Zum Akzent im Mittelbulgarischen. Vol. 6 by Jan Paul Hinrichs; A. A. Barentsen; B. M.Groen; R. SprengerReview by: H. LeemingThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), p. 331Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4210018 .

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Hinrichs, Jan Paul. Zum Akzent im Mittelbulgarischen. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics. Edited by A. A. Barentsen, B. M. Groen and R. Sprenger, vol. 6. Rodopi, Amsterdam, I985. xii + I64 pp. Foreword. Notes. List of sources. Index. Hfl 40.00.

As a research student in Bulgaria under the cultural agreement between the Netherlands and Bulgaria the author had the opportunity of working on Middle Bulgarian manuscripts in the libraries of Sofia and Plovdiv. He was thus able to select for himself the sources which appeared to be most consistent and reliable for accentological study: Evtimiev sluzebnik no. 23I and Psaltir no. 3 of the National Cyril and Methodius Library in Sofia.

The author begins by surveying briefly the present state of Slavonic accentological studies. Slavists and Indo-Europeanists might, incidentally, like to note the appearance of a work by an English linguist which reviews the same ground: N. E. Collinge, The Laws of Indo-European (Amsterdam and Philadelphia, I985), a stimulating and sure-footed guide. Hinrichs has collec- ted all examples of syntactically shifted stress and double stress from his sources. He distinguishes four main types of enclisis or proclisis; these are further subdivided into nine categories. The two hundred and fifty-five words concerned are dealt with in sections devoted to masculine (45), feminine (58) and neuter (36) substantives; adjectives (3I); verbs (85). The statistics and syntactical environment are clearly shown in a table with each item num- bered; occurrences in the two sources are separately indicated; the accento- logical category of each word is also stated for Common Slavonic and Middle Bulgarian. The author concludes that research in his chosen sources fully confirms Dybo's opinion, based on slimmer evidence, that Middle Bulgarian texts provide valid testimony for the accent system of Common Slavonic. London H. LEEMING

Foley, John Miles (ed.). Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research. An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography. Garland Folklore Bibliographies, No. 6. Garland, New York, I 985. xvi + 7I8 pp. Indexes. $53.00.

EVERYONE interested in oral-formulaic theory, whether in general or in relation to a particular area, will welcome this admirably thorough and painstaking work. The bibliography covers the period 1928-82, and the editor intends to keep it up to date with regular additions in each third annual number of the journal Oral Tradition, which he founded in I 986.

The volume consists of an introduction to the field; over i8oo annotated entries; books and articles from more than ninety language areas; tables of commonly used abbreviations; and an index listing the entries by language area. In defining his criteria for the inclusion of works, Foley describes his view of the field as a solid nucleus of scholarship related to the work of Milman Parry, Albert Lord and their followers. Individual selected entries in related fields and a list of earlier bibliographical works in some satellite disciplines place the work clearly in relation to other connected fields of study. The

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