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Robert Stockwell: the student and teacher, Archibald A. Hill; RobertStockwell: the scholar as teacher, Robert Ochsner; Robert Stockwell andthe building of the UCLA Linguistics Department, Paul Schachter. Part 1Rhetorica; correctness of norms of language, Renate Bartsch; writtenand spoken language in South Asia, William Bright; Chaucer, Livy andBersuire: the Roman materials in 'The Physician's Tale', William HBrown Jr; how relevant is 'External Evidence' for a theory of grammar?,Victoria A. Fromkin; Chaucer and the pun-hunters: some points ofcaution, Archibald A. Hill; two cheers for prescriptivism, Michael B.Kac; Middle English, Sherman M. Kuhn; creoles, triggers, and universalgrammar, David Lightfoot; the rise and fall of the vernacular, RonaldK.S. Macaulay; hypercorrection and the Creole Continuum:-s and -d inLiberian English, John Victor Singler; is internal semantic-pragmaticreconstruction possible?, Elizabeth Closs Traugott; notes on Black andRed American English, Wolfgang Viereck. Part 2 Phonologica; Old EnglishAblaut again: the essentially concrete character of dependencyphonology, John M. Anderson; the late Old English type leinten 'Lent',Klaus Dietz; prophetic Alif and canonical form in Egyptian, Carelton T.Hodge; pro-Burmese as a test of reconstruction, Robert B. Jones;redefining the scope of phonology, Peter Ladefoged; the'Akzentumsprung' of Old English, Roger Lass; from Latin to romance: thevowel system, Carlos Otero; the rule dependence of syllable structure,Theo Vennemann; Part 3 Syntactica; objects (direct and not-so direct)in English and elsewhere, Stephen R. Anderson; a note on the definitionand description of true anacolutha, Nils Erik Enkvist; on the principleof 'Weight' in English, Peter Erdmann; tale of two passives: internalreconstruction in Ute, Talmy Givon; the unity English/German contrasts:inferring a typological parameter, John A. Hawkins; the group genitiveand type 24 languages, Fred W. Householder; transitivity:intransitivisation vs. causativisation - some typologicalconsiderations concerning verbs of action, Yoshihiko Ikegami; minormovement rules, Frederick J. Newmeyer; on the basicness of certaintypes of passives: some evidence from child acquisition, SuzanneRomaine; non-restrictive relative clauses, James Peter Thorne; on thesubject of bare imperatives in English, Arnold M. Zwicky.