Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: the modules of Perfect constructions -- Participles and voice -- Temporal homogeneity and the Italian Perfect -- Arabie Perfect and temporal adverbs -- A puzzle about until and the Present Perfect -- A little bit more on the English Perfect -- Observations about the form and meaning of the Perfect -- On the stativity of the English Perfect -- Tense, aspect, and the Greek Perfect -- Seit-adverbials in Perfect constructions -- The aspectual makeup of Perfect participles and the interpretations of the Perfect -- Perfect readings in Russian -- Universal-existential puzzles -- Possession and conversation: the case of the category Perfect -- Subject Index -- Author Index