The editors PREFACE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY FREDERIK KORTLANDT ?driaan Barentsen: O S?P?STAVI?EL'N?? IZUC?NII ?GR?NICI??L'NY? VR???NNY? S?JUZ?V SL?VJANS?I? JAZY??V Robert S.P. Beekes: PALATALIZED CONSONANTS IN PRE-GREEK Uwe Blasing: TALYSCHI RIZ 'SPUR' UND VERWANDTE: EIN BEITRAG ZUR IRANISCHEN WORTFORSCHUNG Vaclav Blazek: CELTIC 'SMITH' AND HIS COLLEAGUES Johnny Cheung: THE OSSETIC CASE SYSTEM REVISITED Bardhyl Demiraj: ALB. RRUSH, ON RAGUSA UND GR. RHOKS Rick Derksen: QUANTITY PATTERNS IN THE UPPER SORBIAN NOUN George E. Dunkel: LUVIAN ?TAR AND HOMERIC ?? AR Jose L. Garcia Ramon: ERERBTES...

Contents The Editors: Preface List of Publications by Frederik Kortlandt Willem ADELAAR: Towards a Typological Profile of the Andean Languages Elisabeth DE BOER: The Origin of Alternations in Initial Pitch in ihe Verbal Paradigms of the Central Japanese (Kyoto Type) Accent Systems V.A. CHIRIKBA: Armenians and their Dialects in Abkhazia Katia CHIRKOVA: On the Position of Baima within Tibetan: A Look from Basic Vocabulary Karen STEFFEN CHUNG: Living (Happily) with Contradiction George van DRIEM: The Language Organism: Parasite or Mutualist? Roger FINCH: Mongolian /-gar/ and Japanese /-gar-/...