Slavica Publishers, 1994. — 322 p.
The Fourth International Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR was held at the University of Chicago in spring, 1985. Many of the papers in this volume were presented in preliminary form at that conference.
Howard I. Aronson - Paradigmatic and syntagmatic subject in Georgian
Roland Bielmeier - On Iranian influence in old Georgian
J. C. Catford - Vowel Systems of Caucasian languages
John Colarusso - How to describe the sounds of the Northwest Caucasian languages
Victor Friedman - Assertive verb forms in Lak
Zbigniew Golab - Prehistoric contacts between Ossetic and Slavic
Alice C. Harris - On the history of relative clauses in Georgian
Dee Ann Holisky - Notes on Auxilliary verbs in Tsova-Tush (Batsbi)
Johanna Nichols - The structure of the Nakh-Daghestanian verb root and verb stem
Alfred G. Paludis - The subjunctive in classical Armenian: significant differences between Eznik and Elise
K. H. Schmidt - Class inflection and related categories in the Caucasus
Wolfgang Schulze-Fürhoff - Tracing aspect coding techniques in the Lezgian languages
David Testen - The correspondence: Scythian Baotakas = Ossetian basta
Kevin Tuite - Syntactic subject in Georgian
Robert Austerlitz - Gilyak internal reconstruction, 3: ligneous matter
Donald L. Dyer - Moldavian linguistic realities
Rachel Lehr - Complex infinitives and other deverbal nominals in Tajik
Jules Levin - Stressing freely in Lithuanian and Russian
Roy Andrew Miller - The original geographic distribution of the Tungus languages
Stefan Pugh - Observations on the Russian component in Karelian
Steven Young - The scope of Saussure's law in colloquial Lithuanian