This collection of papers presents the latest original research by the institutions. The papers in Number 1 are: (1) "Xhosa departments of the University of Kansas, as well as contributors from other institutions. The papers in Number 1 are: (1) "Xhosa Nominal Tonology: A Domain-Based Approach" (Mbulelo Jokweni); (2) "On the Representation of Mandarin Syllable Structure" (Feng-Lan Kuo); (3) "Vendler Classes and Reinterpretation" (Michihiko Kawamura); (4) "Negative Polarity Items and the Semantics of the Particles '-to' and '-na' in Korean" (Yae-sheik Lee); (5) "Clitics, Case Checking, and Causative Constructions" (Xavier Villalba); (6) "The Dual Status of the Null Object in Chinese" (Yanfeng Qu); (7) "On the Orientation Problem in Korean 'CAKI' Binding and the Typology of X Reflexive Binding" (Mi-Hui Cho); (8) "Complementation of Hausa Aspectual Verbs" (Lawan Danladi Yalwa); (9) "Deriving the Distribution of Conjunctions" (Ed Zoerner); and (10) "L2 Acquisition of English Reflexives by Native Speakers of Korean" (Hye-Ryun Kim). All six papers in Number 2 deal with Native American Languages: (11) "Karankawa Linguistic Materials" (Anthony P. Grant); (12) "Word-Level Nominalization in Choctaw" (Marcia Haag); (13) Reflexives in Mohawk" (Nancy Bonvillain); (14)"Proto-Algic V: Doublets and Their Implications" (Paul Proulx); (15) "The Limit of Structure Preservation in Dakhota Lexical Phonology" (John Kyle); and (16) "Notes on the Kansa Word List of Maximilian, Prince of Wied" (Robert L. Rankin). Each paper is followed by a reference list. (MDM)