Contents:
J. J. Hamm: Inaugural Address: Oxonium Docet;
Vladimr Barnet: Toward a Sociolinguistic Interpretation of the Origins of the Slavonic Literary Languages;
Henrik Birnbaum: The Slavonic Language Community as a Genetic and Typological Class;
Peter Kiraly: The Role of the Buda University Press in the Development of Orthography and Literary Languages;
Rado L. Lencek: On Sociolinguistic Determinants in the Evolution of Slavic Literary Languages;
W. F. Ryan: Astronomy in Church Slavonic: Linguistic Aspects of Cultural Transmission;
Helmut Fasske: The Historical, Economic and Political Bases of the Formation and Development of the Sorbian Literary Languages;
Jozef Mistrik: The Modernization of Contemporary Slovak;
Eugen Pauliny: The Effect of Magyarization on the Fortunes of Literary and Cultivated Slovak;
Alexander Schenker: Czech Lexical Borrowings in Polish Re-examined;
Gerald Stone: Language Planning and the Lower Sorbian Literary Language;
Stanislaw Urbanczyk: The Origins of the Polish Literary Language;
Aleksandar Albijanic: The Demise of Serbian Church Slavic and the Advent of the Slaveno-Serbski Literary Dialect;
Pet''r Dinekov: Aspects of the History of the Bulgarian Literary Language in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries;
L. Hadrovics: The Status of the Croatian Regional Languages immediately before Gaj's Reforms;
Peter Herrity: France Presheren and the Slovene Literary Language;
Henry Leeming: Emil Koryto (1813-1839), Slavophile and Slavenophile;
Francis Wenceslas Maresh: A Basic Reform of the Orthography at the Early Period of Croatian-Glagolitic Church Slavonic;
Peter Rehder: The Concept of the Norm and the Literary Language among the Glagoljashi;
Joze Toporisic: Kopitar as Defender of the Independence of the Slovene Language;
Gerta Huettl-Folter: The Lexical Heritage from the Old Russian Chronicles and the Formation of Literary Russian;
H. Keipert: Old and New Problems of the Russian Literary Language (Arguments for a New Kind of Russian Linguistic History);
Arnold McMillin: The Development of the Byelorussian Literary Lexicon in the Nineteenth Century;
Dean S. Worth: Vernacular and Slavonic in Kievan Rus';
Marianna D. Birnbaum: Innovative Archaism: a Facet in the Poetic Language of Endre Ady.

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