A collection of 24 papers that reflect trends in the mathematical study of natural language and their applications or extensions. The papers are grouped into four sections: syntax; semantics; natural language processing; and varia.

1. Foreword; 2. Table of Contents; 3. List of Contributors; 4. Part I: Syntax; 5. The Degree of Parallelism in Contextual Grammars with Minimal Competence Strategy (by Dassow, Juergen); 6. The Syntactis Complexity of Internal Contextual Grammars and Languages (by Georgescu, Gianina); 7. On Ambiguity in Internal Contextual Languages (by Ilie, Lucian); 8. Linguistic and Semiotic Preliminaries to Contextual Grammars (by Marcus, Solomon); 9. Attempting to Define the Ambiguity of Internal contextual Languages (by Martin-Vide, Carlos); 10. Variants of Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems (by Mihalache, Valeria); 11. On Contextual Automata (by Miquel-Verges, Joan); 12. Part II: Semantics; 13. Nonassociative and Commutative Categorial Grammars and their Languages (by Kandulski, Maciej); 14. Words as Modules: A Lexicalised Grammar in the Framework of Linear Logic Proof Nets (by Lecomte, Alain); 15. A Metagrammatical Logical Formalism (by Manca, Vincenzo); 16. Word Meaning, Logic and the Informative Entailment Relation (by Nepomuceno Fernandez, Angel); 17. Accessible Similar Worlds and French Coherent Infinitival Constructions (by Reed, Lisa A.); 18. Part III: Natural Language Processing; 19. Machine Translation of Motion Verbs from English into Spanish (by Amores, J. Gabriel); 20. On the Complexity of Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Machine Translation (by Mitkov, Ruslan); 21. An Interval Algebra for Temporal Relations Conveyed by a Text (by Pimenta Rodrigues, Irene); 22. Approximate Reasoning about Natural Language: A Certain Distributional-Mereological Model (by Polkowski, Lech T.); 23. Bidirectional and Event-Driven Parsing with Multi Virtual Trees (by Quesada, Jose Francisco); 24. An LALR Extension for DCG's in Dynamic Programming (by Vilares Ferro, Manuel); 25. Part IV: Varia; 26. Unrestricted Text into Prosodic Units. A Formal Description (by Casacuberta Sevilla, David); 27. Concepts of Mathematical Linguistics: Means and Functional Domains (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt); 28. A Model of Personal Pronouns (by Kudlek, Manfred); 29. A Mathematical Model for the Post-Creole Continuum in Hawaii (by Matsunami, Shinya); 30. Intaxis: a Syntactical Model of Intonation (by Sanchez Gonzalez, Francisco Javier); 31. An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory (by Say, Bilge); 32. Author Index; 33. Subject Index