P. Arant: Excursus on the Theme in Russian Oral Epic Song; J. Bailey: The Basic Structural Characteristics of Russian Literary Meters; S. Blumstein: Phonological Aspects of Aphasic Speech; W. Browne: Form and Meaning in Serbo-Croatian Conjugation; R. Channon: On Passivization in Russian; C. Chvany: Analysis of a Poem by Teffi; G. Clivio: A Note on Two Oppositions of Standard Italian with a Low Functional Yield; I. Corten: The Influence of Dostoevskij on Majakovskij's Poem "Pro Chto"; M. Curran: Suxovo-Kobylin's Smert' Tarelkina; R. De Rijk: St. Augustine on Language; I. Fairley: Syntax as Style: An Analysis of Three Cummings' Poems; F. Gladney: Some Rules for Nasals in Polish; N. Ingham: The Litany of Saints in `Molitva sv. Troice; P. Kiparsky: Metrics and Morphophonemics in the Kalevala; R. Klymasz: Syllabo-Stanzaic Stability and the Ukrainian Kolomyjka: A Case Study; J. Kolsti: Albanian Oral Epic Poetry; G. Lakoff: Phonological Restructuring and Grimm's Law; M. Levin: The Structure of the Russian Proverb; T. Lightner: An Analysis of akan'e and ikan'e in Modern Russian Using the Notion of Markedness; J. Manson: Pushkin's Evgenij Onegin: A Study in Literary Counter-Point; D. G. Miller: Traces of Indo-European Metre in Lydian; L. Newman: Derived Imperfectives from Perfective i-Verbs in Russian; K. O'Connor: Theme and Color in Blok's "Stikhi o prekrasnoi dame"; J. Perkowski: Kashubian Caviare; P. Radley: Emotion in a Formalist: The Jakobson-Khodasevich Polemic; O. Ronen: Mandel'shtam's Kashchej; R. Rothstein: The Poetics of Proverbs; E. Sampson: Maria Pawlikowska's Lyrical Miniatures; E. Scatton: On the Loss of Proto-Slavic Diphthongs; L. H. Scott: "Sdrats Ye, Gus Paudheen!"; M. Shapiro: Constantine's proglas'': An Accentological Commentary; R. Szulkin: Modes of Perception in Jurij Olesha's Liompa; C. Townsend: Part of Speech in Roots and the Zero-Suffix in Russian; B. T'sou: Some Aspects of Linguistic Parallelism and Chinese Versification; R. Whitman: On Generative Semantics.

"This highly stimulating collection... contains something for everybody." (Slavonic and East European Review)