Reports of recent original research on linguistics by faculty and students of the University of Kansas are presented. Topics include: "Collaboration on Topic Change in Conversation" (Mary Howe); "Stories in Conversation" (Roberta Senner Hofer); "It's Like, 'What's Happening in the Evolution of Like?': A Theory of Grammaticalization" (Teresa Meehan); "Folk Etymology (in English and Elsewhere)" (Adrian Poruciuc); "Liquid Assimilation in Havana Spanish" (Fenfang Hwu); "The Syntax-Phonology Interface as the Key to Metricality: Evidence from Taiwanese Folk Songs" (Yuchau E. Hsiao); "Causative Constructions in Nepali" (Kaoru Horie); "Transitivity Indicators: "-Yu" and "-Wi" in Hualapai" (Kumiko Ichihashi); and Proto-Algic III: Pronouns" (Paul Proulx). A cumulative listing of the contents of volumes 1-16 of the working papers is also included. (MSE)