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The Germanic Languages.
Edited by Ekkehard Konig and Johan van der Auwera. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xv + 631. $99.95.
A caveat concerning this review: Quite unusually (I thought), the publisher provided JEGP with a set of uncorrected page proofs rather than a finished book, and it is those page proofs I have worked from. I simply have to assume that the book didn't change too much before it was actually printed, but I can't get too picky about obvious typographical errors either (I did find a bunch).
A second interesting problem presented by this situation is the following: Should I now go out and buy this book for myself, given its rather steep price, or just have ...
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