Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 1999. No. 3

CONTENTS
Oleg N. Trubachev
Issues in slavistics at the XII International Congress of slavists 		3 - 19
L.E. Kalnyn’, G.P. Klepikova
Issues in dialectology at the XII International Congress of slavists 		20 - 37
Eugene M. Vereščagin, Vadim B. Krys’ko
Some observations on the language and text of an archaic linguistic monument — Eliah's Book (II) 		38 - 59
L.G. Zubkova
Typology of phonological oppositions in the light of their semantic functions 		60 - 69
Ingrid Maier
“I ask your Majesty...” A peculiar use of the genitive in the function of the accusative 		70 - 85
E.G. Tumanian
On the nature of linguistic changes 		86 - 97
Wolf Dietrich
The influence of Amerindian languages on the Romance languages (language contacts in North America and countries of the Caribbean basin) 		98 - 108
Alexei L. Shilov
Is there Scandinavian toponymy in Karelia? (The importance of toponymic data for solving ethno-historical problems) 		109 - 118
Andrej L. Malchukov
The perfect and evidentiality in the Tungusic languages (an essay in functional and diachronic analysis) 		119 - 132
E.A. Umarov
New data on vowels in "Dīwānu lughāt-it turk" 		133 - 135
Reviews
Reviews
A.V. Superanskaya
[Review of:] V. Blanár. Teória vlastného mena 		136 - 145
A.P. Volodin, N.A. Kozintseva
[Review of:] Z. Guentchéva (Ed.). L’énonciaton médiatisée 		145 - 153
Academic life
Academic life

Chronicle notes 		154 - 158