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In this second volume based on a 1998 Berkeley German Linguistics Roundtable, international contributors to 14 papers divide their interests between historical and contemporary language data. Phonology is avidly pursed in historical studies on: e.g., the interaction of metrics with syntax in Beowulf (Suzuki), and the syntax and semantics of compounds in Old German riddles (Green). Modern sociolinguistic studies include the political correctness of nouns (Listen and Vandergriff), snail-mail grammar (Rauch et al.), and the language of Siberian Mennonites (de Graaf, Nieuweboer). Lacks an index. Rauch is professor of Germanic linguistics at the U. of California, Berkeley. Carr teaches German at California State U., Sacramento. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
