Fifteen articles are presented in this collection on contrastive linguistics: "On Syntactic Levels--One Tertium Comparison is in Contrastive Linguistics" (L. F. Jakobsen and J. Olsen); "Equivalence in Bilingual Lexicography: From Correspondence Relation to Communicative Strategy" (R. R. K. Hartmann); "How Useful Are Word Lists in Contrastive Analysis?" (J. L. Wyatt); "Coarticulatory Propensity: The Case of English and Polish Consonant Clusters" (S. Puppel); "Some General Remarks on Ulrich Blau's Interpretation of Sentences with Referential But Actually Nonreferring Expression Co-occurring with Referential Predicates" (E. Mioduszewska); "Post-transformational Stem Derivation in Fox" (I. Goddard); "Notes on Subjacency as a Syntactic Constraint in Arabic and English" (M. J. Bakir);"The Intonation of Questions in English and Arabic" (S. El-Hassan); "Some Cases of Lexicalization" (B. Korponay); "Contrastive Analysis at Discourse Level and the Communicative Teaching of Languages" (S. Marmaridou); "Connecting L1 and FL in Discourse-Level Performance Analysis" (L. S. Evensen and I. L. Rygh); "How Do Poles Perform English 'Tips of the Slung'?" (K. Dziubalska-Kolaczyk); "Contrastive Studies and the Problem of Equivalence in Translation" (G. Weise); "Accuracy Order for English as a Foreign Language in Poland" (B. Krakowian); and "A Study of Some Factors Affecting the Sequence and Rate of Acquisition of ESL by Adult Refugees in Western Pennsylvania" (M. Siudek). (LB)