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This English-language contribution to the Cahiers Chronos series--mainly published in French--presents a rare opportunity to catch up on new European developments in this active field of research through this collection of selected papers from the 6th Chronos colloquium. The chapters focus mostly on semantic issues in the study of tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) as well as on comparing and contrasting linguistic expressions that reflect these grammatical categories across a variety of languages. The range of topics in this work is fairly broad, as related issues such as grammaticalization, presuppositions, questions in dialogue, illocutionary acts, argument structure, and first language (L1) acquisition are brought in to shed light onto TMA meanings.
In what I found to be the most engaging chapter, Co Vet takes up the classical Reichenbach formalism that represents tense and aspect with the points Event, Speech, and Reference (R)....