Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- SLAVIC HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- Slavic accentuation: introduction -- Slavic accentuation 1: the l-participle -- Slavic accentuation 2: Slovene konj -- Slavic accentuation 3: the loss of the Indo-European laryngeals -- Slavic accentuation 4: the adjective -- Slavic accentuation 5: case endings -- The Slovene neo-circumflex -- Jers and nasal vowels in the Freising Fragments -- The accentuation of suffixless deverbal nouns in Slavic -- The accentuation of the Kiev Leaflets -- A history of Slavic accentuation -- On the history of Slavic accentuation -- On the history of the Slavic nasal vowels -- Bulgarian accentuation -- Indo-European *pt in Slavic -- On final syllables in Slavic -- Linguistic theory, universals, and Slavic accentuation -- Early dialectal diversity in South Slavic I -- From Proto-Indo-European to Slavic -- On reduced vowels in Slavic -- The progressive palatalization of Slavic -- On methods of dealing with facts and opinions in a treatment of the progressive palatalization of Slavic -- Polabian accentuation -- The accentuation of neuter nouns in Slovene and West Bulgarian -- The Indo-European stative in Slavic -- The accentual system of the Freising manuscripts -- On the accent marks in the First Freising Fragment -- Kazania Świętokrzyskie: a text edition -- Rounded nasal vowels in the Freising Fragments -- Bad theory, wrong conclusions: M. Halle on Slavic accentuation -- Early dialectal diversity in South Slavic II -- Indo-European e-, a-, o- in Slavic -- From Serbo-Croatian to Indo-European -- On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments -- Slavic historical morphology: nominal paradigms -- Issues in Balto-Slavic accentology -- Rise and development of Slavic accentual paradigms -- Some points of discussion in Slavic historical linguistics.

West Slavic accentuation -- GENERAL LINGUISTICS -- Temporal gradation and temporal limitation -- On the meaning of the Japanese passive -- The origin of the Japanese and Korean accent systems -- Are Mongolian and Tungus genetically related? -- Syntax and semantics in the history of Chinese -- Japanese wa, mo, ga, wo, na, no -- Russian syntax and semantics -- Glottalization and tonogenesis in Athabaskan, Balto-Slavic and Germanic -- APPENDIX: INDO-EUROPEAN -- The Proto-Germanic aorist -- The Tocharian s-present -- Balto-Slavic o-grade presents -- References -- Index.