A retrospective of the beginning, ascendancy, and apparent discrediting of structuralism in linguistics. The articles focus on methodological perspectives, analyzing the major language families of humanity. The validity of structuralism at the end of the 20th century is also assessed.

1. Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings) (by Embleton, Sheila); 2. IV. Methodological Perspectives; 3. 21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield's Central Algonquian, and Sapir's Distant Genetic Relationships (by Darnell, Regna); 4. 22. The Need for Phonetically Accurate Notation in the General Progress of Linguitics (by Levin, Saul); 5. 23. The Autonomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyond (by Bugarski, Ranko); 6. 24. On the Notion of Zero (by Roberts, E. Wyn); 7. 25. 'God's Truth' and Sturcturalism: A new look at an old controversy (by Prideaux, Gary D.); 8. 26. From Ordered Rules to Ranked Constraints (by Jensen, John T.); 9. V. Indo-European Linguistics; 10. 27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-European (by Bomhard, Allan R.); 11. 28. Typolgy and Reconstruction: New trends in comparative historical and diachronic linguistics (by Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.); 12. 29. Typology and Diachrony of the Middle Voice (by Kurzova, Helena); 13. 30. Indo-European Numerals Since Szemerenyi (by Justus, Carol F.); 14. 31. Berthold Delbruck and his Contemporaries on 'Tempora' in Sanskrit (by Bubenik, Vit); 15. 32. Observations on Two Recently Discovered Latin Inscriptions (by Baldi, Philip); 16. 33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance Languages (by Wright, Roger); 17. 34. Romance Historical Morphology and Empty Affixes (by Maiden, Martin); 18. 35. Markedness and Morphosyntactic Change Revisited: The case of Romance past participle agreement (by Smith, John Charles); 19. 36. Romanian and the Balkans: Some comparative perspectives (by Joseph, Brian D.); 20. VII. Germanic, Caucasian and Asian Linguistics; 21. 37. Toward "a Complete Analysis of the Residues": On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut (by Holsinger, David J.); 22. 38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic Text (by Hall, Jr., Robert A.); 23. 39. The Compound Gerund in Early Modern English (by Tajima, Matsuji); 24. 40. Gender Affixes in Tsez: Synchrony and diachrony (by Comrie, Bernard); 25. 41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old Korean (by Vovin, Alexander); 26. 42. The Role of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work: A case study (by Sidwell, Paul J.); 27. Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria; 28. Name Index; 29. Subject Index; 30. Contents of Volume One