A collection of original articles on the nature of anaphoric systems in a wide variety of genetically and structurally different languages.

1. Long distance anaphora: an overview Eric Reuland and Jan Koster; 2. Containment and connectedness anaphors Lars Hellan; 3. Long distance reflexives and the typology of NPs Hoskulder Thrainsson; 4. Contextual determination of the anaphor/pronominal distinction Martin Eaveraert; 5. On the interaction between antecedent government and binding: the case of long distance reflexivization Pierre Pica; 6. Binding in Polish Ewa Reinders-Machowska; 7. Anaphors in binary trees: an analysis of Czech reflexives Jindrick Toman; 8. Latin long distance anaphora Elena Benedicto; 9. Prepositions, binding and theta-marking Allessandra Giorgi; 10. Locality, parameters and some issues in Italian syntax Rita Manzini; 11. Long distance binding in Finnish Marlies Van Steenbergen; 12. The primacy condition on anaphors and pronominal variable binding E. Kiss Katalin; 13. On the local nature of the long distance reflexive in Chinese C. T. James Huang and C. C. Jane Tang; 14. Anaphors and logophors: an argument structure perspective Tanya Reinhart and Eric Reuland.