I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: An overview -- Verbal semantics in Functional Grammar -- Verbal categories, form-meaning relationships and the English perfect -- Verbal time reference in English: Structure and functions -- Russian aspect as different statement models -- Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian -- Change in homogeneity in verbal and nominal reference -- Did Aktionsart ever "compensate" verbal aspect in Old and Middle French? -- Some peculiarities of the aspectual system in Hungarian -- Aspect as boundedness in Finnish -- From aspect to tense in Lulubo: Morphosyntactic and semantic restructuring in a Central Sudanic language -- Tense, mood and aspect in Kammu -- Aspect in Chinese -- Tense, aspect and actionality in the Ainu language -- Aleut tenses and aspects -- The expression of temporal and aspectual relations in Tokelau narratives -- Ideophones in Sign Language? The place of reduplication in the tense-aspect system of Swedish Sign Language -- Index of Languages -- Index of Names