Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality

• 1. Preface; 2. The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world (by Hogeweg, Lotte); 3. Incompatible categories: Resolving the "present perfective paradox" (by Malchukov, Andrej); 4. The perfective/imperfective distinction: Coercion or aspectual operators? (by Bary, Corien); 5. Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe (by Arkadiev, Peter M.); 6. Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments (by Tatevosov, Sergei); 7. The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and thwa 'go' (by Romeo, Nicoletta); 8. Irrealis in Yurakare and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category (by Gijn, Rik van); 9. On the selection of mood in complement clauses (by Marques, Rui); 10. 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'at'imcets (by Davis, Henry); 11. Modal geometry: Remarks on the structure of a modal map (by Schepper, Kees de); 12. Acquisitive modals (by Auwera, Johan van der); 13. Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries (by Foolen, Ad); 14. Modality and context dependence (by Nauze, Fabrice); 15. Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects (by Partee, Barbara H.); 16. The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories (by Tamm, Anne); 17. Index

This volume is essential for anybody working on TAM marking or those interested in the question of whether semantics and typology can be useful to each other, a question that in my view can only be answered with an emphatic ‘yes’.