The present volume is the latest installment in this long-running series of biennial conferences devoted to the non-Slavic languages of the former USSR. Although the breakup of the Soviet Union greatly complicated the political life of minority ethniciĀties, it has given new vigor to the study of their languages, as this volume will amply attest.
Introduction; Gregory D. S. Anderson: Deaffrication in the Siberian area; Debra Halperin Biasca: Grammaticalization of aleyn in Yiddish; Harry Bochner: Preverbs and adverbs in Yiddish; Marcello Cherchi: Georgian verbal tmesis and Wackernagel's law; Felice A. Coles and Donald L. Dyer: Remarks on Moldovan phonology and ethnic speech identity; Bernard Comrie: Relative clauses and related constructions in Tsez; Johannes Helmbrecht: Finite clauses and infinitive complements in Lak; Robert D. King and Kerstin E. Somerholter: Colonial German in the former Soviet Union and its implications for the formation of Yiddish; H. Paul Manning: Indexical categories in the Old Georgian relative clause: ese, ege, igi; Holger Nath: Debates surrounding the use of the passive in Soviet Yiddish; Ramazan Rajabov: Class in Tsez: underlying principles Ramazan Rajabov: The Georgian perfect series: where is the direct object?; Kevin Tuite: Split relation-marking systems in Kartvelian; Bert Vaux: Vowel harmony in Armenian dialect of Karchevan.