Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 2007. № 1

CONTENTS
K.-H. Schmidt
Some thoughts on the comparative and historical analysis of the Celtic word-stock. 		3 - 17
M. Guiraud-Weber
The use of nouns as nominative predicates in contemporary Russian: is it yet possible to speak of the semantic opposition «nominative vs. instrumental case»? 		18 - 26
Tsiang-Huang Chang
Aspectual semantic components in the meanings of nouns in Russian. 		27 - 43
E.V. Prozorova
The Russian gesture language as subject of linguistic study. 		44 - 61
R.A. Tadinova
The reflexes of velar consonants of Turkic loan-words in Nakh-Daghestan languages. 		62 - 74
Heritage
Heritage
G.F. Blagova
The galaxy of like-minded orientalists opposing the views of the new and old Orientalistic schools (the first decades of the XX centuriy). 		75 - 102
Overviews
Overviews
Vadim B. Krys’ko
Russian historical lexicography (XI–XVII centuries): problems and perspectives. 		103 - 118
Reviews
Reviews
Julija L. Kuznecova
M. Tomasello. Constructing a language: a usage based theory of language acquisition. 		119 - 125
Svetlana A. Burlak
W. Wildgen. The evolution of human language: Scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics. 		126 - 130
Sergey A. Minor
Linguistic diversity and language theories. 		131 - 134
Anna A. Zalizniak
D. Dobrovol’skij, E. Piirainen. Figurative language: Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives. 		135 - 139
Arseniy P. Vydrin, Yury A. Lander
Sеcondary predication and adverbial modification. The typology of depictives. 		140 - 142
Natal’ja N. Zapol’skaja
Rozmova-Besěda. Das ruthenische und kirchenslavische Berlaimont-Gesprächsbuch des Ivan Uževyč. 		143 - 144
Ilya A. Gruntov
A.N. Samoilovich. Turkic linguistics. Philology. Runics. 		145 - 146
Valentin Yu. Gusev
A.I. Izotov. The functional-semantic category of imperativity in contemporary Czech language as compared with Russian. 		147 - 150
Galina I. Kustova
[Review of:] Dostoevskij in focus. Lexicography and phraseology of the literary text. 		151 - 154
Academic life
Academic life
Ekaterina V. Vel’mezova
The 18-th Conference of the International Society for the study of the history of linguistics. 		155 - 157