian texts. The book also includes an appendix on two Sogdian inscriptions by V.A. Livshits. Sixteen plates and one hundred seven illustrations are included. —From the publisher’s circular]
Meiser, Gerhard. Veni Vidi Vici: Die Vorgeschichte des lateinischen Perfektsystems. "Zetemata," Monographien zur klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 113. Munich: C.H. Beck-Verlag, 2003. xxii + 278 pp.; EUR 68.
Melchert, H. Craig, ed. The Luwians. Handbook of Oriental Studies: Part 1. Ancient Near East, 68. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xx + 420 pp.; hb; EUR 89 / $104. [This book includes a brief introduction and chapters on prehistory, history, writing and language, religion, and material culture of the Luwians, with contributions from a variety of scholars.]
Minkova, Donka, and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A millennial perspective. Topics in English Linguistics, 39. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. viii + 392 pp.; hb; Euro 88 / sFr 141 / approx. $88. [This volume is made up of nineteen papers, which were selected from a UCLA conference intended to review the state of the field at the beginning of the new millennium and to stimulate research in English historical linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of mixed language texts, phonology, and metrics. —From the publisher’s circular]
Oettinger, Norbert. Die Stammbildung des hethitischen Verbums: Nachdruck mit einer kurzen Revision der hethitischen Verbalklassen. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 7. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2003. xxx + 637 pp.; pb; EUR 30. [For ordering information, see entry above under Groddek, Detlev, Hethitische Texte in Transkription: KBo 30.]
Parpola, Sima, and R. M. Whiting, eds. Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the forty-seventh Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2–6, 2001. 2 volume set. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki, 2002. xxvii + 673 pp.; pb; $85. [Includes a few papers on Hittite, such as J.D. Hawkins, "Eunuchs among the Hittites," Susana B. Murphy, "The Practice of Power in the Ancient Near East: Sorceresses and serpents in Hittite myths," and Jaan Puhvel, "Genus and Sexus in Hittite." For a listing of all the papers, see the detailed information on this title on the Eisenbrauns’ website, http://www.eisenbrauns.com/.]
Petersmann, Hubert. Lingua et Religio: Ausgewählte Kleine Schriften zur antiken Religionsgeschichte auf sprachwissenschaftlicher Grundlage. Edited by Bernd Hessen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2002. 304 pp.; EUR 56.
Petrosyan, Armen Y. The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic: Myth and history. JIES Monograph, 42. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2002. 236 pp.; pb; $52. [The table of contents is available at: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/monographs/mono42.html]
Pijnenburg, Willy, Arend Quak, and Tanneke Schoonheim, eds. Quod Vulgo Dicitur: Studien zum Altniederländischen. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 57. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003. vi + 330 pp.; pb; EUR 65 / $65.
Plöchl, Reinhold. Einführung ins Hieroglyphen-Luwische. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 8. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2003. xiii + 144 pp.; pb; EUR 16. [For ordering information, see entry above under Groddek, Detlev, Hethitische Texte in Transkription: KBo 30.]
Powell, Barry B. Writing and the Origin of Greek Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 210 pp.; hb; $55.
Prósper, Blanca María. Lenguas y religiones prerromanas del occidente de la Península Ibérica. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2002.
Puhvel, Jaan. EPILECTA INDOEUROPAEA: Opuscula selecta annis 1978–2000 excusa imprimis ad res Anatolicas attinentia. IBS, 104. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 2002. xii + 309 pp.; hb; EUR 88. [A review by H. Craig Melchert is contained in this issue.]
Restle, David, and Dietmar Zaefferer, eds. Sounds and Systems: Studies in structure and change. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. viii + 484 pp.; Euro 98 / sFr 157 / approx. $98. [The volume, a Festschrift for Theo Vennemann, is a collection of twenty-one papers on the history and structure of the sounds and other (sub-)systems of human languages. It is divided into two sections: historical studies on sounds, words, and systems (sound change and language change), and synchronic studies on sounds, words, and uses. The first section includes articles by Henning Andersen ("Preglottalization in English and a North Germanic bifurcation"), Philip Baldi ("Latin ipse, Continental Celtic -xsi: a tentative proposal") and Peter Schrijver ("Irish ainder, Welsh anner, Breton annoar, Basque andere"), amongst others.]
Rix, Helmut. Sabellische Texte: Die Texte des Oskischen, Umbrischen und Südpikenischen. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2002. x + 227 pp.; hb.
Robinson, Andrew. The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The story of Michael Ventris. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002. 176 pp.; hb; $19.95.
Rübekeil, Ludwig. Diachrone Studien zur Kontaktzone zwischen Kelten und Germanen. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2002. 498 pp.; pb; EUR 82.76.
Schweyer, Anne-Valérie. Les Lyciens et la mort: Une étude d’histoire sociale. Varia Anatolica, 14. Istanbul/Paris: Institut français d’études anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil (Istanbul), 2002. 318 pp.; EUR 60.
Seebold, Elmar, ed. Kluge: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. 24th edition. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. xxix + 1023 pp.; pb: EUR 24.95 / sFr 59 / $25; hb: EUR 36.95 / sFr 59 / approx. $37 (includes CD-ROM). [The editor of this edition has revised and updated the entire text. For the first time the Kluge is published with a CD-ROM that allows detailed and quick inquiries. The CD can be purchased separately for EUR 24.95 / sFr 40 / approx. $25. —From the publisher’s circular]
*Sims-Williams, Nicholas, ed. Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford: OUP/British Academy, 2003. 304 pp.; hb; £29.50. [Recent developments of Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers is surveyed and assessed in this book, which includes contributions from archaeologists and linguists. Papers include: J.P. Mallory, "Archaeological Models and Asian Indo-Europeans," Richard Salomon, "Gandhari and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages in the Light of Newly-Discovered Kharosthi Manuscripts," Jost Gippert, "The Avestan Language and its Problems," Alexander Lubotsky, "Scythian Elements in Old Iranian," Nicholas Sims-Williams, "Ancient Afghanistan and its Invaders: Linguistic evidence from the Bactrian documents and inscriptions," Georges-Jean Pinault, "Tocharian and Indo-Iranian: Relations between two linguistic areas," and others.—From the publisher’s circular]
Sims-Williams, Patrick. The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and chronology, c. 400–1200. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 364 pp.; pb; $34.95. [A linguistic study of the stones from western Britain and Britanny that were inscribed in the Roman and Ogam alphabets. Three hundred seventy Brittonic and Irish inscriptions, dating from the fifth to the twelfth century, are dealt with in this volume. New phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions is also provided. —From the publisher’s circular]
Singer, Itamar. Hittite Prayers. Edited by Harry Hoffner. Writings from the Ancient World, 11. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. 160 pp.; pb; $24.95. [This is the paperback version of the more expensive hardback put out by Brill ($53 / EUR 45). The book includes translations of twenty-four Hittite prayers. Available from http://www.sbl-site.org/ or Eisenbrauns, http://www.eisenbrauns.com/.]
Southern, Mark, ed. Indo-European Perspectives. JIES Monograph, 43. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2002. vi + 366 pp.; pb; $52. [Includes twenty-one papers, listed at: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/monographs/mono43.html.]
Stüber, Karin. Die primären s-Stämme des Indogermanischen. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002. 312 pp.; EUR 68.
Torri, Giulia. La similitudine nella magia analogica ittita. Studia Asiana, 2. Rome: Herder. 205 pp.; EUR 40. [Orders: Herder Editrice e Libreria, Piazza Montecitorio 117-120, 00186 Roma; phone: 06/6794628, 6795304; fax: 06/6784751; email: distr@herder.it or bookcenter @herder.it; WWW: http://www.herder.it/.]
Townend, M. Language and History in Viking Age England: Linguistic relations between speakers of Old Norse and Old English. Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 6. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols, 2002. 248 pp.; $60.
*Trips, Carola. From OV to VO in Early Middle English. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. 356 pp.; EUR 120 / $120. [This monograph provides evidence that the change in English from OV to VO was due to the heavy influence of Scandinavian, hence reflecting significant language contact. It draws on data from the Penn-Helsinki-Parsed Corpus of Middle English II. —From the publisher’s circular]
Vaan, Michiel de. The Avestan Vowels. Leiden. Studies in Indo-European, 12. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2003. hb, EUR 160 / $190. ["For the first time, the vowels of Avestan are studied comprehensively on the synchronic and diachronic level. All vowel changes which have occurred after the Proto-Iranian stage are discussed, and they are placed in a relative chronology. The phonological system of Avestan at various stages of its development is reconstructed, and the relationship between Old Avestan and Young Avestan is reviewed. Also, many philological details are discussed. This volume is of interest for Indo-Iranian philology, for Indo-European linguistics and for Iranian linguistics."—From the publisher’s circular]
Yener, K. Aslihan, and Harry A. Hoffner, eds. Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History: Papers in memory of Hans G. Güterbock. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002. vi +212 pp.; hb; $37.50.
Zeilfelder, Susanne. Hethitisches Übungsbuch. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, 9. Dresden: Verlag der TU Dresden, 2003. iv + 323 pp.; pb; EUR 22. [For ordering information, see entry above under Groddek, Detlev, Hethitische Texte in Transkription: KBo 30.]