CONTENTS List of Contributors vii I. Introduction Manfred Görlach 2. German 13 Ulrich Busse and Manfred Görlach 3. Dutch 37 Amand Berteloot and Nicoline van der Sijs 4. Norwegian 57 Anne-Line Graedler 5. Icelandic 82 Gudrun Kvaran and Asta Svavarsdottir 6. French 108 John Humbley 7. Spanish 128 Felix Rodriguez Gonzolez 8. Italian 151 Virginia Pulcini 9. Romanian 168 Ilinca Constuntinescu, Victoria Popovici, and Adriana ,Stefanescu 10. Russian 195 Tamara Maximova 11. Polish 213 Elzbieta Mańczuk- Wohlfeld Romanian by Ilinca Constantinescu and Arindna Stefanescu 190 Russian by Tamara Maximova and Helen Pelikh 210 Spanish by Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez 228 Catalan by Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez 248 Index of Topics 251 Index of Words 258