"Some of the articles represent elaborated versions of papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology (IWoBA II), held at the University of Copenhagen on 1-3 September 2006"--Preface.

Workshop and volume dedicated to Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- Zum 40. Todestag des russischen Sprachforschers Dr. V. M. Illič-Svityč / Rainer Eckert -- Slavic verbal accentuation – notes on origin and development / Miguel Carrasquer Vidal -- Slavic evidence for Balto-Slavic oxytona / Rick Derksen -- Cиctema πopoЖДehИя akЦehthbix tИПob ПpoИЗboДhbix b бaЛto-cЛabяhckom ПpaяЗbike / B. A. ДbiБo -- Metatony in Lithuanian internal derivation / Adam Hyllested and Bernd Gliwa -- The accent of Slavic *ja (zb) ‘I’ / Mate Kapovič -- Accent retraction and tonogenesis / Frederik Kortlandt -- The accentuation of Old Prussian diews ‘god’ / Thomas Olander -- O Hekotopbix akЦehtyaЦИohhbix ocoбehhoctяx cyЩectbИteЛbhbix a.П. c B ctapocepбckИx ПamяthИkax / ИpИha C. Пekyhoba -- The accentuation of the Slavic n-stems / Tijmen Pronk -- A note on Slaaby-Larsen’s law / Jens Elmegård Rasmussen -- On Winter’s law in Balto-Slavic / Toshihiro Shintani -- Hirt’s law and Optimality Theory / Roman Sukač -- On Romance-Alpo-Slavic substitutional accentology: the case of pre-Slavic masculine substrate place names in Slovene / Matej Šekli -- The accentuation of i-verbs in some Russian dialects: an innovation that preserves an archaism / Alexandra Ter-Avanesova -- Tone in Latvian borrowings from Old Russian / Steven Young.

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From a synchronic point of view, the various accentuation systems found in the Baltic and Slavic languages differ considerably from each other. We find languages with free accent and languages with fixed accent, languages with and without syllabic tones, and languages with and without a distinction between short and long vowels. Yet despite the apparent diversity in the attested Baltic and Slavic languages, the sources from which these languages have developed – the reconstructed languages referred to as Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic respectively – seem to have had very similar accentuation systems. The prehistory and development of the Baltic and Slavic accentuation systems is the main topic of this book, which contains sixteen articles on Baltic and Slavic accentology written by some of the world’s leading specialists in this field.

Papers in German, Russian or English.