Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 2001. No. 2

CONTENTS
N.Yu. Shvedova
Once more on the verb TO BE 		3 - 12
Anna A. Zalizniak
Semantic derivation in synchrony and diachrony: a project of “The Catalogue of semantic shifts” 		13 - 25
B. Wiemer
Aspectual paradigms and lexical meaning of Russian and Lithuanian verbs. An experience of comparison from the point of view of lexicalisation and grammaticalisation 		26 - 58
Andrey N. Sobolev
The Balkanic wordstock in the light of areal and areal-typological linguistics 		59 - 93
Oleg F. Zholobov
Old Slavonic numerals as part of speech 		94 - 109
A.P. Romanenko
Soviet philosophy of language: E. D. Polivanov — N. Ja. Marr 		110 - 123
Oleg N. Trubachev
Information for the participants of the next Congress of Slavists in 2003 		123 - 126
Overviews
Overviews
A.I. Domashnev
Problems of classification of German sociolects 		127 - 139
Reviews
Reviews
Tatiana M. Nikolaeva
[Рец. на / Review of:] Language about language. A collection of articles 		140 - 145
E.L. Barxudarova
[Рец. на / Review of:] The Fortunatov linguistic collection 		145 - 150
Current linguistic research
Current linguistic research
R. Marojević
Parts of speech in Russian 		151 - 153
Academic life
Academic life

Chronicle features 		154 - 159