This volume offers a contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric complete the volume.

1. Dediacation; 2. Preface; 3. table of contents; 4. I. Indo-European; 5. 1. Formes de la racine *dei- 'briller avec rotation' (by Bader, Francoise); 6. 2. Zur vorgeschichte der idg. Dichterformeln (by Campanile, Enrico); 7. 3. Modal auxiliaries in proto-Indo-European (by Costello, John R.); 8. 4. Sur les verbes frequentatifs et causatifs en Indo-Europeen (by Deroy, Louis); 9. 5. Periphrastica homerohittitovedica (by Dunkel, George); 10. 6. On Indoeuropean laryngeals after word-initial s- (by Hoenigswald, Henry M.); 11. 7. Reflexions sur le "neutre"indo-europeen (by Martinet, Andre); 12. 8. Monophthongization as the easing of an articulatory burden (by Schmalstieg, William R.); 13. 9. The indo-European vowels /a/ and /o/ revisited (by Villar, Francisco); 14. II. Anatolian; 15. 1. Luvio geroglifico MU-RU-WA-TA-ZA (by Poetto, Massimo); 16. 2. The anatolian and INdo-European fisrt person plural (by Sihler, Andrew L.); 17. 3. Reflexe der H-laute im Anatolischen (by Schmitt-Brandt, Robert); 18. III. Indic; 19. 1. Rats, mice, and other small rodents in the Indian linguistic area (by Emeneau, Murray B.); 20. 2. Zur wurzel il im Sanskrit und Pali (by Falk, Harry); 21. 3. A critical examination of some early sanskrit passages alleged to indicate dialectal diversity (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 22. 4. Word formation in Gipsy languages (by Vekerdi, Jozsef); 23. IV. Iranian and Armenian; 24. 1. Calques iraniens en armenien (by Bolognesi, Giancarlo); 25. 2. The Armenian suffixes of iranian origin (by Jahukian, Gevork B.); 26. 3. Die goldschmiede im achiamenidischen Susa zu einem alten problem in der Inschrift DSf (by Schmitt, Rudiger); 27. V. Celtic; 28. 1. The old Irish imperfect indicative (by Ahlqvist, Anders); 29. 2. The etymology of old Irish torc 'boar' (by McCone, Kim R.); 30. 3. Gall. @, pitt. @, ant. irl. - Det(i)chet (by Motta, Filippo); 31. VI. Germanic langauges; 32. 1. Bast und Bastard: ein versuch zu einer ungeklarten wortgruppe (by Dick, Ernst S.); 33. 2. Paradigm regularization and the Verscharfung (by Fulk, Robert D.); 34. 3. OE sid and stund in the old Germanic and Indo-European environment (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.); 35. 4. Braht und Brand. Zum althochdeutschen Hildebrandlied (by Klingenberg, Heinz); 36. 5. Variationen uber das thema Birgitta (by Scardigli, Piergiuseppe); 37. VII. Slavic and Albanian; 38. 1. The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European e-verbs (by Rasmussen, Jens Elmegard); 39. 2. Uber die form des Gen.-Dat. Pl. im Albanischen. Zur methode der vergleichenden sprachforschung; 40. VIII. Fenno-Ugrica and Altaica; 41. 1. The character and the scale of Turkic influence on the structure of Finno-Ugric languages (by Bereczki, Gabor); 42. 2. Lexical innovations of the Volga-Finnic epoch (by Decsy, Gyula); 43. 3. Ruckblick auf die geschichte der lautbezeichnung der finnisch-ugrischen sprachen (by Lako, Gyorgy); 44. 4. Das Karpatenbecken zur Zeit der ungarischen langnahme (by Laszlo, Gyula); 45. 5. Beitrage zu den iranischen lehnwortern der uralischen sprachen (by Redei, Karoly); 46. 6. Hullabaloo (by Sinor, Denis); 47. Index of authors