I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction -- Publications of Ladislav Zgusta -- I. Indo-European and general historical linguistic studies -- Nexus and 'extraclausality' in Vedic, or 'sa-figé' all over again: A historical (re)examination -- Some archaisms in the Iliad -- The origin and evolution of primary derivative suffixes in Dravidian -- Ex Oriente nox -- Indo-European religion -- Archaism and innovation in Proto-Celtic? -- On Old Persian hypocoristics in -iya- -- Some problems of Latin adverbs -- Hittite telipuri- 'district, precinct' -- Lexical archaisms in the Tocharian languages -- II. Papers on lexicography and history of linguistics -- Corrections and additions to the Ossetic etymological dictionary -- More on the Diccionario Griego-Español -- Uphill with Dasypodius: On the lexicographic treatment of weak nouns in German -- The gnosiological and dianoetic aspects of language and the limitedness of G. B. Vico's theory -- Re-constructing ideology, Part one: Animadversions of John Home Tooke on the origins of affixes and non-designative words -- Greek maulistērion and its group: A lexicographical essay -- The vocabulary of culture: A potential method of contrastive description -- The lexical Semitisms of Septuagint Greek as a reflex of the history of the Hebrew vocabulary: Implications concerning lexical diachrony and historical lexicography -- Printed language dictionaries and their standardization: Notes on the progress toward a general theory of lexicography -- Indices -- Author index -- Language index