Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introductory Remarks: The First Golden Anniversary Symposium / Haugen, Einar -- On Describing Languages / Pike, Kenneth L. -- The Challenge of History / Lehmann, W. P. -- Comments on K. L. Pike's and W. P. Lehmann's Papers / Anttila, Raimo -- Applications of Linguistics / Ferguson, Charles A. -- Empirical Foundations of Linguistic Theory / Labov, William -- The Future of Semantics / Fillmore, Charles J. -- Questions of Form and Interpretation / Chomsky, Noam -- Comments on C. J. Fillmore's and N. Chomsky's Papers / Partee, Barbara Hall -- Editor's Statement