Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 General introduction -- 2 The category tense -- 3 The category aspect -- 4 Tense and aspect in Chinese -- 5 The syntactic and semantic analysis of temporal adverbials and duration phrases -- 6 The syntactic and semantic constraints of aspecto-temporal adverbs in the Shǐjì -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index