Introduction -- Part I: Linguistic Models -- A Feature-based Account of Weak Islands By Christopher Laenzlinger & Gabriela Soare -- On the Syntax and Pragmatics of some Clause-peripheral Positions By Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belletti -- Two Challenges for 'neo-saussurean' Approaches to Morphosyntax By Frederick Newmeyer -- Some Notes on Floating Quantifiers By Genoveva Puskas -- A Pragmatic and Philosophical Examination of Everett's claims about Pirahã By Anne Reboul -- A Perspective-based Account of the Imperfective Paradox By Gaetano Fiorin & Denis Delfitto -- Spatial Deictic Expressions in Serbian ovde, tamo, tu; a new Approach By Tijana Asic -- The Singular Square: Contrariety and Double Negation from Aristotle to Homer By Laurence Horn -- Connectives: Order, Causality and Beyond By Joanna Blochowiak -- Part II: Cognitive Models -- Irony, Hyperbole, Jokes and Banter By Deirdre Wilson -- Context Selection in Relevance Theory By Stavros Assimakopoulos -- Sequential Structure of Discourse Segments Shaped by the Interplay of Recipient Design or Salience By Istvan Kecskes -- She said you said I saw it with my own eyes: A Pragmatic Account of Commitment By Kira Boulat & Didier Maillat -- Why French Modal verbs are not Polysemous, and other Considerations on Conceptual and Procedural Meanings By Louis de Saussure -- Building and Interpreting ad hoc Categories: A Linguistic Analysis By Caterina Mauri -- Grammar and Theory of mind in Autism By Stéphanie Durrleman -- The Place of Human Language in the Animal World By Stephen R. Anderson -- Part III: Computational Models -- Temporal Coherence in Discourse: Theory and Application for Machine Translation By Cristina Grisot -- Discourse Connectives: Theoretical Models and Empirical Validations in Humans and Computers By Sandrine Zufferey & Andrei Popescu-Belis -- The Interface between Semantics and Discourse Functions: Exploring the Adjective Possibile in a Corpus of Italian Financial news By Andrea Rocci & Elena Musi -- 'What is pretty cannot be beautiful?' A Corpus-based Analysis of Aesthetics of Nature By Jesus Romero-Trillo & Violeta Fuentes -- When English meets French. A case study in Comparative Diachronic Syntax By Eric Haeberli -- Some Recent Results on Cross-linguistic, Corpus-based Quantitative Modelling of Word Order and Aspect By Paola Merlo -- Parsing Language-Specific Constructions: The case of French Pronominal Clitics By Eric Wehrli.