I-VI -- Preface -- Past Presidents of the Societas Linguistica Europaea -- Contents -- Thirty-five definitions of etymology or: Etymology revisited -- Further laws of Indo-European -- Greek phrase structure and the order of inflectional morphemes -- Grammar and pragmatics -- The epistemic gap in linguistic stylistics -- Some problems in compiling an etymological dictionary of anglicisms -- Standardization, printing, and the evidence for local dialects: The case of Early Modern English kirk -- Recent developments in Indo-European linguistics and a new paradigm in Indo-European comparative studies -- Sprache, Sprachen und Sprachwissenschaft -- Greek and Latin -- Time-depth in protolanguage reconstruction -- Language or languages? The proper study of the linguist -- Οù va la sémantique? -- John Wilkins and some questions about a universal language -- Morphonologie and morphology: Two systematic aspects of word structure -- Three decades of further development of the pre-war Praguian linguistic traditions (1960 - 1990) -- Zur semantischen Kategorie der Aktualisierung -- Index of names -- Index of subjects -- Index of language groups and languages (other than Modern English)