For the meeting on June 3rd (topological fields), I would like to ask you to read the following papers by T. Hoehle and M. Reis: Tilman Hoehle. 1985. Der Begriff 'Mittelfeld', Anmerkungen ueber die Theorie der topologischen Felder. In Akten des Siebten Internationalen Germanistenkongresses. 329-340. Goettingen. Marga Reis. 1980. On justifying topological frames: 'Positional field' and the order of nonverbal constituents in German. DRLAV: Revue de Linguistique, 22/23. 59-85. You can find them in the semiar folder in the SfS, Wilhelmstr. 113. Heike Telljohann