Linguistic and literary studies in honor of Archibald A. Hill, I: general and theoretical linguistics Edited by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé and Werner Winter (review)

BOOK NOTICES 755 price paid for an apparent lack of paradigmatic pressure, since organizational policy seems to favor inquisitiveness rather than inquisition. However, whether 'Future histories of linguistics will look back to, and date events from, The First LACUS Forum' (as boasted in that volume's publicity flyer), remains to be seen. [Warren A. Brewer, UCLA.] arbitrarily chosen. E.g., under 'Náhuatl', out of the hundreds of published works which deal with this language, a haphazard list is given which does not include the only comprehensive dictionaries—those of Molina (1571) and of Simeon (1885), both still indispensable, and available in recent reprint editions. [William Bright, UCLA.] A survey of materials for the study of the uncommonly taught languages. By Dora E. Johnson et al. Eight fascicles: Western Europe, pidgins and creóles (European based); Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; The Middle East and North Africa; South Asia; Eastern Asia; Subsanaran Africa; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; North, Central, and South America. Arlington: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1976. Pp. 34, 42, 42, 41, 37, 79, 59, 51. This extensive bibliographical collection represents a revision of the Provisional survey ofmaterialsfor the study ofthe neglected languages published by the CAL in 1969, and attempts to cover all modern languages except English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish—insofar as adequate works can be identified. Emphasis is on materials specifically designed for use by the adult learner whose native language is English; however, in the absence of these, some listings are also given for technical studies (including doctoral dissertations) and works in foreign languages. Informative abstracts are given for a large proportion of entries. In general, the content of this survey is excellent; in one of the geographical areas with which I am familiar, viz. South Asia, it would be hard to improve on the coverage provided. However, the treatment of native American languages seems to be an exception. Granted, the number of different languages is extreme, and pedagogically-oriented publications are few; however, this fascicle includes numerous mechanical errors; many unpublished and virtually inaccessible works are listed; and the entries often seem to be Linguistic and literary studies in honor of Archibald A. Hill, I: general and theoretical linguistics. Edited by Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé and Werner Winter. Lisse, The Netherlands: Peter de Ridder Press, 1976. Pp. 412. The editors' foreword does not tell us how many more volumes are to follow the present one, but the total mass of writing will clearly be very large (there are 43 papers in this first volume). It is normal for reviewers to express doubts about the scholarly value of such catch-all Festschriften as this; at the same time, one can only be pleased that this recognition has been paid to Archibald Hill, who has contributed so much to linguistics and has achieved, as the editors say, 'the tour de force of being respected by all schools of linguistics'. The volume begins with a biographical sketch of Hill, by Polomé (13-14); a tribute to him by Einar Haugen (15-18); a bibliography of Hill's writings (19-32); and the text of an address given by Hill in Austin in 1972, 'Fifty years of English: from comma to full stop' (33-40). The papers which follow are as diverse as might be imagined: phonological and syntactic, historical and descriptive, structuralist and transformationalist; they deal with languages as various as Japanese, English, and Cupeño, and include articles written in German and Italian. If any single thread can be said to run throughout the volume, and thus to reflect current directions of interest in linguistics, it must be the history of linguistics itself. Among the papers which fall specifically in this area are Raimo Anttila's 'Who is a structuralist?' (63-74), Giulio Lepschy's 'Changes of emphasis in modern linguistics' (189-200), David L. Olmsted's ' Some aspects of Baudouin de Courtenay as book-reviewer' (227- 756 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 54, NUMBER 3 (1978) 32), John Rea's 'Linguistic speculations of Edward Brerewood, 1566-1613' (257-62), Thomas A. Sebeok's '"Semiotics" and its congeners' (283-96), Rudolph C. Troike's 'Lest the wheel be too oft re-invented: towards...