Four issues of this journal contain articles, dissertation abstracts, reviews, remarks and rejoinders, conference reports, and announcements of publications and professional matters relating to linguistics and language research. The substantive articles contained in these issues include: "FIESTA--A Linguistics Text Tool" (E. Clay Johnston); "Distinctive Features" (Steven Marlett); "Combining Functional and Formal Approaches to Language" (Robert A. Dooley); "Reference Grammars" (Thomas E. Payne); "Endonyms and Exonyms" (John W. M. Verhaar); and "Language and the Deaf" (Steve Parkhurst, Diane Parkhurst). (MSE)