Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bart HOLLEBRANDSE, Angeliek van HOUT, Co VET: Introduction -- Abraham P. TEN CATE: Descriptions of past events in German -- Griet BEHEYDT: The absolute and the relative present tense with future time references in English and Dutch -- Gretel De CUYPER: Noun phrases and temporal information in Dutch -- Bart HOLLEBRANDSE: Sequence of tense: New insights from cross-linguistic comparisons -- Lieven VANDELANOTTE: Tense in indirect speech and thought: Some proposed modifications -- Fabrizio AROSIO: Points of time -- Maria ASNES: Incompatibility between telicity and homogeneity in French -- Patrick CAUDAL: Degree scales and aspect -- Arie MOLENDIJK: The imparfait in French and the past progressive in English -- Athina SIOUPI: Morphological and telicity aspect with accomplishment VPs in Greek -- Henk VERKUYL: How (in-)sensitive is tense to aspectual information? -- Teresa Cristina WACHOWICZ: The aspectual reading of the progressive form in Brazilian Portuguese -- Zonghua XIAO, Anthony McENERY: Situation aspect: A two-level approach -- Aoife AHERN: Mood choice and sentence interpretation in Spanish -- Renaat DECLERCK: The relation between temporal and modal uses of indicative verb forms -- Andrea ROCCI: On the nature of the epistemic readings of the Italian modal verbs: The relationship between propositionality and inferential discourse relations -- Tom WERNER: The temporal interpretation of some modal Sentences in English (involving a future / epistemic alternation).

This Cahiers Chronos volume reports on new and ongoing research on tense, aspect and modality in which a variety of languages has been gathered. The languages discussed by the authors include (in alphabetical order): Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The articles form a selection of the papers presented at the 5th Chronos Conference that took place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in June 2002. We have categorized the papers into three sections: Tense, Aspect and Modality. Obviously, this ordering is somewhat arbitrary given that some of the papers cross these rather rigid boundaries, as they discuss the interplay of tense and aspect or tense and modality. This book is of interest for scholars in the field of semantics, logic, syntax, and comparative linguistics.

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