TABLE OF CONTENTS
Anthony Aristar and Helen Dry: The origin of backgrounding tenses
in English
1Peter C. Bjarkman: Process versus feature analysis and a notion oflinguistically "closest" sounds
14Frank Roberts Brandon: Q-Float and Conjunction Reduction as
evidence for NEC-Placement
29
Allen C. Browne: Inductive inference and pragmatic explanation
40
Greg Carlson and Michael Tanenhaus: Some preliminaries topsycholinguistics
48
Robert Channon: On the English pronoun Q
61
Amy Chukerman (see Gross and Chukerman)
Amy Dahlstrom: A functional analysis of switch-reference in Lakhota
discourse72
Bill J. Darden: Dissimilative glide insertion in West Greenlandic
82
Michael Dobrovolsky: Some Turkic dentals
87
Helen Dry (see Aristar and Dry)
W. Neil Elliott: A case of learning Case
95
James Emil Flege: English speakers learn to suppress stop
devoicing111
Robert Allen Fox: Adaptation level and speaker quality in vowel
identification
123
Samuel Ethan Fox: Autosegmental phonology and Semitic
131
Steven Franks: Is there a Pro-drop parameter for Slavic?
140
Steven Franks and Richard House: Genitive themes in Russian
156
Mary Fritz (see McClure, Saville-Troike and Fritz)
Kurt Godden: Causing ambiguity
169
Haia Gross and Amy Chukerman: Functional morphophonemics:
West Greenlandic Eskimo
176
Luise H. Hathaway: Style shifting as metaphorical change in pointof view
185
Randall Hendrick: Eskimo feet
191
Richard House (see Franks and House)
Grover Hudson: Reply to Darden 1979
202
Larry G. Hutchinson: Sentential and subsentential coordination inlinguistics and logic
209
Pauline Jacobson: Visser revisited
218
Richard Douglas Jehn: On the notion 'inherent segment duration'in phonetic timing research244

William R. Kelley: Aspects of the meaning of American Englishkinterms
257
M. H. Klaiman: Defining 'voice': evidence from Tamil
267
A. Kroch, J. Myhill and S. Pintzuk: Understanding do282
Aditi Lahiri (see Papademetre and Lahiri)
Elena Levy: Towards an objective definition of 'discourse topic'
295
Sue Lindner: What goes up doesn't necessarily come down: the ins andouts of opposites
305
Erica McClure, Muriel Saville-Troike and Mary Fritz: Children's
324
communicative tactics across language boundaries
Alexa T. McCray: The left dislocation structure in German: someoverlooked sentence types336
Mario Montalbetti, Mamoru Saito and Lisa Travis: Three ways toget Tough
348
Judith Moses: The Swiss German case of vowel lowering andumlaut: rule reordering or restructuring
367
John Myhill: Word order and marginal ergativity
377
John Myhill: (see Kroch, Myhill and Pintzuk)
John Nerbonne: The German perfect390
Joel A. Nevis: Suffix versus clitic: four Estonian case endings
400
Almerindo E. Ojeda: Degree relatives and the neuter article
in Spanish
407
Hideaki Okawa: Two types of assimilation within the same
segment—an aspect of Japanese diphthongs
419
Leo Papademetre and Aditi Lahiri: Syllable structure and the j/ialternation in Gothic
431
Jessie Pinkham: The rule of comparative ellipsis in Frenchand English
440
S. Pintzuk (see Kroch, Myhill and Pintzuk)
Ellen F. Prince: The simple futurate: not simply progressive futurate
minus progressive
453
John F. Richardson: Constquency and sublexical syntax
466
Mamoru Saito (see Montalbetti, Saito and Travis)
Muriel Saville-Troike (see McClure, Saville-Troike and Fritz)
Terry L. Smith: The all-and-only idealization
477
Aleksandra Steinbergs: Innovative processes for loanword
incorporation: examples from Latvian
488
James H-Y. Tai: Relevant categorical distinctions in Chinese
495
Michael Tanenhaus (see Carlson and Tanenhaus)
Lisa Travis (see Montalbetti, Saito and Travis)
Dana Wheeler: Portuguese pseudo-clefts: evidence for freerelatives
507
Olga T. Yokoyama: Russian word order and Empathy
521
Carol Rosen: The unaccusative hypothesis and the 'inherent clitic'
phenomenon in Italian530