1. Introduction; 2. Curriculum vitae (by Verhaar, S.J., John W.M.); 3. List of publications; 4. Section I: Transitivity and voice; 5. Diathesis: The Middle, Particularly in West-Germanic (by Abraham, Werner); 6. How many Transitivisers are in Kope? (by Clifton, John M.); 7. Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses: Some Khmer Evidence (by Comrie, Bernard); 8. The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs: The Indonesian Evidence (by Kaswanti, Bambang Purwo); 9. Section II: Clausal modality; 10. The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty: Mufian (Papua New Guinea) Oral Narratives (by Conrad, Robert J.); 11. On the German werden Future (by Heine, Bernd); 12. The Category 'Event' in Natural Discourse and Logic (by Hopper, Paul J.); 13. Section III: Typology and discourse categories; 14. The Category 'S' in English Conversation (by Fox, Barbara A.); 15. A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 16. Section IV: Language and culture; 17. Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture (by Haiman, John); 18. Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland (by Li, Charles N.); 19. Section V: Functionality; 20. Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production (by Cumming, Susanna); 21. Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion 'X has a Function Y' (by Durie, Mark); 22. "Lice he no good": on [r] and [l] in Tok Pisin (by Romaine, Suzanne); 23. Form and Meaning in Morphology (by Zwanenburg, Wiecher); 24. Subject Index; 25. List of contributors and their academic affiliations