(Tense), aspect, mood and modality – an imperfect 2008 state of the art report

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Plenary sessions
5. Sign languages East and West 3
6. Lifting the veil: Uncovering language origin 17
7. Pragmatics and the lexicon 29
8. Syntactic constraints 43
9. Aspects of the neural representation of spoken language 59
10. From concepts to meaning: The role of lexical knowledge 73
11. Language rights, human development and linguistic diversity in a globalizing world 85
12. Formal semantics for interpreting temporal annotation 97
13. Parallel sessions
14. Words, mind and brain 111
15. Information structure: Notional distinctions, ways of expression 123
16. Language policy: The first half-century 137
17. Intercultural pragmatics, language and society 155
18. Historical linguistics in 2008: The state of the art 175
19. Lexical semantics 189
20. (Tense), aspect, mood and modality – an imperfect 2008 state of the art report 201
21. Syntax: The state of the art 215
22. Index of terms 231