Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Modals, emotives, and modal subordination -- The past and perfect of epistemic modals -- Aspectual composition in idioms -- A modified ExtendedNow for the present -- perfect -- The passé simple / imparfait of French vs the -- simple past / past progressive of English -- Sequence of perfect -- Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs -- Economy constraints on temporal -- subordination -- Future time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics -- or semantics of acts of communication? -- When the Present is all in the Past -- Reference time without tense -- Backmatter