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Part 1 Functional syntax: a comparison of postposed subjects in Englishand Italian, Gregory Ward; a functional constraint on extraposition from NP,Ken-ichi Takami; the speech act empathy hierarchy and Russian possessives,Olga T. Yokoyama; aspects of hypothetical meaning in Japanese conditionals,Wesley M. Jacobsen; a context-based account of the English passive with anindefinite subject, Aiko Utsugi; observations on three anaphoric expressionsin Japanese, Eisuko Tomoda; quantification and point of view, JacquelineGuillemin-Flescher. Part 2 Functional aspects of language: towards a theoryof desirability in conditional reasoning, Akatsuka Noriko; relative tense andabsolute tense in adverbial adjuncts in Japanese, Kiri Lee; specific NP inscope, Becky Kennedy; some referential properties of English it and that,Akio Kamio, Margaret Thomas; the role of empathy in sentence production - afunctional analysis of aphasic and normal elicited narratives in Japanese andEnglish, Lise Menn et al; personal pronoun shift in Japanese - a case studyin lexical change and point of view, John Whitman.