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The collection of articles on second language teaching and learning includes: "Cross-Cultural Discourse Pragmatics: Speaking about Hearsay in English and Japanese" (Nobuko Trent); "An Investigation of Student Opinions and Educational Experiences in Spanish for the Heritage Speakers at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona" (Theresa Reber, Kimberly Geeslin); "Authentic Foreign Language Testing in a Brazilian University Entrance Exam" (Rosana M. F. Cardoso); "Changing Teacher Roles in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Francis Johnson, Marion Delarche, Nicholas Marshall, Adrian Wurr, Jeffery Edwards); "Neurolinguistic Applications to SLA Classroom Instruction: A Review of the Issues with a Focus on Danesi's Bimodality" (E. G. Kim-Rivera); and "A Test for Learning Style Differences for the U.S. Border Population" (Armand Picou, Rebecca Gatlin-Watts, James Packer). A book review is also included. (David Coberly) Individual papers contain references.) (MSE)

These two issues of volume 17, include the following articles: "The Competing Motivation Model in the Functional Domains of Negation" (M. Angelica Furtado da Cunha); "Discursive Resonance and Politeness in Reading and Writing Practices" (Silvana Serrani Infante); "The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Brazilian Portuguese" (Maria Cecilia Perroni); "Has the Adverbial Entao Already Become Grammaticalized as a Conjunction?" (Erotilde Goreti Pezzatti); "The Two Great of Brazilian Sociolinguistic History (1500-2000)" (Dante E. Lucchesi); "Interview with M.A.K. Halliday, Cardiff, July, 1998" (Geoff Thompson and Heloisa Collins); "Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter" (M. Aparecida C.R. Torres-Morais); "Applied Research in Language: Challenges for the New Millennium" (Carlos Alberto Faraco); "Textlinguistics: Quo Vadis?" (Ingedore Grunfeld Villaca Koch); "Dialectology: Traveled Roads and Routes to Travel" (Suzana Alice Marcelino Cardoso); "Theoretical and Descriptive Issues in Sociolinguistics and in Applied Sociolinguistics and a Project for an Agenda" (Maria Cecilia de Magalhaes Mollica and Claudia Nivia Roncarti); and "Research in Portuguese Phonology" (Maria Helena Mira Mateus). An appendix includes: "52nd SBPC Annual Meeting: Brasilia, July 2000 Meeting: Scientific Journals in the New Century"; "Letters and Linguistics Brazilian Journals" (Luiz Antonio Marcuschi); "Electronic Texts" (Vilson J. Leffa); and "The Preparation of a General Journal" (Leila Barbara, Maria Aparecida Caltabianco, and Sumiko N. Ikeda). (Papers contain references.) (SM)

A study of verb agreement and clause structure in Karaja, a Brazilian indigenous language of Macro-Je stock, discusses the subject and object agreement systems with relation to the Feature Specification Constraint. Implementation of the SOV order in Karaja is then analyzed and evidence is presented for the existence of a single functional phrase that must be postulated in order to handle the OV word order and check the object structural case. Object clitic constructions are then contrasted with object verb-internal affixes, and main verbs with auxiliaries. Concluding remarks are offered on the structure of the clause and the parametrization of the functional category of Agreement. (Contains 13 references.) (Author/MSE)