1 Work on embodiment and conceptualization, new insights into societal grounding of conceptual representations (e.g., DeVault, Oved, and Stone 2006), empirical and computational studies on generation (both incremental and non-incremental, from numerical data; e.g., van Deemter 2006), and recent experimental techniques for studying language production (see Roelofs 2004 for an overview) give a sense that this book could be part of an exciting revival of cognitively motivated NLG.
part B ("Incrementality") traces the roots of the notion of incrementality in computer science, and provides an extensive overview of various notions of incrementality.