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BOOK NOTICES 197 liographic entries are not merely related to linguistics but also to anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, history, and philology. The extensive material has been collected by wide reading in the field ofNubian studies, by correspondence with researchers, and by investigating bibliographies. Wherever possible the compilers followed the principle of autopsy, i.e. the compilers included only those documents they could physically locate. The short introduction informs the reader about the geographical distribution of the Nubian languages and comments on state-of-the-art research on genetic relations between Nubian, its dialects, and other languages of the area (e.g. Egyptian, Coptic, Arabian). One page of abbreviations is followed by a list of 105 periodical titles and 62 series titles. Another aspect important for the researcher is the list of Nubian language names that, on the one hand, unifies different language names found in literature and, on the other hand, connects dialect names with the four Nubian language branches. The main part of the book starts with a list of 26 bibliographies of literature about Nubian. Those works being either not up-to-date or not very specific, the reviewed bibliography satisfies a long recognized need. Its almost 700 hundred items are arranged alphabetically by author with the most recent ones dated 1991. For co-authors, co-editors, and compilers , cross-references lead to the main entry. NonEnglish titles are translated into English, and each entry is accompanied by an English annotation that on the average comprises three lines. Since these comments stem from different origins, they serve various purposes (e.g. summary ofmain idea, specification of referred language branch, or general remarks on content, and emphasis of a certain work). Subject access is made possible by an index at the end of the book. AU titles are classified on a first level by means ofseventeen rough subject terms (e.g. anthropology, grammar, history, vocabulary). On the second level titles are subdivided within subject terms according to the related language group (e.g. grammar/Old Nubian). All in all the book must be considered the most recent and most specific bibliography in the field of Nubian languages, a language group that has played an important role in the culture of northeastern Africa . [Dieter Aichele, Fachhochschule Neubrandenburg .] Fredrik Otto Lindeman: Studies in comparative Indo-European linguistics presented on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, March 3, 1996. Ed. by Helge L0drup and Inger Moen. Oslo: Novus Forlag, 1996. Pp. 215. NOK 255. Fredrick Otto Lindeman is one of the world's most distinguished scholars of comparative Indo-European linguistics, perhaps most widely known for his work on the nature ofthe proto-Indo-European laryngeals . This volume contains a representative selection of 27 of his articles published between 1965 and 1994. The articles collected here do not follow the pagination ofthe original publications but have been reset. Most are written in French or English, but four are in German. The subject matterranges widely overthe individual Indo-European language famines; specific issues in Anatolian, Armenian, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Italic, and Tocharian are addressed. There are also a number of comparative studies between families and on proto-Indo-European in general. Many of the articles are heavily etymological, but other issues addressed include accentology, morphology , morphophonology, and, of course, various aspects of the proto-Indo-European laryngeals. The volume leads off with a well known 1965 article that takes up more than a quarter of the volume, 'La loi de Sievers et le début du mot en indo-européen' (1-61), in which Lindeman's Rule, a sentence-sandhi version of Sievers' Law, is formulated. This volume is a useful addition to any Indo-Europeanist 's library, especially since many ofthe articles included were originally published in collections and periodicals which can only be found in the most comprehensive of libraries. [Joseph F. Eska, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.] Non-fluent aphasia in a multilingual world. Ed. by Lise ?e??, M. O'Connor , Loraine K. Obler, and Audrey Holland. (Studies in speech pathology and clinical linguistics, 5.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995. Pp. xxi, 211. This basic yet comprehensive book is based on the results of Phase I of the Cross-Language Aphasia...