I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- The phonetic phenomena connected with the strengthening and weakening of sonants in Bulgarian and Macedonian dialects -- Parasite consonants: A homographic clash -- The nature of Old English dialect distributions, mainly as exhibited in charter boundaries -- Geographical and linguistic distance in thirteenth-century Dutch -- Copyist behavior: Historical linguistics and text filiation -- Contractions of preposition and plural article without s (e. g. a + les > au) in Old French, a completely overlooked problem of paradigm formation with implications for the theory of language change -- Slavonic Pomerania in the past: Its links with the neighboring areas and its internal division -- New methods in textual criticism: The case of the Charroi de Nîmes -- "Sociolectalization" as a feature in different versions of medieval drama -- Realizations of the definite article in dialectal English and how and when they originated -- A hypothesis on the structure of macaronic business writing -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages and dialects -- Index of names