I-VIII -- Introduction -- Noun incorporation and the nature of linguistic representation -- Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chicheŵa (Bantu) -- The elusive figures of Burmese grammar: An essay -- A language which defies description by ordinary means -- The conceptual basis of grammatical relations -- The expanse of grammar in the "waste" of frames -- Culture and conversational inference -- Disjoint reference and pragmatic inference: Anaphora and switch reference in Northern Pomo -- Code, inference, placedness and ellipsis -- Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages -- Theoretical implications of grammaticalization phenomena -- Grammar and polity: The cultural and political background to Standard Malay -- Diglossic grammaticality in Thai -- Language use and language development: Review of sociolinguistic theory -- Formalism, functionalism and the discourse of evolution -- Language Index -- Subject Index