Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Tense across Languages - an Introduction -- A. Tense, mood, and modality -- Tense and Volitionality -- Imperatives and Tense -- (Non)veridicality and Mood Choice: Subjunctive, Polarity, and Time -- B. Understudied Tense Phenomena and Typological Variation -- Use and Temporal Interpretation of the Rukai Future Tense -- Tense in the Scottish Gaelic Verbal System -- New Perspectives on Double Perfect Constructions in German -- C. Tense in Tenseless Languages and Sequence-of-tense Phenomena -- Time and Modality without Tenses or Modals -- Tense Marking on Dependent Nominals in Movima -- The Paraguayan Guaraní Future Marker -ta: Formal Semantics and Cross Linguistic Comparison -- Zero-Tense vs. Indexical Construals of the Present in French L1 -- Index