This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "A Note on Semantic Representation of Lexical Items and on Lexical Gaps" (Maria Grzegorek); "Some Remarks on Case Grammars as Bases for Contrastive Studies" (Hans U. Boas); "Are Exclusively Attributive Adjectives 'Transpositional'?--Some Comments on the Nature of Lexical Rules as Opposed to Syntactic Transformations" (Barbara Fedorowicz-Bacz); "Epenthesis or Deletion--I Could Do" (John W. Dewees); "A Contrastive Description of Deixis in Danish and English" (Claus Faerch); "Deceptive Words. A Study in the Contrastive Lexicon of Polish and English" (Jerzy Welna); "Some Aspects of Style in the Source and the Target Language" (Moira Linnarud); "Tags in English and Equivalent Constructions in Polish" (Wieslaw Oleksy); "Definiteness in Finnish" (Andrew Chesterman); "Testing and Contrastive Analysis" (Naum R. Dimitrijevic); "Problems and Implications of Contrastive Analysis of Vocabulary and Culture" (Naum R. Dimitrijevic); "Towards an Erasure Principle for German and English Infinitive Complements" (Rudolf Thiem); and "Some Aspects of Modification in English and Polish--Pedagogical Implications" (Elzbieta Muskat-Tabakowska). A bibliography of English-Polish contrastive studies is also included. (MSE)