| Ergativity and grammatical relations in Kalaw Lagaw Ya (Saibai dialect) | Bernard Comrie | 1-42 |
| Case marking and human nature | Anna Wierzbicka | 43-80 |
| Notes on the English present perfect | James D. McCawley | 81-90 |
| Grammatical reanalysis: An example of linguistic change from Warrgamay (North Queensland) | R. M. W. Dixon | 91-112 |
| Mannerly | John Robert Ross | 113-116 |
| Ngiyambaa: The language of the Wangaaybuwan (T. Donaldson) | Barry Blake | 117-119 |
| Modern linguistics: The results of Chomsky's revolution (Neil Smith & Deirdre Wilson) | Roland Sussex | 119-122 |
| Variation and change in Alabama English: A sociolinguistic study of the white community (Crawford Feagin) | Bruce Rigsby | 122-127 |
| Sociolinguistic patterns in British English (Peter Trudgill, editor) | David Lee | 127-134 |
| Foundations of distinctive feature theory (Christiane A. M. Baltaxe) | Steve Johnson | 135-136 |
| Pidgin and creole languages: Selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt (Glen G. Gilbert, editor and translator) and The ethnography of variation: Selected writings on pidgins and creoles by Hugo Schuchardt (T. L. Markey, editor and translator) | Peter Mühlhäusler | 136-138 |
| Languages and their status (Timothy Shopen, editor) | Barry Blake | 138-139 |
| Syntax: A linguistic introduction to sentence structure (E. Keith Brown & James E. Miller) | Keith Allan | 140-142 |