RARE collection of papers delivered in a symposium on Indo-European studies organized in Austin in 1986 on the occasion of Prof. Winfred Philip Lehmann`s retirement from teaching. [CONTENTS]: W.P.Lehmann: Comparative linguistics. H.M.Hoenigswald: Comparative method, internal reconstruction, typology. K.H.Schmidt: Contributions from new data to the reconstruction of the proto-language. Th.V.Gamkrelidze: Comparative reconstruction and typological verification: The case of Indo-European. Y.Malkiel: Old and new thoughts about the configuration of the Romance language family. M.Mithun: Typology and deep genetic relations in North America. W.Winter: Armenian, Tocharian, and the "glottalic" theory. J.H.Jasanoff: Reconstructing morphology: the role of o-grade in Hittite and Tocharian verb inflection. Jurij Stepanov: Lexical entries in major sentence types of Proto-Indo-European. V.N.Jarceva: A syntactic typology of Indo-European languages (with reference to Celtic, Baltic & Germanic languages). P.J.Hopper: A discourse perspective on syntactic change, Text-building strategies in Early Germanic. G.Cardona: Indian grammatical traditions and historical linguistics. J.Puhvel: Philology and etymology, with focus on Anatolian. V.P.Neroznak: Phrygian. H.L.Thomas: Archaeology and Indo-European comparative linguistics. A.R.Diebold,Jr.: The traditional view of the Indo-European paleoeconomy. E.C.Polomé: Comparative linguistics and the reconstruction of Indo-European culture. C.Watkins: The comparison of formulaic sequences. R.D.King: Migration and linguistics as illustrated by Yiddish. C.F.Justus: The impact of non-Indo-European languages on Anatolian. E.D.Francis: The impact of non-Indo-European languages on Greek and Mycenaean. A.F.Sjoberg: The impact of Dravidian on Indo-Aryan. 235x160mm. IX+550 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner`s small stamp on whitepage. In very good condition.