Ten articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "Contrastive Grammar: Theory and Practice" (F. Aarts and H. Wekker); "On the Semantic and Morphological Status of Reversative Verbs in English and German" (W.-P. Funk); "The Problem of Directionality in Contrastive Studies Based on Cognitive Linguistics" (R. Kalisz); "Towards Contrastive Morphology: The Comparative Degree of Polish and English Adjectives" (A. Wojcicki); "Dutch Loanwords in Munsee: The Contrastive Phonology of Borrowing" (P. Swiggers); "Transfer and Related Strategies in the Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Adult Arab Learners" (H. Y. Tushyeh); "On the Disparity Between Morphological and Semantic Structure of Derivatives" (B. Pasternak-Cetnarowska); "English Verbal Complements, Dutch Speaking Learners, and the Role of Length: An Investigation of Error in One Area of English Grammar" (J. P. Kirby); "Tonic Prominence and the Coding of Thematic-Rhematic Relations" (M. Pakosz); and "On Quantifiers and Negation in Czech" (A. Grygar-Rechziegel). (LB)