This volume contains papers that were contributed to the Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics (WML), held at Pennsylvania State University on April 17, 1998. The papers include topics such as generalized minimalist grammar, overparsing and computational complexity in language models.

1. Foreword; 2. Table of Contents; 3. List of Contributors; 4. Commands as binary relations (by Del Vigna, Claude); 5. Generalized minimalist grammars (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 6. An infinite hierachy of midly context-sensitive families of languages (by Kudlek, Manfred); 7. Some uses and abuses of mathematics in linguistics (by Manaster-Ramer, Alexis); 8. Logical splicing in natural languages (by Manca, Vincenzo); 9. X-families: an approach to the study of families of syntactically similar languages (by Martin-Vide, Carlos); 10. Overparsing (by Quesada, Jose Francisco); 11. Computational complexity in language models (by Savitch, Walter J.); 12. Grammar efficiency and the historical development of word order in French (by Vulanovic, Relja); 13. Author Index; 14. Subject Index