Preface -- List of conference participants -- Free relatives in Polish and English -- A note on inversion/conjunct ascension constructions in Polish and English -- Contrastive linguistics and text linguistics -- Ja und? - og hva' sȧ? - a contrastive discourse analysis of gambits in German and Danish -- What are the primary data for contrastive analysis? -- Remarks on contrastive pragmatics -- English sentences with introductory there and their Polish counterparts -- Abstract phonology and contrastive analysis -- Towards a contrastive syntax of Irish and English -- Constraints on transformations: evidence from contrastive analysis -- On the structure of adverbial subordinate constructions in English and Polish -- Problems of quality in conference interpreting -- Tertium comparationis -- Pedagogical limitations of contrastive linguistics -- Contrastive analysis, error analysis and learning difficulty -- Towards pragmatic contrastive analysis -- Rule ordering in phonological interference -- Psycholinguistic models, second language acquisition, and contrastive analysis -- Learnability and second language acquisition -- Some problems of contrastive analysis and text linguistics -- On the nature of movement rules in English and Polish -- Index of names.