Camiel Hamans is associate secretary-general of CIPL, Comité International Permanent des Linguistes. Previously, he was visiting professor of Dutch Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and secretary general of the Dutch Social Democrats in the European Parliament. He has published on morphology, language change, history of linguistics and minority languages. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk is Professor of linguistics and vice-rector for research of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. She has published on phonology, phonotactics and language acquisition, advocating Natural Linguistic approach to language, e.g. Beats-and-Binding Phonology. She is the Editor-in-chief of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics and the Organizer of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting. Anna Balas is University Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Her research focuses on second and third language acquisition of speech.

• List of figures - List of tables - Acknowledgements - Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk: Thirty years of Contrastive Linguistics conferences - Camiel Hamans: Jacek Fisiak and his view of Contrastive Linguistics - Michael Sharwood Smith: Languages share space: In conflict of peaceful coexistence? - Dennis R. Preston: What linguistics isn't contrastive? - Frieda Steurs: Language technology - Anna Balas, Magdalena Wrembel, Kamil Kaźmierski, Jarosław Weckwerth and Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk: From Fisiak’s Contrastive Project to the state of the art - Livio Gaeta: At least three - Wolfgang U. Dressler, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Marina Čamber: Contrastive research about early child language - Jerzy Bańczerowski and Anna Borowiak: A confrontative apprehension of verb flexion in Arabic and Korean - Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky: Hedging: Some contrastive evidence from English, Polish, and German - Jacek Witkoś: Some aspects of pronominal distribution and cataphora effects - Stephen J. Nagle, Sara L. Sanders and Camiel Hamans: Now you see them, now you don't - Ernst Håkon Jahr: The Norwegian contrastive two-written-norm situation - John Charles Smith: On onomasiological subjectification - Hans Henrich Hock: Greece, Rome, and the Carolingian Empire - Tomasz Paweł Krzeszowski: How far can you go? Two cases of bizarre renderings of religious texts - Witosław Awedyk: Technical norms in Norwegian subtitling of Anglophone TV series