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Robert I. Binnick: Will and Be Going To II
Ann Borkin: Clipping Away at Meaning
William R. Cantrall: 'Relative Identity'
onGuy Carden: Multiple Dialects in Multiple Negati
esRachel Costa: Sequence of Tenses in That-Claus
Dina B. Crockett: More on Coordination Reduction
theDavid R. Dowty: On the Syntax and Semantics ofCAUSE
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Atomic Predic
Gene B. Gragg: Semi-Indirect Discourse and Related
Nightmares
Georgia M. Green: Some Observations on the Syntaxand Semantics of Instrumental Verbs
Alexander Grosu: Is the A-over-A Principle an
A-over-A Principle?
Jorge Hankamer: Analogical Rules in Syntax
Helga Harries: The Role of Cleft Sentences in theFormation of Questions and Answers: Some Evidence from German
Orvokki Heingralki: Before
James Beringer and Marjorie Wolontis: Focus in
FinnishDeborah James: Some Aspects of the Syntax and Semantics of Interjections: Will-Deletion
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George Lakoff: Hedges: A Study in Meaning Criteria
and the Logic of Fuzzy Concepts
Robin Lakoff: The Pragmatics of Modality
John Lawler: Generic to a Fault
Noriko Akatsuka McCawley: On the Treatment ofJapanese Passives
Edith Moravcsik: Some Crosslinguistic Generalizations about Intensifier Constructions
J.L. Morgan: Verb Agreement as a Rule of English
Paul Neubauer: SUPER-EQUI Revisited
Fredrick J. Newmayer: The Insertion of Idioms[-continued next page]3
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John Robert Ross: The Category Squish: Endstation
Hauptwort
Jerrold M. Sadocks Speech Act Idioms
Tim Shopens Logical Equivalence is not Semantic
Equivalence
Anjani Kumar Sinhas On the Deictic Use of 'Coming'and 'Going' in Hindi
Kenneth Truitner and Timothy Dunnigans Wh-Questionsin Ojibwe
Nga Truitner: Passive Sentences in Vietnamese
George Williams: The Internal Structure of Antecedents
Masa-Aki Yamanashis Lexical Decomposition and Implied Proposition

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Douglas C. Adams: Sonorant Clusters in Ionic andthe Ordering of Rules
Lloyd B. Anderson: Explanation, Abstractness, andLanguage Learning
Eve V. Clark: Some Perceptual Factors in the Acquisition of Locative Terms by Young ChildrenGerard Diffloths Notes on Expressive Meaning
Wolfgang Dressler; On the Phonology of Language
Death
James Foley: Reply to Cohen
Timothy Guiles A Generalization about Epenthesis
and Syncope
Eric P. Ramp: Occam's Razor and Explanation inEtymology
Joseph L. Malone: The Mandaic Syllable-Adjustment
Circuit and its Historical Origins
Patricia Donegan Miller: Vowel Neutralization andVowel Reduction
Linda Norman: The Insufficiency of Local Ordering
David Peterson: Some Explanatory Methods of theArab Grammarians
Charles Pyles On Eliminating BM's
John Reighard: Labiality and Velarity in Consonants and VowelsRichard A. Rhodes: Natural Phonology and MS Conditions
Robert J. Scholess Performance Aspects of Readjustment Rules
Royal Skousens On Capturing Regularities
David Stampes On the Natural History of Diphthongs
Benjamin K. T esous Reordering in Diachronic Syntax
Arnold M. Zwicky: On Casual Speech

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