This volume is devoted to papers on an empirical or theoretical nature contributing to the study of language and communicative behavior in the Philippines. Articles included are: (1) "The Phonemic Consequences of Two Morphophonemic Rules in Molbog," by H. Arnold Thiessen; (2) "A Look at a Northern Kankanay Text (a syntactic analysis)," by Judy Wallace; (3) "Writing a Nontechnical Grammar of Mangga Buang (an easy to understand analysis of the Papua New Guinean Language)," by Joan Healey; (4) "What is Tagmemics? (Continued) (a brief outline of basic outlook and constructs)," by David Thomas; (5) "Subject/Topic Terminology and Vectors (an attempt to clarify the universal components that enter into subject/topic-like entities)," by David Thomas; (6) "Coconut Cultivation among the Yakan," by Dietlinde Behrens; (7) "Cebuano Verb Morphology, an Application of Case Grammar," by Casilda E. Luzares; (8) "Fact and Fiction in Isneg Narrative Discourse," by Rodolfo R. Barlaan; (9) "Discourse Analysis of a Southern Samal Text: Abunawas and the Beautiful Widow," by Joe Allison; (10) "Focus Ranking in Tboli Discourse (identification of influential factors on the choice of focused items in Tboli clauses)," by Doris Porter and Austin Hale; (11) "Physical, Temporal and Cognitive Location in Keley-i Demonstratives," by Dick Hohulin and Austin Hale; (12) "Notes on Keley-i Relational Grammar-I," by Lou Hohulin and Austin Hale; (13) "The Phonemes of Sarangani Sangire," by Kenneth R. Maryott; and (14) "Reduplication and Cyclical Rule Ordering in Kankanaey Morphonemics," by Lawrence P. Allen. (NCR)