Preface ; List of symbols and abbreviations ; About the authors ; Introduction ; Robert I. Binnick ; Part I. Contexts ; 1. Philosophy of Language, Peter Ludlow ; 2. Narratology and Literary Linguistics, Monika Fludernik ; 3. Computational Linguistics, Mark Steedman ; Part II. Perspectives ; 4. Universals and Typology, J. P. Descles and Zlatka Guentcheva ; 5. Morphology, Ashwini Deo ; 6. Syntax, Tim Stowell ; 7. Markedness, Edna Andrews ; 8. Adverbials, Monika Rathert ; 9. Pragmatics, Patrick Caudal ; 10. Discourse and Text, Janice Carruthers ; 11.Translation, Diana Santos ; 12. Diachrony and Grammaticalization, Steve Nicolle ; 13. Language Contact, Victor Friedman ; 14. Creole Languages, Donald Winford ; 15. Primary Language Acquisition, Laura Wagner ; 16. Second Language Acquisition, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig ; Part III. Tense ; 17. Tense, John Hewson ; 18. Remoteness Distinctions, Robert Botne ; 19. Compositionality, Henk Verkuyl ; 20. The Surcompose Past Tense, Louis De Saussure and Bertrand Sthioul ; 21. Bound Tenses, Galia Hatav ; 22. Embedded Tenses, Toshiyuki Ogihara and Yael Sharvit ; 23. Tenselessness, Jo-Wang Lin ; 24. Nominal Tense, Jacqueline Lecarme ; Part IV. Aspect ; 25. Lexical Aspect, Hana Filip ; 26. Verbal Aspect, Henriette De Swart ; 27. Perfective and Imperfective Aspect, Jadranka Gvozdanoviae ; 28. Progressive and Continuous Aspect, Christian Mair ; 29. Habitual and Generic Aspect, Greg Carlson ; 30. Verbal Pluractionality and Gnomic Imperfectivity, Pier Marco Bertinetto and Alessandro Lenci ; 31. Perfect Tense and Aspect, Marie-Eve Ritz ; 32. Resultative Constructions, John Beavers ; Part V. Aspect and Diathesis ; 33. Voice, Mila Vulchanova ; 34. Case, Kylie Richardson ; Part VI. Modality ; 35. Tense in Modal Utterances, Ilse Depraetere ; 36. Evidentiality and Mirativity, Ferdinand De Haan ; Index
