This book is a collection of articles written in honor of Professor Stanislaw Stachowski, a distinguished linguist from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Stachowski is known both in Polish academic circles and to a wider world of scholars as an expert in Turkish, Balkan, and Slavonic linguistics. The papers included in the volume reflect the varied scholarly pursuits of the authors, but are all related to Professor Stachowski's research interests.