Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philosophy of language -- Narratology and literary linguistics -- Computational linguistics -- Universals and typology -- Morphology -- Syntax -- Markedness -- Adverbials -- Pragmatics -- Discource and text -- Translation -- Diachrony and grammaticalization -- language contract -- Creole language -- Primary language acquisition -- Second language acquisition -- Tense -- Remotness distinctions -- Compositionality -- The surcompos'e past tense -- Bound tenses -- Embedded tenses -- Tenselessness -- Nominal tense -- Lexical aspect -- Verbal aspect -- Perfective and imperfective aspect -- Progressive and continuous aspect -- Habitual and generic aspect -- Habituality, pluractionality, and inperfectivity -- Perfect tense and aspect -- Resultative constructions -- Voice -- Case -- Time in sentences with model verbs -- Evidentiality and mirativity.