Table of Contents

1. Preface (by Givon, T.); 2. Preface (by Hopper, Paul J.); 3. I. Tense and Aspect in Discourse; 4. Aspect between Discourse and Grammar: An Introductory Essay for the Volume (by Hopper, Paul J.); 5. The Discourse Motivation for the Perfect Aspect: The Mandarin Particle LE (by Li, Charles N.); 6. The Function of Inuktitut Verb Modes in Narratives Texts (by Kalmar, Ivan); 7. Aspect in Conversational Indonesian (by Rafferty, Ellen); 8. II. The Creation of Tense and Aspect; 9. Universals of Aspect and Parts of Speech: Parallels between Signed and spoken Languages (by Anderson, Lloyd B.); 10. Tense-Aspect Modality: The Creole Proto-Type and Beyond (by Givon, T.); 11. III. Tense and Aspect as Cognitive Categories; 12. Aspect, Transitivity, and Viewpoint (by DeLancey, Scott); 13. Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Use of the Turkish Evidential (by Slobin, Dan I.); 14. Figure and Ground: The Interrelationships of Linguistic Categories (by Wallace, Stephen); 15. IV. Tense and Aspect as Semantic and Grammatical Categories; 16. The 'Perfect' as a Universal and as a Language-Particular Category (by Anderson, Lloyd B.); 17. Remarks on English Aspect (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 18. Invariance and the Syntax of Russian Aspect (by Timberlake, Alan); 19. V. Afterword; 20. On Cross-Linguistic Categories and Related Problems: A Discussant's Notes on the Tense/Aspect Symposium (by Chatterjee, Ranjit); 21. Index to References