The Editor: Peter Lutzeier has been Chair and Professor of German at the University of Surrey since 1995. From 1989 to 1994 he was Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Munich. In addition to Linguistics he studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart, where he obtained his Dr Phil in 1974. He was a German Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained an M Litt in 1977. He received his Dr habil from the Free University of Berlin in 1981. As a Heisenberg Fellow he has held Visiting Scholarships at the University of California, San Diego and Los Angeles.