Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. PHONETIC SHIFTS AND PHONEMIC ASYMMETRIES -- 2. PATTERN IN LINGUISTICS -- 3. NAMES AND RESISTANCE TO SOUND SHIFTS -- 4. PREHISTORY VIA LANGUAGE: SOME GUIDELINES -- 5. THE INDO-EUROPEAN LARYNGEAL -- 6. SOME REFLEXIONS ON COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL SYNTAX -- 7. LINGUISTIC MODELS: A HISTORIAN'S USE - (I) -- 8. LINGUISTIC MODELS: A HISTORIAN'S USE - (II) -- 9. COMPUTATION AND LATIN CONSONANTS -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORITIES