The European absolute superlative, an orphan of grammar, of the lexicon, and of history -- West European loanwords in Modern Latvian -- A hypothesis: the notion of "multibehavior" -- Fact or not fact - that is the question in the semantic interpretation of gerundive nominals -- Odmah - a shifter of Serbo-Croatian in intralingual and contrastive perspective -- Language contact: some reactions of a contactee -- Contrastive analysis of terminology and the terminology of contrastive analysis -- South Slavic terms for conjurors and sorcerers -- Some notes on a Bulgarian model of expanded contrastive analysis -- A. P. Chekhov's short story Šutočka and two Serbo-Croat translations: The problem of translation versus interpretation -- Theoretical contrastive linguistics and typological characterization -- Interradical interfixes: contact and contrast -- Some remarks on Middle-English influence in Icelandic -- An outline of a cognitively-based model of phonology -- Cartoons about language: a case study of the visual representation of sociolinguistic attitudes -- Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms, New Zealandisms, and Anglicisms in contemporary German -- Language contact in the prehistory of English -- Collocations in monolingual and bilingual English dictionaries -- Contrastive methods in contact linguistics -- The "monitor model" and the role of the first language -- On the form and meaning of the Serbo-Croatian modal morati -- Reasons and opportunities for communication in the foreign-language and second-language classroom -- Between language contact and language development -- The lexicon of the Split dialect -- Zu Phrasemvarianten in der kroatischen Sprache -- Dictionary making: the ideal versus reality -- Vokalsysteme in Kontakt. Was verdankt der vegliotische Vokalismus der slawo-romanischen Symbiose?.

The designation of spherical objects in five European languages: an essay in contrastive semantics -- A case of multilingualism in Eastern Belgium -- Language contact and foreign language acquisition -- On the struggle of underlying vowels for a voice in surface phonetic structure -- English in Finnish: television subtitles -- Politeness strategies and contrastive foreign language teaching -- On revived words in the OED Supplement -- Common features in the morphological adaptation of English loanwords in migrant Serbo-Croatian -- Linguistic models and information theory -- Language contact and code-switching in the bilingual personality -- Contrastive reflexes in contact linguistics -- Transfer grammar: from machine translation to pedagogical tool -- Encouraging the development of bilingual proficiency for English-speaking Americans -- A contemporary view on the compromise system of Serbo-Croatian learners of English -- Croatian and Serbian church communities in Milwaukee -- Subject index.