A collection of papers on contrastive linguistics includes: "Prototypes and Equivalence" (Tomasz P. Krzeszowski); "Comparing the Incomparable? English Adjectives in "-able" and Their Rendering in Modern Chinese" (Arthur Mettinger); "Classification and Distribution of Lexical Errors in the Written Work of German Learners of English" (Rudiger Zimmermann); "Perception of Stressed Syllables in Natural Stimuli: A Contrastive English-Polish Experimental Study" (Wieslaw Awedyk); "Explorations in Linguistic Sexism: A Contrastive Sketch" (Robert K. Herbert, Barbara Nykiel-Herbert); "Cyclicity and Phonostylistic Interference" (Katarzyna Dziubalska); "Subject Inversion in English, French, Italian, and Dutch and Empty Subjects in German" (Terence McKay); "Postpositions, "Part-of-Speechness," Negation and Other Matters" (Bela Korponay); "A Comparison of Some English and Hungarian Freezes" (Laszlo Pordany); "Processing Strategies in Bilingual Spellers" (Philip A. Luelsdorff); "Danish and Slavic Phraseology Contributions to an Analysis of Idiomatics on a Contrastive Basis" (Christian Hougaard); and "The Fact of Translation in Learning English as a Foreign Language" (M. B. Dagut). (MSE)