Preface -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Prolegomena -- 1. The linguistic structure of narrative transmission -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The showing-telling distinction -- 1.3. Narrative transmission as cognitive distance: From evidential modalities to indication signs -- 1.4. The role of tense, aspect and 'Aktionsart' -- 1.5. Concluding remarks -- 2. Linguistics in narratology: A critical historical survey -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Ingarden, Stanzel, Hamburger: The neutralization of the 'episches Präteritum' as a past-tense form -- 2.3. Müller: Quantitative indicators and beyond -- 2.4. Weinrich's textlinguistic theory: A tense-centered approach to backgrounded narrative discourse -- 2.5. Uspensky: Synchronic and retrospective viewpoints as a function of tense and aspect oppositions -- 2.6. Barthes: The semiotics of 'L'effet de réel' -- 2.7. Chatman and Prince: 'Aktionsart' revisited -- 2.8. Caenepeel: Perspectivally situated vs. perspectivally non-situated sentences -- 2.9. Chafe: Displacement and immediacy in conversational language vs. displaced immediacy in narrative fiction -- 2.10. Concluding remarks -- 3. The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Speech-act theory and narrative discourse -- 3.3. The philosophical research on linguistic functions -- 3.4. The phenomenological make-up of the narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity -- 3.5. Locutionary subjectivity as a function of tense, aspect and 'Aktionsart' -- 3.6. Summary and conclusion -- Part 2: The temporal-perspectival organization of discourse -- 4. Tense -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Reichenbach's theory of tense -- 4.3. Tense in narrative discourse -- 4.4. Tense, perception and memory -- 4.5. Concluding remarks -- 5. Aspect -- 5.1. Introduction.

5.2. Classificatory systems of aspectual oppositions -- 5.3. Viewpoint aspect and point of view: A first view on the role played by imperfective meaning -- 5.4. Imperfectivity as a two-edged aspectual form or another view on viewpoint aspect and point of view -- 5.5. A note on iterativity -- 5.6. Concluding remarks -- 6. Aktionsart -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Vendler's aspectual classes -- 6.3. Formal semantic approaches to 'Aktionsart' -- 6.4. Concluding remarks -- 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. -STAT eventuality descriptions -- 7.3. +STAT eventuality descriptions -- 7.4. World-knowledge based event semantics -- 7.5. Concluding remarks -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Notes -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.