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Preface. Part I: Language. Bas AARTS: The role of argumentation in the description of English. Henk BARKEMA: Lexicalised noun phrases: the relations between collocability, compositionality, syntactic structure and flexibility. Tony COWIE: Phraseology in formal academic prose. Udo FRIES: Electuarium Mirabile: praise in 18th-century medical advertisements. Magnus LJUNG: Text complexity in British and American newspapers. Lachlan MACKENZIE: Grammar, discourse and knowledge: the use of such. Nelleke OOSTDIJK and Jan AARTS: Multiple postmodification in the English noun phrase. Anne-Marie SIMON-VANDENBERGEN and Dirk NOEL: English as, French comme and Dutch als: conjunctions, prepositions or what? Anna-Brita STENSTROM: Can I have a chips please? -Just tell me what one you want: Nonstandard grammatical features in London teenage talk. Gunnel TOTTIE: Overseas relatives: British-American differences in relative marker usage. Part II: Teaching. Theo BONGAERTS: Exceptional learners and ultimate attainment in second language acquisition. Sylviane GRANGER: On identifying the syntactic and discourse features of participle clauses in academic English: native and non-native writers compared. Carlos GUSSENHOVEN: The place of intonation in an English pronunciation course for Dutch learners. Pieter de HAAN: An experiment in English learner data analysis. Mike HANNAY: Sentencing in Dutch and English. Sake JAGER and Herman WEKKER+: Aarts and Wekker hologrammed: contrastive grammar in the computer age. Eric KELLERMAN: Why typologically close languages are interesting for theories of language acquisition. Nanda POULISSE: The development of fluency in learners of English: a study of L2 learners' slips of the tongue.