TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- LINEARITY AND THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE -- LEFT DISLOCATION AND THE THEME-TOPIC INTERFACE -- DECLARATIVE ROOT CLAUSES WITH 'THAT' -- CHICKENS AND EGGS -- SEGMENTAL PROCESSES -- FROM MUSICAL CADENCES TO LINGUISTIC PROSODY -- LANGUEDOCIAN -- THE FIVE LANGUAGES OF SWITZERLAND -- PURISM IN LANGUAGE CONFLICT -- GENOCIDE AND ETHNOCIDE -- THE EFFECT OF MIGRATION ON LOCAL IDENTITY AND SOUND CHANGE -- CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INSIGHTS ON REGIONAL DIALECT LEVELLING -- 'NI PATOIS, NI FRANÇAIS RÉGIONAL' -- USE AND MISUSE OF LINGUISTIC SIMILARITIES TO TEACH FRENCH IN MEDIEVAL TRIGLOSSIC ENGLISH -- MODELLING THE LINGUISTIC MIND -- CONTRIBUTORS.