CONTENTS
General preface = ⅴ
Preface = ⅸ
General Papers
The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective / O ·· sten Dahl = 3
Viewpoint operators in European languages / Lars Johanson = 27
Aspect vs. Actionality ： Why they should be kept apart / Pier Marco Bertinetto ; Denis Delfitto = 189
The type-referring function of the Imperfective / Eva Hedin = 227
On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe / Rolf Thieroff = 265
Future Time Reference
The grammar of future time reference in European languages / O ·· sten Dahl = 309
Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek / Eva Hedin = 329
Verbs of becoming as future copulas / O ·· sten Dahl = 351
The Perfect
The perfect - aspectual, temporal and evidential / Jouko Lindstedt = 365
Current relevance and event reference / O ·· sten Dahl ; Eva Hedin = 385
The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages / Mario Squartini ; Pier Marco Bertinetto = 403
On the perfect in North Slavic / Hannu Tommola = 441
Macedonian - a language with three perfects? / Nina Graves = 479
Past tenses in Permic languages / Marja Leinonen ; Maria Vilkuna = 495
The Progressive
The progressive in Europe / Pier Marco Bertinetto ; Karen H. Ebert ; Casper de Groot = 517
The progressive in Romance, as compared with English / Pier Marco Bertinetto = 559
Progressive markers in Germanic languages / Karen H. Ebert = 605
Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic / Hannu Tommola = 655
The absentive / Casper de Groot = 693
Case Studies
Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim / E ´ va A ´ gnes Csat o ´ = 723
Aspect in Maltese / Karen H. Ebert = 753
Appendices
1 The Future Time Reference Questionnaire = 789
2 The Perfect Questionnaire = 800
3 Questionnaire on the Progressive Aspect = 810
4 List of abbreviations used in interlinear glosses = 819
5 List of working papers = 822
Indices
Subject index = 827
Language index = 834
Author index = 841
