This volume contains articles by 17 slavists from the Low Countries. Although they are all about Slavic linguistics, they cover a wide range of subjects and their theoretical implications are often not restricted to slavistics alone. Most contributions deal with Russian or Slavic in general, but South and West Slavic are also represented. The reader who knows the strong points for which Dutch slavistics is traditionally known and appreciated will not be disappointed: s/he will find papers on syntax and semantics (Fortuin, Van Helden, Honselaar, Keijsper, Tribusinina), aspectology (Barentsen,...

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-/...