I-VI -- Introduction -- Temporal structure and discourse structure -- Tense use and temporal orientation: The passé simple and the imparfait of French -- Future tense and discourse representation -- On so-called "tense simplification" in English -- Perfect and pluperfect in German -- Preterit and perfect in Dutch -- Perfect, Prospective and Perspectivity -- The English progressive tenses and the layered representation of Functional Grammar -- Free indirect speech in French -- Aspect and the semantics of noun phrases -- Tense and aspect in second language acquisition: the Dutch interlanguage of a native speaker of English -- Index