Contents
P. Arant
Excursus on the Theme in Russian Oral Epic Song 7
J. Bailey
The Basic Structural Characteristics of Russian Literary Meters 9
S. Blumstein
Phonological Aspects of Aphasic Speech 17
W. Browne
Form and Meaning in Serbo-Croatian Conjugation 39
R. Channon
On Passivization in Russian 44
C. Chvany
Analysis of a Poem by Teffi 49
G. Clivio
A Note on Two Oppositions of Standard Italian with a Low Functional Yield 61
I. Corten
The Influence of Dostoevskij on Majakovskij's Poem "Pro Chto" 70
M. Curran
Suxovo-Kobylin's Smert' Tarelkina 76
R. De Rijk
St. Augustine on Language 84
I. Fairley
Syntax as Style: An Analysis of Three Cummings' Poems 91
F. Gladney
Some Rules for Nasals in Polish 105
N. Ingham
The Litany of Saints in `Molitva sv. Troice 121
P. Kiparsky
Metrics and Morphophonemics in the Kalevala 137
R. Klymasz
Syllabo-Stanzaic Stability and the Ukrainian Kolomyjka: A Case Study 149
J. Kolsti
Albanian Oral Epic Poetry 165
G. Lakoff
Phonological Restructuring and Grimm's Law 168
M. Levin
The Structure of the Russian Proverb 180
T. Lightner
An Analysis of akan'e and ikan'e in Modern Russian Using the Notion of Markedness 188
J. Manson
Pushkin's Evgenij Onegin: A Study in Literary Counter-Point 201
D. G. Miller
Traces of Indo-European Metre in Lydian 207
L. Newman
Derived Imperfectives from Perfective i-Verbs in Russian 222
K. O'Connor
Theme and Color in Blok's "Stikhi o prekrasnoi dame" 233
J. Perkowski
Kashubian Caviare 246
P. Radley
Emotion in a Formalist: The Jakobson-Khodasevich Polemic 248
O. Ronen
Mandel'shtam's Kashchej 252
R. Rothstein
The Poetics of Proverbs 265
E. Sampson
Maria Pawlikowska's Lyrical Miniatures 275
E. Scatton
On the Loss of Proto-Slavic Diphthongs 281
L. H. Scott
"Sdrats Ye, Gus Paudheen!" 289
M. Shapiro
Constantine's "proglas'': An Accentological Commentary 299
R. Szulkin
Modes of Perception in Jurij Olesha's Liompa 309
C. Townsend
Part of Speech in Roots and the Zero-Suffix in Russian 313
B. T'sou
Some Aspects of Linguistic Parallelism and Chinese Versification 318
R. Whitman
On Generative Semantics. 329
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