Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Concepts of time -- A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect -- An analysis of the German Perfekt -- Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese -- On times and arguments -- On the "Imperfective paradox" and related problems -- Local deixis in route directions -- Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions -- Time and again -- On the scope of negation1 -- About the German particles schon and noch -- The information structure of French -- Quaestio and L-perspectivation -- Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty -- The basic variety (or: couldn't natural languages be much simpler?) -- Why case marking? -- The grammar of varieties -- Index