Addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. This volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.

1. List of contributors; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality (by Brisard, Frank); 4. Part I. Theoretical foundations; 5. The definition of modality (by Declerck, Renaat); 6. The English present: Temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 7. The organization of the German clausal grounding system (by Smirnova, Elena); 8. Grounding in terms of anchoring relations: Epistemic associations of 'present continuous' marking in Turkish (by Temurcu, Ceyhan); 9. Part II. Descriptive application: Cognitive Grammar; 10. Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of "more" and "less" grounding predications (by Smirnova, Elena); 11. New current relevance in Croatian: Epistemic immediacy and the aorist (by Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan); 12. Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing: The case of Arabic (by Zanned, Lazhar); 13. Part III. Descriptive application: Other cognitive approaches; 14. Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality (by Boogaart, Ronny); 15. Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai (by Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.); 16. The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait: When temporality conveys modality (by Patard, Adeline); 17. Name Index; 18. Subject Index