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Papers in linguistics in this issue include: "Aspects logico-semantiques de la metaphore" ("Logico-Semantic Aspects of the Metaphor") (Michel le Guern); "Metaphore et travail lexicale" ("Metaphor and Lexical Work") (Georges Ludi); "Aspects linguistiques et pragmatiques de la metaphore: anomalie semantique, implicitation conversationnelle et repertoire metaphorique" ("Linguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of the Metaphor: Semantic Anomaly, Conversational Implicitness, and Metaphoric Repertoire") (Jacques Moeschler); "Comparaisons litterales, comparaisons non litterales et metaphores" ("Literal Comparisons, Non-Literal Comparisons, and Metaphors") (Anne Reboul); "Reference temporelle et deixis: vers une approche milnerienne" ("Temporal Reference and Deixis: Towards a Milnerian Approach") (Moeschler); "Le systeme des pronoms personnels en francais contemporain: le probleme de la reference" ("The System of Personal Pronouns in Contemporary French: The Problem of Reference") (Reboul); "Bilinguisme, exolinguisme et acquisition: role de L1 dans l'acquisition de L2" ("Bilingualism, Exolingualism, and Acquisition: Role of L1 in L2 Acquisition") (Bernard Py); and "La dichotomie synchronie-diachronie chez Saussure et Benveniste: fondements et reformulations" ("The Synchrony-Diachrony Dichotomy in Saussure and Benveniste: Foundations and Reformulations") (Anne-Christine Girod-Doebelin). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

Three papers in linguistics, all in French, are presented. "La delocutivite lexicale en francais standard: esquisse d'un modele derivationnel" ("Lexical Delocutivity in Standard French: Sketch of a Derivational Model"), by Marc Bonhomme, examines the process by which certain expressions become neologisms. "La terminologie de l'Essai de grammaire de la langue francaise' de Damourette et Pichon" ("The Terminology of 'The Essay on Grammar of the French Language' by Damourette and Pichon"), by Ruedi Rohrbach, explores why grammarians Damourette and Pichon attempted to reinvent the terminology of grammar, and how their results are coherent but not always in accordance with empirical reality. In "Statut de langue et accommodation langagiere le long d'une frontiere linguistique" ("Status of Language and Language-Related Accommodation Along a Linguistic Frontier") (Shana Poplack), research on French language patterns along the border between French-majority Quebec and French-minority Ontario is presented. Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

This article deals with the syntactic properties of pragmatic connectives and with the relationship between their distributional and argumentative properties. Recent discourse models based on speech act theory assume that pragmatic connectives link sentences (or larger units). However, certain phrasal categories too can function as discourse units, and the set of pragmatic connectives therefore includes not only markers linking sentences provided with an illocutionary force (speech acts), but also phrases lacking an asserted illocutionary force (semi-speech acts). Moreover, many connectives either belong to the two subsets or are in complementary distribution, depending on the syntactic environment.Except for coordination, all these connectives are members of only two grammatical categories: Universal subordinators (including complementizers, subordinating conjunctions and prepositions), and modifying adverbs.Coordinate conjunctions are briefly reconsidered, and some arguments are given for restricting this class to et, ou and ni, both on pragmatic and on syntactic grounds.