This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "A Systematic Typological Contrast Between English and Portuguese" (Mary Aizawa Kato); "An Accuracy Order of English Sentential Complements for Native Speakers of Persian and Spanish" (Janet I. Anderson); "Remarks on 'Particle Movement' and 'Extraposition from NP' Rules: A Study in Contrastive Analysis" (Latif H. Ali); "On So Called 'Beheaded Noun Phrases' in English and Polish" (Roman Kalisz); "Certain Aspects of the Exclusively Predicative Use of Adjectives in English and Polish" (Barbara Dancygier); "How Do Proper Names Refer? Some Contrastive Evidence from English and Polish" (Barbara Kryk); "A Contrastive Study of One-Dimension Adjectives in English and Serbo-Croatian" (Boris Hlebec); "The Number of Genders in Polish" (Greville G. Corbett); "The Methods of Establishing the Productivity of Word Formation Rules" (Elzbieta Gorska); and "Polish and English Vowels: A Contact Situation" (Jerzy Zybert). Edmund Gussmann's review of the book "Phonology, Meaning, Morphology. On the Role of Semantic and Morphological Criteria in Phonological Analysis," by Solon Ohlander is also included. (MSE)