Includes bibliographies.

1. Dedicatory preface; 2. Lemmatization - the case of 'Catalpa' (by Cassidy, Frederic G.); 3. Marking and frequency in the english verb (by Catford, John C.); 4. Complements and humours (by Cusack, Bridget); 5. Problems in dyirbal dialectology (by Dixon, R.M.W.); 6. The phonological representation of the welsh mutations (by Ewen, Colin J.); 7. Has every sentence a theme and a rheme? (by Firbas, Jan); 8. Isophones or isographs? A problem in historical dialectology (by Fisiak, Jacek); 9. The de-automization of meaning: from Priestley's 'An inspector calls' (by Halliday, M.A.K.); 10. 'Thwaite' (by Hamp, Eric P.); 11. Rhymes and reasons, the practice of two poets (by Hill, Archibald A.); 12. two geminate consonants in old english? (by Hogg, Richard M.); 13. Borrow, calgue and switch: The law of the english frontier (by Macaulay, Donald); 14. The stylistic analysis of poetic texts: Owen's 'Futility' and Davie's 'the garden party' (by Macleod, Norman); 15. Old english Man 'One': two notes (by Mitchell, Bruce); 16. Simplifying the grammar of english (by O'Neil, Wayne); 17. Verbal aspect: a slavonic-english comparison (by Poldauf, Ivan); 18. Communicative needs in the learning and use of english (by Pride, John B.); 19. Supplementing corpus elicitation (by Quirk, Randolph); 20. Latin for old english in anglo-saxon manuscripts (by Robinson, Fred C.); 21. Wh- and Yes/no questions: Charles butler's grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept (by Salmon, Vivian); 22. Some aspects of the history of the Be+ing construction (by Strang, Barbara M.H.); 23. A note on the indefinite article (by Thorne, James P.); 24. Written language as a heterogeneous system (by Vachek, Josef)