Editorial

Martin Aedler: A Biographical Note (Friedericka van der Lubbe)

Wie es eigentlich gewesen ... or, notes concerning the pre-history of the Henry Sweet Society (E. F. K. Koerner}

A Note on the Origins of the Henry Sweet Society (Vivian Salmon)

Roland Bernecker, Die "idéologie" in Italien. Eine kommentierte Bibliographie zur Sprachtheorie der Spätaufklärung (Gerda Haßler)

Jean-Antoine Caravolas, La didactique des langues (Reviewed both by Douglas Kibbee and by Werner Hüllen)

Jonathan Culpeper, History of English (Inge Kabell and Hanne Lauridsen)

Ad Foolen & Jan Noordegraaf (eds.), De taal is kennis van de ziel. Opstellen over Jac. van Ginneken (1877­1945) (L. van Driel)

Gerda Haßler & Jürgen Storost, Kontinuität und Innovation. Studien zur Geschichte der romanischen Sprachforschung vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Werner Bahner zum 70. Geburtstag (Waltraud Weidenbusch)

Johan Huizinga, Inleiding en Opzet voor Studie over Licht en Geluid (Frank Vonk)

Vivien Law & Werner Hüllen (eds.), Linguists and Their Diversions: A Festschrift for R. H. Robins on his 75^th Birthday(L.G. Kelly)

Winfred P. Lehmann, Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics (John L Flood)

Andrew Linn, Constructing the Grammars of a Language: Ivar Aasen and Nineteenth Century Norwegian Linguistics (Kjell Venås)

Gerald Nelson, Landmarks in English Grammar: The Eighteenth Century. Electronic editions of five eighteenth-century texts (Masataka Miyawaki)

Wallis Reid, Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation (Lieve Jooken)

Daniel J. Taylor (ed.), Varro -De lingua latina X (L.G. Kelly)

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.), Two Hundred Years of Lindley Murray (Ilse Wischer)

Books & pamphlets/ Journals / Articles (ed. Herman Bell)

Historical Thesaurus of English: Progress report (Christian J. Kay)

European History of English Studies (Balz Engler & Renate Haas)

VIII International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences

Minutes of the HSS Annual General Meeting 1997 (Mark Atherton)

The Millennial Colloquium (HSS)

Henry Sweet Society Colloquium, Amsterdam 1998

HSS Newsletter/Bulletin: back numbers

New members and changes of address

Members' e-mail addresses