Fourteen articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "A Brief Falsificationist Look at Contrastive Sociolinguistics" (K. Janicki); "The Locus of French Gender Control" (W. A. Bennett); "On the English Perfect Tense and Current Relevance Implicatures" (J. R. Canavan); "Teaching French to Spanish Speakers: Some Typical Patterns of Error" (P. B. Stevens); "The Passive and Passivizability in Danish and German" (O. Lauridsen); "Equivalence and Translatability of English and Arabic Idioms" (M. Awwad); "Universals in Interlanguage Phonology: The Case of Brazilian ESL Learners" (L. M. Dreasher and J. Anderson-Hsieh); "Social Relations and Sex Stereotyping in Language" (A. Martynyuk); "A Contrastive Study of Male and Female Occupational Terms in English and Russian" (A. Martynyuk); "The English Palatalization Rule in Second Language Acquisition" (J. Rysiewicz); "Collocations: The Missing Link in Vocabulary Acquisition Amongst EFL Learners" (R. F. Hussein); "Principles for a Contrastive Phonotactics: The Hebrew Triconsonental (CCC) Root System a Case in Point" (Y. Tobin); "English/Russian Nominal Sentences-Expressives: Contrastive Analysis" (I. Frolova); and "A Working Framework for a Pedagological Contrastive Grammar of Persian and English: From Sentence to Discourse" (L. Yarmohammadi). A review article by J. M. Doherty on Van Voorst's "Event Structure" concludes this issue. Contains references following each article. (LB)