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Japanese modals are conditionals, Noriko Akatsuka; the Cairene Arabicverb without form classes, Bill Darden; the transition from oral to writtencompetence - evidence from teaching freshman composition, Paul D. Deane; twotypes of "world-creating" predicates, Donka F. Farkas; Tojolabal (Mayan)kinterms and the theory of markedness or a near triumph of the femininegender, Louanna Furbee; tone and accent in Llogoori, John Goldsmith; purposeinfinitives and their relatives, Georgia M. Green; a semantic etymology, EricP. Hamp; are conditionals topics? - the Japanese case, Wesley M. Jacobsen;gender and sex in standard Modern Greek pet names, Kostas Kazazis;philosophical speculation and cognitive science - comments of William Lycan's"Logical Form in Natural language", George Lakoff; symmetric relations,D.Terence Langendoen; the Korean precursors of generative phonology, AlexisManaster Ramer; why grammars are not monolithic, Salikoko S. Mufwene; onextracting from asymmetrical structures, Younhee Na and Geoffrey J. Huck; themarkedness of plurality, Almerindo E. Ojeda; phantom successors and theFrench "faire par" construction, Paul M. Postal; a paper on Yiddish for JamesD. McCawley, Jerrold M. Sadock; survival of the positive - history ofJapanese antonyms, Y. Tagashira; lexical phonology and Japanese voweldevoicing, Timothy J. Vance; first he called her a philologist and then sheinsulted him, Margaret E. Winters and Geoffrey S. Nathan; jottings onadpositions, case inflections, government and agreement, Arnold M. Zwicky.