In this issue we can again present five fine articles with very diverse points of departure and very different research interests within the large field we know as language studies. We will be visiting different areas of linguistics students’ interests, and as is starting to become a tradition, we can present both theoretical contributions and applied case studies.

In this issue we bring three papers with a grammatical focus, one of them with a cross-linguistic perspective to boot. Apart from that, we have papers on essay writing in secondary schools and children’s acquisition of pointing and gesticulation.