IntroductionAbbreviationsI. FORM AND MEANING IN INDO-EUROPEAN:Helmut Rix: Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Italic: the Verbal SystemJoseph F. Eska: The Distribution of the Old Irish Personal Object Affixes and Forward ReconstructionAnnamaria Bartolotta: Towards a Reconstruction of Indo-European Culture: Semantic Functions of IE *men- Nicoletta Puddu: Reflecting on *se-/s(e)we-: From Typology to Indo-European and BackJens Elmeg'rd Rasmussen: The Marker of the Animate Dual in Indo-EuropeanBrian D. Joseph: Evidentiality in Proto-Indo-European? Building a CaseKarl Praust: A Missing Link of PIE Reconstruction: The Injunctive of *HIes- 'to be'II. STYLE, SENSE, AND SOUND:Craig Melchert: PIE "thorn" in Cuneiform Luvian?Martin E. Huld: An Indo-European Term for 'harvested grain'Giovanna Rocca: Ideology and Lexis: Umbrian uhtur, Latin auctorAngelo O. Mercado: A New Approach to Old Latin and Umbrian Poetic MeterIII. UNMASKING PREHISTORY:Jon Christian Billigmeier: Crete, the Dorians, and the Sea PeoplesGregory E. Areshian: The Zoomorphic Code of the Proto-Indo-European Myth Cycle of "Birth-Death-Resurrection": A Linguistic-Archaeological ReconstructionKarlene Jones-Bley: Basal Motifs and Indo-European RitualIV. MOLDING AND MODELLING THE PAST:Paul-Louis van Berg: Arts, Languages, and Reality in the Mesopotamian and Indo-European WorldsMarc Vander Linden: The Band vs. the Cord, or Can Indo-European Reconstructed Institutions Be Tested against Archaeological Data?Index