Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 2020. No. 5

CONTENTS
Vladimir M. Alpatov
“The great crisis” in the history of linguistics and how it was overcome 		7 - 21
Alexey A. Gippius
Birchbark letters from Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa excavations of 2019 		22 - 37
Maria D. Voeikova
Structural functions of diminutives and their productivity in modern Russian 		38 - 56
Elena V. Uryson
Analogy in semantics and semantic metalanguage issues: The case of Russian VNIMANIE ‘attention’ 		57 - 75
Maksim V. Vyzhlakov
Ability and possibility in Tocharian A: The semantics of the verbs yāt- and cämp- and their derivatives 		76 - 90
Ilya S. Yakubovich
Persian ezāfe as a contact-induced feature 		91 - 114
Overviews
Overviews
Anna S. Kuleva
Plant names in the linguistic perspective: Flora of Middle-Earth, dictionaries, and translations 		115 - 131
Reviews
Reviews
Natalia V. Kuznetsova
[Review of:] L. M. Hyman, F. Plank (eds.). Phonological typology. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. ix + 434 p. (Phonology and Phonetics, 23.) DOI: 10.1515/ 9783110451931. ISBN 978-3-11-044970-9. 		132 - 141
Mariia Pronina, Sergey V. Knyazev
[Review of:] P. Prieto, N. Esteve-Gibert (eds.). The development of prosody in first language acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018. vi + 368 p. (Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23.) ISBN 9789027200594 (print), 9789027264213 (e-book). 		142 - 149
Ivan A. Stenin
[Review of:] B. Wagner-Nagy. A grammar of Nganasan. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xviii + 583 p. (Grammars and sketches of the world’s languages. Indigenous languages of Russia.) ISBN 978-90-04-38275-6. 		150 - 160