This volume is devoted to papers of an empirical or theoretical nature contributing to the study of language and communicative bahavior in the Philippines. Articles included are: (1) "Three Criteria for Establishing Dialect Boundries," by Michael Ross Walrod; (2) "Topic in Tagalog Revisited," by Teresita C. Rafael; (3) "Cebuano Verb Morphology, and Application of Case Grammar, Part II, by Casilda Luzares; (4) "The Limiting Glottal Infix in Kankanaey," by Janet Allen; (5) "A Pilot Study on the Dialects of Philippine Creole Spanish," by Sister Maria Isabelita O. Riego de Dios, RVM; (6) "Kankanaey Adjuncts," by Janet Allen; (7) "Focus Shift and Tense Shift: Highlighting and Conflict in Limos Kalinga," by Hartmut Wiens; (8) "Pre-Sangir *l, *d, *r and Associated Phonemes, Part I," by Kenneth R. Maryott; (9) "Definite Objects and Subject Selection in Philippine Languages," by Curtis McFarland; (10) "Proto-Manobo *l in Agusan Manobo," by Ron and Donna Schumacher; and (11) "Kaagan-Kalagan Phonemic Statement," by Asa and Dag Wendel. (AMH)