This volume contains papers presented in connection with a symposium held in 1975 and sponsored by Abo Akademi, for the purpose of discussing ongoing research in word-order studies. Papers include: (1) a prolegomena by N.E. Enkvist; (2) "On the Ordering of Sister Constituents in Swedish," by E. Andersson; (3) "What is New Information?" by O. Dahl; (4) "Notes on Valency, Semantic Scope, and Thematic Perspective as Parameters of Adverbial Placement in English," by N.E. Enkvist; (5) "On Certain Conflicts between Focus-Determined and Clause-Type-Determined Word Order," by T. Fretheim; (6) "Problems of Basic Word Order," by O. Heinamaki; (7) "Parameters Affecting the Position of Certain English Adjuncts," by M. Hicks; (8) "Some Thoughts on Variable Word Order," by E. Holman; (9)"Problem of Interaction Bias in Word Order Probability Estimation," by S. Jacobson; (10) "Some Remarks on Topic-Comment and Presuppositions," by F. Kiefer; (11) "Note on Factors Affecting the Position of Accusative Objects and Complements in Aelfric's 'Catholic Homilies I'," by V. Kohonen; (12) "Presupposition, Assertion, and Discourse Structure," by C-G. Sandulescu; (13) "Adverbial Positions in French, Contrasted with Those in Swedish: Stress, Focus and Subjectivity," by S. Schlyter; and (14) "Converse Terms in Swedish," by B. Sigurd. (AM)