I-XVI -- Selected Roots: History of Linguistic Ideas -- Studies of English Language and Literature versus Romance Philology in Germany in the Nineteenth Century -- E. A. Sonnenschein's New English Grammar -- Reconstructing Seasons Past: Linguistic Change -- The Verb speak in Shakespeare's Plays -- Remarks on the Structure of the Verbal Complex in Early 17th Century German -- Language Change in Modern German: Feminism and Systematic Gap Production -- Pronunciation Rules and Improper Sound Change -- Aspects of the Development of the Imperative in Early Modern English -- Informal Sources in the History of English and German -- On the Historical Development of Greek/Grecian -- Aspects of Growth: Language Acquisition and Language Teaching -- Product and Process in the Phonology of Foreign Accent: Towards a Linguistic Model of Second Language Sound Acquisition -- What Can We Learn from the Case of Pitcairnese? -- Variation and Language Acquisition: Psammetichus Revisited -- Language Teaching in Utopia: A Retrospective View -- The Grammar of 'Missing Arguments' in Early Child English -- Branches and Twigs: Within and Across Levels of the Grammar -- Phonology and Spelling -- The Phonologies of the English Auxiliary System -- Spelling in Society: Forms and Variants, Uses and Users -- Semantics and Pragmatics -- What about How about? Or: The Non-Synonymy of How about and What about -- Linguistic and Stylistic Considerations Affecting Restrictive Relative Clauses in Spoken and Written English -- On the Tension between Properties and Propositional Functions -- Sein und Raum: Bemerkungen zur lokalistischen Interpretation des Verbs sein in Heideggers Einführung in die Metaphysik -- The English Conditional - Tense, Aspect or Mood? -- Syntax -- Non-Configurational Properties in a Configurational Language: The Case of English -- On Topicalization and Inversion -- From Discourse to Syntax: The Case of Concessive Conditionals -- English Nominal Gerund Phrases as Noun Phrases with Verb Phrase Heads -- The Category of Invariant alles in Wh-Clauses: On Syntactic Quantifiers vs. Quantifying Particles in German -- Revisiting -ing -ing -- New Seasons -- Computational Linguistics: "A Personal View" -- List of Contributors