A collection of 14 papers in contrastive linguistics includes: "Some Comments on Language Data in Contrastive Analysis" (Ruta Nagucka); "Contrastive Sociolinguistics Reconsidered" (Karol Janicki); "Variations in Polish Nasal /e/: A Contribution to the Development of Contrastive Sociolinguistic Methodology" (Jane Johnson); "Languages in Contact and Contrastive Linguistics" (Broder Carstensen); "VSO and SVO Order in Welsh and Breton" (Rosalyn Raney); "Topical Sentence Positions in English and Polish" (Anna Duszak); "Verb Initial Constructions in Portuguese and their Counterpart Constructions in English" (Mary A. Kato); "On Some Referential Expressions in English and Polish" (Barbara Kryk); "From Temporal Adverb to Modal Particle--Some Comparative Remarks on Polish 'Czasem' ('Sometimes')" (Johan van der Auwera); "Conversational versus Conventional Implicature and Some Polarity Items in Polish and English" (Anna Charezinska); "Stress-Patterns of English Phrasal Nouns of the Type Make-Up in German" (Peter Hengstenberg); "The Translation Aspect of Phraseological Units in English and German" (Rosemarie Glaser); "On the Use of Lexical Avoidance Strategies in Foreign-Language Comunication" (Rolf Palmberg); and "Contrastive and Error Analysis: Vietnamese-German" (Heinrich Kelz). (MSE)