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Introduction Gunter Rohdenburg and Julia Schluter; 1. Colonial lag,colonial innovation or simply language change? Marianne Hundt; 2. Compoundverbs Peter Erdmann; 3. The formation of the preterite and the pastparticiple Magnus Levin; 4. Comparatives Britta Mondorf; 5. Phonology andgrammar Julia Schluter; 6. Prepositions and postpositions Eva Berlage; 7.Argument structure David Denison; 8. Reflexive structures Gunter Rohdenburg;9. Noun phrase modification Douglas Biber, Jack Grieve and Gina Iberri-Shea;10. Nominal complements Gunter Rohdenburg; 11. Non-finite complements UweVosberg; 12. The present perfect and the preterite Johan Elsness; 13. Therevived subjunctive Goran Kjellmer; 14. The mandative subjunctive William J.Crawford; 15. The conditional subjunctive Julia Schluter; 16. Tag questionsD. J. Allerton; 17. The pragmatics of adverbs Karin Aijmer; 18. How differentare American and British grammar? And how are they different? Gunnel Tottie;19. New departures Gunter Rohdenburg and Julia Schluter.