| Structure and word order in Kalkatungu: The anatomy of a flat language | Barry J. Blake | 143-175 |
| On the productivity of word formation rules and limits of variability in the lexicon | Suzanne Romaine | 177-200 |
| On the transition from child tongue to mother tongue | M. A. K. Halliday | 201-215 |
| 'Learning to talk' in the new paradigm | Barbara M. Horvath | 217-240 |
| Future time reference in the conditional protasis: A comment on Comrie | F. R. Palmer | 241-243 |
| Bibliography: Publications on Australian languages, 1982 | Harold Koch | 245-251 |
| Conversation and discourse (Paul Werth, editor) | Ruqaiya Hasan | 253-276 |
| On the yin and yang nature of language (C.-J. N. Bailey) | Peter Mühlhäusler | 277-280 |
| Isle de France Creole: Affinities and origins (Philip Baker & Chris Corne) | Suzanne Romaine | 280-287 |
| The semantics of the modal auxiliaries (Jennifer Coates) | F. R. Palmer | 287-293 |
| Psycholinguistics: Language, mind and world (Danny D. Steinberg) | Jean Aitchison | 293-298 |
| Genuszuordnung (Bernd Gregor) | Michael Clyne | 299-300 |