Eight original research papers on Native American languages by faculty and students of the Linguistics Department and other related departments of the University of Kansas are presented. The titles and authors include the following: "Comanche Consonant Mutation: Initial Association or Feature Spread?" (James L. Armagost); "The Alsea Noun Phrase" (Eugene Buckley); "Linguistic Borrowing in Chicano Literature" (Eliverio Chavez); "Koasati Comparative Constructions" (Geoffrey Kimball); "Underlying Nasals in Crow, Hidatsa and Proto-Missouri River (Siouan)" (Jack Martin); "A Special Word in Jamual Diegueno" (Amy Miller); "The Focus Antipassive in K'iche' Mayan" (Clifton Pye); and "An Annotated Bibliography of Kiowa-Tanoan" (Robert Sprott). A list of the cumulative contents of Volumes 1-14 of the Kansas Working Papers is included. (LB)