BOOK NOTICES 221 Indo-European perfects' (117-34), by Bridget Drinka. This paper investigates issues like the unidirectionality hypothesis and universal paths, with evidence drawn from a number of early Indo-European languages, e.g. Avestan, Sanskrit, and Homeric Greek. Other grammaticalization papers include "The sequencing of grammaticization effects: A twist from North America' (291-314) by Marianne Mithun and 'Grammaticalization of complex verbal constructions in Finnish' (363-76) by Taru Salminen. Several papers deal with language contact. Salikoko S. Mufwene's 'What research on creóle genesis can contribute to historical linguistics' (315-38) discusses issues like the social nature of creolization and the role of language contact in the histories of French and English. Another language contact paper is 'Yiddish and Hebrew: Borrowing through oral language contact' (135-48), by Elaine Gold, who argues that the source of the Hebrew component in Yiddish was not Hebrew texts but rather oral language contact. Syntactic change is not neglected. Ellen F. Prince's contribution, "The bonowing of meaning as a cause of internal syntactic change' (339-62), argues that 'at least some cases of (language-internal) syntactic change may result from (language-external) pragmatic and semantic borrowing' (339). Prince discusses three phenomena in support of this claim: Yiddish dos sentences, Yinglish 'Yiddish movement ', and the Yiddish pluperfect. Another paper on syntactic change is 'On the conservatism of embedded clauses' (255-68) by Kenjiro Matsuda which looks at some possible reasons for the resistance of such clauses to change (e.g. processing difficulties, pragmatic factors, and so on). All historical linguists should find something of interest in this volume, especially given the broad range of topics covered. The editors are to be commended for ajob well-done, and we can look forward to the publication of papers from the next ICHL. [Marc Pierce, University of Michigan.] Sprache und bürgerliche Nation: Beitr äge zur deutschen und europäischen Sprachgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ed. by Dieter Cherubim, Siegfried Grosse, and Klaus J. Mattheier. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998. Pp. ix, 456. This volume consists mainly of revised versions ofpapers presented at the 2nd Bad Homburger Kolloquium zur Sprachgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, held in November 1993. (Three of the papers presented at the Kolloquium had already been promised to other publications; they were consequently replaced by four new papers written by conference participants ). A briefdescription ofthe contents follows. The range of topics covered is impressively broad; a number of important issues from the period 1790-1914 (as the term '19 Jahrhundert' is defined here) are discussed. Topics discussed include the status of German in various foreign countries, contact between German and other languages, the question of 'nation', and the language ofvarious social groups as well as their influence on the development of German. Papers include Klaus J. Mattheier's 'Kommunikationsgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Überlegungen zum Forschungsstand und zu Perspektiven der Forschungsentwicklung' (1-45), 'Deutsch in Belgien im neunzehnten Jahrhundert' (71-86) by Roland Willemyns, and 'Vom Dienstmädchen zur Professoringattin. Probleme bei der Aneigung bürgerlichen Sprachverhaltens und Sprachbewußtseins' (259-81) by Isa Schikorsky. Mattheier's paper is largely bibliographical in intent; it sketches some relevant issues (e.g. language contact, orthography, and the problem of a corpus) and provides a wealth of further references. Willemyns examines the status of German in Belgium—a weighty issue, given historical events. Schikorsky discusses the case of Elise Egloff, a Kindermädchen who eventually married a prominent professor of anatomy and pathology in Heidelberg, focusing on the problems that Elise faced in conforming to the linguistic norms of her future in-laws. Other contnbutions include ' "An mein Volk". Sprachliche Mittel monarchischer Appelle' (16796 ) by Hartmut Schmidt, 'Zum Einfluß der proletarischen und der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung auf den politischen Wortschatz (um 1900)' (341-59). by Elisabeth Berner, and 'Morphologische und syntaktisch -stilistische Eigentümlichkeiten in deutschen Texten aus dem letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts' (420-43), by Siegfried Grosse. Schmidt discusses various aspects of a number of royal proclamations, e.g. Wilhelm H's 'An das deutsche Volk' issued on the entry of Germany into World War I, concentrating mainly on stylistic considerations. Berner's paper examines the usage of various lexemes, e.g. Emanzipation...