Robert I. Binnick is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Toronto. His main research areas are Mongolian and Altaic languages in general, and the semantics of tense and verbal aspect. He is author of Modern Mongolian (1976) and Time and the Verb (1991).

• PrefaceList of symbols and abbreviationsAbout the authorsIntroductionRobert I. BinnickPart I. Contexts1. Philosophy of Language, Peter Ludlow2. Narratology and Literary Linguistics, Monika Fludernik3. Computational Linguistics, Mark Steedman Part II. Perspectives4. Universals and Typology, J. P. Desclés and Zlatka Guentchéva5. Morphology, Ashwini Deo6. Syntax, Tim Stowell7. Markedness, Edna Andrews8. Adverbials, Monika Rathert9. Pragmatics, Patrick Caudal10. Discourse and Text, Janice Carruthers 11.Translation, Diana Santos12. Diachrony and Grammaticalization, Steve Nicolle 13. Language Contact, Victor Friedman14. Creole Languages, Donald Winford 15. Primary Language Acquisition, Laura Wagner16. Second Language Acquisition, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Part III. Tense17. Tense, John Hewson 18. Remoteness Distinctions, Robert Botne 19. Compositionality, Henk Verkuyl 20. The Surcomposé Past Tense, Louis De Saussure and Bertrand Sthioul 21. Bound Tenses, Galia Hatav22. Embedded Tenses, Toshiyuki Ogihara and Yael Sharvit23. Tenselessness, Jo-Wang Lin24. Nominal Tense, Jacqueline Lecarme Part IV. Aspect25. Lexical Aspect, Hana Filip26. Verbal Aspect, Henriette De Swart27. Perfective and Imperfective Aspect, Jadranka Gvozdanoviæ28. Progressive and Continuous Aspect, Christian Mair29. Habitual and Generic Aspect, Greg Carlson30. Verbal Pluractionality and Gnomic Imperfectivity, Pier Marco Bertinetto and Alessandro Lenci31. Perfect Tense and Aspect, Marie-Eve Ritz32. Resultative Constructions, John Beavers Part V. Aspect and Diathesis33. Voice, Mila Vulchanova34. Case, Kylie Richardson Part VI. Modality35. Tense in Modal Utterances, Ilse Depraetere36. Evidentiality and Mirativity, Ferdinand De Haan Index

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