Preface -- The role of quotations in Andean discourse -- Unreportable linguistic entities in Functional Grammar -- Issues in Functional Discourse Analysis -- Intransitivity, transitivity and control in Lillooet Salish -- The life of language -- Auxiliary operator Inf and constructions with an infinitive in Hungarian -- A note on semantic functions and adpositional term predicates -- Politeness and mitigation in Spanish: a morpho-pragmatic analysis -- Normative and analytical perspectives on interviewing techniques -- Quechua mu and the perspective of the speaker -- The discourse structure of job interviews -- Translation studies: developments and perspectives in teaching and research -- The development of cases and adpositions in Latin -- Adverbs in Papuan languages. Or: "Where have all the adverbs gone?" -- Functional prepositions -- On the internal structure of the Noun Phrase in Bahasa Indonesia -- Deverbal nominalization in Sranan: a search for regularities -- Aktionsart, aspect and duration adverbials -- Some remarks on direct quotation in Kombai.