I remember "where", "when" and "what" was a book focusing on history exam. There are only three main points to answer in the history exam, they are where, when and what. I only grasped the key points of the book, and I havn't finish reading it. It may be the same book or the different book ! I think I am mis-leaded. Sorry, if it is not what you are asking.

Title: Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses Edited By: Folke Josephson Ingmar Söhrman URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20103 Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 103 Description: The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest to syntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.

Interdependence of diachronic and synchronic analyses. Ed. by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman. (Studies in language companion series; v.103) John Benjamins Publishing Co., ©2008 350 p. $165.00 P281 978-90-272-0570-4 Focusing on the investigation of syntactic structure, these 14 essays describe a diverse set of modern and ancient languages, including Hittite, the classical languages, old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. Contributors cover such topic as synchronic and diachronic evidence for parallels between noun phrases and sentences, the development of Creole languages, oppositions from proto-Indo-European to Latin, the development of early to late Latin, the history of two Greek tenses, actionality and aspect in Hittite, imperfectivity and complete events, transitions in Portuguese and Spanish, the old Nordic middle voice, tense and aspect in Semitic languages, the verb phrase in the Kerebe language, comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo, indexicals in Australian languages, and differential object marking in Sahidic Coptic. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Ingmar Söhrman Göteborgs Universitet www.gu.se and www.hum.gu.se/rom/spanska Göteborg university is a public university where most academic programmes are taught. It carries out research work in all the subjects taught. Göteborg Spanish Department has a long tradition in educational multimedia: they direct four distance courses in Spanish and Latin-American Civilization and several teachers have participated in seminars and training-courses on multimedia didactics for distance-courses. Ingmar has dozens and dozens of publications in the field of Spanish and Scandinavian languages and civilization, culminating in his major current research projects: La subida de los clíticos infinitas en español contemporáneo; The gothic tradition - Scandinavian presence in medieval and renaissance Spanish Chronicles. Among his many committments he is responsible for developing distance courses in Spanish at Umeå University, member of the board for Swedish Teaching Abroad at the Swedish Institute and delegate to the International Committee for Balkan Linguistics Marianne Molander and Marie Rose Blomgren actively collaborate to the project

It's first time I know the book you mentioned. As the title, I suppoe that the language we used now is just at a low-level state; We rely on voice and character to communicate with each other. And there are a lot of different languages all over the world. So we spend too much time and resoure to identify what her of him say before go to the point. Language is just a kind of form of mind, in my opinion, In the furture, we may use a fundamentally different, more efficient way to communitcate.