Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Large pale brown octavo; xiii, 694 p: b&w ill., maps; 24 cm. Very faint marks to boards, bookplate to front paste-down, "defective copy" hand written in pen to title page (refers to gap and reversal of pages: text block jumps from page 339 to 372, continues to 373, then jumps to page 342 thru 347, then jumps to 380 to 381 then 350 to 351 then 384 to 385 then 354 and 355 then 388 & 389 then back to 358 & 359 . About 50 pages skiping in pairs with about ten page slacking altogether. Affects articles by Ludtke, Manczak, Paddock and Peters. Else a bright and clean copy in a tight binding. Book plate of scholar and linguist Mary Ritchie Key to front paste-down. Single year date highlited on copyright page and preface. Near Fine thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 3110115506Historical linguistics -- Congresses.
