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Part 1 Number and gender systems across languages: noun classificationsystem - noun class as number in Swahili, Ellen Contini-Morava, deixis andnoun-classification in Pilaga and beyond, Pablo Isaac Kirtchuk; numbersystems - number in the English substantive, Walter Hirtle, from number togender, from dual to virile - bridging cognitive categories, Laura A. Janda,the dual number in Hebrew - grammar or lexicon, or both? Yishai Tobin; gendersystems - the categorial lexicon and the pairing strategies - a criticalaccount of inherent gender in Spanish, Ricardo Otheguy, Nancy Stern,grammatical and lexical behaviour in the development of the Spanishthird-person clitics, Flora Klein-Andrew, the grammar of English gender, LoriMorris, recasting animacy - the codification of perceptual distinctions inlanguage, Edna Andrews. Part 2 Verb systems and parts of speech acrosslanguages: tense and aspect - eventuality classification - meaning and use ofSpanish simple past tenses, Bob de Jonge, resultativeness - constructionswith phrasal verbs in focus, Marina Gorlach; parts of speech - complex -ernominals - where grammaticalization and lexicalization meet? Mary EllenRyder, modern Hebrew adverbials - between syntactic class and lexicalcategory, Dorit Ravid, Yitzhak Shlesinger. Indexes: name; subject.