5. Order of Words. Est. 300 printed pages. Much has been written on this very interesting linguistic feature-chiefly on the basis of the prose Brahmana texts, which have been assumed to give a clearer picture of the word-order of primitive Indo-European than any other Indo-European literature. One of many important results of this section of the Variants is this: they furnish proof that the earlier poetic texts of the Veda are just as important, perhaps more important, than the Brāhmaṇas, and should not have been neglected as they have been. No such mass of evidence for Vedic, and incidentally for Indo-European, word-order has ever been collected and sifted before. These five sections of the work are all ready at least in preliminary drafts. In addition, Bloomfield collected lists of materials for the following sections, which have not yet been worked up, and the size of which can therefore not yet be estimated. 6. Synonyms (very extensive). 7. Pronouns. 8. Prepositions and Particles. And a few other minor lists of somewhat doubtful character, which may or may not finally prove fruitful. Bloomfield made no separate collectanea bearing on Meter; but this subject constantly comes up in connection with all parts of the work, and it is my opinion that a separate volume dealing with it as a unit would be extremely fruitful and valuable. FRANKLIN EDGERTON. THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA will hold its Sixth Annual Meeting at Cleveland, December 30, 1929, to January 1, 1930, jointly with the Modern Language Association of America. Headquarters will be at the Hotel Statler, Euclid Avenue at East Twelfth Street, where the sessions of both organizations will be held. THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LINGUISTS will be held at Geneva, in August 1931, under the presidency of Monsieur Ch. Bally. THE BUREAU OF LANGUAGE RESEARCH, planned by a Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English under the chairmanship of Mr. John M. Clapp, has been taken over by the School of Education of New York University, and will be known as an Institute of Communication. The project is in the charge of Professor Walter Barnes, who has recently come to New York University from the Teachers' College at Fairmont, West Virginia. Professor Barnes plans to make a survey of the present situation, then to develop courses for teachers, thirdly to work out a plan of permanent operation for the Institute. (See LANGUAGE 3.34.) The three new Honorary Members elected at the New York meeting have all accepted election. We make the following extracts from their letters: Ich bitte Sie, der Linguistic Society of America meinen ergebensten Dank zu übermitteln für die Auszeichnung, die sie mir durch die Wahl zu ihrem Ehrenmitglied erwiesen hat; ich nehme sie gern an.-P. Kretschmer. Die Mitteilung, dass die Linguistic Society of America mich in ihrer Sitzung vom 26.-28. Dezember zum Ehrenmitglied ernannt hat, hat mich sehr überrascht. Ich bitte Sie ganz ergebenst, der Gesellschaft meinen aufrichtigen Dank für diese Anerkennung meiner Arbeit auszusprechen, und nehme diese Ehrung umso lieber an, als ich daraus aufs neue ersehe, dass die Sprachforschung in Amerika der jungen Wissenschaft der Afrikanistik ihre Aufmerksamkeit zugewandt hat. Das verspricht einen Fortschritt für die Zukunft, den zu verfolgen mir immer eine besondere Freude sein wird.-Meinhof. Gratamente impresionado recibe su atenta comunicación participándome el honor de haber sido elegido miembre honorario de esa Sociedad Lingüistica de America, en unión de los colegas Sres. Kretschmer y Meinhof. Acepto muy reconocido el nuevo cargo y ruego a usted se sirva hacer presente al Comité directivo mi profunda gratitud al mismo tiempo que mis homenajes de consideración y compañerismo.-R. Menéndez Pidal. THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES announces that grants in aid of research have been made to the following members of the Linguistic Society of America: LeRoy C. Barret, professor of Latin in Trinity College, Hartford, for purchase of a photo-zinc copy of a Ms. of the Atharva Veda Paippalada in the library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Roy J. Deferrari, professor of Greek and Latin in the Catholic University of America, for the purchase of texts to be used in compiling a concordance to the works of Prudentius. Cony Sturgis, professor of Spanish, Oberlin College, for the purchase of books necessary for his study of the romantic novel in Spanish literature between 1830 and 1850. URBAN T. HOLMES, Professor of Romance Philology at the University of North Carolina, is at the University of Chicago during the spring quarter of 1929, conducting courses in Old French. During this period Professor T. A. Jenkins has been relieved of part of his work, that he may devote more time to the Arthurian Institute recently established at the University of Chicago. GEORGE W. H. SHIELD, of Los Angeles, was elected president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish, at the Detroit convention, December, 1928, to serve during 1929. PROFESSOR WACKERNAGEL sends a correction to a statement in a review by R. G. Kent, LANG. 4. 291, regarding an apparent extension of Italian along the line of the St. Gotthard railway north of the tunnel. Our distinguished honorary member says that there are Italians who remain true to their national language, in all parts of Switzerland, but that these scattered individuals do not constitute a real extension of the Italian Sprachgebiet, any more than the similar presence of Germanspeaking officials and employees of the railway to the south of the St. Gotthard tunnel, really extend the German-speaking territory, in a region where Italian is the normal mother-tongue. The speakers of Italian in the valley north of the tunnel are merely scattered immigrants. THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS have been received into the Linguistic Society, subsequent to the last published list, and up to March 22: President Cyrus Adler, The Dropsie College, Philadelphia, Pa. (Semitic Langs.) Miss Janet R. Aiken, Philosophy Hall, Columbia Univ., New York City. (Research Asst., English and Comparative Linguistics) Prof. W. F. Albright, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md. (Semitics) Dr. Renward Brandstetter, Waldstätterhof, Lucerne, Switzerland. (Indonesian; Romanic Langs.) Mr. L. Carballosa, Box 303, Berkeley, Calif. Mr. Paul R. Carr, 2923 Packard St., Long Island City, N. Y. (Dealer in Oriental and Linguistic Books) Prof. Charles A. Downer, 802 W. 181st St., New York City. (Romance Langs., College of the City of New York) Dr. G. O. S. Darby, Waldo Court, Wellesley, Mass. Mr. Benjamin F. Gravely, Box 209, Martinsville, Va. (Dealer in Linguistic Books) Mr. L. S. Hitchcock, Los Alamos Ranch School, Otowi, N. M. (Headmaster, Los Alamos Ranch School) Mr. Vincent F. Jankauskas, 1226 Bloomfield St., Hoboken, N. J. (Etruscan) Mr. Richard Koch, 907 S. 16th St., Newark, N. J. Prof. Harry J. Leon, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Texas. (Class. Langs.) Dr. David I. Macht, care of Hynson Westcott & Dunning, Baltimore, Md. (Pharmacological Research; lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins Univ.) Mr. C. M.McLean, 3 Chestnut St., Binghampton, N. Y. Prof. F. Mezger, Box 4, Bryn Mawr, Penna. Mr. Antonio A. Micocci, 3813 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. (Latin, Germantown Friends School, Phila.) John Phelps, Esq., 3 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. (Lawyer; English Phil.) Prof. Gladys A. Reichard, Barnard College, New York City. (Anthropology) Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, care of Sears Roebuck & Co., Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pa. Prof. T. G. Wesenberg, Butler College, Indianapolis, Ind. (Romance Langs.) Prof. Rudolph Willard, 1875 Yale Sta., New Haven, Conn. (English Lit., Yale Univ.) BOOKS RECEIVED Under this heading will be acknowledged such works as seem to bear on 'the advancement of the scientific study of language'. The publicity thus given is regarded as a full return for the presentation of the work. Under no circumstances is it possible to comply with the requests being made by certain publishers for the return of books not reviewed quickly. Reviews will be published as circumstances permit. Copies of them will be sent to the publishers of the works reviewed. For further bibliographic information consult the annual list of Exchanges. Acta Philologica Scandinavica 3. 289-396 (1929). Additional Remarks on Brevity as a Criterion of Language. By A. R. NYKL. Am. Journ. Phil. 49. 378-83 (1928). American Speech 4. 161-260 (1929). Anthropos 23. 749-1114 (1928). Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 154. 161-320 (1928). Asiatica; a Record of Literature dealing with the East and with Africa. 2. 1-72 (1929). Beiträge zur Lehre vom indogermanischen Charakter der etruskischen Sprache. I Teil. Pp. x + 150. By EMIL GOLDMANN. Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1929. Biblica 9. 377-496, 65*-119* (1928); 10. 1–128, 1*-16* (1929). La Cultura 7. 441-535 (1928); 8. 1-128 (1929). Gnomon; kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 5. 1-112 (Bibliogr. Beilage 1) 1929. Die griechische Dichtung. Pp. 383. By ERICH BETHE. WildparkPotsdam: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion. der Literaturwissenschaft edited by Oskar Walzel.) (Handbuch Hispania; a Journal devoted to the Interests of Teachers of Spanish 12. 1-224 (1929). Indogermanische Forschungen 46. 305-90 (1928). Italica 6. 1-35 (1929). The Journal of the Polynesian Society 37. 359-460 (1928). |