Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 1997. No. 2

CONTENTS
Oleg N. Trubachev
My recollections about Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy 		5 - 15
N.I. Tolstoi
Slavia Orthodoxa and Slavia Latina — the common and the different in the literary-linguistic situation (preliminary evaluations) 		16 - 23
Valentin L. Janin, Andrey A. Zaliznyak
Birchbark letters from Novgorod excavations of 1996 		24 - 33
E.E. Babaeva, Anatoly F. Zhuravlev, I.I. Makeeva
On the project of “The historical dictionary of contemporary Russian” 		34 - 46
V.G. Gak
Typology of analytical verbal forms in Slavonic languages (irradiation and concatenation) 		47 - 58
N.D. Arutyunova
On shame and frost 		59 - 70
T.I. Vendina
On the problem of the central and marginal areas of Slavia 		71 - 76
Anna A. Plotnikova
A semantic approach to the description of terminology in South Slavonic ritual ceremonies 		77 - 89
Vadim B. Krys’ko
Verba pretii in the history of Russian and other Slavonic languages 		90 - 100
Elena V. Paducheva
The genitive case of the subject: Syntax or semantics? 		101 - 116
O.A. Lapteva
On the formal and functional patterning of colloquial syntax 		117 - 131
Tatyana A. Mikhailova
On the “grammar” of exorcism (the verbal magic in Old Irish poetic tradition) 		132 - 141
T.V. Toporova
Indo-European parallels of Old Germanic exorcisms 		142 - 149
N.A. Zamyatina
From the history of the icon inscriptions research 		150 - 159
Heritage
Heritage
G.F. Blagova
Periodization of the literary Turkic languages in the archive works of academician A.N. Samoylovich 		160 - 164
A.N. Samoylovich
On the Middle Asian Turkish literary language and its relation to other Turkic languages. Petrograd 1917 		165 - 168
Reviews
Reviews
A.V. Yudin
[Review] Slavonic antiquities: An ethnolinguistic dictionary in five volumes 		169 - 173
V.V. Usačeva
[Review] Laszlo Dezsö. Business writings of the Ruthenians in the XVII–XVIII centuries 		174 - 175
T.I. Vendina
[Review] Lexical atlas of Belarusian dialects (volumes 1–5) 		176 - 181
Valerii M. Mokienko
[Review] A dictionary of Russian dialects of Karelia and neighboring regions 		181 - 185
Anatoly F. Zhuravlev
[Review] The Novgorod regional dictionary 		185 - 191