I-VI -- Editors' note -- Curriculum Vitae -- List of publications -- Volume 1 Linguistic theory and historical linguistics -- Part I Theoretical linguistics -- The ultimate and the consummate units of speech -- Glottotronics: an inevitable phase of linguistics (Linguistic science fiction?) -- Semantic explanations in functional sentence perspective -- A plea for phraseo-stylistics -- Kruszewski's contribution to general linguistic theory -- Language universals, linguistic theory, and philosophy -- Semantic features and prototype theory in English lexicology -- Some remarks on transformations -- Rhythm in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages: some general considerations -- On the problem of meaning in sociolinguistic studies of syntactic variation -- Grammar as speaker's knowledge versus grammar as linguists' characterization of norms -- Concepts, fields, and 'non-basic' lexical items -- Syntactic ambiguity: a systematic accident -- Generated or degenerate? Two forms of linguistic competence -- Part II Historical linguistics -- An etymology for the aquatic 'Acker/Aiker' in English, and other grains of truth? -- Contrasting fact with fiction: the common denominator in internal reconstruction, with a bibliography -- On Old English gefrægnod in Beowulf 1333 a -- Medieval English scribal practice: some questions and some assumptions -- Remarques sur les dérivés chez Richard Rolle: Où en est la morphologie? -- Cautions about loan words and sound correspondences -- A cǣġ to Old English syllable structure -- F for Fisiak: a feuilleton -- Interlanguage simplification in Middle English vowel phonology? -- Romance loans in Middle English: a re-assessment -- The phonology of Modern French loanwords in Present-day English -- Modern English cruive 'wicker salmon-trap' -- Consecutives and serials in Indo-European -- More about the textual functions of the Old English adverbial þa -- The relative clauses in Beowulf -- On language contact and syntactic change -- Middle English - a Creole? -- German Baum, English beam -- English ought (to) -- On syncope in Old English -- Some properties of analogical innovation -- An inquiry into the nature of mixed grammars: two cases of grammatical variation in dialectal British English -- The drift toward agentivity and the development of the perfective use of have + pp. in English -- Case and rhyme in LaƷamon's Brut -- The influence of a century's language planning on upper-class speech in Oslo -- Diachronic word-formation in a functional perspective -- The progress of the expression of temporal relationships from Old English to Early Middle English -- The origin of the Old English dialects -- A Middle English dialect boundary -- The development of the category of gender in the Slavic languages -- Words without etyma: Germanic 'tooth' -- Reflexes of PIE d ‹ t' -- Germanic and other Indo-European languages -- Cantar de Mio Cid V. 2375 -- Some verbal remarks -- A note on Dr. Johnson's History of the English language -- Complementation in Ӕlfric's Colloquy -- Metathesis -- An analysis of the Old Saxon velar consonants in initial position -- Undergytan as a 'Winchester' word -- The Germanic possessive type dem Vater sein Haus -- Middle English translations of Old English charters in the Liber Monasterii de Hyda: a case of historical error analysis -- The effects of language standardization on deletion rules: some comparative Germanic evidence from t/d-deletion -- Degemination in Old English and the formal apparatus of generative phonology -- Old English Northumbrian verb inflection revisited -- Syllable theory and Old English verse: A preliminary observation -- Hebrew loan words in English -- On delimiting the senses of near-synonyms in historical semantics. A case-study of adjectives of 'moral sufficiency' in the Old English Andreas -- An emotionally conditioned split of some personal names -- Ruckümläut -- Dialectal speech areas in England: Orton's lexical evidence -- The 'Exmoor Courtship' and 'Exmoor Scolding': an evaluation of two eighteenth-century dialect texts -- The Old English digraph ‹cg› again -- Bantawa rV- ‹ ? An exercise in internal and comparative reconstruction -- Proto-Indo-European verbal roots in Sanskrit and Polish -- Volume 2 Descriptive, contrastive and applied linguistics -- Part III Descriptive linguistics -- The grammar of German haben -- The English prosody /h/ -- On stress in Polish -- Some remarks on cleft sentences in present-day English -- Euro-English -- Metaphor in the English lexicon: the verb -- A note on reverse wh-clefts in English -- A case-study in the dynamics of written communication -- Towards a definition of semantic constraints on negative prefixation in English and German -- Autosegments, linked matrices, and the Irish lenition -- The minimal distance principle revisited -- Remarks on Lakoff's classification of verbs -- Metathese im arabischen Dialekt von Tunis -- Question-orientation versus answer-orientation in English interrogative clauses -- The tag syntagm of spoken English -- The function of prefixation in the assignment of aspect to the Polish verb -- A prototype approach to denominal adjectives -- The case of American Polish -- On some recent claims concerning derivational morphology -- Sentence stress and category membership -- Because -- The possibilities of may and can -- Zur formalen Variabilität der deutschen Morpheme -- Part IV Contrastive and applied linguistics -- Prepositions in Welsh and Finnish case-endings: A contrastive study -- Elements of structuralism in nineteenth century foreign language teaching -- Context in contrastive linguistics: one and ein -- Contrastive linguistics and language typology: the three-way approach -- Notes on the terminology of applied linguistics -- Contrastive linguistics and language typology -- On the syntax and semantics of free relative clauses in English and Romanian -- Modal verbs in English and Danish -- Intensive language teaching: practice, problems, and prospects -- A textlinguistic analysis of German and English curricula vitae -- New aspects for foreign language learning and teaching from conversational analysis -- Tertium Comparationis in contrastive sociolinguistics -- More on pragmatic equivalence -- Barriers to intercultural communication between Americans and Japanese -- Language teaching in a prototypical situation -- How do indexicals fit into situations? On deixis in English and Polish -- An Elizabethan contrastive grammar of Spanish and French -- The interdisciplinary framework of the theory-dynamic phase in finalized linguistics -- Concerning the correction and non-correction of language-learners' errors -- English traditional grammars in the nineteenth century -- Language learners' errors in a pedagogical perspective -- Migranten und autochthone Sprachgruppen -- Expository paragraph structure in Slavic and Romance languages -- Glimpses into trends of contrastive linguistics and error analysis at AILA's world congresses from Cambridge (1968) to Brussels (1984) -- Some recent approaches to equivalence in Contrastive Studies -- On different types of translation -- The semantics of antonymic pairs of adjectives: elicitation test evidence from English and Polish -- The mother tongue and the foreign language in interaction -- Creating new grammars: on theoretical approaches to second language acquisition -- Definitions and first person pronoun involvement in Thomas Elyot's Dictionary -- Paraphrase strategies and the teaching of translation -- A processing explanation for a syntactic difference between English and Polish -- Indexes