Volume 35, Numbers 1 & 2 Spring/Summer 2007 The Journal of INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES HARALD BJORVAND The Etymology of English ale............................................................. 1 BERNARD MEES Chamalières sníe yy ic and ‘binding’ in Celtic ................................... 9 WILLIAM SAYERS Grendel’s Mother (Beowulf) and the Celtic Sovereignty Goddess .............................................................. 31 MATTHEW J. RIFKIN A Spatial Analysis of Neolithic Cultures throughout Eastern, Central, and Northern Europe in Relation to Proto-Germanic ................................................................................. 53 VÁCLAV BLAZEK From August Schleicher to Sergei Starostin: On the development of the tree-diagram models of the Indo-European languages ................................................................ 82 MARC PIERCE Vowel Epenthesis vs. Schwa Lexicalization in Classical Armenian......................................................................... 111 MARTIN HULD Albanian gogël and Indo-European ‘acorns’ ................................. 121 FRANCESCO R. ADRADOS A Panorama of Indo-European Linguistics since the Middle of the Twentieth Century: Advances and Immobilism ............... 129 JIES REVIEWS Archaeology .................................................................................... 155 Linguistics ....................................................................................... 168 Mythology and Culture .................................................................. 189 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS .............................................. 198 The Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series ................... 200