Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part 1. The typology of aspect -- Perfectivity in Slavonic and other languages -- Nested aspects -- On the essence of the category of aspectuality and its lexical-semantic level in Russian -- The Slavonic frequentative habitual -- Tense, aspect and Aktionsarten in Finno-Ugrian -- Part 2. Verb, sentence and aspect -- The rôle of Baltic influence in the aspectual system of Finnish -- On the aspectual significance of 'phase meanings' -- Totally affected. Aspect and three-place predicates in Hungarian -- Aspect in Finnish -- Towards a functional grammar of aspect in Finnish -- What is aspectual about the perfect and the pluperfect in Swedish? -- Part 3. Text and aspect -- Changes of aspect in text production -- Coherence, perspective and aspectual specification in Slavonic narrative discourse -- Narrative implications of aspect in Russian and in Finnish -- Is it possible to construct Germanic-Slavonic translation rules, which predict the choice of aspect? -- Index of proper names -- Index of languages -- Index of topics