| Feminine as the unmarked grammatical gender: Buffalo girls are no fools | Barry Alpher | 169-187 |
| Garka a ipika/Masculine and feminine grammatical gender in Kala Lagaw Ya | Ephraim Bani | 189-201 |
| French adverbs of saying and folk principles of linguistic action | Anne-Marie Diller | 203-221 |
| The interpretation of inherent objects in English | Liliana Haegeman | 223-248 |
| Bibliography: Publications on Australian languages, 1986 | Harold Koch & Geraldine Triffitt | 249-256 |
| Studies in Relational Grammar 1 (David M. Perlmutter, editor) and Studies in Relational Grammar 2 (David M. Perlmutter & Carol G. Rosen, editors) | Edwin M. Wilkinson | 257-285 |
| The Fergusonian impact: In honor of Charles A. Ferguson (J. A. Fishman et al, editors) | Göran Hammarström | 287-291 |
| Dépendances et niveaux de représentation en syntaxe (Jean-Roger Vergnaud) | Ray Cattell | 292-295 |
| Historical semantics, historical word formation (Jacek Fisiak, editor) | Koenraad Kuiper | 295-304 |
| Metrical phonology and phonological structure: German and English (Heinz J. Giegerich) | John Newman | 304-310 |
| Intonation in discourse (Catherine Johns-Lewis, editor) | Bob Cochrane | 310-314 |
| A grammar of Acehnese: On the basis of a dialect of north Aceh (Mark Durie) | D. T. Tryon | 315-317 |
| Language system and its change: On theory and testability (Jadranka Gvozdanovic) | David Bradley | 317-320 |
| La politica linguistica del fascismo (G. Klein) | Mirna Cicioni | 320-322 |