This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminentBalticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers. Table of contentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPhilip Baldi and Pietro U. Dini ix William R. Schmalstieg: The Man and the Scholar Philip Baldi xi Publications 1956–2004 William R. Schmalstieg xxiii On the Genetive with Neuter Participles and Verbal Nouns in Lithuanian Vytautus Ambrazas 1 'To Be' or 'Not To Be' in the Indo-European Languages Xaverio Ballester 7 Lithuanian esmí and esú 'I am': On the Spread of the Thematic Present inIndo-European Languages Alfred Bammesberger 19 On the Subject of Old Prussian Estate Names Grasilda Blaziene 27 Indo-European *men- and *tel- Allan R. Bomhard 33 Baltic Palaeocomparativism and the Idea That Prussian Derives from Greek Pietro U. Dini 37 Phrase and Idiom in Bretke’s Old Lithuanian Bible Rainer Eckert 51 Indo-European *peiḱ- and *peik- Eric P. Hamp 63 Proclisis in Greek Henry M. Hoenigswald 67 On the Marking of Predicate Nominals in Baltic Axel Holvoet 75 Prussica 1-3 Vyacheslav Ivanov 91 Finnish terve 'sound, healthy', Slavonic *sъ(yer)dorvъ(yer) 'id.', andLithuanian tervétis 'recover, mend, convalesce' Simas Karaliunas 103 Derivational Morphology of the Early Indo-European Verb Winfred P. Lehmann 113 Irregular Sound Change Due to Frequency and the Introduction by Szemerényi Witold Manczak 125 Thoughts on Declension in the Old Prussian Catechism Vytautas Maziulis 135 Problems in the Reconstruction of Certain Endings of the Lithuanian Optative Guido Michelini 137 'Rain' and 'ant': How Are Their Names Connected in Old Prussian? (suge E 47 – saugis E 791) Anatolij Nepokupnyj 143 Hans M. Schmidt-Wartenberg, A Forgotten Balticist Algirdas Sabaliauskas 153 Neuter Passive Participle in Modern Lithuanian Lea Sawicki 157 Observations on the Paradigms of Lithuanian dė́ti 'set, place, lay' and dúoti 'give'Wolfgang P. Schmid 165 On the Indo-European Origins of Greek 3rd Pl. Act.Imperative -ντον (-nton): 'New Image' Morphology and Monophthongizations Kenneth Shields, Jr. 173 Old Prussian dinkausegisnan Wojciech Smoczynski 185 Double Orthography in American Lithuanian Newspapers at the Turn of theTwentieth Century Giedrius Subacius 189 Hittite -za and Reflexivity Marking: Some Remarks Pierre Swiggers 203 Once More about the 'North-Russian' литва (litva) and its Mythologized Image V.N. Toporov 209 Latvian braŋgs: From Lithuanian, Couronian, or German? Pēteris Vanags 231 The Celtic Language of the Iberian Peninsula Francisco Villar 243 'Old Prussian' in M. Prätorius' Delicae Prussicae Steven Young 275 New Data on Resolving the Puzzle of the Wolfenbüttel Postilla Zigmas Zinkevicius 285 Index 291