Seven original research papers by faculty and students of the Linguistics Department and other related departments of the University of Kansas are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Particles in Tojolabal Mayan Discourse" (Jill Brody); "One Hundred Years of Lakota Linguistics (1887-1987)" (Willem J. de Reuse); "Lexical and Phrasal Phonology of Yoruba Nouns" (Antonia Y. Folarin); "Some Klamath-Sahaptian Grammatical Correspondences" (Noel Rude); "A Note on Hopi Consonant Gradation" (David Leedom Shaul); "Word Order in Klamath" (Karen Sundberg); "A Comparative Sketch of Pueblo Languages: Phonology" (Yukihiro Yumitani). A list of the cumulative contents of volumes 1-12 of the Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics is included. (LB)