Contents: P. Adamec: Semanticheskaia interpretatsiia "znachimykh nulei" v russkikh predlozheniiakh; H. Anderson: Consonant Reduction in Russian; Ju. D. Apresjan: Traktovka izbytochnykh aspektualnykh paradigm v tolkovom slovare; B. Aroutunova: Proverbs of the Absurd: The Quest for Truth in Russian Proverbs and Phraseological Expressions; H. Birnbaum: Toward an Unprejudiced Assessment of the Igor' Tale; P. Brang: Einige Bemerkungen zu Archipelag GULAG als "Opyt khudozhestvennogo issledovaniia"; C. V. Chvany: The Paradigm as Partitioned Grammatical Space; J. Dingley: Imti in the Laurentian Redaction of the Primary Chronicle; T. Eekman: Vladimir Nabokov's Poetry; M. S. Flier: Nedelja a la Rus'; P. Garde: Les toumures comitatives en russe; M. L. Gasparov: Sintaksis pushkinskogo shestistopnogo iamba; A. G. F. van Holk: On the Thematic Structure of Pushkin's The Gypsies; G. Huettl-Folter: Gerundial Constructions in A. Kantemir's "Razgovory o mnozhestve mirov"; L. Iordanskaja and I. Mel'cuk: *Glaza Mashi golubye vs. Glaza u Mashi golubye: Choosing between Two Russian Constructions in the Domain of Body Parts; H. Keipert: Das Problem der Motion in den altesten Grammatiken des Russischen; E. Klenin: Hearts in Pushkin; J. F. Levin: On "Doing" Russian Aspect; H. G. Lunt: How Close is Russian to Old Church Slavonic?; R. Picchio: On the Scriptural Semantic Framing of The Tale of Sorrow-Misfortune; A. M. Schenker: Russian chush' "nonsense"; C. H. van Schooneveld: Inclusive and Exclusive or, Russian ili, Turkish mi, and the Semantic Mechanisms of Language; M. Shapiro: Theoretical Remarks on the Problem of Borrowing: Some Evidence from Common Slavic and Russian; G. Y. Shevelov: Muscovite Clerks Face Another Country: The Rendition of Ukrainian Place Names in Kniga bol'shomu chertezhu; E. Stankiewicz: The Zero-Vowel Alternation in Russian Prefixes and Prepositions; V. N. Toporov: Ob "avsenyvykh" pesniakh: iazyk, stikh, smysl; B. A. Uspenskij: Pervoe grammaticheskoe opisanie russkogo iazyka (Grammaticheskii ocherk Marka Ridleia kontsa XVI v.). D. Ward: The Function of -y in Some Onomatopeic Verbs in Russian; A. Zaliznjak: Berestianoi dokument XII v. o sbore igorskoj dani; V. M. Zhivov: Bukovnitsa 1592 g. i ee mesto v istorii russkoi grammaticheskoi mysli; A. Zholkovsky: "Slaughterhouse" Motifs in The Egyptian Stamp and Environs.