Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 1999. No. 2

CONTENTS
Eugene M. Vereščagin, Vadim B. Krys’ko
Observations on the language and text of an archaic linguistic monument ("The Eliah's Book") 		3 - 26
T.I. Vendina
Word-formation as a means of discretisation of the universum 		27 - 49
V.N. Shaposhnikov
On the territorial and functional structure of the Russian language in the end of the XX century 		50 - 57
Vsevolod V. Potapov
On the origin of the verbal rhythm 		58 - 70
Olga V. Fedorova
Introductive reference of the noun in languages having no articles 		71 - 91
K.-P. Herbermann
Contrastive analysis of comparative constructions. On the problem of correlation of grammar with etymology and linguistic typology 		91 - 107
V. V. Ponariadov
On the origin of verbal forms with asyndetic personal affixes in Turkic languages 		108 - 112
Heritage
Heritage
O.V. Nikitin
The study of the language of Russian business documents in the writings of academician V.V. Vinogradov; 		113 - 127
Reviews
Reviews
Lyubov’ V. Kurkina
[Review of:] Symbolae slavisticae dedykowane pani profesor Hannie Popowskiej-Taborskiej 		128 - 134
N.A. Kupina
[Review of:] Russkii yazyk kontsa XX stoletiya (1985-1995). Kollektivanya monografiya [The Russian language in the end of the XX century (1985-1995)] 		134 - 138
N.V. Moiseeva
[Review of:] А.Е. Backhouse. The lexical field of taste: A semantic study of Japanese taste terms 		138 - 140