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The present volume constitutes a collection of original studies in the honor of the sixtieth birthday on the renown Italian linguist \textit{Andrea Bonomi}. The contributors (syntacticians and semanticists) focus their research effort on specific proposals dealing with semantic interfaces of the grammar of natural language, investigating a forever old-new general topic: how the syntactic structure of languages encode the meaning. Two main streams are pointed out within this general topic: (a) reference and anaphora, and (b) tense and aspect. The lack of space for describing in detail each of the enclosed paper forces us to adopt the frustrating solution of just listing the prominent authors and the titles of their (eight) contributions: (1) {it Robert May}: ``Frege on Identity Statements''; (2) \textit{Gennaro Chierchia}: ``A Puzzle About Indefinites''; (3) \textit{Carlo Cecchetto}: ''Syntactic or Semantic Reconstructions? Evidence from Pseudoclefts and Clitic Left Dislocation''; (4) \textit{Luigi Rizzi}: ``Reconstruction, Weak and Sensitivity and Agreement''; (6) \textit{Pier Marco Bertinetto}: ``On a Frequent Misunderstanding in the Temporal-Aspectual Domain: The `Perfect-Telic Confusion' ''; (6) \textit{Alessandra Giorgi} and \textit{Fabio Pianesi}: ``Ways of Terminating''; (7) \textit{Arnim von Stechov}: ``Temporally Opaque Arguments in Verbs of Creation''; (8) \textit{Sandro Zucchi}: ``Tense in Fiction''. This book is a wonderful source of inspiration for new and/or better solutions to interesting and difficult problems occurring in linguistics, computational linguistics, computing meaning, language semantics and logic.