I-X -- Introduction -- I. Historical studies on sounds, words, and systems -- A. Sound change -- Preglottalization in English and a North Germanic bifurcation -- Zur neuhochdeutschen Dehnung in offener Tonsilbe -- Lexical diffusion in regular sound change -- Unveiling a masked change: behind vowel harmony in the dialect of Claro -- Accents and medieval English phonologists -- Retraction and rounding in Old English breaking -- Β. Language change -- Latin ipse, Continental Celtic -xsi: a tentative proposal -- Der Name al-Andalus: neue Überlegungen zu einem alten Problem -- Fein gehackte Pinienkerne zugeben! Zum Infinitiv in Kochrezepten -- Language change in early Britain: the convergence account -- Irish ainder, Welsh anner, Breton annoar, Basque andere -- II. Synchronic studies on sounds, words, and uses -- Cyclicity and base non-identity -- The meter of nursery rhymes: universal versus language-specific patterns -- Unreine Reime und phonologische Theorie -- Choctaw intensives and syllable theory -- Imperatives: the relation between meaning and form -- Struktur und Akzent komplexer Komposita -- Warum wir zusammenschreiben nicht immer zusammenschreiben - Präferenzgesetze im Schriftsystem -- Noun classification and composition in Kilmeri -- The puzzle of the autoantonymous argument role. Unraveling the polysemy of risk/riskieren -- Be brief and vague! And how Bidirectional Optimality Theory allows for verbosity and precision -- Publications of Theo Vennemann -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Index