The volume features a cross-section of current work in various areas of linguistics by staff and postgraduate students at the School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, University of Reading.SyntaxTowards a phase based analysis of the VOS order in GreekMichalis GeorgiafentisObligatory inversion and the status of head movement: evidence from GreekGeorge KotzoglouPragmaticsSwitch-reference in Amele and logophoric verbal suffix in Gokana: a generalized neo-Gricean pragmatic analysisYan HuangLanguage AcquisitionAcquisition of L2 English DP by Korean childrenJongdo JinGreek 'strong' pronouns and the delay of principle B effectIrene SanoudakiJapanese learners' linking problems with English psych verbsYasuko SatoLanguage ChangeNegative concord and the loss of the negative particle 'ne' in Late Middle EnglishRichard InghamThe loss of negative concord and the constant rate hypothesisAmel KallelSociolinguistics 'It won't be the Guernsey French we know': identity issues and language endangermentJulia SallabankA number of papers are available for download in .pdf format at http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/cl/slals/wp7/index.htm