Papers in these volumes were presented at a Mexican conference on linguistics. Most papers are in Spanish; the English translations of the titles include the following: "Directions in Contemporary Semantics" (L. Lara); "Regular Accentuation in Spanish" (C. Braithwaite); "Syntactic Order in Sonoran" (D. Brown); "Speech Datives or Interest/Not of Interest" (R. Maldonado); "Adverbial Noun Phrases and Adverbs Proper" (I. Zatarian); "Modal Constructions" (E. Trevino); "Conjugation of Conjunctions in Northern Tepehuan" (B. Bascom); "Some Idiosyncratic Orthographic Conventions of Southern Durango" (L. Volpe); "Tepehuan Yutoaztec Origins or Nuhuatl Object Prefixes" (K. Dakin); "Dialects of Guarijio" (R. Escalante); "Theorectical Problems in the Dialectology Study of Syntactic Aspects of Pima Bajo" (Z. Fernandez); "Types of Predicates with Copula in Southern Durango Tepehuan" (V. Flores, L. Volpe); "Syntactic Nature of Argument Structure" (K. Hale); "Fast and Slow in Tohonno O'odham" (J. Hill); Nominalized Clauses in Ute" (T. Givon); "Classification of the Southern Yutoaztec Languages" (W. Miller); "Non-referrential Expressions in O'Odham" (D. Payne); "Personal Number Morphemes in Southeastern Tepehuan" (T. Willett); "Possession in Yucateco Mayan" (F. Chel); "Change of Voice in Chuj" (C. Buenrosto); "External and Internal Linguistic Change in the Morphological Structure of Southwestern Vizcaino" (A. Urkiza); "Numbers in Seri" (M. Moser, S. Marlett); "Guillemin's Mexican Apache Vocabulary" (W. de Reuse); "Grammaticalization of Verbs of Movement in Akateko" (R. Zavala);"Reading and Textual Typology" (A. Rojas, M. Camargo); "Nahuatl Language or Mexican Language? A 19th Century Dissent" (B. Cifuentes, V. Peralta); "Intensive and Frequentive in Classical Nahuatl Expropriation Discourse" (R. Ortiz); "The Discourse of Expropriation" (M. Montes de Oca); "Routines that Count" (C. Nieto); "Voice of the Voiceless" (T. Dounce); "Testimony in Oral History and the Disturbing Work of Editing: An Anthropological Pespective" (T. Dounce); "Reality and Ethnoscience" (S. Cuevas); "Ethnosemantics of Kiliwa Kinship" (M. Mixco); "Reading Process in Primary Schoolchildren in Hermosillo" (A. Vidal, R. Anguiano); "Rule Transferral" (R. Mejia); "Linguistic Complexities (Endophoric References) in Textbooks" (A. Ugalde); "First Sound Correspondence in Writing" (S. Vernon); and"The Nature of Language and Problems in the Rehabilitation of Deaf Children" (B. Radelli). (KM)