This volume contains a selection of 17 of the papers presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, held in Utrecht on January 16 1993. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in progress.

1. Preface (by Drijkoningen, Frank); 2. List of contributors; 3. Discourse linking and subjects in Modern Greek (by Anagnostopoulou, Elena); 4. Human morphology: The invisible person (by Backhuys, Kees-Jan); 5. Aktionsart and temporal relations in Dutch texts (by Boogaart, Ronny); 6. Agreement and prodrop in Sign Language of the Netherlands (by Bos, Heleen); 7. Philipp Wegener as a proto-speech act theorist (by Elffers-van Ketel, Els); 8. Some implications of Number Agreement on COMP (by Hoekstra, Eric); 9. (Dis)continuity in language change: ser and estar + age in Latin-American Spanish (by Jonge, Bob de); 10. Sonority substitutions in language disorders (by Linde, Klarien J. van der); 11. Stress shift in Dutch hexameters (by Neijt, Anneke); 12. Negerhollands (by Rossem, Cefas G. Th. van); 13. Focus and the Extraposition of Noun Phrase Complement Clauses in Dutch (by Shannon, Thomas F.); 14. On the ambiguity of riding tired (by Sybesma, Rint); 15. Some remarks on asymmetrical coordination (by Thiersch, Craig L.); 16. Serial verb constructions, parameter settings and thematic restrictions on argument sharing (by Veenstra, Tonjes); 17. Implicit agents in passives and anticausatives of Dutch children (by Verrips, Maaike); 18. Direct partitive constructions (by Vos, Riet); 19. A CP analysis of Mandarin Chinese (by Xu, Ding)