Papers in this volume on contrastive linguistics include the following: "Auxiliaries in English and Danish" (Niels Davidsen-Nielsen); "On Tongue Twisters" (Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak); "On Derivational and Phrasal Adverbials of Manner" (James L. Wyatt); "Scrambling and the Polish Word Order. An Alternative Hypothesis" (Przemyslaw Tajsner); "Verbs of Sensory Cognition: A Contrastive Analysis of a Lexical Field in the Lexicon of Polish and English" (Roman Kopytko); "Phonostylistics and Second Language Acquisition" (Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk); "A Contrastive Analysis of Object Control in English and German" (Christian Mair); "The Lexical Fields 'Broad/Thick' Analysed and Compared With Their German Counterparts 'Breit/Weit/Dick'" (Bernhard Diensberg and Annette Dell); "On the Contrastive Phonology of the Stressed Vowels in English and Bulgarian" (Andrei Danchev); "Aspiration in English and Polish: An Overview" (Piotr Ruszkiewicz); "The Complements of Perception Verbs in English and Polish" (Roman Kopytko); "Some Reflections on Ideas and Results of Feminist Linguistics" (A. I. Dorodnykh and A. P. Martyniuk); "On the Analysis of Modal Meanings in Spoken German of Native Speakers and Polish Learners" (Leszek Skibniewski); and "On Case Marking in Polish" (Ewa Willim). (MSE)