Preface -- Publications of Madison S. Beeler -- List of Contributors -- American Indian studies -- Ethnosemantics of the dream helper in south-central California -- Chimariko placenames and the boundaries of Chimariko territory -- An 'Indo European' type paradigm in Proto Eastern Miwok -- Consequential verbs in the Northern Iroquoian languages and elsewhere -- The "old time" Chunut count -- Some Yokuts-Maidun comparisons -- Notes on Karok internal reconstruction -- Patterns of derivational affixation in the Spanish dialect of the last Rumsen speakers -- Washo bipartite verb stems -- Pre-Columbian borrowing involving Huastec -- Northern Chumash numerals -- Yuman numerals -- How languages die: A social history of unstable bilingualism among the Eastern Pomo -- Preaspirated consonants in Central Numic -- Renewal in Numic color systems -- Rumsen II: An evaluation of reconstitution -- Ukiah: Yokaya -- Nonimmediate as a semantic unit in Delaware -- Two plus two makes two -- The non-genetic relationship of Wappo and Yuki -- English and Spanish loanwords in Wintu -- Two systems of Cahuilla kinship expressions: labeling and descriptive -- Rumsen derivation -- Shasta and Konomihu -- Indoeuropean studies -- Greek βούλομαι: Etymology and evolution -- The dönsk tunga in Early Medieval Normandy: a note -- The present participle again - some observations based on an Old Norse text -- Extension versus convergence in the North Germanic verb -- Sanskrit bhōgin- 'wealthy' → 'village headman -- fisherman, palanquin-bearer' -- Diphthongs in Old English -- Albanian është -- On the origin of the 3rd sg. -r in Old Norse -- Indo-European themes in Homer -- The nominative singular of n-stems in Germanic -- The unethical dative -- Definite default in Old Icelandic -- August Friedrich Pott as a pioneer of Romance linguistics -- The syntax of Old Russian mĭněti (sja).

Notker's "Anlautgesetz" and generative phonology -- An exception to Old High German umlaut -- The etymon of snake, snail, and sneak in the light of Indo-Iranian -- Indo-European, Classical Armenian, and Modern Armenian -- The Venetic r-forms in a comparative perspective -- OInd. máhi : Gk. méga 'great' reconsidered.