Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Bibliography
  • Introduction
  • Concepts of time
  • A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect
  • An analysis of the German Perfekt
  • Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese
  • On times and arguments
  • On the "Imperfective paradox" and related problems
  • Local deixis in route directions
  • Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions
  • Time and again
  • On the scope of negation
  • About the German particles schon and noch
  • The information structure of French
  • Quaestio and L-perspectivation
  • Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty
  • The basic variety (or: couldn't natural languages be much simpler?)
  • Why case marking?
  • The grammar of varieties
  • Index