Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- I Temporality in Language: From Lexical Meaning to Text Interpretation -- II Time and Temporal Structure: a Conceptual Analysis -- III A Methodological Framework Combining Formal Semantics and Formal Knowledge Representation -- IV Ontological and Epistemological Conditions on Temporal Reference -- V Information about Establishing Times in Grammar: a Fragment of German Verbal Semantics -- VI Tense, Discourse Structure, and the Sequencing of Eventives -- VII Conclusion -- Appendix to Chapter VI: Step-by-Step Composition of the Bäuerlein Text -- References -- Text Sources -- Index of Figures -- Index of Symbols and Abbreviations -- Word Index