Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Note for Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Albert Davletshin. Laryngealized consonants and laryngealized vowels in the history of the Totonacan languages of Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Ilya Egorov. The origin and synchronic status of mid front vowels in Kazym Khanty . . . . . . . . 197
Ilya Gruntov, Olga Mazo. Mongghul, Mangghuer and beyond: estimating the proximity. . . . . 210
Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach. On the place of Phrygian among the Indo-European languages. . . .233
Alexander Militarev. Some implications of etymology and lexical reconstruction for the history
and pre-history of the Near Eastern / North African / Mediterranean area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Anton Kogan. On possible Dardic and Burushaski influence on some Northwestern Tibetan dialects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Anastasiya Krylova. Areal features of the 110-item wordlist of the Indo-Aryan languages of the South Odisha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Maria Molina. Degrees of comparison in Hittite and Luwian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Evgeniya Renkovskaya. The story of one postposition: etymological analysis issues with certain elements of the postpositional system in New Indo-Aryan languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Mikhail Saenko. Proto-Slavic *pьrsi and *grǫdь: semantics and etymology. . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Artem Trofimov. On the reflexes of long syllabic consonants in the Latin language. . . . . . . . 341
