Contents: Henrik Birnbaum: Where was the Center of the Moravian State?; Evelyn Bristol: The Avant-Garde in Russia and the West; Ellen Chances: Unheard Music: Literary Refrains in the Film A Forgotten Melody for the Flute; Andrew R. Durkin: The Generic Context of Rural Prose: Turgenev and the Pastoral Tradition; Thomas Eekman: Stylistic and Syntactic Innovation in Slavic Prose of the Early Twentieth Century; Norman W. Ingham: Sources on St. Ludmila, III: The Homily and Its "Echoes"; Ante Kadic: Ruke u knjizhevnosti, umjetnosti i narodnim obichajima; Robert E. Macmaster: Tolstoi and History; Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble: The Concept of the Reader in Slavic Autobiographies: Protopop Avvakum, Dositej Obradovic, Sofronij Vrachanski; Maria Pavlovszky: Esenin i Remizov: Otrazhenie russkogo narodnogo samosoznanija; Walter Schamschula: The Igor' Tale from Its Czech to Its Gaelic Connection; Marianne and Michael Shapiro: Pushkin and Petrach; Peter Steiner: The Motivated Sign: The Concept of Symbol in Post-Symbolist Russian Letters; Ronelle Alexander: Remarks on the Evolution of South Slavic Prosodic Systems; Edna Andrews: The Iconicity of Gender Shifts in Contemporary Russian; James Bailey: On Analyzing the Rhythm of a Russian Funeral Lament; Christina Y. Bethin: The Glide [i]/[j] in Late Common Slavic; Michael S. Flier: Final Sonorant Clusters in East Slavic; George Fowler: A Syntactic Account of Derivational -sja in Russian; Victor A. Friedman: The Loss of the Imperfective Aorist in Macedonian: Structural Significance and Balkan Context; Louise B. Hammer: Incomplete Language Acquisition and Language Shift: The Slovak Language in America; Laura A. Janda: Cognitive Linguistics as a Continuation of the Jakobsonian Tradition: The Semantics of Russian and Czech Reflexives; Marvin Kantor: A Question of Language: Church Slavonic and the West Slavs; Emily Klenin: The Perfect Tense in the Laurentian Manuscript of 1377; Rado L. Lencek: On the Trail of *vy- Compounds in South Slavic; Horace G. Lunt: From Late Indo-European to Common Slavic Phonology; Johanna Nichols: The Linguistic Geography of the Slavic Expansion; Joseph Schallert: The Historical Accentuation of the Definite Singular Masculine Form in Balkan Slavic Dialects with Free Stress; William R. Schmalstieg: Lengthened Grade Iteratives in the Baltic and Slavic Languages; Benjamin A. Stolz and Jindrich Toman: Philologia Militans: Trubetzkoy and Jakobson on the Church Slavonic Heritage; Alan Timberlake: Isochrony in Late Common Slavic (Opyt foneticheskogo podxoda); C. H. Van Schooneveld: The Dual and Slavic Linguistic Structure: Singulative Identificational Deixis; Ol'ga C. Yokoyama: Oppozicija svoj-chuzhoj v russkom jazyke.

"...contains 23 papers of a generally very high standard. ... This volume should be acquired by all libraries with serious Slavic collections. ...the editors and publishers are to be congratulated..." (SR)