I-IV -- Preface -- List of participants -- Paragraph 16 of Audacht Morainn: linguistic theory and philological evidence -- The missing link: the role of the lexicon -- Text as social indicator: the letters of Julia Miles Barnes -- The development of discourse markers in English -- Localizing William of Palerne -- Philological studies and Mayan languages -- Philology in America: Nahuatl: What loan words and the early descriptions of Nahuatl show about stress, vowel length, and glottal stop in sixteenth century Nahuatl and Spanish -- Towards a dialectology of spoken Old French: the analysis of rhymes -- The phonological status of long consonants in the Vernon manuscript of the Ancrene Riwle -- Linguistic searchlights and philological buckets: a case study of their interdependence (the conceptual field of persuade/convince) -- Syntactic and pragmatic principles as arguments in the interpretation of runic inscriptions -- The relationship between punctuation and syntax in Middle Dutch -- Unhistorical features in Massachusett orthography -- The orthographic aspect of the runes -- The object of philology and the object of linguistics -- The occurrence of glosses in three Late Middle English texts: lexical variation -- On scribal errors: from the Old Saxon evidence -- The last Vercelli homily: a sentence-analytical edition -- Linguistics and philology: parametric changes and Romance possessives -- On the happy reunion of English philology and historical linguistics -- The importance of fine points in spelling: deletion of accented vowels in Tocharian Β -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- 403-404