這一輯內容的安排，是把專題演講的四篇放在前面，依通論、語音、語法的次序排列。其餘20篇論文依歷史語音、語法、構詞以及現代語音、語法、其他兩大類的次序排列。

文章列表
語言變化的機理 (Mechanisms of Language Change)
王士元 (William S. Y. Wang)

漢語上古音的元音問題
丁邦新 (Pang-hsin Ting)

關於上古音的四個假設
白一平 (William H. Baxter III)

唐代、宋代共同語的語法和現代方言的語法
梅祖麟 (Tsu-Lin Mei)

Reconstructing Scenarios of Sound Change
陳淵泉 (Matthew Y. Chen)

劉宋時期在漢語音韻史上的地位──兼論音韻史的分期問題
何大安 (Dah-an Ho)

《日本寄語》所反映的明代吳語聲調
木津祐子 (Kizu Yuko)

A Theory of the Bifurcation of the Middle Chinese Voiced Syllable-initial Stops and Affricates into Aspirates and Unaspirates after Devoicing
徐雲揚 (Eric Zee)

Post-stopped Nasals and Lateral Flaps in the Zhongshan (Yue) Dialect: A Study of a Mid-eighteenth Century Sino-Portuguese Glossary
陳潔雯 (Marjorie K. M. Chan)

陝北清澗話人稱代詞和指人名詞語尾[‧mi]探源
劉勳寧 (Xunning Liu)

Interaction of Syntactic Changes
何萬順 (One-soon Her)

古漢語被動式的發展與演變機制
魏培泉 (P’ei-chuan Wei)

The Grammaticalization of ‘Bei ’in Chinese
張洪明 (Hongming Zhang)

On the History of Chinese Locative Prepositions
貝羅貝 (Alain Peyraube)

On the Mechanisms and Constraints in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Chinese Dialects
曹逢甫 (Feng-fu Tsao)

Synaesthetic Words in the Southern Min Dialect: Their Semantic Structure and Change
連金發 (Chinfa Lien)

異形語的共存與淘汰──台灣話的輕聲與數量語
鄭良偉 (Robert L. Cheng)

元音與聲調
遠藤光曉 (Mitsuaki Endo)

Tone Sandhi and the Dissimilation of Phonation Types: Reflexes of the Beijing Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi Rule in Northern Chinese Dialects
Deborah S. Davison

A Beat-counting Theory of Mandarin Foot Phrasing
蕭宇超 (Yuchau E. Hsiao)

Verb Movement and Some Syntax-semantics Mismatches in Chinese
黃正德 (C.-T. James Huang)

Wh-words as Polarity Items
鄭禮珊 (Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng)

Conditions on the Distribution of Postverbal Duration and Frequency Phrases in Chinese Revisited
湯志真 (Chih-Chen Jane Tang)

Discourse Explanations for the Choice of Jiu and Cai in Mandarin Conversation
劉美君 (Mei-chun Liu)