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An exemplary textbook that fills a much-needed gap. Balanced presentation of material; especially good on explaining the rationales behind the various types of reconstruction. --John Hagge, Iowa State University. ..an excellent, informative introduction to the topic which will render great service to students. --The Journal of Indo-European Studies

<br> An exemplary textbook that fills a much-needed gap. Balanced presentation of material; especially good on explaining the rationales behind the various types of reconstruction. --John Hagge, Iowa State University<br>. ..an excellent, informative introduction to the topic which will render great service to students. --The Journal of Indo-European Studies<br>

An exemplary textbook that fills a much-needed gap. Balanced presentation of material; especially good on explaining the rationales behind the various types of reconstruction. --John Hagge, Iowa State University<br> .,. an excellent, informative introduction to the topic which will render great service to students. --The Journal of Indo-European Studies<br>

<br> An exemplary textbook that fills a much-needed gap. Balanced presentation of material; especially good on explaining the rationales behind the various types of reconstruction. --John Hagge, Iowa State University<p><br>. ..an excellent, informative introduction to the topic which will render great service to students. --The Journal of Indo-European Studies<p><br>

`Fox's survey is judicious and very well-informed ... Fox's book would be hard to beat ... produced as impeccably as one expects from Oxford University Press.' Times Higher Education Supplement `the author offers an extensive bibliography; his main purpose is to offer students a clear survey of the approaches of various scholars ... an excellent, informative introduction to the topic which will render great service to students' Journal of Indo-European Studies, Volume 24, Number 3 and 4, Fall/Winter 1996 `the book does a good job of drawing together and providing a fairly consistent presentation of a variety of historical views ... Besides breadth of scope, the text provides an excellent bibliography ... The author's aim is to provide the student with a sense not only of techniques but of the discipline itself. He provides a very competent and sensitive account of the rival approaches in historical studies and provides also a sense of the consequent tentative character even of fundamental matters.' James Hearne, Western Washington University, Linguistics 33 `a great deal to recommend it, particularly the description of the contrast of the CM and IR.' Diachronica `One does not need to know about historical linguistics to understand this book. Fox assumes his reader is acquainted with the basics of linguistics, but even a novice in historical linguistics can plunge into this book.' Notes on Linguistics 78

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