Time in Language

also provides an indispensable overview of all the problems shrouding the complexities of tense and aspect in language.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Tense, aspect, and Aktionsart; Chapter 3 Topic time; Chapter 4 Time structure; Chapter 5 Inherent temporal features of the lexical content; Chapter 6 Aspect; Chapter 7 Tense; Chapter 8 Temporal adverbials and their meaning; Chapter 9 The function of positional adverbials in the utterance; Chapter 10 Adverbials of duration and of frequency; Chapter 11 Non-declarative clauses, subordinate clauses, noun phrases;