Papers from the Zadar Symposium, held September 23-25, 2013 at the University of Zadar, Italian Department; the Moscow International Conference, held September 16-19, 2014 at the Linguistics Institute, Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations of the Russian Akademy of Sciences; and an international colloquium, held March 15-16, 2016 at the Rene Schickele-Gesellschaft and Council of Europe in Strasbourg.