Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 2000. No. 2

CONTENTS
Valentin L. Janin, Andrey A. Zaliznyak
Birch codici from the Novgorod excavations of 1999 		3 - 14
Arja Ahlqvist
Merians or not Merians (I) 		15 - 34
T.V. Toporova
Types of cognition in Old Germanic mythopoetical pattern of the world 		35 - 46
M.Yu. Mikheev
On the metaphorical constructions with genitive case in Russian 		47 - 70
V.V. Gurevich
Modality and semantics of verbal aspect 		71 - 78
V.G. Gak
Was A. S. Pushkin's language influenced by French? 		79 - 89
Eugene M. Vereščagin, V.G. Kostomarov
A speech-behavioristic study of A. S. Pushkin's parable on the prodigal daughter 		90 - 117
Anton V. Zimmerling
The American linguistics of today as seen by Russian linguists 		118 - 133
Reviews
Reviews
Vadim B. Krys’ko
[Рец. на / Review of:] Н. Birnbaum, J. Schaeken. Das altkirchenslavische Wort: Bildung - Bedeutung - Herleitung. Altkirchenslavische Studien I 		134 - 142
Sergei G. Tatevosov
[Рец. на / Review of:] Theory of functional grammar 		142 - 147
Anna A. Zalizniak
[Рец. на / Review of:] T. V. Bulygina, A. D. Smelev. Language conceptualization of the world (based on the materials of Russian grammar) 		148 - 151
A.A. Vinogradov
[Рец. на / Review of:] Jožef Krekich. Pedagogical grammar of the Russian verb. Semantics and pragmatics 		151 - 155
Academic life
Academic life

Chronicle features 		156 - 159