Working Papers in Linguistics No. 8.

The volume of working papers includes eight papers describing current theory and research in linguistics and in semantics and syntax. The following articles are in the collection: "The Grammar of Emotive and Exclamatory Sentences in English,""Linguistics as Chemistry: The Substance Theory of Semantic Primes,""On Perceptual and Grammatical Constraints,""On Invited Inferences,""Remarks on Directionality" (concerning the relationships among various levels of grammatical description), "Evidence" (concerning the syntactic properties of verbs such as think, believe, assume, suppose, anticipate), "How Come and What For," and "In a Manner of Speaking" (concerning English verbs referring to intended acts of communication). Titles of working papers appearing in previous collections are provided. (VM)