Tense, Aspect and Action

Summary of the contents:
Carl Bache: Introduction. Simon C. Dik: Verbal semantics in Functional Grammar. Carl Bache: Verbal categories, form - meaning relationships and the perfect. Peter Harder: Verbal time reference in English, structure and functions. Per Durst-Andersen: Russian aspect as different statement models. Pier M. Bertinetto: Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian. Carl Vikner: Change in homogeneity in verbal and nominal reference. Lene Schoesler: Did 'Actionsart' ever 'compensate' verbal aspect in Old and Middle French? Ferenc Kiefer: Some peculiarities of the aspectual system in Hungarian. Orvokki Heinämäki: Aspect as boundedness in Finnish. Torben Andersen: From aspect to tense in Lulubo: Morphosyntactic and semantic restructuring in a Central Sudanic language. Jan-Olof Svantesson: Tense, mood and aspect in Kammu. Soeren Egerood: Aspect in Chinese. Kirsten Refsing: Tense, aspect and actionality in the Ainu language. Knut Bergsland: Aleut tenses and aspects. Arnfinn M. Vonen: The expression of temporal and aspectual relations in Tokelau narratives. Brita Bergmann u. Östen Dahl: Ideophones in Sign Languages? The place of reduplication in the tense-aspect system of Swedish Sign Language