Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 2003. No. 4

CONTENTS
Andrey A. Zaliznyak, Valentin L. Janin
Birch codici from the Novgorod excavations of 2002 		3 - 11
M.N. Bogoliubov
Avestan xvafənā in the homily of Zaratushtra (Y. 30) and Khwarezmian xwnb "to remove" 		12 - 18
S. Patrie
Намъ: a new Slavic-Iranian isogloss 		19 - 28
Alexei L. Shilov
Toponymic models and etymologization of substrat toponyms of the Russian North 		29 - 42
Nikolaj V. Percov
Reflexive passive forms of the Russian verb (in connection with the problem of existence in morphology) 		43 - 71
A.G. Pazel'skaya
Aspectuality and Russian predicative nouns 		72 - 90
V.A. Lukin
Controversy and agreement: discursive strategies and textual properties 		91 - 109
E.A. Umarov
Mahmud of Kashgar's views on the consonant "G" 		110 - 112
Reviews
Reviews
D.M. Nasilov
[Рец. на / Review of:] Nikolai Konstantinovič Dmitriev. On the centenary of his birth 		112 - 116
E.G. Tumanian
[Рец. на / Review of:] V. N. Belousov, E. A. Grigorian, T. Yu. Pozniakova. The Russian language in the internation communication 		116 - 126
Vladimir A. Plungian
[Review of:] G. Lazard. Etudes de linguistique générale: typologie grammaticale 		126 - 131
M.A. Chlenov
[Рец. на / Review of:] P. Wexler. Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish, Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect 		132 - 139
Academic life
Academic life

Chronicle features 		140 - 159