Table of Contents

Here follows a table of contents of the issues of History of Language/Dhumbadji! that have appeared to date, along with brief linked abstracts for major papers:

December 2000: History of Language Vol. 6 No. 2

• Wu Tieping: Developing The Comparative Study Of The Histories Of Chinese Linguistics And European Linguistics
• Damien Erwan Perrotin: The Position of Etruscan in the Western Mediterranean Ancient Linguistic Landscape
• Reviews & Book Notices: W. Boot (ed.): Literatuur en Tweetaligheid (S. Atzert) J.M. Brincat: Il-Malti: Elf Sena ta' Storja (G. Hull) J. de Bruyne: A Comprehensive Spanish Grammar (N. Kirk) L. Campbell: Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (N. Kirk) J. Delisle & J. Woodsworth (eds): Translators through History (N. Kirk) A. Dolgopolsky: The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology; C. Renfrew & D. Nettle: Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (P. Sidwell) R. Dunbar, C. Knight & C. Power (eds): The Evolution of Culture (P. Sidwell) S. Embleton, J.E. Joseph & H.-J. Niederehe (eds): The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences (P. Sidwell) J.B. Gewald: Towards Redemption: A socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923 (S. Atzert) E. Govor: Australia in the Russian mirror: Changing perceptions (N. Kirk) K.E. Hedström: Svensk-engelsk ordbok (N. Kirk) K. Jones-Bley & M.E. Huld (eds): The Indo-Europeanization of Northern Europe (N. Kirk) K. Jones-Bley, M.E. Huld & M. Robbins Dexter (eds): Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (P. Sidwell) K. Jones-Bley, M.E. Huld & A. Della Volpe (eds): Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (P. Sidwell) C.F. Justus & E.C. Polomé (eds): Language Change and Typological Variation (P. Sidwell) K. Kershaw: The One-eyed God: Odin and the (Indo-)Germanic Männerbünde (N. Kirk) E. Komatsu & G. Wolf (eds): Deuxième cours de linguistique générale (1908Ð1909) (N. Kirk) Lingua: Engelsk-norsk/norsk-engelsk ordbok (N. Kirk) B. Mitchell: An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England (N. Kirk) E.C. Polomé: Miscellanea Indo-Europea (P. Sidwell) M.R.V. Southern: Sub-Grammatical Survival: Indo-European s-mobile and its Regeneration in Germanic (P. Sidwell) Å-B. Strandskogen & R. Strandskogen: Norwegian: An Essential Grammar (N. Kirk) J. Udolph: Ostern: Geschichte eines Wortes (N. Kirk)
• Notes:
  • Jack Fellman: Ethiopian-Semitic Classification: A Proposal for the Millennium
  • Jack Fellman: The Early Period of Gurage Studies
  • Jack Fellman: Lines on the Genealogical Affiliation of Amharic
  • Jack Fellman: Sociolinguistic Reflections on the History of Hebrew
• Letters

February 2000: History of Language Vol. 6 No. 1: Special issue on Burushaski

• Elena Bashir: A Thematic Survey of Burushaski Research
• Étienne Tiffou: Current Research in Burushaski: A Survey
• Theme Reviews: H. Berger: Die Burushaski-Sprache von Hunza und Nager (I. Casule); I. Casule: Basic Burushaski Etymologies: The Indo-European and Paleo-Balkanic Affinities of Burushaski (J. Bengtson)
• Conference Report: Fourteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver (N. Nicholas)
• Longer Reviews and Review Articles:
  • Salmons, J. & Joseph, B. (eds): Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence (P. Sidwell)
• Shorter Reviews & Book Notices: F. M. Berezin (ed.): N. V. Krushevskij. Izbrannye raboty po jazykoznaniju (P. Sidwell); V. Blazek: Numerals. Comparative-etymological analyses and their implications (P. Sidwell); G. Cannon & N. Warren: The Japanese contributions to the English language: An historical dictionary (N. Kirk); W. W. Derbyshire: A Basic Reference Grammar of Slovene (N. Kirk); P. Ladefoged & I. Maddieson (eds): The Sounds of the World's Languages (P. Sidwell); B. Piesarskas & B. Svecevicius: Lithuanian Dictionary: English-Lithuanian Lithuanian-English (N. Kirk); W. R. Schmalstieg: An Introduction to Old Russian (N. Kirk); E. J.Steele, R. A. Lindley & R. V. Blanden: Lamarck's Signature (P. Sidwell); I. Taylor & M. Taylor: Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese (P. Sidwell); H. Walter: L'aventure des mots français venus d'ailleurs (N. Kirk)
• Letters

July 1999: History of Language Vol. 5 No. 2

• Václav Blazek: Indo-European 'Hundred'
• Damien Erwan Perrotin: The Name of the Horse in Eurasian Languages: A Case of Cross-Family Diffusion
• Reviews: D.W.A. Baker: The Civilised Surveyor: Thomas Mitchell and the Australian Aboriginies (P. Sidwell); K. Bråtveit et al.: Norwegian Dictionary (N. Kirk); R.M.W. Dixon: The Rise and Fall of Languages (M. Carrasquer Vidal); D.H. Nguyen: Vietnamese (P. Sidwell); T. Wade: A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (N. Kirk)
• Shorter Reviews and Book Notices: S. Atzert (ed.): Literature in Times of Crisis (P. Sidwell); J. Browne: Charles Darwin: Voyaging (N. Kirk); Menora 31 (N. Kirk); H. Narumi: The Origins of Japanese and English Languages; Old Japanese and Old Chinese (P. Sidwell); O.E. Swan & S. Gálová-Lorinc: Beginning Slovak (N. Kirk) W. Wendrich: Who is Afraid of Basketry (P. Sidwell)
• Notes
  • Aet Joasoo: The Origins of the Japanese Language: A Review

January 1999: History of Language Vol. 5 No. 1

• Robert Lagerberg: The Stress of Russian Adjectives Containing the Suffix -iv(yj)
• Reports:
  • A report on the status and distribution of Bahnaric languages and speakers on the Boloven Plateau, Lao PDR (Paul Sidwell)
• Reviews and Book Notices: O.P. Benyuch & G.V. Chernov: The Wordsworth English-Russian Russian-English Dictionary (N. Kirk); L. Charpentier: Le mystère basque (N. Nicholas); P. Cubberley: Handbook of Russian Affixes (N. Kirk); P. Friedrich: Proto-Indo-European Syntax (N. Nicholas); R. Foley: Humans before Humanity (P. Sidwell); The Wordsworth English-Spanish Spanish-English Dictionary (N. Kirk); F.W. Schwink: Linguistic Typology, Universality and the Realism of Reconstruction (P. Sidwell); C.E. Townsend: A Description of Spoken Prague Czech (P. Sidwell); C.E. Townsend & L.A. Janda: Common and Comparative Slavic: Phonology and Inflection (P. Sidwell); N. Tsujimura: An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (N. Kirk); C. Tudge: The Day Before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History (N. Kirk)
• Notes
  • Saul Levin: Reply to the Review of Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies
  • W. Wilfried Schuhmacher: The Gallehus Horn and Newly Discovered Older Runic Inscriptions

September 1998: History of Language Vol. 4 No. 2

• H. M. Hubey: Quantitative Approaches to Historical Linguistics with Example Application to *PIE/IE
• Longer Reviews and Review Articles:
  • On The Historiography of the Polish Contribution to the Understanding of Language Change 1868-1935 (A. Adamska-Salaciak: Language Change in the Work of Kruszewski, Baudouin de Courtenay and Rozwadowski) (E.F.K. Koerner)
• Reviews and Book Notices: N. Babiel et al.: Barron's Russian Dictionary and A. Arany-Makkai: Russian Idioms (N. Kirk); H. Birnbaum: Linguistic Reconstruction (P. Sidwell); E. Duyker: Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782 (N. Kirk); A.C. Harris & L. Campbell: Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (N. Nicholas); W. Held, W. Schmalstieg & J. Gertz: Beginning Hittite (P. Sidwell); E.C. Polomé: Essays on Germanic Religion (N. Kirk); G.S. Rayal: English and Sanskrit: A common heritage of words (I.S. Mangor & W.W. Schuhmacher); F.G. Renier: Dutch Dictionary (P. Sidwell); W.Z. Shetter: Dutch: An Essential Grammar (P. Sidwell); C.E. Townsend: Czech through Russian (N. Kirk); R.L. Trask: Language: The Basics (P. Jacq & P. Sidwell)
• Notes
  • Jack Fellman: Gurage: The State of the Art
  • W. Wilfried Schuhmacher: Japanese as an Austronesian Language
  • W. Wilfried Schuhmacher: Ainu in the Americas

May 1998: Dhumbadji! Vol. 4 No. 1

• Václav Blazek: Uralic Numbers
• Reports: Interview with Sergei Starostin on Lexicostatistics and Glottochronology (Paul Sidwell)
• Longer Reviews and Review Articles:
  • V. A. Chirikba: Common West Caucasian (P. Sidwell)
  • V. Petti et al.: Norstedts stora svensk-engelska ordbok; Norstedts stora engelsk-svenska ordbok (N. Kirk)
• Reviews and Book Notices: S. Gramley & K.-M. Pätzold: A Survey of Modern English (N. Kirk & P. Sidwell); C. Gutknecht: Lauter bömische Dörfer (N. Kirk); C. Gutknecht: Lauter spitze Zungen (N. Kirk); I. Hegedüs, P.A. Michalove & A. Manaster-Ramer (eds): Indo-European, Nostratic and Beyond: Festschrift for Vitalij V. Shevoroshkin (P. Sidwell); A.R. King & B.O. Elordi: Colloquial Basque: A Complete Language Course (P. Sidwell); M. Kruszewski: Writings in General Linguistics (Paul Sidwell); D. Offord: Using Russian: A guide to contemporary usage (N. Kirk); J. Rischel: Minor Mlabri: A Hunter-Gatherer Language of Northern Indochina (P. Sidwell); H. Walter: L'Aventure des Langues en Occident (N. Nicholas)
• Notes
  • John D. Bengtson: Dene-Caucasian 'Navel': Some Proposed Etymologies
  • W. Wilfried Schuhmacher: Antarctic Anthropology

July 1997: Dhumbadji! Vol. 3 No. 2

• Stephan Atzert: Flemish and Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands in Belgium
• Alan R. Libert: Some Observations on the Syntax of [Greek] diekpleo:
• Anand Raman: A Database for Historical Chinese Phonology
• Longer Reviews and Review Articles: I. Philippaki-Warburton, K. Nicolaidis & M. Sifianou (eds): Themes in Greek Linguistics (N. Nicholas)
• Reviews and Book Notices: N.F. Blake: A History of the English Language (N. Kirk); Bokförlaget Prisma: Swedish Dictionary: English-Swedish Swedish-English (N. Kirk); R. Clarke: Mastering Spanish (N. Kirk); W. Harrison & S. le Fleming: Russian-English and English-Russian (N. Kirk); K. Hualde, J. Lakarra & R. L. Trask: Towards a History of the Basque Language (P. Sidwell); T. Karras: A Concise English-Russian Phrase Book (P. Sidwell); K. Katzner: The Languages of the World (P. Sidwell); R. Keller: Understanding Language Change (N. Nicholas & P. Sidwell); V. Law (ed.): History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages (N. Kirk); S. Levin: Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (P. Sidwell); J.J. Norwich: Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (N. Nicholas); L. Paperno & R. Sylvester: Getting Around Town in Russian Situational Dialogs (P. Sidwell); I. Press & S. Pugh: Colloquial Ukrainian (N. Kirk); O.E. Swan: First Year Polish (N. Kirk); R.L. Trask: A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology (P. Sidwell)
• Short Notes: W. Wilfried Schuhmacher: Two Basque Notes

January 1997: Dhumbadji! Vol. 3 No. 1

• John D. Bengtson: Vasco-Caucasic H^wanV 'mountain ~ forest'
• Václav Blazek: Basic Word Lists of Ancient Languages of the Near East
• Tobias Scheer: Des Ablauts gemeiner Gegner: Laryngale
• Conference Report: 29th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (Paul Sidwell)
• Book Reviews: A. Garde & W. G. Jones: Danish Dictionary: English-Danish, Danish-English (N. Kirk); C. Gutknecht & L. J. Rölle: Translating by Factors (N. Nicholas); J. Haywood: The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (N. Kirk); P. Holmes & G. Serin: Colloquial Swedish (N. Kirk); P. Holmes & I. Hinchcliffe: Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar (N. Kirk); W.G. Jones & K. Gade: Colloquial Danish (N. Kirk); A. Peck: Mastering German and G. Hatherall & D. Hatherall: Colloquial German (P. Sidwell); C. Scarre: The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (P. Sidwell); R.L. Trask: A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics (P. Sidwell); R.L. Trask: Language Change (P. Sidwell)
• Short Notes: W. Wilfried Schuhmacher: Etruscan clan and Celtic clann

June 1996: Dhumbadji! Vol. 2 No. 4

• Xiaokang Zhou: Borrowed Words in Chinese
• Nick Nicholas: Non-Monotonicity in Linguistic Innovation: An Instance from Mediaeval Greek
• Conference Report: Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Manchester, 13-18 August 1995)
  • Interview with April McMahon and Kimberley Parsons (Nick Nicholas)
  • Interview with Harold Paddock (Paul Sidwell)
• Book Reviews: R. S. P. Beekes: Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: an introduction . (P. Sidwell); A. Cranny-Francis: The Body in the Text. (N. Kirk); T. Crowley et al.: The Design of Language: An introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. (P. Sidwell); N. Davies: The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico. (P. Sidwell); R. Eisenman & Michael Wise: Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. (P. Sidwell); D. Evans: How to Wrote a Better Thesis or Report. (N. Kirk); F. Horner: Looking for La Pérouse: D' Entrecasteaux and the South Pacific, 1792-1793. (N. Kirk); C. Jones (ed.): Historical Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives. (P. Sidwell); M.K. Lawson: Cnut: the Danes in England in the early eleventh century . (N. Kirk); R. Lewin: Bones of Contention: Controversies in the search for human origins. (N. Kirk); D. Oliver: Return to Tahiti: Bligh's second breadfruit voyage. (N. Kirk); J. Salmons: The Glottalic Theory: Survey and Synthesis. (P. Sidwell); S. Subrahmanyam: The Portugese Empire in Asia: 1500-1700. (P. Sidwell); I. Wood: The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751. (N. Kirk)
• Letters:
  • Patrick Ryan: A reply to Alexis Manaster Ramer "Some Borrowed Numerals in Proto-Kartvelian" Dhumbadji! 2.3.
  • Karl Krippes: A reply to Vovin's reply to Krippes' review of Starostin's book
• Miscellanea Linguistica:
  • Anon. (via Suzanne Fleischmann): How to Make a Linguistic Theory
  • Patrick Ryan: Proto-World as a Religious Experience
  • Wilfried Schuhmacher: Die fröhliche Sprachwissenschaft

December 1995: Dhumbadji! Vol. 2 No. 3

• Václav Blazek: Indo-European Personal Pronouns (1st & 2nd persons)
• Alexis Manister Ramer: Some Borrowed Numerals in Proto-Kartvelian
• Conference Report: Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Manchester, 13-18 August 1995)
  • Interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott (Nick Nicholas)
  • Interview with Don Ringe (Paul Sidwell)
• Book Reviews: H. Beckler: A Journey to Cooper's Creek. (N. Kirk); J.A. Burrow & T. Turville-Petre: A Book of Middle English. (N. Kirk); W. Davis & G. Iverson (eds.): Explanation in Historical Linguistics. (P. Sidwell); E. Duyker: An Officer of the Blue: Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, South Sea Explorer, 1724-1772. (N. Kirk); E. Duyker & P. Tingbrand (eds. & tr.): Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782. (N. Kirk); H.P. Frei: Japan's Southward Advance and Australia. (P. Sidwell); S. Gunew: Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Studies. (N. Kirk); R.A. Harris: The Linguistics Wars. (P. Sidwell); C.O.S. Mawson & E. Ehrlich: The Penguin Dictionary of Foreign Terms and Phrases. (P. Sidwell); D.G. Miller: Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge. (N. Kirk); B. Mitchell & F.C. Robinson: A Guide to Old English. (N. Kirk); W. Pagliuca (ed.): Perspectives on Grammaticalisation. (J. Bowden); S. Pinker: The Language Instinct. (N. Kirk); H. Rosenman (ed. & tr.): An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas by Jules S.-C. Dumont D' Urville. (N. Kirk); C. von Hügel: New Holland Journal: November 1833-October 1834. (N. Kirk); R. Wardhaugh: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. (N. Kirk)

May 1995: Dhumbadji! Vol. 2 No. 2

• Larry Trask: Basque: The Search for Relatives: Part 2
• Johanna Nichols: Who are the Chechen?
• Alexander Vovin: Reply to Karl Krippes Concerning his Review of Sergei Starostin's "Altaiskaia problema i proiskhozhdenie iaponskogo iazyka"
• John D. Bengston: Is Basque Isolated? (ad Trask [1994-95])
• Book Reviews: A. M. S. McMahon: Understanding Language Change. (N. Nicholas); I. Zymberi: Colloquial Albanian. (N. Nicholas); W. Ommundsen: Metafictions? (N. Kirk); A. Milner: Cultural Materialism. (N. Kirk); M. Wood: In Seach of the Dark Ages. (N. Kirk); D. Crystal: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages. (P. Sidwell); A. Sargona (ed.): Bruising the Red Earth: Ochre Mining and Ritual in Aboriginal Tasmania. (P. Sidwell); G. Burenhult (gen. ed.): Traditional Peoples Today. (P. Sidwell); M.D. Coe: Breaking the Maya Code. (P. Sidwell); D.R. Harris (ed.): The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe. (P. Sidwell); A. Mc Houl & W. Grace: A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject. (N. Kirk);
• Short Notes:
  • W. Wilfred Schumacher: Etruscan as Sino-Caucasian (Macro-Caucasian)?
  • W. Wilfred Schumacher: Hawaiian rite (1789) "8": Fact or Fantasy?

Summer(*) 1994/1995: Dhumbadji! Vol. 2 No. 1

• Larry Trask: Basque: The Search for Relatives.
• Jacques Guy: On Lexicostatistics and Glottochronology.
• Book Reviews: D. Burnley: The History of the English Language. (A. Green); O.W. Robinson: Old English and its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages. (N. Kirk); P.H. Reaney: The Origin of English Surnames. (P. Sidwell); C. Jones: A History of English Phonology. (P. Sidwell); G. Burenhalt (ed.): The First Humans: Human Origins and History to 10,000 BC. (N. Kirk); G. Burenhalt (ed.): People of the Stone Age: Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farmers. (P. Sidwell); G. Burenhalt (ed.): Old World Civilizations: The Rise of Cities and States. (N. Kirk); G. Burenhalt (ed.): New World and Pacific Civilizations: Cultures of America, Asia, and the Pacific. (P. Sidwell); R. H. Robins: A Short History of Linguistics. (P. Sidwell); R. Harland: Superstructuralism. (N. Kirk); R. Harland: Beyond Superstructuralism. (N. Kirk); G. Thomas: Linguistic Purism. (N. Kirk); S. le Fleming & S.E. Kay: Colloquial Russian. (N. Kirk); G.D. Papantchev: Colloquial Bulgarian. (P. Sidwell); B.W. Muazur: Colloquial Polish. (N. Kirk); H.D.B. Clarke & M. Hamamura: Colloquial Japanese. (N. Kirk); F.G. Renier: Colloquial Dutch. (P. Sidwell); R.A. Humphreys: Colloquial French. (N. Kirk); J. Naughton: Colloquial Czech. (P. Sidwell); M. Gray: A Chronology of English Literature: From Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present Day. (R. Collins)

Winter 1994: Dhumbadji! Vol. 1 No. 4

• Konrad Koerner: The Anatomy of a Revolution in the Social Sciences: Chomsky in 1962.
• Wilfred Schuhmacher: Johan Reinhold Forster: Early Austronesian Comparative Linguist.
• Paul Sidwell: Tuvan, another Altaic Language.
• Patrick Ryan: Proto-Language "he" and "it" IE -l / -n Nouns.
• Neile Kirk: K Sudu Istorii: K Voprosu Perezhitkov proshlogo v soznanii sovremennogo cheloveka.

Summer 1993/1994: Dhumbadji! Vol. 1 No. 3

• Robert S. Bauer: Global Etymology of *KOLO "Wheel".
• Review: Nichols, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (Barry Blake)
• Conference Report: The 11th International Congress of Slavists. (Paul Cubberley)
• Letters.
• Neile Kirk: K Sudu Istorii: Mamont.

May 1993: Dhumbadji! Vol. 1 No. 2

• John Bengtson: The Macro-Caucasic Hypothesis.
• Andrea Green: Survey of Russian Stump Compounds in the Twentieth Century.
• Alex Scharaschkin: Adnotationes de Isidoro Hispalensi.
• Paul Sidwell: The Nostratic Theory, an Introduction.
• John Bowden: An Introduction to Oceanic Linguistic Prehistory.
• MAHL Annual General Meeting.
• Neile Kirk: K Sudu Istorii.

November 1992: Dhumbadji! Vol. 1 No. 1

• Paul Sidwell: Kashubi --- Language death in our time?
• Mary Scalzo: Turning Australian linguistic prehistory upside-down.
• John Bowden: Austronesian --- column.
• Mary Scalzo: Yarralin report (language maintainence.)
• Andrea Green: Before Univermag (word formation in Russian.)
• Paul Sidwell: Am I wrong? (On the limits of reconstruction.)
• Paul Cubberley: The origins of the Glagolithic alphabet.
• Václav Blazek: Introducting Václav Blazek --- autobiographical notes.
• Václav Blazek: General review of the New Etymological Dictionary of Old Church Slavonic.
• Neile Kirk: The last word (commentary.)