Articles

Jerry Norman, The Manchus and Their Language (Presidential Address) . . . . . . 483

Hugh B. Urban, Songs of Ecstasy: Mystics, Minstrels, and Merchants in Colonial Bengal . . . . . . 493

David W. McAlpin, Velars, Uvulars, and the North Dravidian Hypothesis . . . . . . 521

Gene W. Heck, "Arabia Without Spices": An Alternate Hypothesis . . . . . . 547

David Testen, Evidence of an Early Metathesis among Akkadian piristum-Stem Nouns . . . . . . 577

Bret Hinsch, The Origins of Separation of the Sexes in China . . . . . . 595

Review Articles

Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., On a Hittite Lexicographic Project . . . . . . 617

Niek Veldhuis, On the Curriculum of the Neo-Babylonian School . . . . . . 627

E. G. Pulleyblank, Once Again Old Chinese yan and an . . . . . . 635

Christa Müller-Kessler, Aramaic 'k', lyk' and Iraqi Arabic 'aku, maku: The Mesopotamian Particles of Existence . . . . . . 641

Reviews of Books . . . . . . 647

Brief Reviews . . . . . . 703