Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Greek and Latin are studied as a pair for cultural reasons only; as languages, they have little in common apart from their Indo-European heritage. Thus the only way to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible is to present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, to discuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics – the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic.

Allen Brent examines the significance of the Hippolytan events in the life of the Roman Church in the early third century. Developing the thesis of at least two authors in the Hippolytan corpus, he proposes a new, redactional explanation of the relation between these different authors and the theological and social tensions to which their work bears witness. Brent reconstructs a picture of the community that contextualizes both the Hippolytan literature and in particular the Statue, for which he proposes a new interpretation as a community artefact though universally misjudged as a monument to an individual.
Tertullian's relationship with Callistus is finally re-assessed. This work is thus an important contribution to new understandings of a period critical both for the development of Church Order and embryonic Trinitarian Orthodoxy.

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.

Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by science fiction novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney.

The literature on Slavic phonetics reveals a controversy about certain vowels and consonants. Dictionaries typically do not give phonetics, or if they do, it is not standard IPA. This creates problems for both researchers and teachers. These difficulties are met here by the attempt to give more careful description of articulations, and provide a better descriptive analysis than is presently available. A system is presented for the consistent and precise location of vowels. In addition, a standard articulation chart and standard descriptions are provided. This extended IPA system is used as the basis of phonetic descriptions, analysis and comparison. Emphasis is on the specific case or paradigm method of the philosophy of science so that numerous examples must of necessity be given. This contrasts with the usual article on phonology, which provides the fewest number or examples required to support a general or universal hypothesis. The examples here provide data for phonology, further research, comparative and contrastive phonetics, as well as to aid the language teacher and learner.

The article is devoted to the semantic characteristics of a numerous group of derivative nouns denoting places in the Slavic languages. On the basis of language material from Bulgarian, Polish and Russian, the author aims at combining the traditional word-formation method with elements of lexico-semantic analysis, so as to reveal the basic formal and semantic indications 26 of the discussed lexemes. This is part of a larger work which analyses the lexemes of locative meaning in the compared languages, and which finally aims at achieving a generalized model of the word-formation category considered here.

There are multiple functional differences between the German Akkusativ des Inhalts (einen gerechten Kampf kämpfen), the Stabreim and the Bulgarian „verbal word-group“ with a direct object of the same grammatical root (своя гален блян бленува), the last being only a partial case of a wide-spread linguistic phenomenon. The quoted Bulgarian word-groups with numerous variants can be related to the Old German rhyming with the same initial consonants of the following words

The article treats the question of the earliest usage of the terms system and structure concerning language, and also the different content implied in them. The author emphasizes that the idea about language as a systematic whole does not contradict the thesis about the asystematic facts and processes existing in it.