DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS: ENGLISH -- A semantic view of syntax: Some verbs that govern infinitives -- Continuous/Discrete: A reinterpretation of the mass/count feature of English common nouns -- The direct object nexeme in English -- Some nonrules of English -- Observations on the passive construction -- Two notes on comparatives -- Intuitive rules and factual evidence: /-sp, -st, -sk/ plus [-z] -- The frailty of grammatical concord -- Jespersen's 'Move and Change' class and causative verbs in English -- Squinting grammar and the number of tenses in English -- The 'barred-i' morphophone in English -- A classical case of structural ambiguity or no ambiguity at all -- DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS: OTHER LANGUAGES -- The vowel of the imperfect prefix in Najdi Arabic -- Some aspects of the semantic complexity of Karanā conjunct verbs in Hindi -- Developments in the Hebrew verbal system of Israeli children and youth -- Barbareño Chumash text and lexicon -- Order and reference in Aleut -- Kurdish dialects in Eastern Turkey -- Universal rules and vocalic devoicing in Southern Paiute -- The semantic significance of S O V sequences in Armenian -- Phonetic segments of Haida (Hydaburg dialect) -- The interpretation of glottalized resonants in Straits Salish -- The origin and development of Kituba (Lingua Franca Kikongo) -- The main stress rule in Turkish -- The phonology of the Mixtepec dialect of Mixtec -- Some generative solutions to problems in Cashibo phonology -- Constraints in Zapotec questions and relative clauses -- Inventory and choice in expressive language -- Cuna numeral classifiers -- Complex verbs in Hindi -- Setswana phonemics: Sefokeng dialect -- Some 'glide shifts' in Russian derivation.