Papers on a variety of linguistic topics include six papers from a Festschrift and nine others, as follows: "Attitudes Towards English as a Possible Lingua Franca in Switzerland" (Urs Durmuller); "Functional Stability and Structural Levelling of Dialects: The Case of Maastricht" (Anton M. Hagen, Henk Munstermann); "On the Limits of Auditory Transcription: A Sociophonetic Approach" (Paul Kerswill, Susan Wright); "Current Language Planning and Policy in Catalonia" (Clare Mar-Molinero); "Constructive Beliefs and Political Reference" (John Wilson); Lexical Density in Interview and Conversation" (Subhi Zora, Catherine Johns-Lewis); "Reflections on Nominal Quantification in Three Romance Varieties: French, Italian, and Genoese" (Adrian Battye); "On the Notion of the Idiomatic Preposition: A Case Study from Italian" (Piero Bottari); "A Solution to the 'Must Of' Problem" (Richard Coates); "The 'No Crossing Constraint' in Autosegmental Phonology" (John Coleman, John Local); "Phrase Structure, Possessives, and Definiteness" (Christopher Lyons); "Processing Relative Clauses in Basque and Spanish" (Amaya Mendikoetxea); "A Pragmatic View of French Deixis" (John Charles Smith); "Confirmation and Repair: An Interactional Analysis of Redoing Sequences in Child-Adult Talk" (Clare Tarplee); and "The Range of Gapping and the Status of Auxiliaries" (Anthony R. Warner). (MSE)