Contents -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Part I: Tense -- 1. Ancient Theories of the Simple Tenses -- a. The Problem of Tense -- b. Tense in Greek -- c. The Greek Verb -- d. The Relations of the Tenses -- e. The Stoic-Varronian Theory of Tense and Aspect -- 2. Traditional Theories of the Complex Tenses -- a. General and Rational Grammar -- b. The Problem of Complex Tenses -- c. Theories of Relative Tense -- d. Aspectual and Other Theories -- e. Tense in Non-Indo-European Languages -- f. Jespersen's Structuralist Approach to Tense -- g. Retrospective and Prospective Tenses -- 3. Modern Theories of the Subordinate Tenses, -- a. Mood and Tense -- b. Mood in Subordinate Structures -- c. Tense in Subordinate Structures -- d. Sequence of Tense Rules -- e. Non-finites and Tense -- f. The Uses of the Perfect Tenses -- g. Context and Autonomy -- h. Multidimensional Theories: Reichenbach and Bull -- i. Allen on the Futurates -- 4. Beyond Theories of Tense -- Part II: Aspect -- 5. The Problem of Aspect -- a. Slavic Aspect -- b. Aspect and Aktionsarten -- c. Opposition and Markedness -- d. The Analysis of Greek -- 6. Explanation in Aspectology -- a. Aristotelian Aspect -- b. The Ontology of Situations -- c. States -- d. Activities and Events -- e. Telicness and Performances -- f. Phase -- g. Phase and the Aktionsarten -- h. Defining Aspect -- 7. Formal Semantics of Tense and Aspect -- a. Theories of Semantics -- b. Referential Semantics -- c. Formal, Truth-Conditional Semantics -- d. Montague Semantics -- e. Semantic Interpretation -- f. The Formal Semantics of the Priorian Tense Operators -- g. The Present and the Future -- h. Semantic Interpretation of the Tense Operators -- i. Complex Tenses and Compositionality -- j. The Perfect -- k. Translation and Interpretation of the Perfect -- l. The Compositionality of the Perfect -- m. The Futurate Perfect.

n. The Progressive -- o. Formal Semantics of the Progressive -- p. Imperfective and Perfective -- q. Temporal Adverbials -- r. Time Adverbials and the Adverbial Scope Paradox -- s. Multidimensional Indexing -- t. Events and Aktionsarten -- u. A Formal Semantic Theory with Events -- v. Situation Semantics -- 8. Beyond the Semantics of Tense and Aspect -- a. Pragmatics and Sequence of Tense Phenomena -- b. The R-point Solution and Its Failure -- c. Syntactic Theories of SOT and Their Failure -- d. Semantic Problems for the Syntactic Solution -- e. Pragmatic Theories of Tense and Aspect: Use and Meaning -- f. Aspect, Foregrounding, and Backgrounding -- g. Salience and Relevance -- h. Shift of Past to Present: The Perfect -- i. Modal Functions of the Perfect -- j. Shift of Past to Present: The Historical Tenses -- k. Shift of Future to Present: The Futurates -- l. Shift of Present and Future to Past -- m. Toward a Formal Theory of Discourse Tense: Events and Discourses -- n. The Pragmatics of Discourse Tense -- o. Perspective -- p. Orientation -- q. Localization -- r. Tenseless Languages: The Problem of the Semitic Verb -- s. The Problem of Waw and the Pragmatics of the Semitic Verb -- t. "Tenseless" Languages -- u. Beyond Tense and Aspect -- Summary -- a. Tense -- b. Topical Summary -- c. Aspect -- d. The Formal Semantics of Tense and Aspect -- e. Pragmatics -- Envoi -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.