new journal " language and speech " toc : language and speech : journal of the linguistic society of st . petersburg ( vol . 1 , 1998 ) published annualy , in russian and english editor - in - chief : vadim b . kassevitch editorial board : v . berkov , s . bogdanov , a . bondarko , l . bondarko , a . domashnev , a . gerd , s . iljenko , n . kazansky , s . khrakovsky , yu . kleiner ( associated editor ) , a . muratov , m . sabaneeva , n . svetozarova ( managing editor ) , i . steblin - kamenskij , n . vaxtin , l . verbitskaja articles sakharny l . v . , topic - comment structures in discourse : some basic notions bondarko a . v . , a functional model of grammar ( theoretical foundations , results and perspectives ) kassevitch v . b . , ontolinguistics , typology , and the rules of language gorbov a . a . , aktionsart in its relation to the aspect wiemer b . , narrative units and chronology factors in polish and german gsell r . , on verb serialization in standard thai zimmerling a . , the story of a polemic dios luque duran , j . de posas f . , the spanish national character as mirrored in the spanish language : the worldview and the language sukhachev n . l . , kazansky n . n . , semantics and deep level indo - european reconstructions diakonoff i . m . , external connections of the sumerian language liberman a . s . , a new etymological dictionary of modern english kolesov v . v . , russian linguistics in st . petersburg : methodological foundations cherdakov d . n . a . s . shishkov and a . kh . vostokov : the relation between traditionalism and innovations in the history of russian philology khrakovsky v . s . , ogloblin a . k . , the kholodovich school bondarko l . v . , phonetics and linguistics ( 65th anniversary of the department of phonetics ) zinder l . r . , v . m . zhirmunsky and inseldialektologie steblin - kamenskij m . i . professor shcherba as an examiner reviews kurylowicz memorial volume ( kazansky n . n . ) ; the russian language of the late 20th century ( 1985-1995 ) ( iljenko s . g . , chernyak v . d . ) . conference reports 24th annual conference at the faculty of philology , university of st . petersburg ( arkhiipova e . a . , bogdanova n . v . ) ; herzen conference ( dymarsky m . ya . , chernyak v . d . ) ; classical languages and indo - european linguistics : i . m . tronsky memorial conference ( kryuchkova e . r . ) ; 16th international congress of linguists ( kassevitch v . b . ) ; 13th international conference on historical linguistics ( kleiner yu . a . , perekhval 's kaya e . v . , rusakov a . yu . , svetozarova n . d . ) ; the child language ( kazakovskaya v . v . ) . in the seminars of the linguistic society of st . petersburg