bibliographies campe , petra . case , semantic roles , and grammatical relations . a comprehensive bibliography . john benjamins 1994 vii , 644 pp . ling . theory cloth : us : 1 55619 675 x / eur : 90 272 2811 6 us $ 125 . 00 / hfl . 225 , - - this bibliography presents the multi-dimensionality of the research into case and case-related phenomena . this includes not only morphological case-markers , but also the cross-constituent ( semantic and grammatical ) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various counterparts ; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization ; and pragmatic and textual considerations . in addition , the bibliography reflects the implications of case researchc for other disciplines , such as foreign language teaching and artificial intelligence . more than 6000 publications are presented in the author index . also included are a subject index , a language index and a guide to the relevant languages and language families kess , joseph f . and tadao miyamoto ( university of victoria ) japanese psycholinguistics . a classified and annotated research bibliography john benjamins 1994 xii , 355 pp . bibliographies hb : us : 1 55619 254 1 / eur : 90 272 3750 6 us $ 89 . 00 / hfl . 160 , - - this classified and annotated research bibliography is an useful introduction to the rich field of japanese psycholinguistics , providing an exhaustive inventory of what has been done in or about japanese in a psycholinguistic sense . the annotations for each entry have been especialiy written for this bibliographic inventory , and with the linguist , psychologist , and psycholinguist specifically in mind . the authors ' intention is to maximize the usefulness of such an inventory by preparing annotations for the interested reader who wishes to know not only what the article contains but where it fits in the research tradition . library and information sources in linguistics , 24 nevis , joel a . , brian d . joseph , dieter wanner and arnold m . zwicky . clitics . a comprehensive bibliography 1892-1991 john benjamins 1994 . xxxviii , 274 pp . bibliographies hb : us : 1 556i9 252 5 / eur : 90 272 3748 4 us $ 69 . 00 / hfl . 125 , - - provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles , books , and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters , e . g . affixes , words , word order , movement , sandhi , etc . each entry is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item . nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index , based on the descriptors , which can aid in topical searches for relevant material . prefatory matter includes an essay " what is a clitic ? " by arnold m . zwicky , a brief consideration of jacob wackernagel , the first author on this topic , by brian d . joseph , and information on the format and use of the book itself . library and information sources in linguistics , 22 niederehe , hans-josef ( university of trier , germany ) . bibliografia cronolsgica de ling | mstica , la gramatica y la lexicografia del espaqol ( bicres ) . desde los principios hasta el aqo 1600 john benjamins 1994 . vi , 457 pp . bibliographies hb : us : 1 55619 612 1 / eur : 90 272 4563 0 us $ 100 . 00 / hfl . 190 , since the publication of the still very valuable biblioteca histsrica de la filologma castellana by cipriano muqoz y manzano , conde de la viqaza , ( madrid , 1893 ) , our knowledge of the history of the study of the spanish language has grown considerably . it is the purpose of the present bibliography to bring already available bibliographical information together with the more recent research findings , scattered in many places , books and articles , published during the past one hundred years , in an exhaustive as possible manner . studies in the history of the language sciences , 76 writing systems ancient scripts and phonological knowledge d . gary miller ( university of florida ) this study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent . some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic knowledge is real or accessible , whence the ubiquity of syllabaries . miller disputes this by showing that such tests do not distinguish relevant types of knowledge , and that linguistic analysis of the ordering and writing conventions of early western scripts corroborates the evidence from language acquisition , use , and change for segment awareness . by coding segments , the ancient syllabaries represented more phonological knowledge than the alphabet , which was a poor compromise between the vowelless west semitic scripts and the vowel-redundant syllabic scripts . current issues in linguistic theory , 116 1994 . xvi , 139 pp . hb 1-55619 - 570 - 2 $ 35 . 00 history of ling theory groups and the study of language in north america . a social history . stephen o . murray ( el instituto obregsn , san francisco ) this is a detailed social history of north american linguistic traditions and " revolutionary " challenges to them , covering the last century and a half . in particular , the book traces the relatively recent growth of generative syntax out of neo - bloomfieldian structuralism , under the nurturing ( contrary to popular myth ) of powerful " gatekeepers " like language editor bernard bloch . although focusing on groups , murray resurrects many of the forgotten writers on language in society who were not participants in schools or theory groups . moreover , he formulates a theory of the social basis for claims of " scientific revolution " , and provides a suggestive analysis of why some approaches succeeded while others failed in the continuing and often rhetorically violent contention in linguistics . includes a 74 - page bibliography . studies in the history of the language sciences , 69 1994 xxi , 596 pp . hb : 1-55619 - 364 - 5 $ 110 . 00