Yugoslav Linguistics in English 1900-1980. A Bibliography by Dragan Milivojević; Vasa D.MihailovichReview by: Peter HerrityThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), p. 296Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4211216 .

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296 THE SLAVONIC REVIEW

Milivojevic, Dragan and Mihailovich, Vasa D. (eds). Yugoslav Linguistics in English i900-i980. A Bibliography. Slavica, Columbus, Ohio, I 99 I. I 22 pp. Indexes. $14.95 (paperback).

THIS bibliography covers articles published in English on various aspects of the Serbo-Croat (or Serbian and Croatian), Slovene and Macedonian Languages during the period I9oo-8o. In this book the authors attempt to include all books, articles, dissertations and reviews written during this period. The authors use the term 'Yugoslav Linguistics' to cover a very broad range of works - from textbooks, readers and dictionaries to contrastive and dialectal studies, synchronic and diachronic studies. In all there are I,I78 items mentioned, embracing the works of some 56o authors.

The subdivision of the bibliography is thematic with twenty-one sub- headings. These cover Bibliography, Textbooks, Grammars and Readers, Dictionaries, Relation to Other Slavic Languages, Relation to Non-Slavic Languages, Texts (Linguistic Analysis), Stylistics and Poetics, Socio- linguistics, Lexicology, Contrastive Linguistics, Onomastics, Orthography and Orthogeny, Dialectology, Synchronic (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax) and Diachronic Studies (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax), the Standard Language and its History, and General Yugoslav Studies. The section on Contrastive Linguistics is further subdivided into seven parts. Each thematic division starts with a general entry, followed by entries for the individual languages. The Bibliography concludes with an index of authors followed by an index of I48 periodicals. The index of authors contains page-number references to their works in the book, but, regrettably, authors of reviews mentioned (often very significant) are not indicated in the index of authors. Very often it is the review that is the English text commenting on a work in another language. Similarly there are no page references for reviews in the bibliography written by those authors who are mentioned in the index. The text is fairly free of errors although it was noted that titles in Polish appear without diacrictics (pp. 98, 107), 'Ragusain' is misspelt as 'Ragusian' (p. I07) and 'litteraire' appears without an acute e (p. I04).

Sometimes a journal appears in the text but is not mentioned in the list of periodicals (e.g. Ricerche slavistiche, p. 88). There are also strange inconsisten- cies in spelling, for example Svetomir Ristic, after appearing as such in entries 2i8-20, suddenly appears as Ristitsch Swetomir in entry 22I, whereas in the title of the Dictionary to which this entry refers he does in fact appear as Svetomir Ristic.

The Bibliography is fairly comprehensive but not complete. One noted, for example, the absence of A. B. Murphy's article on 'Aspectual Usage of the Present Tense in Serbo-Croat' (Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 74, I974, 6), and S. B. Kimball's work dealing with the Serbian, Slovene and Croatian Maticas (The Austro-Slav Revival: A Study of Nineteenth Century Literary Foundations in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 63, I 973, 4).

In all, however, this is a welcome attempt to add to the bibliographies of works on the Slavonic Languages of what is now former Yugoslavia. Department of Slavonic Studies PETER HERRITY University ofNottingham

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