1. Foreword; 2. Table of Contents; 3. List of Contributors; 4. Commands as binary relations (by Del Vigna, Claude); 5. Generalized minimalist grammars (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 6. An infinite hierachy of midly context-sensitive families of languages (by Kudlek, Manfred); 7. Some uses and abuses of mathematics in linguistics (by Manaster-Ramer, Alexis); 8. Logical splicing in natural languages (by Manca, Vincenzo); 9. X-families: an approach to the study of families of syntactically similar languages (by Martin-Vide, Carlos); 10. Overparsing (by Quesada, Jose Francisco); 11. Computational complexity in language models (by Savitch, Walter J.); 12. Grammar efficiency and the historical development of word order in French (by Vulanovic, Relja); 13. Author Index; 14. Subject Index