Preliminary Material / John P. Kimball -- Possible and Must / Lauri Karttunen -- The Modality of Conditionals–A Discussion of “Possible and Must” / John P. Kimball -- Forward Implications, Backward Presuppositions, and the Time Axis of Verbs / Talmy Givón -- Temporally Restrictive Adjectives / David Dowty -- Cyclic and Linear Grammars / John P. Kimball -- On the Cycle in Syntax / John Grinder -- Discussion / George Lakoff -- Action and Result: Two Aspects of Predication in English / Michael B. Kac -- Three Reasons for Not Deriving ‘Kill’ from ‘Cause to Die’ in Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Kac and Shibatani on the Grammar of Killing / James D. Mc Cawley -- Reply to McCawley / Michael B. Kac -- Doubl-ing / John Robert Ross -- Where Do Relative Clauses Come From? / Judith Aissen -- On the Nonexistence of Mirror Image Rules in Syntax / Jorge Hankamer -- The VP-Constituent of SVO Languages / Arthur Schwartz -- Lahu Nominalization, Relativization, and Genitivization / James A. Matisoff -- Navaho Object Markers and the Great Chain of Being / Nancy Frishberg -- The Crossover Constraint and Ozark English / Suzette Haden Elgin -- Author Index / John P. Kimball -- Subject Index / John P. Kimball.

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