Seven papers on various topics in language research are presented, including: "What Makes the Japanese Inscrutable?: A Linguistic Perspective" (Julie Bruch); "A New Look at Old English Metrics" (Alison K. Huettner); "A Class of Indefinites in Vietnamese" (Laura A. Michaelis); "Cohesion and the Yiddish Consecutive Order" (Kenneth L. Miner); "Syllable Structure and Interlanguage Phonology" (Tim Riney); "Socially Deictic Use of a Body-Part Term in Turkish" (Mubeccel Taneri); and "Chinese Passives: Transformational or Lexical" (Jiuwu Zhang, Xiaohong Wen). An index of the cumulative contents of volumes 1-14 of the Working Papers is also included. (MSE)