Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Temporal structure and discourse structure
  • Tense use and temporal orientation: The passé simple and the imparfait of French
  • Future tense and discourse representation
  • On so-called “tense simplificationâ€? in English
  • Perfect and pluperfect in German
  • Preterit and perfect in Dutch
  • Perfect, Prospective and Perspectivity
  • The English progressive tenses and the layered representation of Functional Grammar
  • Free indirect speech in French
  • Aspect and the semantics of noun phrases