Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: The Concept of Native Speaker / Coulmas, Florian -- Part One. Epistemology and History of Linguistics -- The Struggle for a Theory of Native Speaker / Yngve, Victor H. -- A Typology of Native Speakers / Ballmer, Th. ¿ -- "Right or Wrong, My Native Speaker" Estant les Régestes du Noble Souverain de l'Empirie Linguistic avec un Renvoy au Mesme Roy / Mey, Jacob -- Wherein Lies 'Talked-About' Reality? / Pike, Kenneth L. -- Minimal Speakers, Necessary Speech Acts / Kasher, Asa -- Part Two. Methodology -- Introspection and the Description of Language Use / Schnelle, H. -- The Concept of Linguistic Intuition / Itkonen, Esa -- Quine on Introspection in Linguistics / Ringen, Jon D. -- Native Speaker's Heritage. On Philology of "Dead" Languages / Ehlich, Konrad -- Part Three. Field Work: Techniques and Ethics -- Informants or Colleagues? / Nida, Eugene A. -- Malinche, Patron-Saint of Informants? / Kummer, Werner -- A Minimum Morale on how not to Listen to the Native Speaker / Haberland, Hartmut -- Part Four. Grammar: The Structure of Inquiry -- Parallel Structure and "The Failure of Modern Linguistics" / Gray, Bennison -- The Interpretation of Ungrammatical Utterances / Hinds, John -- What Does a Native Speaker Know about the Verb KILL? / Makkai, Adam -- On the Precariousness of Linguistic Introspection / Ulvestad, Bjarne -- The Native Speaker and Indeterminacy / Whalen, D.H. -- Linguistic Strategies / Wunderlich, Dieter -- Part Five. Aspects of Language Acquisition and Use -- The Native Speaker in his New Found Body / Raffler-Engel, Walburga von -- Observing the Native Doer: Prelinguistic Behavior among Infants and Young Children / Regan, John O. / Ziajka, Alan L. -- How to Become a Native Speaker: One Simple Way / Geest, Ton van der -- Spies and Native Speakers / Coulmas, Florian -- On Translatability / Kaneko, Tohru -- The Literate Native Speaker: Some Intellectual Consequences of the Language of Schooling / Olson, David R. -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects