Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Papers -- The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a -- typological perspective -- Viewpoint operators in European languages -- Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept -- apart -- The type-referring function of the -- Imperfective -- On the areal distribution of tense-aspect -- categories in Europe -- Future Time Reference -- The grammar of future time reference in European -- languages -- Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses -- in Greek -- Verbs of becoming as future copulas -- The Perfect -- The perfect - aspectual, temporal and -- evidential -- Current relevance and event reference -- The Simple and Compound Past in Romance -- languages -- On the perfect in North Slavic -- Macedonian - a language with three -- perfects? -- Past tenses in Permic languages -- The Progressive -- The progressive in Europe -- The progressive in Romance, as compared with -- English -- Progressive markers in Germanic languages -- Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic -- The absentive -- Case Studies -- Some typological features of the viewpoint and -- tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim -- Aspect in Maltese -- Backmatter