Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Modals, emotives, and modal subordination 11
5. The past and perfect of epistemic modals 47
6. Aspectual composition in idioms 71
7. A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect 89
8. The passé simple / imparfait of French vs the simple past / past progressive of English 109
9. Sequence of perfect 123
10. Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs 147
11. Economy constraints on temporal subordination 169
12. Future time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? 193
13. When the Present is all in the Past 209
14. Reference time without tense 229
15. Backmatter 251