| Remarks on the Empty Category Principle | Dudley K. Nylander | 167-180 |
| Pidgins and creoles of Australia and the Pacific: Current research for an atlas of languages of intercultural communication | Peter Mühlhäusler | 181-199 |
| Structural change in language obsolescence: Some eastern Australian examples | Peter Austin | 201-230 |
| Establishing verb agreement with disjunctively conjoined subjects: Strategies vs principles | Peter G. Peterson | 231-249 |
| New developments: A computer corpus of Australian English | Greville Corbett & Khurshid Ahmad | 251-256 |
| Bibliography: Publications on Australian languages, 1985 | Harold Koch | 257-263 |
| Rule generalization and optionality in language change (S. J. Keyser & W. O'Neil) | Andrew Carstairs | 265-268 |
| The language of children and adolescents: The acquisition of communicative competence (Suzanne Romaine) | Janet Holmes | 268-274 |
| Roman Jakobson and beyond. Language as a system of signs: The quest for the ultimate invariants in language (Rodney B. Sangster) | Roland Sussex | 274-278 |
| Variation in Australian English: The sociolects of Sydney (Barbara M. Horvath) | David Bradley | 278-286 |
| Functional syntax and universal grammar (W. A. Foley & R. D. van Valin, Jr) | Barry Blake | 286-293 |
| How conversation works (Ronald Wardhaugh) and Beyond the sentence: Discourse and sentential form (Jessica R. Wirth, editor) | Peter Collins | 293-296 |
| Workbook in Southeast Asian linguistics (John Newman) | Thor May | 297-299 |
| An introduction to sociolinguistics (Ronald Wardhaugh) | David Bradley | 299-301 |
| A generative grammatical analysis of Japanese complement constructions (Kiyoharu Ono) | Tasaku Tsunoda | 301-306 |